Online Classes (November 6-9, 2023)

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CLASS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE (last updated 11/6)

Each night, there will be two concurrent class sessions: one at 6pm, the next at 7pm. Use the Zoom link (see button above) to access classes. All times are Central Standard Time.

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UPDATE: Pilgrimage to Canterbury is cancelled. Instructor hopes to teach at a later date.

Monday 11/6Tuesday 11/7Wednesday 11/8Thursday 11/9
6pm CST:
Book of Durrow:
history and calligraphy of
an Irish Insular manuscript

Hellen of Haldane		Dynamic Displays for
Digital Denizens

Madamoiselle Sibillia
d’Orange		Heraldry and Iconography
in the Ethereal Realm:
SCA Graphics in Digital
Mediums 101

Matilda the less innocent		Building a Spear Target

Karl Friedrick of
Dinkelsbuhl
6pm CST:
Marriage and Divorce in
the Abbasid Caliphate

Mu’allim Vashti
al-A’shariyah		Embroidery design and research

HL Amytis de la Fontaine		Leveling up Your Garb

Countess Jehanette de Provins
7pm CST:
Insular Manuscript
Production Tools (Great
Paint Brush Conspiracy)

Dame Katerinka Lvovicha		Oh Deer: A Manuscript Reproduction

Dame Katerinka Lvovicha		Heat Injuries

Nell the Innocent		History of Printed Textiles

Baroness tatiana Marana
Melville, OP
7pm CST:
The Fall of the Valois
Dynasty

Madamoiselle Sibillia
d’Orange		Lost Cities on the
Highways of History

Hachmood K. Braden von Sobernheim
7pm CST:
PayPal:  It’s easier than you think!

Nell the Innocent

Course Catalogue

Book of Durrow – the History and Calligraphy of an Irish Insular Manuscript

Hellen of Haldane

Class ID: 103

Join Hellen of Haldane for an online discovery of this manuscript that is not as well known as the Book of Kells – but should be. We will review the manuscript, its history and then start looking at the calligraphy. Bring your pens if you want to work along or just watch and be fascinated. 

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Know the role of the ms in manuscript history
  2. Be able to identify the motifs and themes
  3. Be able to replicate some of the letters using a broad edge tool

Age Requirement: Minors welcome with Adult Present

Building a Spear Target

Karl Friedrick of Dinkelsbuhl

Class ID: 92

How to build a long lasting spear target with instructions, costs, and a materials list.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Understand the materials required to build a Spear target with their costs and sources.
  2. Understand the technique of construction of the Spear Target and the design decisions that drive the target design.
  3. Understand the maintainence and long term repair of the spear target.

Age Requirement: Minors welcome with Adult Present

Dynamic Displays for Digital Denizens

Madamoiselle Sibillia d’Orange 

Class ID: 93

Displays are sometimes hard when it comes to research. If your interests lie in the philosophical sphere, your display at Kingdom A&S is somewhat lacking. How do you display a research paper? Digital humanities tools can help you reach more members of the populace, give people who aren’t your judges something to look at and allow you to make connections between topics or individuals. 

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Understand digital Humanities as a concept
  2. Learn about several digital tools 
  3. Connect tools to types of projects
  4. Gain confidence in using alternative research display methods.

Age Requirement: 16+ With Guardian Consent

Embroidery Design and Research

HL Amytis de la Fontaine

Class ID: 95

Online and museum research and how to use your research to design embroidery (although you can apply this to any craft item) that looks period

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Students will be able to use appropriate online sites for research.
  2. Students will be able to organize their research to be able to easily access information as needed.
  3. Students will be able to find online research that applies to their project.
  4. Students will be able design projects based on history and research. 

Age Requirement: 14+ With Guardian Consent

Heat Injuries

Nell the Innocent

Class ID: 100

It’s Hot! Heat injuries are a common and preventable. If you’re an event steward, marshal, participant, camper, a person at an SCA event; this class is for you. Mundanely I am a Trauma Certified RN and have years of experience treating heat related injuries. I’ll review prevention, types of heat injuries, treatment and when to seek emergency care. 

Student Learning Outcomes:

  1. It’s Hot! Heat injuries are a common and preventable. If you’re an event steward, marshal, participant, camper, a person at an SCA event; this class is for you. Mundanely I am a Trauma Certified RN and have years of experience treating heat related injuries. I’ll review prevention, types of heat injuries, treatment and when to seek emergency care. 
  2. Identify at early and late signs of heat injury
  3. Identify 3 treatment steps for heat injury

Age Requirement: Minors welcome with Adult Present

Heraldry and Iconography in the Ethereal Realm: SCA Graphics in Digital Mediums 101

Matilda the less innocent 

Class ID: 72

Introduction to designing and creating sca related graphics including hereldic devices, event logos, ect., in digital formats. Welcometo those with limitedcomputer experience. This is NOT a class about hereldic design, but how to format those designs so they can be shown in their best light on websites and professionally printed, ie sent to a print shop for t-shirts and other swag. Will cover topics such as, file formats and when to use them, vector vrs bitmap, software options. 

