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Per Braz
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posted 09-26-2005 12:31 PM
Hi everybody, I just wanted to know how you conceive the equipment you recreate in your group. Do you create a character and try to get all his equipment, or do you look for the items you like and try to find a way to justify your use of them ? In 1186-583, we are several people thinking about creating a new character each time we focus on a particular equipement, calling him a project. For instance, I have for now three projects going on : one (Per Braz), as a servant in the Tripoli Hostel, another one, as a donkeykeeper in the Hospitallers (not yet published in the website) and a last one, as a servant of Zahr ad-Daula, a Seljuk ghulam/mamluk (not yet published in the website). So I can wear muslim clothes if I want, as I have a full suit (in development) or as a warrior monk and still be historically coherent. Like this, we can use whatever piece of equipment we would like to have, as long it is part of a correct character for the period and place (end of XIIth century Holy Land in my case). I hope I am clear. This type of conceiving the equipment not as just "mine" but as the one of a specific and coherent character from several I have recreated doesn't seem to be widespread in France. So I wanted to know if there is other people doing the same abroad, just to share experiences. Yann aka Per Braz[ 09-26-2005: Message edited by: Per Braz ]
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chef de chambre
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posted 09-26-2005 08:35 PM
Hi Per,I have created a construct for historic interpretation (loosely call it a character if you will, it is an amalgam of several English officers in Burgundian service - It is a tool to educate, not an alternate identity), and I then have tried to get the equipment I would most likely have. I have tried to dillegently limit myself to this approach, it being very difficult to portray a man of arms a cheval as it is, without diverging into other things. Now, as a reenactor I am often tempted to get material objects that I don't need for my portrayal - a habit I have had to keep on a sharp curb, needing to fund a suitable wardrobe, as well as a complete harness of appropriate quality, nevermind needing to eventually come up with a saddle or two, and all the appropriate tack. THe few manifestations of the habit have given me some basic equipment to outfit or arm a few others with some basic clothing, harness, and appropriate weapons. If I had limitless time and funds, I would unfortunately follow my inclinations, and have a miniature version of the Schloss Churburg armoury, several rooms of Flemish furniture and daily material objects, and a wardrobe in full for myself and a number of retainers. -------------------- Bob R.
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John McFarlin
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posted 09-27-2005 12:51 AM
I am in the middle of collecting the items that a 14th century english esquire (with hopes of advancement) might well have had. I tend to think of it in terms of function.I am focused on one portrayal, the english esquire (man at arms), though I have picked up a few items that I could hand out to new members of the group I belong to, to outfit them in other portrayals. I do not try and make items outside what is feasible fit the portrayal. I stick to what is appropriate. In fact, I have developed my desires such that I tend to LIKE the appropriate items more than anything outside what the portrayal would likely have had. John Jehan de Pelham, esquire (English in France 1370-1400) Jehan de Pelham, esquire and servant of Sir Vitus
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Gobae
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posted 09-27-2005 10:12 AM
I chose something that I do in modern life (blacksmithing) and simply retrofitted it for the time period I'm portraying.So, I guess you could say I chose a portrayal THEN gathered/made the accutrements. It also occured to me that, having seen so many "odd-ball" justifications for OoP items that I was determined not to go down that route. -------------------- Gobae - The Blacksmith Historic Strides Blog Ancient Celtic Clans
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