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Armoring Ivan's Fighting Boiars (Part One: Helms)
Armoring Ivan's Fighting Boiars (Part Two: Body Armor)
Economical Period Russian Body Armor (Part One: The Bakharets)
Economical Period Russian Body Armor (Part Two: The Bozolban)
Economical Period Russian Body Armor (Part Three: The Serlak)
Film Review: Alexandr Nevsky
How to Make a Budzygan Mace
Icons on Russian Helmets
Sarmatian Baroque: Military Dress/Organization in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600: Part One
Sarmatian Baroque: Military Dress/Organization in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600: Part Two
Sarmatian Baroque: Military Dress/Organization in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600: Part Three
Seasonal Ideas for Eastern European Personae
13th and 14th Century Military (Part One: History and Force Structure)
13th and 14th Century Military (Part Two: Arms and Armor)
How to Research Without Knowing the Language
Learning the Words: Czech/English Dictionaries for Re-Enactors
Reading the Chronicles
A Short Commentary on Shortcuts for Slavic Research
Suggestions on Polish and Other Eastern European Resources
Mongols
Review of Chronicles of the Barbarians
Review of The Devil's Horseman, The Mongol Invasion of Europe
Review of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Review of The Legacy of Genghis Khan, Courtly Love and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
Poland
The Clothing of the Film "With Fire & Sword (Ogniem I Miecziem)"
Not Recommended Sources
Review of Food and Drink in Medieval Poland
Review of Medieval Literature of Poland: An Anthology
Review of Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore
Review of Polish Herbs, Flowers and Folk Medicine
Review of The Annals of Jan Dlugosz
Rus and Russia
Film Review: Alexandr Nevsky
Film Review: Alexander Nevsky
Review: Gold of the Kremlin
Review of Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
Review of Byt i verovaniia drevnikh slavian
Review of "The Formation of the Russian Women's Costume at the Time before the Reforms of Peter the Great"
Review of Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology
Review of Russian Folk Art
Review of Russian Illuminated Manuscripts
Review of Russian Myth, The Legendary Past
Review of Sacred Art and City Life: The Glory of Medieval Novgorod
Review of Slavianskaia entsiklopediia
Review of Srednevekovaia moskva
General
Review of Baudolino
Review of A History of Hungary
Review of Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
Review of Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
Review of Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
Review of Doomsday Book
Review of Dubrovnik in the 14th and 15th Centuries: A City Between East and West
Review of East Central Europe in the Middle Ages
Review of The Enchantress of Florence
Review of Europe: A History
Review of The Fall of Constantinople 1453
Review of Gentleman of the Road
Review of Historical Atlas of East Central Europe
Review of Latvijas Senaka Vesture: 9 g.t. pr. Kr. -1200. g.
Review of Slavic Sourcery, Shamanic Journey of Initiation
Review of The Cartoon History of the Universe
Review of The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus
Review of The Glory of Byzantium
Review of The Greek Alexander Romance
Review of The Thirteenth Tribe
Review of The Tree of Life, the Sun, the Goddess: Symbolic Motifs in Ukrainian Folk Art
Poland
How to Make a Colpak
Review of Polish Folk Costumes
Sarmatian Baroque: Men's and Women's Noble Dress in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600
Sarmatian Baroque: Military Dress/Organization in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600: Part One
Sarmatian Baroque: Military Dress/Organization in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600: Part Two
Sarmatian Baroque: Military Dress/Organization in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1600: Part Three
Rus and Russia
Are Sarafans Period?
Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About Russian Clothing
Clothing the Rus Viking Rower
Color and Dyes in Medieval Russian Clothing
Gorlatnaya Shapka: Adventures in the Big Furry Russian Hat
Making a Crescent-Shaped Kokoshnik
Russian Costume and Adornments
Russian Custuming for No Money!
