This is a basic list of classes I’ve taught at SCA and other events since 2010. If you see something you are interested in, please email me at kaousuu (at) gmail.com and I will be happy to forward whatever information I have your way. I do work off of outlines as handouts more than pages and pages of information to engage the class more (and to stop people from just asking for handouts and leaving, thus shorting my class of materials.) so your best bet would be either to attend one of my classes, or engage in an email dialogue with me. Heck, if you need to call me, I’m sure we can arrange that as well.
As Anna Dauzzano da Siracusa:
Vinland Raids 2010:
Quick and Dirty Guide to Rapier Garb (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xLU5TVHBlTU1KMm8/edit?usp=sharing)
Barony A&S Night 2011:
Byzantine Garb 101 (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xUnlmbEw5alkzWHc/edit?usp=sharing)
Birka 2011:
Byzantine Garb 101
Pennsic 2011:
Quick and Dirty Guide to Rapier Garb
The Peplos (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xbWVoTXJ5MDVsQ2c/view?usp=sharing)
Mohr Library Demo 2012:
Introduction to Feudalism (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xRzlmNVMyVEl5V0U/edit?usp=sharing)
Barony A&S Night 2012:
The Basics of Roman Dress
Pennsic 2012:
Quick and Dirty Guide to Rapier Garb
Barrack Emperors to Bad Promises: How the Falling Rome Forged Feudalism (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xWDU1MzR6M3pWSGc/edit?usp=sharing)
When in Rome: The Fundamentals of Dress from Republic to Byzantium (handout: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xNHZKMGxkcjFKUGs/edit?usp=sharing.)
As Anna Dokeianina Syrakousina:
Birka 2013:
When in Rome: The Fundamentals of Dress from Republic to Byzantium
Ice Weasel 2013:
Byzantine Garb 101
Great Northeastern War 2013:
The Varangian Guard (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xRFZ3UGNxN0pzX2s/edit?usp=sharing)
When in Rome: The Fundamentals of Dress from Republic to Byzantium
Palio di Stonemarche 2014:
The Story of Veronica Franco (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xaFQ5aWRwWWo0SUU/edit?usp=sharing)
Pennsic 2014:
When in Rome: The Fundamentals of Roman Dress
Demystifying the East: Byzantine Dress (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xZUxyM2h5clhnLU0/edit?usp=sharing)
The Varangian Guard (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xRDZrekw4T0NBbEE/edit?usp=sharing)
Harper’s Retreat 2014:
Demystifying the East: Byzantine Dress
Birka 2015:
Fantastic Primary Sources and Where to Find Them (handout:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xSmc4QTlkdzRmek0/view?usp=sharing )
East Kingdom University 2015:
Fantastic Primary Sources and Where to Find Them
Deconstructing the Met’s “Tunic Under the Stairs.” (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xWGVQSVNoWDBSejg/view?usp=sharing)
Pennsic 2015:
Deconstructing the Met’s “Tunic Under the Stairs.”
The Orient Express: Did Byzantines Wear Persian? (handout: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4jf5ZhBMl5xY3phVU5FSFlyVlk )
Ice Weasel 2016:
Deconstructing the Met’s “Tunic Under the Stairs.”
Pennsic 2016:
An 11th Century Byzantine Noblewoman’s Closet. (handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xb2dPNkpXMnVrNTg/view?usp=sharing)
Great Western War 2016:
Demystifying the East: Introduction to Byzantine Garb
An 11th Century Byzantine Noblewoman’s Closet
Collegium Caidis 2017:
Demystifying the East: Introduction to Byzantine Garb
An 11th Century Byzantine Noblewoman’s Closet
Introduction to Byzantine Iconography (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xY2VGMk90VHV1dE0/view?usp=sharing)
Costume College 2017:
Introduction to Byzantine Dress
Powerpoint: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4jf5ZhBMl5xZlFJaWFFak9paTg/view?usp=sharing
Handout linked above in previous classes.
Quick and Dirty Byzantine Patterns
Pennsic 2018:
Ask a Museum Professional
Byzantine Persona Basics
SCA Bloggers Roundtable (I fell ill, but was told that the roundtable happened without me.)
Trimaris Royal University 2019:
Introduction to Cloisonne Enameling
1000 Years of Byzantine Splendor
Knowne World Costume and Fiber Symposium 2019:
1000 Years of Byzantine Splendor
Care and Feeding of Museum Costume and Textiles Collections
Pennsic 2019:
Surveying Material Culture from Written Inventory
Kick-Ass Medieval Women
An Introduction to the Ecumenical Councils and Heresy
Trimaris Scriptorium 2019
Egg Tempera for Beginners
Introduction to Iconography
Trimaris Royal University Online 2020:
Egg Tempera for Beginners
Experimental Reconstruction of Hittite Dress
Knowne World Heraldic and Scribal E-Symposium 2020:
Introduction to the Techniques of Byzantine Iconography
Anna's New Rome 
Hello Anna,
I am looking for a look of tsitzakion that was introduced to Byzantium by the Khazar and was esp.ly famous during Basilissa Chichek’s /Irene’s times? How did it look like?
Thanks
Gunay
grzayeva@kent.edu
Hi Gunay,
We actually don’t know. We see the term used in the Book of Cerimonies, but there is no pictorial evidence, or a written description, of the garment. All we know is that it was copied from Tzizak’s wedding robes, and then became the height of men’s fashion for a short period of time in the 10th century.
Timothy Dawson gives it only a small paragraph in “By the Emperor’s Hand”, on page 40, where he states by process of elimination, that it may have been a type of headgear, but he’s totally unsure. There is just no description anywhere between Byzantium and Khazaria. If anybody would have done the digging to find an answer or an image, he would have. Lynda Garland just brings up the correlation between the empress’ original Khazar name and the name of the garment. Maria Parani omits it entirely in her “Reconstructing the Reality of Images”, which is a large study of imperial and aristocratic court dress.
I wish I could be of more help, but unfortunately, this is one of those “mystery” garments that comes up from time to time. We have an elaborate name, but nothing more to work from.
Have a great weekend.
-Anna