https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Seth+Woodoworth&feedformat=atomCunnan - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T11:57:13ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Conrad_Leviston&diff=13466User talk:Conrad Leviston2005-12-19T07:00:49Z<p>Seth Woodoworth: re: Welcome</p>
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<div><evil grin> Actually I did know the dragon was the natural enemy of the elephant. For the dragon is a serpent and the serpent did offer the fruit of the tree to eve. ;-)<br />
Bet you didn't know 12th C dragons only had 2 legs though. :-)<br />
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Tiffany (just a little light bedtime reading :-) )<br />
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The serpent offering the fruit, huh? I suppose all those tales of dragons capturing fair maidens makes sense in that context. Especially if you're one of those nutty religious types who believes that the fruit is a metaphor for sex. The maid is captured by the rapacious and then rescued by the chaste.<br />
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I'm still not sure how the elephant comes into it though.<br />
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I think it's a red herring - actually a real observation of african snakes that could strangle large animals - a piece of factual information that slipped in by accident amoungst all that metaphor. I bet the early greek descriptions show dragons as just a large snake with no legs.<br />
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Good work on the [[Line divisions]] articles. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 21:30, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)<br />
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Yep, I did all that while I was at work (a quiet night on the door can be very productive). It was actually really easy to draw up the images. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 22:24, 10 Jun 2004 (EST)<br />
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== Special Chars ==<br />
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I think the missing special chars are my fault (in fact I'm certain they are my fault). They are still in the database but the software is having some trouble understanding them.<br />
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I'll try to fix this on the weekend. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 01:34, 17 Jun 2004 (EST)<br />
:Seems to be back in order now. Some pages changed since the problem started might still be messed up. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 12:36, 17 Jun 2004 (EST)<br />
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== Categories ==<br />
Hi Conrad, I notice that there is a heraldry category AND a devices category. Shouldn't a lot of the pages you are editing go in the devices category or should that one be removed? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 11:01, 15 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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:I'm guessing devices should be removed [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 11:11, 15 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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:On second thoughts maybe devices should be used for things like [[Arms of the Kingdom of Lochac]]. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 11:15, 15 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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:I think the pages relating to parts of devices should be in [[:Category:Device heraldry]] which should be a sub category of [[:Category:Heraldry]]. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 09:34, 18 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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::Sounds good. Is there a quick way of doing this? [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 21:22, 18 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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:::Not really. Since I'm using a tabbed browser it's not uncomfortable for me to do it though. Leave it to me I'll get onto it. - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 10:08, 19 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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Thank you for fixingf my image link on the [[pennanular]] page. I could not, for the life of me, get it to work right, and I tried 2 or 3 times.<br />
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Morning Conrad. What are you using as your main source for all this stuff on Troubadours? I'm collecting data on [[Ulrich von Liechtenstein|Sir Ulrich]] for the tourney, and I was wondering if you had something I should be aware of. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] 11:15, 29 Jul 2004 (EST)<br />
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Hi, I am a librarian at Central Michigan University and I added links to several of your pages dealing with national histories (see France and Germany). I was amused by the comical history attempts on the prior pages and thought I would add a link to better the histories. I was quite mystified to see these labelled as possible link spam. :] <br />
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I was going to blog Cunnan at my information literacy blog (lorenzen.blogspot.com) pointing out how outsiders can improve flawed history sites but if you think I am spam...<br />
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I appreciate your link vigillance. Could you let me know how you determine real link adds from spam? (Note what you reply may be used on my blog.)<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Best wishes,<br />
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Michael Lorenzen<br />
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== Midi uploads ==<br />
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You should now be able to upload midi files (with either .mid or .midi as their extensions). Let me know if it doesn't work.<br />
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By the way, Lilypond (the music typsetter I've been raving about) outputs midi along with sheet music by default. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilypond and http://lilypond.org/<br />
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If you have hardcopy sheet music I'm happy to typeset it so we can upload PDF and midi files.<br />
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[[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 00:15, 31 Aug 2004 (EST)<br />
