Of Persona

 

The SCA concept of "persona" is pretty flexible. For some people, it's a name used in the SCA and nothing more. For others, it's a fully developed alternate personality used to assist in one's study of history. For me, it's the force that ties together all the interesting things I want to study and think about into a cohesive unit.

The Persona Challenges:

Off site. I make a habit of sending letters to the local email lists that prompt people to think about things from a persona perspective. These are the versions that went to the Northshield Hall, from the Northshield archives. Working through them assists in clarifying your persona, or making your studies seem relevant as the life experiences of real people. Give them a try.


The Persona Diaries:

Information related to developing my specific, primary persona, and practicing that persona as if she was a real woman.

  • Persona Stories: Merouda Pendray as Myth The inital page, 10 years old and more, now, that described the various personae I use. Not as up to date as it could be, but a good indication of where I was 10 years ago, when I began to seriously consider the development of my persona as something more than a back story for life in the SCA.
  • Persona Diary: Dame Merouda Pendray A blog written in the style of an Early Tudor era woman living in Cornwall.
  • Support & Research for the Persona Diary: Ars Gratia Artis (II) A blog containing conversations about persona choices, research, and persona developement memes. 

You may also be interested in my collection of furl links related to persona--a mix of things relevant to Tudor England and other people's articles on persona. You may also be interested in the articles in the research section on period diaries.

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This document created 13 October 2007
Last edited, 13 October 2007