Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“I have been an active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that does historical recreation, mostly medieval and Renaissance, for more than fifty years. I have written and performed poems, told stories from medieval sources, fought with (non-lethal) sword and shield, made pavilions and armor and medieval furniture and jewelry, cooked from medieval cookbooks (the oldest from the 10th century), slept for most of a cumulative year in a pavilion on a rope bed based on an early medieval ivory carving, written, with my wife, a 357 page book on our medieval interests containing a cookbook with more than three hundred recipes. My web page lists my four worlds: family, academic work in economics and law, libertarian writing, recreational medievalism. That fairly, if incompletely, describes my life. What have I learned from the last of the four?” (08/22/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/lessons-from-historical-recreation