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Tasmanian Gothic: artwork by Elizabeth Barsham

Tasmanian Gothic is the website for Tasmanian artist Elizabeth Barsham (formerly E.M. Christensen). Her work is inspired by such things as medieval tapestries and the Renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel and Albrecht DÃ¼rer (according to the…

Tags: Albrecht DÃ¼rer, art, artwork, E.M. Christensen, Elizabeth Barsham, Gothic, painting, Pieter Bruegel, Renaissance, tapestry, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmanian Gothic, website

Crunch time: making money from a medieval extreme sport

This online newspaper article by David Wilson appeared in the My Small Business section of The Sydney Morning Herald. The article features an interview with Rod Walker about his business Full Tilt. The Bathurst-based business run fully costumed…

Tags: Armour, Bathurst, battle, David Wilson, entertainment, Full Tilt, helmet, jousting, knights, lance, My Small Business, New South Wales, NSW, Rod Walker, shield, sport, sword, The Sydney Morning Herald, tournament, war

â€˜The Scaly Monsterâ€™

The Scaly Monster of the House (3 May, 1884), p. 13.jpg

‘The Scaly Monster’ drawing shows an unruffled ‘Bloody Jack’ McElhone boarding a vessel embarking for England. This feisty Sydney alderman had a reputation for forthrightness and ‘fisticuffs,’ which was not always…

Tags: â€˜Bloody Jack, â€™ boat, Alderman, cartoon, democracy, E. Montague Scott (1835-1909), John McElhone (1833-1898), knight, NSW politics, political cartoon, politics, respectability, Sydney Municipal Council

Blacktown Medieval Fayre

This online newspaper article by Ben McClellan appeared in the Blacktown Advocate on May 21, 2012. It reports on the recent Blacktown (western Sydney) Medieval Fayre. According to the article, the Fayre featured medieval-themed stalls, demonstrations…

Tags: Armour, Ben McClellan, Blacktown, Blacktown Advocate, Blacktown Medieval Fayre, costume, fair, jousting, knights, New South Wales, newspaper, NSW, re-creation, re-enactment, Sydney

â€˜The bride woreâ€¦ a swordâ€™

The article ‘The bride wore… a sword’ by reporter Hannah Martin appeared in the online version of the Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury. The article reports on a medieval ‘Celtic’-style wedding of two members of the…

Tags: Celtic, costume, Hannah Martin, Hobart, Medievalist wedding, newspaper, Port Arthur, re-enactment, SCA, Society for Creative Anachronism, sword, Tas, Tasmania, The bride woreâ€¦ a sword, The Mercury, torc, wedding.

'Romance'

The long-vanished past is briefly reconfigured in this sad and poignant poem. It allows us a fleeting glimpse of what has (or may have) been, even though we find ourselves standing in the waking world â€œUnder blue skies in a fair land.â€…

Tags: â€˜Creeve Roeâ€™, Alice Werner (1859-1935), castle, chivalry, Gothic medievalism, knight, L. D. (1859-1935), Lucia Di Valle Rojana (1859-1935), melancholia, poetry, romance, tournament, Victor Daley (1858-1905)

â€˜Lightâ€™ Verses

This poem is an example of the satirical verses published by The Bulletin to ridicule the perceived â€œopportunistic and self-servingâ€ collaborative association between former political opponents (aka â€˜rivalsâ€™), Sir Henry…

Tags: adversary, knight, lampoon, lance, Macquarie Lighthouse, NSW politics, Port Jackson, satire, Sir Henry Parkes, Sir John Robertson, Sydney Harbour, The Bulletin, verse

Woman hit in head with â€˜swordâ€™ as mock medieval battle goes wrong

This online newspaper article by Henrietta Cook appeared in The Age on March 15, 2012. It reports on an incident during the weekly Swordcraft event in Melbourne, Victoria, in which a woman was hit in the head by a rubber sword and required medical…

Tags: battle, game, Henrietta Cook, Melbourne, performance, re-enactment, Swordcraft, The Age, Vic, Victoria

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