The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
A printed guidebook in the stranger's possession, scorched and scattered around the burn-circle in the field. Its title page credits a fourth edition by Cecil G. Bagsworth III; surviving fragments speak of arrival, recuperation packages, and the recommended habit of jotting personal notes into a back-of-book notation page. STD:FWH:Ch 1
Known facts
- transfer-questionnaire-in-backIncludes, in the back, a set of printed questions with lined spaces for the buyer's handwritten answers — designed to jog memory once the buyer arrives in their dimension; the stranger's recovered copy carries his answers in blue ink.STD:FWH:Ch 8
Events
- STD:FWH:Ch 1 Survives in scattered, singed pages — the title page and recuperation-arrival fragment recovered by the stranger.
- STD:FWH:Ch 8 Recovered in singed, scattered pages by the larder; the back-of-book questionnaire surfaces the stranger's name and former profession.
- STD:FWH:Ch 10 Recovered pages get packed into a fold of John's saddle as the party prepares to ride for Wellbury.
- STD:FWH:Ch 11 John works through the surviving handbook pages from the saddle, finds the dividing-line decision tree for time-period identification, and uses it to narrow his arrival to somewhere between AD 500 and 1066.
- STD:FWH:Ch 12 Continues to be John's sketchpad — he finds a larger blank section at a chapter's end to draw Ealstan's portrait on, and considers using the page with the printed map to ask his companions to mark the land.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 1
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 8
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 9
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 19
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 20
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 22
- summarySTD:FWH:Epilogue
- factCecil G. Bagsworth III
- factMy Lives — An Autobiography of Cecil G. Bagsworth III