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==Redirects==<br />
My experience is that like html code, a #redirect does not need to be capitalised to work. Have you heard otherwise? BTW sometimes I redirect to pages that are linked to but haven't been written yet. [[Jesus]] to [[Jesus Christ]] was one of those. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]<br />
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:I thought lack of capitalisation was the reason the redirect wasn't working. Having changed it I realised my mistake. [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]] 08:06, 5 Nov 2004 (EST)<br />
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== Spam alert ==<br />
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Current events has been "hit" again -- Cursitor 20:12(GMT) 23/5<br />
* I have undone the spam and blocked the URL for a couple of days. - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]]<br />
Thank you. --[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 12:30, 24 May 2005 (CDT)<br />
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== England ==<br />
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The "history" to my talk page indicates you queried the subdivisions of the [[England]] page (and indeed I now see that page also ratifies this). Certainly what you have done conforms to the usual sub-divisions (chronologically as opposed to geographically) of English history. ''Ango-Saxon'' will always be a problem, since it covers the fluctuating fortunes of Celt, Angle & Saxon ''per se'', Danish raider, and Englishmen. But as a term is better than anything I could think of.<br />
I'm not sure how you're going to distinguicsh between Lancastrian and Yorkists. Obviously half of them came from the '''wrong''' side of the Pennines, but that's local prejudice!! Otherwise I don't know what particular distinction you are going to draw, whereas with the Tudors, you're looking at half-Welsh kings, with a claim rooted in bloody conquest, who book-end [[Period]]. [I agree Elizabeth needs a block on her own, for political and religious reasons, and because she was, in effect, an era of her own]. I look forward to seeing you develop this and will add the page to my watch-list, in case there is anything direct i can do to help. --[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 04:34, 22 Jun 2005 (CDT)<br />
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== Re: Laurel Wreath ==<br />
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You're welcome! If you need other graphics, just let me know. Generating heraldic graphics (for submission or diplay) has become my specialty. And mundanely, I have a little time on my hands right now. You're better off to contact me via e-mail with a request since I don't always get to Cunnan regularly. --[[User:Sabine|Sabine]] 12:45, 13 Jul 2005 (CDT)Sabine<br />
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I can do that. Though I suspect it is acceptable to link to/use the ones on the Kingdom web site. I'll be away from my computer for a few days, but I'll take a look next week. [[User:Sabine|Sabine]]<br />
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== Re Scottish Kings template ==<br />
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This looks lovely (tho I have little/no idea how to use it). Thnak you for all the wikifying you've been doing to the pages, as well.<br><br />
My one concern is that, on some kings, the template will be bigger than the article, because So Little is known (I have resolutely steered clear of Certain American web-sources, who claim All Sorts of Things for the Scottish monarchy). --[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 01:50, 20 Jul 2005 (CDT)<br />
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== Re Barony Box ==<br />
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Glad you like it. I can't currently think of a way around the image issue without making the process more complex, which isn't what the wiki needs. I created a Shire box just now and modified the 'rulers' to just have the seneschal.<br />
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== re: Welcome ==<br />
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Hi Conrad, I'm glad to help. I'm not in the SCA actually, I'm an anthropology student and a western martial artist. I study western martial arts from the High Middle German "fechbucher" of the Liechtenauer tradition as well as sidesword of the Bardi tradition, and Capo Ferro's Rapier. I've also studied the medieval period in general and European armor in specific.<br />
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I like your wiki, it's a good online resource. I could add/edit sections on medieval sword combat and/or 14-16th C. fight treatises. Would all of you be interested? It's not necessarily related to the SCA and SCA combat doesn't use it specifically. Most of the rapier material would be appropriate to SCA rapier. But I don't know how to make it SCA specific.</div>Seth Woodoworthhttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Cunnan:Village_pump&diff=13700Cunnan:Village pump2005-12-19T06:02:08Z<p>Seth Woodoworth: /* Welcoming new users */</p>
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<div></div>Seth Woodoworthhttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Maille&diff=13469Maille2005-12-19T05:56:38Z<p>Seth Woodoworth: </p>
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<div>'''Maille''' is the [[period]]-correct French term for what is commonly known as ''"chainmail"'' since Victorian times and now modernly in D&D. 'Mail' is the English term. Maille is made of many interlocking [[metal]] rings, and one of the most common forms of [[armour]] was the maille [[hauberk]].<br />
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== Manufacture ==<br />
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In [[Europe]], the 1-to-4 pattern was completely dominant. In [[East Asia]] (primarily [[Japan]]), mail was also common, but here several more patterns were utilized and an entire nomenclature developed around them. In the [[Middle East]] and [[India]], yet other patterns were developed (but 1-to-4 being the most common) and often combined with metal plates linked in with the rings.<br />
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Historically, the rings composing mail [[armour]] would be riveted or welded shut, to reduce the chance of the rings splitting open when subjected to a thrusting attack or a hit by an [[arrow]]. Also structural integrity of the garment could be held without a heavier gauge of wire, when compared to butted mail.<br />
