I'm starting to get back into doing my SCA stuff. I've dragged out some unfinished garb, ie clothing, and I have renewed plans for finishing it, and starting some more little projects. I'm making some headway on researching the period I'm interested in - I was interested in somewhat earlier medieval years, and had selected 1200s Ireland as my time period. However I found the idea of research kind of daunting and so I didn't bother having a really defined persona. (eg. at SCA events, instead of dressing in random medieval outfits, people will have an imaginary, historically accurate person planned out, complete with name, education level, etc.) I imagined really general books about medieval stuff in libraries. However I have a few keywords now that really pull up good stuff in Google. When you google "medieval" all manner of stuff comes up, but now that I'm using the words "pre-Norman", way more useful stuff is appearing, and I'm seeing that entire books are written on little specific periods. And along the way, I'm getting a clearer idea of Irish history. Clearer because now that I'm focused on a specific era, it acts as an anchor around which the preceding and following time periods kind of fall into place. The 1700s and 1800s make my eyes glaze over, I guess because most of the history is politics, but the bronze age, iron age and medieval periods interest me because they deal with concrete things that I have some knowledge of: farming, clothing construction, stone crosses, castles, and Christianity. Homes and clothing were easily made by the average person. Back then, there was no king who ruled the entire country, there were "petty" kings here and there who didn't have a lot of area and bickered... just like in a small town LMAO so I understand even the politics somewhat hahaEdit to add: While looking for celtic jewellery links, I found lots of ghey stuff, including this. (tiny stamped symbols? WTF? I'd far rather the interlace designs) However I found a great article here. Though it's on bronze age stuff, it gives me an idea of what materials they had in the british isles anyhow, so I'm gonna find some things at the craft store that resemble amber, tin, faience, and... fossil crinoids
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