Archery Through the Ages

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Analysis: the great households of medieval Ireland were experts at wielding their hospitality and their power at Christmas festivities.

How medieval Irish elites feasted and fought at Christmas The great households of medieval Ireland were experts at wielding their hospitality and their power at Christmas festivities

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. -Walt Disney, entrepreneur and animator (5 Dec 1901-1966)

Personal hygiene did exist in the Middle Ages – people were well aware that cleaning their face and hands was a good idea – health manuals from the period note that it was important to get rid of dirt and grime. They also explained that it was important to keep the entire body clean. For example, the fourteenth-century Italian physician Maino De Maineri stated in his work Regimen sanitatis that “the bath cleans the external body parts of dirt left behind from exercise on the outside of the body.
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Did people in the Middle Ages take baths? - Medievalists.net It was said that the Middle Ages was 'one thousand years without a bath.' However, a closer look shows that baths and bathing were actually quite common in the Middle Ages, but in a different way than one might expect.

The Ides have passed. Whither Caesar?

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Interesting article.
"This rethinking could have far-reaching implications for medieval studies and English political history more generally. Food renders have informed theories about the beginnings of English kingship and land-based patronage politics, and are central to ongoing debates about what led to the subjection of England’s once-free peasantry".
https://www.medievalists.net/2022/04/who-was-eating-meat-in-early-medieval-england/

Who was eating meat in early medieval England? - Medievalists.net Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Norse settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than other people, a major new bioarchaeological study suggests.

The Crusades dominated both the Christian and Muslim worlds during the Middle Ages. Thousands of experienced knights and ambitious hopefuls- seeking more their fortune than redemption- embarked across Europe towards Jerusalem to regain the Holy City for the Cross. But the warriors and soldiers were accompanied by an entourage of families, servants, clergy and tradesmen and -women, swelling the numbers to thousands.

Looking beyond the cross emblazoned banners, trumpeted fanfare, billowing banting and prancing horses that heralded the start of the Crusade, such a perilous long journey crossing Europe from West to East, encountering the mountain ranges of the near East, deserts and even the seas, was fraught with danger. Besides injuries, pregnancies and common ailments such as scorpion stings, the Crusading trek was beseeched by famine, plagues, leprosy, dehydration, diarrhoea, dysentery and when the fighting commenced – festering battle wounds, severed limbs, gangrene and amputations. Armed with herbaria, crude surgical instruments, their leech books under the arm, and a prayer for a miracle in the heart, the mediciners or leech-crafters stepped up, packed their tumbrels and set off.

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Covid conditions and restrictions are being lifted and Experience Medieval Archery is to open again from mid April.

At what distance is a longbow (warbow) lethal -

Medieval Longbow | The optimum killing distance What’s the optimum shooting distance with a medieval longbow to kill a knight? Well, given this question from a subscriber recently, we can answer this from...

Modern scientists get the blues as they catch up on medieval monks.
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England’s most famous (or infamous) king, Henry VIII, was born on June 28, 1491 at Greenwich Palace. The second surviving son of Henry VII and the Yorkist princess, Elizabeth of York, he would reign as the second Tudor monarch. Henry received a classical humanist education and his father endowed him with the titles Duke of York in 1494 and Duke of Cornwall in early 1502.

Henry VIII – King of England Henry VIII by Hans Eworth after Holbein England’s most famous (or infamous) king, Henry VIII, was born on June 28, 1491 at Greenwich Palace. The second surviving son of Henry VII and the Yorkist pr…

During Henry’s reign, the English had to navigate a delicate balance of foreign policy between France, ruled by François I, and the Hapsburg empire, ruled by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the nephew of Queen Katherine of Aragon. Henry joined the Holy League in 1511, consisting of England, Venice and Spain to defend the Papacy from its enemies and France with military force. Henry promised to attack and took troops to France in the summer of 1512, leaving Queen Katherine to act as Regent during his absence.

Henry VIII – King of England Henry VIII by Hans Eworth after Holbein England’s most famous (or infamous) king, Henry VIII, was born on June 28, 1491 at Greenwich Palace. The second surviving son of Henry VII and the Yorkist pr…

A good YouTube series.

Ep.1 of 50 - How the Irish helped save civilization SERIES 1 - Ep.1 - How an Irish boy born into a 6th century apocalypse helped to rescue Western Civilization. TIME-STAMPS: 2.05 – Intro & Summary - 2.05 – Ch....

One might wonder who was the person who created 'English-mass-tourism' to our fair and favoured isle ...
Dear reader ... wonder no more.
Diarmuid Mac Murchada. https://waterfordtreasures.wixsite.com/wattreasuresblog/post/the-exile-of-diarmuid-mac-murchada

The Exile of Diarmuid Mac Murchada As we draw ever closer to the 850th anniversary of the historic marriage between Strongbow and Aoife we're back with another blog on the events which led to this famous union. Last week we looked at the abduction of Derbforgaill as the catalyst for the whole Anglo-Norman invasion, but this week we'r...

