The Knights Next Door: Everyday People Living Middle Ages Dreams

Travel back in time to the Current Middle Ages, a re-created world of knights in shining armor, lords and ladies, artisans and minstrels with one foot in history, the other in today's modern society. Join a journey through the nation's largest medievalist group, the Society for Creative Anachronism, as it and other groups act out their passion for times long past. Meet the cast of colorful characters who call this re-created world home and follow a young fighter as he struggles to earn knighthood and the crown of the kingdom that serves as his stage. more

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Posted: Aug-06-2008

Required Reading For "New or Wannabe's"

I should have written a looong time ago. I've added an extra copyto our Canton 'Library" just to loan out to new people or topeople who wonder "what are you DOING"! Some things are differentfrom Kingdom to Kingdom but as a whole the "Dream" is the same allover. Buy it...read it!

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Posted: Apr-11-2008

He Got It Right

He did his research well and he relates the tales and legends of the SCA as well as we could do ourselves around a fire after a fine day at War. If only the rest of the world could have Wars like ours, where no one is harmed and more friends than enemies are made.

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Posted: Apr-02-2007

story of growth and change

I remember some of the people mentioned in the book. I left the SCA a long time ago because of lack of time. Every now and then I think about going back into it but I'm geographically isolated. This was a nice look at the SCA and the changes that it makes on people in it.

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Posted: Feb-22-2007

Not a bad read at all

I'm a swordfighter, using real armour and real swords. I found the whole insight into the SCA culture quite fascinating. But I found the best part of this book to be the following of one SCA member from his beginning in the SCA, to him becoming a well rounded person. It was a very interesting,...

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Posted: Jan-28-2007

Buy it! Read it!! You'll love it!!!

In sooth, it matters not if ye be SCAdian or mundane, this book will delight and inform ye. Partick O'Donnell's "voice" is a perfect balance between jaded old-timer and wide-eyed newbie, to what we call "The Dream". His observations are spot on, and witty. His appraisal is honest, neither...

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Posted: Mar-15-2006

A realistic and positive view of the SCA

For anyone who wants to know what the Society for Creative Anachronism is all about, this book is **really** worth reading. It's a remarkably realistic, positive, yet still warts-and-all view of the SCA. Plus, it's written darn well.It really drives home the fact that the SCA has grown steadily...

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Posted: Jan-19-2006

Evenhanded, upbeat, and witty

This was one of those books that I had to force myself to put down so that I could get at least a few hours of sleep before going to work in the morning. The author takes an initially skeptical journey into the "Known World" of the SCA so he can write this book, but he eventually becomes just as...

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Posted: Jan-14-2006

If the SCA intrigues you, READ THIS BOOK!!!

FINALLY! a good book about my favorite group, the SCA!!!I had the honor of meeting and talking to the author at Twelfth Night this year, and then took to reading 'just a little bit' of it...until my Lady insisted that we had to get home - it was getting late, and everyone else was leaving!!!I...

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Posted: Oct-27-2005

A Studied Account of Now and Then...

As Patrick O'Donnell reveals the goings-on of a snapshot of time in the SCA, he reveals the history of the people involved in a most compelling manner. I know several of the people about whom his tale reports, and lived through much of what happened. O'Donnell's story kept me rivetted to the...

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Posted: Aug-22-2005

Like hearing an old friend tell a good story

As a member of the SCA, I found reading this book to be like hearing a good friend tell a fascinating story around the campfire about people and events that I had heard of but didn't know well. It was engaging, well written, and balanced in its appraisal of the SCA's values and flaws. I would...

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