Livia Petralia

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Information
Resides: Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust
Status: active
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Introduction

Livia Petralia first joined the SCA through the Shire of Hammerhold in the Kingdom of Meridies (now Gleann Abhann) in the 1998-99 school year. After a few more years inactive, Livia became active in the Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust in 2002.

Persona

A dilettante and a hedonist, Livia's primary pursuits are bookbinding and cooking. She strongly believes that the SCA is a hobby to be enjoyed with no reason for anyone to ever be told that they aren't good enough at what they do to play this game.

Awards

• Maunche, ancient Roman food, 13 September 2014
• Salamander, Bhakail's Service award, December 2012
• Baronial Brewing Champion, Barony of Bhakail, December 2011 to December 2012
• Award of Arms, 24 February 2007

Offices

• Seneschal, Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust, 10/2013 to present
• Deputy Seneschal, Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust, 1/2013 to 10/2013
• Minister of Arts and Sciences, Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust, 10/2009 (I think) to 9/2013

Guilds & Households

• East Kingdom Stationers Guild

• Blood Moon Clan

Event Staff

• Cook (Friday dinner, Saturday dayboard, Saturday dinner), [Find Hungry Samurai][1], 5-7 June 2015
• dayboard cook, [Noisemakers IX][2], 12 April 2014
• On-site instructor coordinator, [Noisemakers VIII][3], 9 March 2013

Projects & Publications

• feast menus (traditional Japanese stab sewing), [Find Hungry Samurai][4], 5-7 June 2015
• Vigil book for Baroness Philadelphia Brown's elevation to pelican, [River War][5], 13 September 2014

Vigil book for Baroness Philadelphia Brown - book sewn on double-cords and laced into shaped wooden boards

• taught class on Improvisational Redacting of Apicius, [EKU Collegium: A Day in the Guild Hall][6], 25 August 2012

More Information

Livia runs lunch socials, an informal Latin translating circle, occasional cooking workshops, and even more occasional bookbinding classes, within the Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust.

Livia owns a copy of Szirmai's Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding [7] and will allow others to consult it by appointment

Bookbinding equipment (available for use by appointment) includes

• large heavy-duty papercutter [8]
• book press
• leather paring knives and lithograph stone fragment (for paring surface)
• handheld wood planes
• period-appropriate glues and pastes

Cookbooks

• "De re coquinaria" Apicius [9]