The Corvine Chronicles

For many years House Corvus kept a household newsletter, The Corvine Chronicles, recording our doings across the Kingdom of Atlantia: tournaments fought, feasts cooked, scrolls illuminated, and honours bestowed. This archive gathers those chronicles — part diary, part teaching journal, part memory of the raven house.

Why a Household Keeps a Chronicle

In the Society, much of the joy is in the doing; but a great deal of the learning is in the recording. A newsletter lets a household remember which recipe worked at last winter's feast, how a particular award scroll was lettered, who won the tournament, and what a newcomer learned at their first event. Over years these notes become a genuine archive of practical medieval craft — the kind of knowledge that is easily lost and hard to recover.

What You Will Find Inside

Each issue of The Corvine Chronicles typically gathered a few kinds of writing:

• Event reports — accounts of tournaments, baronial gatherings, and the great coronations, written by members who were there.
• Arts & sciences articles — how-to pieces on costuming, cooking, brewing, calligraphy, and heraldry, often with sources cited so a reader could go deeper.
• Court news — the awards and honours given to members of the household and their friends.
• Newcomer guidance — gentle, practical advice for those attending their first events.

A Note on the Archive

Dozens of issues of the Chronicles were produced over the household's active years. Many of the period research articles drew on the same authorities that scholars and reenactors still rely on today — among them the digitised manuscript collections of institutions like the British Library and the open art archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both of which make medieval primary sources freely available online.

Read On

Pair the Chronicles with our coronation and court reports for the ceremonial side of kingdom life, or meet the members who wrote them on the Member Roster.