… We first need to consider the chronology of the Renaissance. There is much debate when it comes to defining the period with precision. Some scholars believe that it started as early as the XIIth century, but most agree that…

….Five guilds will be represented, the Mariners, who specialize in seafaring skills such as complex knots; the Steel Bonnets, roaming mercenaries; the Royal Academy, a weapons and warfare academy for youngsters; the Royal Academy, which studies military science, including discipline…

All the world’s a stage, William Shakespeare once wrote. The Bard’s going to be getting a lot of stage time around here for the next month. The 5-year-old Outrageous Fortune Theatre Company stages its free, annual Shakespeare in the Park…

The Ardenwood Shakespeare Festival and Renaissance Faire will open for a full weekend of fun and frolic Sept. 12 and 13, where it will transport visitors to a country fair in late-1500s England where the rising young star of London’s…

Traité où l’on enseigne à faire et appareiller tous boires comme vin, clairet, mouré et autres, ainsi qu’à appareiller et assaisonner toutes viandes selon divers usages de divers pays

In 1589, Philip led a public mass for the success of the Spanish Armada against his own countrymen, for which crime he was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Many stories have been told about the Rom during the mid 1400’s to the early 1500’s. During this period strife was intense in France, made worse with the appearance of the Saracens, who appeared at Sisteron, in Provence; and on the 18th. of July, 1422, a chronicler of Bologna mentions the arrival in that town [...]

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In the Italian tradition there is an imaginary Line of Direction that describes the shortest path to the adversary.

The Spanish tradition uses this line and expands on the concept to create a 2D planar map of possible footwork laid out in a circle.  The Spanish Circle is …

So, I was doing one of my favorite things to do on a Wednesday night: watching Criss Angel: Mindfrea

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. . .with much thought and deliberation on this matter, I have convinced my sister Karima (a woman of many names) to share with me (thence with you, dear Reader), her love of exotic places.  For she, like certain other young damsels, was captured by brigands and taken to the Eastern lands.  In [...]