he text and docuementation for the entries in this year's Poeta Atlantiae competition. Many thanks to the brave and brilliant entrants. May the populace be enriched by their verse, and may Their Majesties enjoy the difficult choice that faces them. Yours in verse, Iselda de Narbonne Poeta Atlantiae (for now...) ...
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transcriptions of period pieces, research papers on various aspects of medieval music including notation, and original compositions. ...
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fabric is dark blue with white seahorses and matches my heraldic Atlantian gothic fitted dress. The outfit, aside from the mask, is accurate to the 14th century. Cotton print fabric and elastic. The mask edges are serged, pressed and pleated, then sewn into a rectangle with loops for the elastic. The pleats are expanded when the mask is worn in order to cover my entire nose and mouth. Deaconess mask instructions and youtube tutorials for pleated masks. ...
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pt the challenge of creating projects from any form of fiber and needles of their choosing. This round had thirty-eight participants and was full of beautiful projects and great support for what everyone was doing. In the end, we are able to meet the King's Challenge as well as our own personal challenges with the help of a virtual environment. This challenge was sponsored by Lady Scholastica Joycors. ...
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melling lavender to ward off all plague-filled air. During the Black Death in the 1330s to 1340s, it was believed the plague traveled through bad air. The mask was designed to constrain the bad air by having it pass through herbs and flowers. Wool, leather, cotton thread, scissors, sewing machine, lavender in linen/cotton bag DEUTSCHES MEDIZINHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, https://themindcircle.com/authentic-doctor-mask/ ...
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Introduction to Brick Stitch class, offered at the Virtual University of Atlantia on June 13th. Handout includes links and citations to every extant image used in the presentation, in order of reference and organized referring to its use in the presentation. ...
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y.ca/beasts/beastgallery149.htm# as resources. Red leather for the eyes and crown evokes the fire from which the phoenix rises. The beak is cinched a bit for a downward turn. The beak is shorter than most plague masks so I could actually wear it during this current pandemic.", Based on several images of the phoenix in the 1200s in England and France and one from 1350 from Flanders. leather, waxed linen, metal feather pendant, leather punch, needle, pliers, scissors, graphite "Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 764, Folio 70r-70v, 13th c. English; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 14429, Folio 107r, 13th century, French; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, Folio 83v, circa 1350, Flanders. I acquired all of these images from http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery149.htm# " ...
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which requires any type of needle and fibers. There were eleven participants who completed the challenge. ...
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their voices in song to celebrate the coming of summer. Each member recorded themselves singing part of the round, so that the director, Iselda de Narbonne, could edit the files together into what they would have sounded like in person. Though we are separated, we can still join our voices in song. Follow the link to view a video of the Roxbury Mill Shire Quire performing "Sumer is icumen in." ...
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