The Siege of Waterford 1495
The fifteenth century was a period of major political upheaval in the British Isles as the Wars of the Roses raged on between the great and the good every new years seemed to bring a new King or pretender to the throne. But how did that affect Waterford, a city terrible far away from the squabbles of noble families?
Dear reader ... read on.

The Siege of Waterford 1495 The fifteenth century was a period of major political upheaval in the British Isles as the Wars of the Roses raged on between the great and the good every new years seemed to bring a new King or pretender to the throne. But how did that affect Waterford, a city terrible far away from the squabbles o...

A useful chart to have.

This video shows Experience Medieval Archery as being in the museum. We have since moved out and work in the Viking Triangle of Waterford and outdoor events around the Sunny South East.

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If the cap fits ... hard to believe that it's 2 years ago since I was on the Bobby Kerr Show - Downtobusinessofficial

On This Day : The Battle of Formigny
The first battle where cannon played a significant role in the fight.
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The cannon may have been decisive, not so much for the effect they had themselves, but in that they alerted Richemont to the fact that there was a battle going on, and so caused his appearance on the field. It was fortunate for Clermont that this was so because one of his captains wrote shortly afterwards that if the Constable (Richemont) had not come when he did, Clermont's army would have suffered "irreparable damage".

The Battle of Formigny One of the first battles in which cannons played a pivotal, if not decisive, role, the Battle of Formigny was a major French victory toward the end of the Hundred Years' War. The English were dealt a significant blow—thousands of troops were killed, injured, or captured—and, as there were no oth...

During my studies in UCC this week on Celts & Celtic Civilisations I came across a lovely Brehon Law (laws that governed Gaelic Ireland until the mid-1600's) - a triad: called gnomic wisdom

3-Things to ruin a tribe. 3-Things to serve a tribe.
A lying chief. An honourable chief.
A false judge. A just judge.
A lust-filled priest. A faithful cleric.

7 areas of Brehon laws that are now/still part of modern Western law - including copyright and tort.
https://www.onelegal.com/blog/7-fascinating-facts-about-brehon-law/

7 fascinating facts about Brehon Law St. Patrick’s Day is near. A perfect time to brush up on your Brehon law! We hope you enjoy this glimpse into ancient Ireland’s earliest legal system.

The archer's speech.

Henry V - Speech - Eve of Saint Crispin's Day - HD Kenneth Branagh's masterpiece film of the Shakespeare classic play. Done in High Definition. Blows away the Braveheart battle speech.

Interesting article on medieval beliefs.

Dire Consequences of Su***de in the European Middle Ages The cycle of life and death is an eternal and unchanging truth of human history. Yet, the attitudes around both are influenced and shaped by a number of factors.

This Day in History : Vikings Capture Paris (845 CE)
Ragnar Lodbrok was a Norse hero of the Viking Age whose life—which was spent largely invading one country after another—has been mixed with myth in many legendary accounts. One of his favorite tactics was to attack Christian cities on holy days, as he did in 845, when he arrived in Paris on Holy Saturday with 120 ships. By some accounts, he accepted a tribute of 7,000 pounds of silver from French King Charles the Bald in exchange for sparing the city. According to legend, how did he die?

Vikings Capture Paris Ragnar Lodbrok was a Norse hero of the Viking Age whose life—which was spent largely invading one country after another—has been mixed with myth in many legendary accounts. One of his favorite tactics was to attack Christian cities on holy days, as he did in 845, when he arrived in Paris on Holy...

Mysteriously, the Old Copper Culture ended around 1,000 BC, when the Great Lakes hunting and gathering populations largely abandoned copper tools and returned to using tools and other implements made from stone and bone.

Re-dating of old discoveries and more refined dating of new ones have pushed the starting date of the Old Copper Culture back much farther, to the year 7,500 BC. The use of copper tools among Native Americans who built this culture peaked between 5,000 BC and 3,000 BC, before declining precipitously after that.

Native North Americans Were Making Copper Tools in 7,500 BC The Old Copper Culture of the Great Lakes region in North America used copper tools for thousands of years and then went back to stone and bone tools. Why would they do that? Researchers have revised the historic timeline and revealed remarkable insights.

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A little late really for this page - but some useful information of the Irish diaspora to Spain following the fall of the Gaelic Earls.

The Irish marine companies of the Spanish Atlantic Navy, 1603-1639 The Irish marine companies of the Spanish Atlantic Navy, 1603-1639