Sooooo, any Medieval/Pre-Renaissance European enthusiasts or reenactors?

[Guest HillyKarma]

I'm a really big history buff, and have always been really interested in the workings of Medieval Europe.

Recently I've accrued interest in re-enacting and the like, and would like to talk to someone who could give me some direction on things related to that.

I'm kind of a stickler for historical accuracy, and the internet only has so much knowledge that's available within a reasonable number of keystrokes and clicks.

 

TL;DR- I need someone who is as big of a nerd as me to help me with putting this outfit together.

[Hershmeister]

Check out the Tennessee Renaissance Festival this weekend

[Guest HillyKarma]

Check out the Tennessee Renaissance Festival this weekend

I did, and was met with "Well I don't really know," and "It's been great talking to you, but my lunch is over in 5 minutes" from the people working the festival, and most of the people attending that I spoke to couldn't help me out to any degree.

[cj0e]

I've used many books from Osprey Publishing to get into WWII British reenacting, they have some titles for Medieval military histories available.

 

Can't vouch for that time period, but they came to me highly recommended for WW2 stuff, especially the Brayley stuff.

 

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/section.aspx?SectionID=30

[1gewehr]

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is the huge medieval/renaissance organization.  They are typically very welcoming of prospective new members.  You might want to start here:

http://welcome.sca.org/

[Chris]

+1 on SCA. It's never been my cup of tea, but I know some folks who are active and it's a very open and friendly community.

[Spiffy]

I have the physical makeup to be a King.......a good hard drinking, hard wenching King.

[BrasilNuts]

I have the physical makeup to be a King.......a good hard drinking, hard wenching King.

Those are the truest words you have ever spoken.

[Spiffy]

Those are the truest words you have ever spoken.

 

For your wisdom and truthfulness of Spoken word,  I will name you Hand.

[Fourtyfive]

Mike Freeman runs the TRF , and owns the castle ; nice guy.

[Guest Wildogre]

Here is a good start, I am interested in the German Landsknechts from around the 1550s.

 

http://www.landsknechtguild.com/links/resources/

 

http://www.renaissancemagazine.com/links.html

 

http://www.strongblade.com/