While my challenge will focus around 50 of one activity, reporting on books, I thought I'd say a little on who I am first off.
I am Lady Amata Cromwell of 14th century England. My father's manor is in Northumbria, but several years past I traveled to the great city of London to wed. Sadly, my beloved has since passed on. In our short time of marriage, he taught me to read and write so that I could help him with his shop. Watching him at his craft of bookbinding was a joy and I can only hope I keep his good name in continuing on with the work. My maid servant is not only a dear companion to me in this work, but is an invaluable second watch over the details and correctness of what I am doing. For the most intriguing of manuscripts, I might offer to bind for free in exchange for allowing the copying of the text.
The SCA will be 50 years of age in the year 2015. For that special date I aspire to read, and report on, 50 books of interest to the Society. Most will be non-fiction, some will be fiction. For each I shall give a summary and indicate what use, or disuse, each would be for fellow SCAdians.
~Lady Amata Cromwell, London (14th Century)
The Fair Shire of Rokeclif
La Crosse, WI, USA
Call To Arms
This was a good idea, except I can't hold myself to a set order in which to read these books. Really, it's hard to keep one's attention on a book unless it's been chosen for being of interest in the present, not of past assumption of interest.
Rather than a firm order, here's a few of the titles I plan to read and review.
"~" indicates a book read but not yet reviewed
~1066 The Year of the Conquest
~Women in the Middle Ages
~1215 The Year of the Magna Carta
~London The Biography
The Clerkenwell Tales
Medieval Europe A Short History
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Rather than a firm order, here's a few of the titles I plan to read and review.
"~" indicates a book read but not yet reviewed
~1066 The Year of the Conquest
~Women in the Middle Ages
~1215 The Year of the Magna Carta
~London The Biography
The Clerkenwell Tales
Medieval Europe A Short History
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Award of Arms
Pie Snit, 18, November, 2006
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