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In modern [[re-enactment]] and [[live-action roleplaying]] games, split sprung [[steel]] washers are sometimes used. Usually a two pairs of pliers are used to bend the washers open and closed whilst "knitting" the chainmail. The resulting mail is usually heavier than traditional wire-wound mail.<br />
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Members of the [[New Varangian Guard]] make their maille from spring steel rings. By using spring steel, you can use a finer gauge of wire and still retain strength. However, for truly tough and light maille, you cannot go past riveted maille. Another option, if you have the money, is always titanium - strong, light and if you ask some nicely they might anodize it for you.<br />
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In the [[SCA]], you will find people whose skill at making historically accurate mail varies right across the spectrum; from amateur to true artisan.<br />
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[[category:armour]]</div>Seth Woodoworthhttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Maille&diff=13451Maille2005-12-19T05:53:59Z<p>Seth Woodoworth: the 4in1 pattern is the only documented pattern in medieval Europe</p>
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<div>'''Maille''' is the [[period]]-correct french term for what is commonly known as ''"chainmail"'' in modern times. Maille is made of many interlocking [[metal]] rings, and one of the most common forms of [[armour]] was the maille [[hauberk]].<br />
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== Manufacture ==<br />
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In [[Europe]], the 1-to-4 pattern was completely dominant. In [[East Asia]] (primarily [[Japan]]), mail was also common, but here several more patterns were utilized and an entire nomenclature developed around them. In the [[Middle East]] and [[India]], yet other patterns were developed (but 1-to-4 being the most common) and often combined with metal plates linked in with the rings.<br />
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Historically, the rings composing mail [[armour]] would be riveted or welded shut, to reduce the chance of the rings splitting open when subjected to a thrusting attack or a hit by an [[arrow]]. Also structural integrity of the garment could be held without a heavier gauge of wire, when compared to butted mail.<br />
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In modern [[re-enactment]] and [[live-action roleplaying]] games, split sprung [[steel]] washers are sometimes used. Usually a two pairs of pliers are used to bend the washers open and closed whilst "knitting" the chainmail. The resulting mail is usually heavier than traditional wire-wound mail.<br />
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Members of the [[New Varangian Guard]] make their maille from spring steel rings. By using spring steel, you can use a finer gauge of wire and still retain strength. However, for truly tough and light maille, you cannot go past riveted maille. Another option, if you have the money, is always titanium - strong, light and if you ask some nicely they might anodize it for you.<br />
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In the [[SCA]], you will find people whose skill at making historically accurate mail varies right across the spectrum; from amateur to true artisan.<br />
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[[category:armour]]</div>Seth Woodoworthhttps://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Dirk&diff=14344Dirk2005-12-19T05:44:42Z<p>Seth Woodoworth: dirks only have a single edge, and used by more than the highlanders</p>
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<div>A short bladed [[dagger]] used by the [[Scotland|Scottish]] with a single edge. The main function of this [[knife]] is for cutting nasty holes into your opponent in [[close combat]].<br />
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<div>Very long two handed [[sword]] with a 'wavy' [[blade]] used for making the most of cutting blade geometry and thrusting geometry. It was often used for pushing aside spears for breaking into formations.<br />
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<div>[[category:weapons]]<br />
A '''rapier''' is a slender, sharply pointed, two-edged [[sword]] with a blade at least 90 [[centimetre]]s in length, often sporting an elaborate [[hilt]] and hand-guard.<br />
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The rapier developed in the second half of the [[16th century]] as a modification of what is now known as the "cut-and-thrust" style [[sword]]. It was slimmer and nimbler than the thrusting [[broadsword]], a feature that enabled it to grow longer, and increased the usefulness of thrusting attacks thanks to its reach.<br />
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The rapier became popular in [[Europe]] in the 16th century primarily as a weapon for civilian use. In parallel to the rapier, other weapons were developed for use in war in response to the increasing protection offered by fully articulated plate [[armour]]. These included the [[estoc]] and many speciality [[polearm]]s-- such as the later versions of [[halberd]]. <br />
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As [[steel-plate]] [[armour]] became obsolete or shrunk in size due to the increasing use of [[firearm]]s in the late 16th century and the beginning of the [[17th century]], the rapier, in various modified forms, gained usefulness on the battlefield.<br />
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The rapier is capable of both slashing and thrusting attacks, but the style of fighting popular during its advent and heyday favoured the thrusting attacks we popularly associate with "[[fencing]]".<br />
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The rapier's slimmer cousin, the smallsword or the [[Fencing Foil|foil]], is the sword most often associated with the [[duel]]s of [[honour]] depicted in [[literature]] and movies, such as ''[[The Three Musketeers]]''.<br />
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For a more detailed explanation of the primary use of the rapier-- Dueling-- see [[European dueling sword]].<br />
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* Characteristics of the Rapier by Chris Evans - http://swordforum.com/articles/antiques/char-rapier.php<br />
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In the [[SCA]], the term 'rapier' is commonly used instead of '[[fencing]]'. In [[Lochac]], 'rapier' also refers to the in-house [[fibreglass rapier|fibreglass]] blades.</div>Seth Woodoworth