We now have a Renaissance Village YouTube Channel! Please subscribe today and like our videos! Plus we have uploaded our first video, so please share this link: Renaissance Village YouTube Call for Content Transcript of video with instructions on how to submit your content to us: Buongiorno amici! I am Maestra Giata, founder of … More Call for Virtual Renaissance Village Content!
So much planned for my fellow living history enthusiasts!! Our living google document schedule is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PYlHs9f94j69KIY6rSHCPCGAHHiFPiLJN_FUEdSC2PE/edit?usp=sharing
The Ca’ d’Oro Italian Salon and Renaissance Village department hosts an immersive A&S experience and is located on Laurel Lane across from the Theatre. Ca’ d’Oro offers a variety of classes and demos focused on post 13th-century life. In addition to offering over 50 classes, we host a period Apothecary, dedicated period cooking area, Interkingdom … More Ca’ d’Oro Salon at Gulf Wars XXVIII 2019
My favorite games are bocce ball, gluckhaus, game of the goose, damas, mulino/ morris or merellus, primero, and “things”. Here is a repost of an article about some others, as published in the Aethelmarc Gazzette: Here are a few links for some great games I have played at events and hope to see return to popularity. … More Games for Re-enactment Events
BENVENUTI! The Ca’ d’Oro Renaissance Salon is a Gulf Wars department and class area where we explore the study and recreation of the Renaissance period through an immersive environment dedicated to post-13th-century history across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The Ca’ d’Oro Renaissance Salon at Gulf Wars aims to foster scholarship within the various avenues of study within the Renaissance … More Ca’ d’Oro Renaissance Salon at Gulf Wars XXVII
As we are planning for Gulf Wars, I’d like to take some time to address how people on the peninsula ate during the Renaissance (1350-1600). During the Renaissance, Italy had the most skilled, well known and creative cooks in Europe. They took Italian fine dining to new levels of refinement and prestige. Large, elaborate banquets … More Italian Renaissance Meals
This year at Gulf Wars we will have a cooking demo on Monday from 10am until around lunch when the demo participants can feast on the things they made. In compiling recipes to make over a fire at camp I’ve made a few posts. In this one I’m putting the top recipes I hope we … More Renaissance Village Cooking Guide: Gulf Wars Cookbook
My love affair with Titian’s painting has led me to compile research on the style of coat featured in it. I call it the Turkish Venetian coat. The painting is Portrait of a Lady by Titian done in 1555 and housed at the National Gallery of Art in DC. Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, … More Turkish Venetian Gown & Coat
In honor of the cherry Visinata/ Vishniak I’m making for Gulf Wars…a few historical drink recipes! Nunc est bibendum… (now is the time for drinking) “Nunc est bibendum” (“Now is the time for drinking”), sometimes known as the “Cleopatra Ode”, is one of the most famous of the odes of the Roman lyric poet Horace, … More Nunc est bibendum
The Ca’ d’Oro Salon is a department at Gulf Wars, a reenactment event held annually near Lumberton, Mississippi. Ca’ d’Oro is a place where we gather, socialize, and learn about post 13th-century arts & sciences in the atmosphere of a 15th-century Italian Salon where artists, poets, musicians, philosophers, nobility, and courtiers would have gathered to pass … More Ca’ d’Oro Salon at Gulf Wars XXVII
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