Had a question from a friend today that I thought would make the perfect blog entry here on Eligius, so I made the answer to her, but here is a bit more details on the matter. The question was a very basic, “Was the renaissance going on during the 14th century?” It is a valid question to be sure, but perhaps it is one of those that it is not really so valid to answer. And certainly if an answer it is given, as I did then and am doing again now, it comes with a litany of qualifications on the answer.Quick Update
Okay… So I admit that I apparently suck. I have gotten more then a little bit busy the last week or two and did not manage to keep up with the posting here, even though it is NaBloPoMo. Well, I am still going strong over on mephistos and it is a good read. However, even given my less that stellar performance of keeping things posted daily here on Eligius, I have more then enough to post about. I am going to be doing something just a little different here though. I have not completely worked out the target as of yet, but I am think along the lines of a post a week or two posts a week, maybe even three a week. I think that is much more likely to be sustained, even doing it out through a year, then posting once a day for a month. As soon as I get it completely figured out, you dear readers, will be the second group of people to know. For now, note that I will have a good posting here in just a short bit.
In conjunction with that, there are a few things that I am hoping to get updated here on the site this weekend coming up. As I get those done, I think I will come back here and check them off as a list type of thing and add to this post. By the way, if you have suggestions shot, I am always open on that kind of thing. Lastly, I am also looking for other sites of a medieval/historical re-enactment type to link to from here, especially blogs, but not exclusively.
On the second day of the big battles I woke up feeling it. What exactly was it? Well the horse that must have been on the field at some point that ran me down via my left shoulder. I vaguely recall having been hit in that shoulder at some point during the battles the day before, but I did not think it was that serious. This morning it was definitely tight. Of course some of that I am sure was also because of the out of shape me and the 100 pound war shield that I was carrying.
A quick and short interruption to my running down my experiences at Pennsic for something that is totally awesome and will make your war kit look a 100% better. I am not sure where he is getting them from, but Duke Logan of Atlantia and his household EbonWolfe have these spear shafts available. They are awesome looking first of all, but beyond that you should go check out the video at the 
Okay, I realize that by the first day of the official war starting, I had been on site for three nights and two full days. I made notes of them before lightly, but mostly I was just getting a good lay of the land. So Monday was the official start of the war and I was so looking forward to getting involved in the big battles. On tap for the day was bridge battles with limited fronts and a lot of hard pressed up tight quarter constant engagement.
