Stephen Smith explores Renaissance Florence under the reign of Grand Duke Cosimo Medici. Cosimo’s fledgling court prized the finer things in life and some of the greatest painters, sculptors and craftsmen in world history came to serve the Grand Duke. But successful courtiers had to have brains as well as brawn. The canniest of them looked to theorists like Niccolo Machiavelli for underhand ways to get ahead, whilst enlightened polymaths turned their minds to the heavens, and to ice cream.

This episode considers the court of Richard II. Richard presided over the first truly sophisticated and artistic court in England. Painters, sculptors, poets, tailors, weavers and builders flocked to court to make their fortunes. But these were dangerous times. Being close to Richard brought many courtiers to a sticky end.

THL Sivrid Brumbach discusses some lyre finds, their details and construction, and extends that to the creation of his own lyre.

Lady Liadan Liathan teaches several additional rhythms and how to play them on the bodhran.

Antonio di Sforza discusses the differences between SCA and Medieval Faires.

A brief explanation and tour of the SCA scores site and the Grand Archery Tournament, and how to use them, by Forester Gerard von Lowenstein.

This video shows the method Baroness GenRose uses, and has taught others to use, to successfully shoot at targets that are under 10 yards from the shooting line. Music in this video

Taught by THL Eve Stonehart, this class discusses the role the arrow plays in improving (or delaying) your improvement as an archer. Safety issues are also discussed, as well as arrow care and maintenance. Mismatched arrows can make even a good archer look bad.

This class is for youth and their parents. In our Society, we all strive to be noble "on and off the field". "On the field" includes the archery range and Lady Dagrun will talk about etiquette and comportment with our young lords and ladies.

Taught by Forester Yaacov Ben haRav Eliezer, this class will cover the advanced topic of aiming in archery. And yes, aiming is an advanced topic! For intermediate to advanced archers. We’ll go over both the theory of aiming and some techniques you can take with you to the range.