http://davidtennant.albumpost.com/album871/aaa Oh, he's in a treeeee ... http://davidtennant.albumpost.com/album871/aae God, I'm so pathetic. When did this happen? Clearly I cannot resist a man in a doublet. Also, that is some dress, on the right: http://davidtennant.albumpost.com/album871/aah

My copy of Susan Vincent's Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England , which I ordered from AbeBooks, arrived today! *does happy dance* I really, really like this book, and am glad that now... Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory and Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion (a birthday present years ago from a puzzled uncle), I have most of the major recent resources on this topic

Oxford University Press has a blog, which features a weekly etymology column, and this particular entry is about the relationships between the words "rob" and "robe": http://blog.oup.com/2008/02/rob/...as ways of discovering the truth at various points... Anyway. I'll have to think more about this (particularly given Harman's defensive etymology in the epistle to the reader), but it's interesting

The other day I visited the closing weekend of a Renaissance Festival.  As a long-time appreciator of the medieval eras and a great admirer of fantasy elements, I have to say that I was impressed by the...Nice, leather, authentic belt. - Pouches for the belt to hold money, trinkets, small purchases, and bendy straws. - Weaponry.  Daggers, rapier?  Something showy and possibly battle-ready to perform with