Over 80 additional artifacts found in the area of the Staffordshire Hoard have been declared treasure. The gold and silver items were discovered near the original site when a field was ploughed. (photo)

Gulf Coast Renaissance Faire, 3603 Mobile Highway, Pensacola, Florida  32505 . Mobile phone (850) 572-1407- office (850) 429-8462-Fax  (850) 470-0012   GCRENFAIRE @ AOL.COM

Join us for a day of classes on various aspects of pre-17th century life!

Once again we are pleased to present Fighting in the Shade, an event for combat archers and all other fighters as well.

As war approaches, we prepare ourselves to take the field of battle. Please come and join us hone your melee skills at the UW Madison Stock Pavilion on Sunday February 17, 2013 the day after Fighting in the Shade 3.

Come and join us in feasting and fellowship to celebrate the good folks who helped to found one of the oldest shires in the Kingdom.
Entertainment, bardic, and a live auction.

Come and join us as the Barony of Caer Mear celebrates its 35th year!  The barony is currently under German rule by Baron Wolfgang Moennich von Luppin and Baroness Iseulte of the Red Cliffs. 

Welcome to the Hart of Winter, a small event held by the charming Canton of Cairnfell. There shall be a Heavy and Rapier tournament during the day, as well as a creative target archery competition.

Attemark is once again hosting the great Double Wars, this time for the 26th time and it is with great pleasure that we invite You to celebrate this joyous occation with us. Let’s come together and make it even more splendid than ever before.

East to West, North to South, the Bardic arts are beloved across all of Northshield. Challenges for Bardic Madness XXIII will include many with the theme of "directions," in the many meanings of that word. Challenges will be arranged into four Fyts, with breaks for classes and fellowship between them, and a tasty feast during the last Fyt.

Attention all, a free weekend for beating each other up in the form of training. All Heavy armored fighters are welcome as are Archers, Siege, Scouts and Fencers. As this is a Practice, novice fighters (unauthorized) are welcome.

The Barony of Glymm Mere cordially invites you to a day of celebrating the force that makes the world go round. Fête de L'Amour, is a feast of love, with workshops, food, and dancing, all revolving around that wondrous emotion known as love. Whether you are an expert or a novice on the subject, you will find something exciting at Fête de L'Amour.

Dancers, musicians, & merry-makers of the Shire of Crosston invite you to bid farewell to flesh and celebrate Carnevale. We will dance from day through the candlelit evening, with pauses for refreshment and singing, & you are encouraged to don a mask to add to the mystery.

“To assume that Viking men were ranked above women is to impose modern values on the past, which would be misleading,” cautions Marianne Moen one of the organizers of the Viking Worlds Conference, to be held in March 2013.

The decoration of "leaves" on what was thought to be a medieval pilgrim badge of St Blaise was actually something else!

For a thousand years, the Byzantine port city of Bathonea lay hidden and forgotten beneath farmland, but a recent drought revealed the town's seawall, leading to the discovery of a "well-connected, wealthy, fully outfitted harbor city that thrived from the fourth to 11th century." (photos)

Senor Santiago Ruiz de Zaragoza reports that, at Their Midwinter's Revel, Their Royal Majesties, Vladimir and Kalisa of the Kingdom of Atlantia offered elevation to the Order of the Pelican to Baroness Elizabeth Hardyn.

The historic costuming pattern site Old Time Patterns is currently holding an Historical Costume Contest for costumes created from the time periods 1500-1630 Tudor, Elizabethan, Early Settler through 1910-1940 Vintage, Titanic, WW1, Flapper.

A UK£200,000 grant is set to finance the removal of power lines and poles from the site of the world-famous Anglo-Saxon burial mounds at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, England. Over a mile of lines will be replaced with underground cables.

"And lo it came to pass that on Saturday, in Mulgrave, David was crowned King of Lochac, with Claudia at his side as his Queen," writes John Elder, a reporter for The Age (Victoria) about the recent crowning of Felix and Eva in the Kingdom of Lochac. (photos)

The Shire of Dun in Mara, in the Principality of Insulae Draconis, presents the Festival of Fools, an event dedicated to foolery and topsy-turvy arrangements, games and gambols, featuring a Lenten/Carnival Feast (with the special Sinners Option!).

Site:

ASPIRE Centre, Clara House, Clara, Co. Offaly

18:00 22 March 2013 until 16:00 24 March 2013

Henry VIII's perfectly preserved wine cellar is underneath Britain's Ministry of Defence building - floating in a subterranean chamber.

In an article on Cracked.com, Steve Kolenberg sets the world straight on 6 Ridiculous Myths About the Middle Ages Everyone Believes including the "Dark" Ages, everything was filthy, and knights were chivalrous.

At Canterbury Faire, Their Majesties Felix and Eva of the Kingdom of Lochac have offered elevation to the Order of the Laurel to Amalie von Brisache.

DNA analysis has confirned that the skeleton found buried underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England are those of King Richard III. The king, who died in 1485, was demonized in literature and in history as the man who killed two young princes in the Tower of London.

Two years ago, the chance discovery of a collection of documents in a cave in Afghanistan gave experts a first ever glimpse of 11th century "religious, cultural and commercial life of the Jewish community in a central location on the trade route between China and the West."

HL Apple, Minister of Youth for the Kingdom of Calontir, is seeking input and instructors for youth and teen classes and actiities of the 2013 Lilies War.

Those interested in Icelandic and Scandanavian textiles will want to watch a video featuring archaeologist and textile expert Michele Hayeur Smith presenting at the Anthropology Distinguished Lecture at Bridgewater State University.

Registration for Pennsic 42 is now officially open. Those wishing to register may do so online

Master Raven Mayne, Kingdom of Atenveldt Arts and Sciences Minister, encourages potential attendees of Estrella War 2014 to take part in choosing categories for the Estrella War Arts and Sciences Competition at next year's War.