Russian Fur Trade Through the Ages (part 1)
Russian Fur Trade Through the Ages (part 2)
The Russian Sarafan
Summer Weight Russian Clothing Ideas
Trails and Triumphs of a Novice Kokoshnik-Maker
General
Baltic Women's Clothing in the 8th-12th Centuries: Part One
Baltic Women's Clothing in the 8th-12th Centuries: Part Two
Fun Fur the Slavic Persona
Hemp and Nettle
Hungarian Clothing, 1400-1650 (Part One: Introduction & Terms)
Hungarian Clothing, 1400-1650 (Part Two: Mixing East and West)
Hungarian Clothing, 1400-1650 (Part Three: Eastern Influence Expands)
Notes on Early Slavic Textiles
"Period" Buttons Fast, Easy, and Cheap
Archeobotanical Samples from 13th & 14th Century Poland
Baba's Mushroom Cream Dill Sauce
Baked Turnip Pudding: An Exercise in Russian Cookery
Borshch
Eggs Dyed With Period Foodstuffs
Forum: Is BBQ Period for Slavic Personas?
Hemp and Nettle
Lemko Keselytsa Recipe
Pelmeni
Polish Honey-Spice Cordial
Polish Recipes
Recipes
Restaurant Review
Review of Food and Drink in Medieval Poland
Review of Olde Hansa
Review of Polish Herbs, Flowers and Folk Medicine
Russian Porridge
Russian Soft Cheese and Cheese Blinky in the Russian Medieval Kitchen
Vodka - Little Water of Life
Poland
Dozynki Traditions
Review of Medieval Literature of Poland: An Anthology
Review of Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore
Rus and Russia
Daily Life in Kievan Russia
Law Codes of the Kievan Rus'
Religion in Early Russia
Review of Byt i verovaniia drevnikh slavian
Review of Slavianskaia entsiklopediia
Rituals of Greeting in Late-Period Russia
Russian Customs
Russian Love
Russian Mythology and Religion
Shamanism and the Pysanky
A Sixteenth Century Will
The Skomorokhi
Slavery in Kievan Rus: Part One
Slavery in Kievan Rus: Part Two
Social Structure of Kievan Russia and Persona Development
Vodka - Little Water of Life
Wild Animals in Ancient Rus
General
Bathing in Central and Eastern Europe
Borrowed Stories
Citizens of Brasov in the 14th and 15th Century (part 1)
Citizens of Brasov in the 14th and 15th Century (part
2)
Is Your Persona "Princely?"
Mining in Medieval Serbia: The Sasi Story
My Hungarian Persona
Notes on a Slavic Bestiary: Part One
Notes on a Slavic Bestiary: Part Two
The Origin of the World
Period Lust
Review of Latvijas Senaka Vesture: 9 g.t. pr. Kr. -1200. g.
Review of Slavic Sourcery, Shamanic Journey of Initiation
Review of The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus
Review of The Legacy of Genghis Khan, Courtly Love and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
Slavic Folklore
Some Thoughts on "Slavic" Folklore
A Brief "Ins and Outs" of Pearling and Metallic Thread
Early Russian Embroidery Materials
Orthodox Ecclesiastical Embroidery, Part One: History and Background
Orthodox Ecclesiastical Embroidery, Part Two: Methods of Production
Orthodox Ecclesiastical Embroidery, Part Three: Recreation
Russian Pearl and Gold Embroidery
Techniques of Russian Gold and Pearl Embroidery
Archery
Armor Quest
Battle Staff
Eke^Otukan
The Golden Given
Hardwood, Pitch, and Fire
The Maiden's Lament
Notes from Samarkand
Notes from Tsargrad
On Bukhara
On the Kyrgyz Steppes
On the Roof of the World
The Rock
Smoke
Spirit Song
Travel Amongst the Tatars
Traveling to Moscovy in the 16th Century: Part One
Traveling to Moscovy in the 16th Century: Part Two
Traveling to Moscovy in the 16th Century: Part Three
Travels in Moscovy: Rumors of Rumors
Travels in Moscovy: The Sporting Life
Eastern European Medievalists
Medieval Reenactment Society in Russia
New SCA Group in Poland
Those Darned Tolkienists!