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Introduction to digital image editing, including vector images. 
  2. where to find images resources for projects, ie vector databases and hereldic images. 
  3. when to use vector over bitmaps
  4. How to prepare graphics for print shops and online stores

Age Requirements: 14+ With Guardian Consent

Insular Manuscript Production Tools (Great Paint Brush Conspiracy)

Dame Katerinka Lvovicha

Class ID: 98

A discussion of tools used in Hiberno-Saxon/Insular manuscript production, focusing on pens and paintbrushes.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Identify primary and secondary sources for tool usage
  2. Understand the timeline for usage of specific tools
  3. Rationalize and navigate gaps in evidence

Minors welcome with Adult Present

Leveling up Your Garb

Countess Jehanette de Provins 

Class ID: 73

Ready to move on from beginner garb? Want to look more period but not sure how? Want to make more for less? Want to get into a new type of garb and not sure how? This is the class for you!

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Know more about how to get a period look

Lost Cities on the Highways of History

Hachmood K. Braden von Sobernheim

Class ID: 96

A look at the various cities that existed at the 3-way intersection of the heart of civilization, and why and when these cities came and went.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. An accurate look at what cities existed in the Mediterranean Middle East at different points in period
  2. An understanding of why some cities continue to thrive while others are only ruins or small modern settlements.
  3. A bucket list of places to visit in the region depending on the period/place of your persona.

Minors welcome with Adult Present

Marriage and Divorce in the Abbasid Caliphate 

Mu’allim Vashti al-A’shariyah 

Class ID: 104

I took commonly accepted knowledge about medieval Muslim women and tried to apply it to a specific time and place. And boy was I surprised by how l had been. Join me to learn the answers to: at what age could you be married? Could you own property? Could you take a dispute to court? Was divorce an option? How many marriages were common for women? Could married women work? And much more!

  1. Students will examine their own assumptions that masquerade as facts
  2. Students will learn the the importance of context to our understanding of history
  3. Students will learn that medieval Muslim women had a variety of nuanced experiences

14+ With Guardian Consent

Oh Deer: A Reproduction of MS Ii.6.32 f. 5r and 71v

Dame Katerinka Lvovicha

Class ID: 99

A deep dive into the tools, materials, and techniques used in the creation of the Book of Deer, as well as unique challenges encountered while attempting a recreation of two pages.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Identify the qualities of a Pocket Gospel
  2. Identify differences between historical and modern production methods
  3. Identify differences between historical and modern materials.

16+ With Guardian Consent, Minors welcome with Adult Present

PayPal: It’s easier than you think! 

Nell the Innocent

Class ID: 101

Do you want to make it easier for people to pay for an event? Are you an event steward, exchequer or gate steward? This class is for you! I’ll review the pre registration process, PayPal use, including PayPal fees in an event budget, reporting income and fees from PayPal, common issues and errors with pre registration and gate forms. I’ll also touch on donations and use of PayPal at gate. 

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. List information needed to set up pre registration to use pre registration
  2. Demonstrate where to report PayPal income and fees
  3. State how and when to contact the PayPal Deputy

Minors welcome with Adult Present

Pilgrimage to Canterbury

Hachmood K. Braden von Sobernheim

Class ID: 97

We will follow a virtual 10 day trek of 76 miles from Southwark Cathedral to Canterbury Cathedral, which would have been a popular thing to do in England between 1174 and 1538.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Understand why people would go on Pilgrimage.
  2. Learn in detail about the route from London to Canterbury.
  3. Learn about Thomas Becket, medieval Canterbury, and the evolution of Canterbury Cathedral

Minors welcome with Adult Present

The Fall of the Valois Dynasty (or a quick spin through 16th century France)

Mademoiselle Sibillia d’Orange

Class ID: 94

Both Louis the XIV and the Mona Lisa are related to the events that occured in 16th century France. We’ll cover 1494 to 1510 in a whirlwind of Kings, Queens, intrigue, spies, war, colonialism, religion, and some of the major players in this little more than a century of French history. 

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Basic understanding of the French Renaissiance
  2. Know about the Valois Dynasty
  3. Know about the Powers behind the throne(s)

14+ With Adult Present, 14+ With Guardian Consent

History of Printed Textiles

Baroness Tatiana Marana Melville, OP

Class ID: 102

A historic review of printed textiles and clothing from prehistoric clues of its origins to documented practices in the Middle Ages. Also there will be a discussion on the difference between block printing, stenciling/screen printing, resist dyeing, mordant dyeing, discharge dyeing, and hand-painting on textiles. There will be no actual printing on textiles in this class.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Learn what different printing types there are
  2. Learn how far back printing on fabric dates
  3. Learn that printing on fabric did exist in the SCA time frame

Minors welcome with Adult Present