whoops, sorry about that, I'd meant to include location in the original post! It's predominantly around Ayrshire, Argyll and Bute but I'll take anything you have that I can take back as information, it may be useful later!

Thanks for the replies so far

Hi everyone, A friend of mine has been trying to find reenactment groups in Scotland for some time now without luck. I had a Google myself and found a few groups but the websites were a bit out of date so I thought it best to check here. Does anyone know of, or are part of, any groups in Scotland? M...

Wow, I need to check this thread more often! I'm not very well at the moment friends so please bear with me, I may not reply for a little while at a time but I will come back. Firstly thankyou Sophia, I actually have that exact book (I also bought it from Amazon) and it is indeed a very well written...

I have a book very similar in name as that, just not so costly, which recounted the Crusades from the point of view of the existing population. Thanks for the suggestion Dave, it's another book I can get my hands on. I really struggle to find books about the history of Islamic nations that are both ...

-wards into the abysss

May I just ask how one does tightly compress their anus, just so that I know not to do it? :p

Although Islamic texts did take a lot from prior civilisations, they did do a lot of further exploratory and diagnostic work themselves and built on top of what they did take from others. In the same way, all civilisations took medical information from others, then built on top of it, often seemingl...

I was thinking of eventually doing something similar myself - you could have a look at the Islamic medicinal texts too. Certainly for the general medieval periods, a lot of the information gathered about the biology of man, the nervous system etc was borrowed from Islamic scholarly studies, as well ...

A demi-wolf could easily be a WolfDog, they've been around since man first started accepting a more domesticated wild dog to live with them. I am also in love with them.

Thanks to everyone so far for the contributions :D I'm seeing a lot of the same point, which are that if you saw someone dressed this way in an English battle then it wouldn't be acceptable, which is perfectly acceptable in itself - as someone else said, there are plenty of mulitperiods to be gettin...

Having watched other half slave away over a tiny bit of Maille, I'm inclined to agree with that final thought... :p

Wow, good question. I've just done a little Google search and from what I came up with, apparently 'Amourer' works, but outside of that a 'Mailler' or 'Linker' works too. I've never actually heard anyone referred to by any of those names besides Amourer though. I was wondering too, am I correct in t...

Marc, I certainly take you point about the fact that most of the time these are UK shows depicting UK units and it was the reason I hadn't started attempting this in all the years I wanted to do it. However as you say, there are multiperiods where anything seems to go sometimes, so even if it means ...

, said the old man

Thanks Cola, it's good to hear. Yeah I'm aware that some people will be hesitant, and I was worried about the perspective that I may appear less armoured or protected than I am. Taking hits isn't an issue, I'm hard and I sort of enjoy a really good slap about anyway, but it's making sure that the pe...

Ok guys, here's some of the pics I promised earlier of kit peices I'm looking at - I'm doing this for a reason, which you'll see in a moment. You've seen an example of the Khazaghand I linked earlier in the thread, which would have a chest peice of Lamellar armour over the top, as thus: http://i149....

Rome would never have

I'm certainly no expert but when I was doing 15th Century, my research led me to believe that blackened armour was common as it was a direct result of a forging process - to have shiny silver armour was to add a lot more to the finishing process, whereas the forge blackened happened normally after t...

Can I just ask: When you say "Feed the leather", what do you mean exactly?

looked like a book

Thankyou again Greg, I shall look them up

Marc I totally understood you, I was just giving the credit elsewhere since I knew that your superior thought patterns wouldn't require positive affirmations :D Nigel, I'm presuming you and Debs are from the Padded Armour Company? Do you guys have an email or website, and when is your next event :p ...

I've just realised I marked my reply to Marc when it should have been to Gregory. Terribly sorry Greg, it was your idea I was saying was a good one, in reply to your post. My excuse is that it was late and I'm not well, and I'm sticking to it

can become a potent

Marc, I really love that idea and it would allow me to indulge in the tented living history that I really wanted to portray. I had the same concerns as you about how much of my native background I may have been allowed to retain having started working for someone of European origin and your idea fre...

Thanks to both of you for your replies, I know our group does use Cap-A-Pie (or however their name is meant to be spelled) so I'll get in contact with them. I Spoke to the Armchair Armourer gentleman at Tewks last year and he was quite enthusiastic about taking on a new and unusual piece too, so if ...

A spoon full of sugar

Hi everyone, After years of just reading this website, I've decided I finally have a need to actually write something here :) I've spent around 5 or 6 years doing 15th century English combat and living history, and then took a fairly long break before coming back in at 14th C, which I've been doing ...