I'm Wondering How People Endured the Winters During Medieval Times

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

It's snowing today in the mountains and it's raining with sleet in the valleys of Utah. People are running off the road and sliding everywhere, so I am sitting still to wait out the storm. I hear it will be today and tomorrow before it clears out of Utah. Spring is having a hard time making its debut, I guess.

All this snow and stormy weather makes me think about folks in the middle ages. I wonder how they made it through extreme weather such as blizzards, tornadoes, and heavy rain storms with damaging winds. My thoughts turn especially to those who lived primitively.

First of all, I think about how their homes were constructed. Wooden shacks and cottages would have been more vulnerable to wind damage and large hail. Folks didn't have the luxury of glass windows, solar panels, and gas or electric furnaces for heat or electricity for light. So they had to be prepared to make ways to keep warm and to have light. They must have had some kind of emergency plans.

People who lived in castles were much more protected from wind, hail, and rain and snow. It's sort of coincidental that I just wrote about survival in the middle ages, because I searched google hoping to find some interesting tidbits of information for my readers when I found a book with the same title. It's only fitting that I plug it for them right here.

Just click the photo to order and tell them that Ren Faire Reese sent ye. The book is written by Fiona Macdonald and sells for the modest price of $7.95 in paperback. It's only available in the United States right now. The book is only 48 pages but the sellers state it is worth every penny because of the effort to utilize all its space in sharing common household customs in the middle ages. I'm going to order this book and read it. Afterwards, I can give a book review on an updated post. Remind me, will you?

If you have any information about the middle ages that you would like to share with us, please comment or email renfairereese@gmail.com and ask to be a guest writer here. I'll send you an invitation so you write your own story.

Books on the Middle Ages, Medieval Times and the Renaissance would be a welcome addition to this blog. If you can suggest one, leave a comment or email me if you think the book deserves a full review.

I'll be back before you can miss me.
Ren Faire Reese

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Enjoy this Documentary about Renaissance Faires

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Support these artists efforts to present a history of this great phenomenon that celebrates the 16th Century custom of faires first introduced by Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy and prepare to be dazzled with my personal accounts of faires and festivals this year.

My Gypsy Heart hears the Call of Music and Dance

Celebration is in the air. Easter has come in the early springtime, and with it the feeling of renewal, life and resurrection to perfect beauty. Music calls to some place deep within me. I want to dance and clap my hands and sing with a band of traveling gypsies. Violins play in harmony with the tamborines as we ladies swing our full skirts to the music, dancing round and round in merriement.

Heading to Las Vegas for a Wonderful Italian Dinner Tomorrow

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

There is a place that my travel partner and I enjoy eating every time we visit Las Vegas. Even if we're just passing through, we stop here to eat. It's a casino right along I 15 in the heart of Vegas that serves the best Italian cuisine. The name always escapes me so I'll take a photo this time and share it with you. The dinner includes pasta with a huge bowl of salad that can be refilled, whole bulbs of roasted garlic and home baked bread.

My mouth is already watering!

Too Rainy in Texas for the Faire

I was disappointed traveling through Texas looking for a renaissance faire to try out my new skirts. It was just too windy, stormy, muddy and rainy. There were so many downpours moving through central and western Texas that an outside event would not have held up against all that water. Tornadoes have been ravaging the area, too. I think I'll return to Texas when Mother Nature gets finished birthing spring.

I Have a new Blog to Have Fun Writing about Renaissance

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tonight I finished my first post for Renaissance Model, so go check it out and tell me what you think of the story line. I would love your feedback to help me shape the direction of my blogging on this particular blog. I am certain about one thing, my writing about renaissance will involve historical delving to bring the lives of real people to the page. We owe our present day to our ancestors, and my writing is but a small tribute. But it is what I have to offer.

In memory of the people who brought us into this world, I dedicate all my historical posts in hopes that their lives will be remembered.

Ren Faire Reese