History, Customs and Manners 2011

[Lady Kett]

Violence class would be most excellent, Leah! HCM is on our daily to-do list!

[Look out Merlin & Gauwyn!]

[Merlin the Elder]

Violence class would be most excellent, Leah! HCM is on our daily to-do list!

[Look out Merlin & Gauwyn!]

Leah... a class on proper bleeding out of wizards? 

[DonaCatalina]

For a serious suggestion....LOL

How about something on daily diet peasant vs. noble?

[Lady Kett]

Any info that would be entertaining about the New World circa 1533? Columbus arrived in 1492 so we know Spain was up to their eyebrows in the New World. I'm only a half-arsed history buff but it seems I don't have any info on England and the New World until Elizabeth I arrives and Sir Walter Raleigh creates Virigina.

DID England do any exploration under Henry VIII?

If not, please go to your next regularly scheduled HCM topic!

[VIII]

Any info that would be entertaining about the New World circa 1533?
DID England do any exploration under Henry VIII?

John Cabot, a Venetian, went to the New World for England in 1497 and discovered Newfoundland.

In 1527, his son, Sebastian Cabot (not THAT Sebastian Cabot) sailed for Molucca, but never found it.

[LeahH]

Saturday, April 9:  Welcome, Titles, Forms of Address, and Reverence
Sunday: Day in the Life

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

[Your Grace]

Saturdays class was great. Y'all do such a great job. I can't what till next weekend. Many thanks to the cast for all there hard work.

[Lady Rebecca]

I enjoyed the class today! I wish I could take in all the classes in one weekend, since that is all I was here for. But I still feel I learned quite a lot!

[Lady Kett]

DOH! Completely spaced out Saturday and missed it, but made it Sunday! I just love HCM!

/writes on the board/
I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class.

[Merlin the Elder]

Yes! The classes were superb! (Nim and I were on time for both days... we need our gold stars!  )

[Al-Nimer]

DOH! Completely spaced out Saturday and missed it, but made it Sunday! I just love HCM!

/writes on the board/
I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class.

At least you didn't miss BOTH days, like I did 
Totally forgot about it today, but I doubt if my purple fairy would have liked it anyway 

[jhighlander42]

I loved this weekend's classes! Anything about daily life and social classes will always catch and reel me in. Very excited to hear next week's lesson!!

[LeahH]

Hey folks!

Thanks to those of you that came this past weekend and listened to the lectures!

The subjects for the upcoming weekend are:
Saturday: Running of a Gentry or Noble Household
Sunday: Food and Drink

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Leah

[DonaCatalina]

I look forward to all these lectures.
I have another suggestion. Head coverings.

I have read in several sources that Eleanor of Castile scandalized the French Court when she became Queen because she refused to wear a hood or a veil and her ladies did likewise. She wore her hair braided or in a caul with a man's flat cap.

What head coverings would have been considered proper for men and women of Henry VIII's Court.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

M'lady has wondered about forms of communication - peasants and nobility.