Links

SCA Links

These sites contain information about the Society for Creative Anachronism, the Kingdom of Meridies, and links to other baronies, shires, and groups within Meridies, as well as some locally-hosted pages and externally hosted documents.

• Society for Creative Anachronism.
• Kingdom of Meridies.
• Barony of Bryn Madoc Link Tree. Quick links for Bryn Madoc. (Link goes to an external website.)
• Shire of Beau Fort (Gainesville, Georgia). May our offspring continue to grow and prosper!
• The Shire of Drakenmere (Statesboro, Georgia). May our offspring continue to grow and prosper!
• Awards & Orders of Meridies Compiled. A Google Sheets compilation of the Awards & Orders of Meridies (with descriptions, badges, blazons, and regalia), bringing information from several places into one location. (Link goes to an external website.)
• Order of the Weapons Master, Meridies. Order information in a PDF document
   

Related Links

• Current Baronial Financial Policy. (Link goes to an external website.)
• Athens School of Arms. Fencing and much, much more. (Link goes to an external website.)
• Lymphad Journey: The Hall of Memory for the Barony of Bryn Madoc.
  Lord Dyfn's personal site on the history of Bryn Madoc: “As a tapestry is woven of many threads, so Bryn Madoc is composed of many lives.” (Link goes to an external website.)
   

SCA Arts and History Links

These links refer to some pages of useful, historic, or artistic interest (we think). The following links are not official links of the Society for Creative Anachronism nor the Kingdom of Meridies and are not created, maintained, supported, reviewed or otherwise sanctioned in any manner. All external links are provided as a service to the populace at large and are offered on an "as is" basis.
 

Architecture

• Castles of England. A comprehensive castle site
• Castles of Wales. Lots of pictures and info on Welsh castles and a collection of links to other Welsh topics
• Gothic Dreams: An Earthlore Immersive Exploration. A must-see site for Gothic architecture lovers! Take a cybertour of some of the great Gothic cathedrals and participate in the virtual cathedral project.
   

Armoring and Metalwork

• Under development.
   

Art Museums and Online Collections

• Art Cyclopedia.
• Georgia Museum of Art. Located on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, GA, GMOA has a part of the Kress Collection on permanent display, also hosts special exhibitions of period interest.
• Freer & Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes Near, Middle, and Far Eastern art
• Google Art Project. Visit hundreds of world-renowned museum and gallery collections in virtual format
• High Museum of Art. Located in Atlanta (special exhibitions)
• The Morgan Library & Museum. Click on "Collections" button to view many period works in zoomable format, including the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
• New York Carver. Links to museums worldwide
• Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• RMN listing. List of French national and provincial museums
• Victoria & Albert Museum. Lots of wondrous medieval and renaissance art at the V&A!
• Web Gallery of Art.
   

Cooking and Brewing

• Gode Cookery.
• Medieval Cookery.
• Thousandeggs: Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online.
   

Costume

• Clothing & Textiles. (includes Surviving Garments Project)
• Footwear of the Middle Ages.
• Poor People's Poulaines.
• SCA German Renaissance Research. A blog devoted to the arts and costume of Renaissance Germany
   

Early Period Topics

• Anglo-Saxon England webring homesite. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and use the webring to find some interesting Anglo-Saxon sites.
• Early Period. The web version of the personally-published quarterly journal for the advancement of early period arts, crafts, sciences, and research, focusing on pre-1066 A.D. topics of interest to persons with early period personae in the SCA or similar organizations.
• Celtic Clip Art at Ceolas. Downloadable knotwork; ftp site also available.
• Earthlore's Ireland site. A cyber exploration of Ireland.
• Regia Anglorum. Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History resources.
   

