| I was involved on and off in Living History through the Society of Creative Anachronism from 1983 until 2003. On various weekends throughout the year, I participated in events dressed in historical garb I had sewn, cooked meals from historical recipes, did crafts and made music. As with many others, my level of activity began to decline due to real-life workload, and then more precipitously with new motherhood. |
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Azure, a bear rampant, on a chief Or a martlet between two trefoils sable.
My persona, Hildegarde Stickerin, was a 15th century merchant class woman. When I first joined the SCA, my persona was a 10th century Irish woman named Brigid Medb Ni Branghaile. After I returned from a long gafiation (a verb derived from the initials "get away from it all"), I chose to create a new persona rather than try to get anyone to remember "the old me". I also had an alternate gypsy persona. Combining with mundane obsessions, I remain interested in Hermeticism and related studies at the dawn of the Reformation. This is after Gutenberg's Press and before Dr. John Dee and the emergence of Rosicrucianism with the publiation of the Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosae Crucis in 1614, and the Confessio Fraternitatis in 1615. Were I doing an Italian persona, I might focus on Giordano Bruno, but as I have a perfectly good German persona, originally intended to be an embroideress, I'm situating my persona's lifespan parallel to Johannes Reuchlin, who wrote De arte cabalistica, and lived between 1455-1522. Reuchlin stood against the Dominicans and the Inquisition, coming under their scrutiny himself, but acquitted of heresy by papal commision.
"1611 CE, Johannes Bureus of Sweden, tutor and advisor of King Gustavus Adolphus, begins drawing and interpreting many of Sweden's runestones, many of which are only known to us through his drawings. 1622 CE, Ole Worm of Denmark collects reports on runestones and other antique monuments of Denmark and the Northern countries. " (chronology)
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I am located in the Barony of Wurm Wald and the Kingdom of the Middle (the MidRealm).
Wurm Wald always holds the
Festival of Maidens,
held in January.
Back when Wurm Wald used to do camping events, my household did much of the work in putting on a camping event, the Hunt for the Michaelmas Goose, on September 12-14, 1997, for which I was co-autocrat and feastocrat. The previous January I was feastocrat for the Dessert Revel at the Festival of Maidens. On my cooking page, I have the menu and recipes from both of these feasts. |
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My highest award was a Purple Fret which I was awarded for service to my Barony. For three years, I was the Pursuivant for Wurm Wald. The Pursuivant is an administrative office which includes educating members on heraldry, helping them design their devices, and submitting them through the society bureaucracy (which is appropriately medieval). It also includes being the "mouth" of the Baron, (running court ceremonies, and, at least in Wurm Wald, running the biweekly business meetings). The herald is also responsible for "cries" (making announcements) at local events. |
Hildegarde's Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Page
Anachronistic Baby (Baby and Children's Garb)
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BardicOver the years, Clan Black Wolf frequently hosted a bardic circle at Jubilee. My own style preference for a bardic circle is moderated chaos with a presumption of sing-along.
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