Vladimir/Suzdal SCA Branch Forming!
Pennsic Gatherings
Better SIG Living Through Noshing and Posing
Mom Always Said Learning Could Be Fun: A Report on Slavic Pennsic Activities
Pennsic
Pennsic
Pennsic Classes
Pennsic Classes
Pennsic Classes
Pennsic Classes
Pennsic Gathering
Pennsic Gathering
Pennsic Gathering
Pennsic Gathering
Pennsic SIG Celebration 2004
Pennsic SIG Gathering
Pennsic SIG Gathering
Pennsic SIG Meeting News
Pennsic SIG Meeting News
Pennsic 37 SIG Gathering
Pennsic Tidings
Pennsic Update
Pennsic XXVIII
Pennsic XXXIV Gathering
Show What You've Got!
SIG Meeting at Pennsic
SIG Meeting at Pennsic
Miscellaneous
Autocrat's Notes
Calling All Cossacks!! (kozaks, kazaks, etc...)
Contribute to the Archives!!!
An Early Rus' Limited Focus Event
From the Co-Autocrat
Garandookht Mamigonian's Laurel Ceremony: January 11, 2003 in An Tir
A Handfasting
An Impressive Award
A Medievalist's Visit to Poland
My Hungarian Persona
A New Laurel
New SIG Discussion List
On Being a Slav in Meridies
A Polish Maunch Induction Ceremony
Proposed Collaboration
Quest 2002: Journey to Visit the Great Khan
A Russian Peerage Scroll
Sample Russian A&S Award Scroll: Based on Period (and not-quite-period) Russian Texts
SIG Discussion Group Update
Slavic University of the Midrealm
Slavic University of the Midrealm
SLUMming It
Some Thoughts on Reenactment
Russian Betrothal
Wedding Update
Where Is That From? How to Sell the Slavic Persona in a Non-Slavic SCA
Winged Hussar Storms City Council!
Winter Solstice Feast
Baltics
The Old Castle of Trakai and the Karaites
Czech
Boleslav I "the Cruel"
The Czech Rorate Mass: Self-Expression and National Identity in Bohemia
Hungary
King Matyas Hunyadi
Review of A History of Hungary
History of Hungary
Mongols
Review of The Devil's Horseman, The Mongol Invasion of Europe
Review of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Review of The Legacy of Genghis Khan, Courtly Love and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
Poland
Nierzadem Polska Stoi (By Unrule Poland Stands): A Comparison of Western and Polish Feaudalism in the Middle Ages: Part One)
Nierzadem Polska Stoi (By Unrule Poland Stands): A Comparison of Western and Polish Feaudalism in the Middle Ages: Part Two)
Nierzadem Polska Stoi (By Unrule Poland Stands): A Comparison of Western and Polish Feaudalism in the Middle Ages: Part Three)
A Princess's Life is Not All Tea and Crumpets
Review of The Annals of Jan Dlugosz
The Union of Jadwiga and Jagiello: Part One
The Union of Jadwiga and Jagiello: Part Two
The Union of Jadwiga and Jagiello: Part Three
Queen Maria Ludwika
Romania
Dracula Slept Here
Dracula Slept Here
Vlad Tepes: Patriot or Madman?
Rus and Russia
The Eastern Crusades
Eastern Crusades: Kulikovo Polye 1380
Giles Fletcher and the Russians
The Rings of Heaven
Southern Slavs
Review of Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
Review of Dubrovnik in the 14th and 15th Centuries: A City Between East and West
General
Review of Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
Review of Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
Review of Chronicles of the Barbarians
Review of East Central Europe in the Middle Ages
Review of The Cartoon History of the Universe
Review of The Glory of Byzantium
Review of The Greek Alexander Romance
A Story of Two Saints: St. Stanislaus of Cracow and Thomas a Becket
Yaroslav's Viking Friend
Author Index to Slovo
Title Index to Slovo
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