Fiber Arts

General Fiber Arts

• All Fiber Arts. Fiber arts articles and links
• Curious Weaver Articles. online
• Project Gutenberg E-Book: Embroidery & Tapestry Weaving. by Grace Christie

Embroidery

• Clothing & Textiles. Scroll down for Coptic and early period sewing & embroidery information
• Joyce Miller's Medieval Embroidery Page.
• Sharon B's Dictionary of Stitches for Hand Embroidery & Needlework.
• Soper Lane. English re-enactors who portray 15th C. London "silkwomen" — weavers of narrow goods
• A Stitch Out of Time. Medival Embroidery for the Modern Era site

Braiding, Kumihimo, Knotting, and Cord

• Making Basic Instructions for Creating Period Cord with a Lucet .
• Beginning Kumihimo.
• Chinese Knotting.
• Fingerloop Braids.
• Making a Viking Whip Cord.

Knitting, Naalbinding, and Spinning

• Dar Anahita's Medieval Muslim Knitting.
• The Joy of Handspinning.
• Nalbinding.
• Spinning with a Top Whorl Drop Spindle.

Weaving

• Guntram's Tabletweaving Page.
• Inkle Loom Pattern Generator — The Carolingian Realm. Create your own inkle weaving patterns online.
• Inkle Loom Weaving Guide for Beginners — The Beginning Artist.
• The Loomy Bin. Card and loom weaving patterns
• Warping Your Mini-Card/Tablet Loom. General warping and weaving tutorial
• WeaversHand. A wealth of weaving links here, including period topics
   

Games and Sports

• Justin de Coeur's Medieval & Renaissance Games. A page devoted to period game links.
• The Medieval Sportsman's Compendium of Knowledge. Feesh!! Site dedicated to researching how people hunted and fished 500 years ago and more.
   

General and Miscellaneous

• Archaeology Data Service. Archaeology articles from the University of York, UK
• The Labyrinth — Resources for Medieval Studies.
• Greg Lindahl's SCA Arts & Sciences links.
• Medieval & Renaissance Material Culture.
• Project Gutenberg E-Book: Arts & Crafts in the Middle Ages. by Julia De Wolf Addison
• The SCA Slavic Interest Group.
• Stefan's Florilegium. A compendium of articles of interest to SCA folk.
   

Japan and the Far East

• Kyoto Costume Museum.
• National Treasures and Important Cultural Property of the National Museum in Japan
• Tousando. Multi-topic message boards
• Traditional Crafts of Japan.
• Wodeford Hall. (scroll down for links)
   

Manuscripts, Illumination, and Books

• Biblioteca de Montserrat.
• Bibliotheca Palatina at the Library of the University of Heidelberg.
• British Library. (online ancient texts)
• Folio, Manuscript: Paleography, Codicology.
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek — National Library of the Netherlands.
• Medieval Papermaking.
• Medieval Ink
• Project Gutenberg E-Book: Libraries in the Medieval & Renaissance Periods.
• Traveling Scriptorium. A teaching kit from the Yale University Library
• Something Beautiful Blog — Illuminated Manuscripts.
   

Performing and Literary Arts

• Atrium Maucamedi: a Website for Medieval Music.
• A Beginners' Guide to the Bodhran.
• Joy & Jealousy Book. (Dances)
• Recorder Home Page.
• SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage.
• Werner Icking Sheet Music Archive. — Other sheet music archive links
   

Pavilions, Tents, and Furnishings

• Building a Conjecturally Medieval Pavilion.
• Medieval Pavilion Resources.
   

Prince Madoc and Fort Mountain

• Legends of Fort Mountain, Georgia. Discover the legend of Prince Madoc and Fort Mountain, the historical "Bryn Madoc."
• Prince Madoc. See photos of the wall at Fort Mountain.
   

Famous Folk From Madoc

• The C.S. Friedman Fan Site: The Forest of the Hunter. A site dedicated to the literary works of Bryn Madoc's best-known literary alumna.
• Alien Shores: The Worlds of C.S. Friedman. CSF's official site.
• Tom Deitz in Wikipedia. Tom Deitz (1952-2009), aka Master Dylan ab Aneirin y Breuddwidyr, was one of the founders of Bryn Madoc and the group's best-known literary alumnus.
• Fantastic Fiction's Tom Deitz page. A listing of Deitz's books with cover images.
   

Links last checked on September 8, 2019.