[MR] Re: authenticity...and the SCA as a joke

[David W. James]

On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 04:22  PM, Signora Apollonia 
Margherita degli Albizzi wrote:
> I read somewhere, and I cannot remember where, that corpora was 
> rewritten,
> like, 5 or so years ago, and that's when all the Western European 
> stuff was
> added in, to try and limit the non-western participants.  (I could be
> absolutely wrong about this.  I cannot remember where I read it, to 
> look it
> up and verify it.)

Given that the original version of the By-Laws (the East Kingdom 
Historian has put older copies of Corpora and By-Laws up on the web), 
from 1969, has "aspects of pre-17th Century Western culture" buried in 
it, I think you are miss-remembering something else.

The last major rewrite of the Governing Documents was completed a 
couple of years ago (approved at the Board meeting in Pittsburgh.)  The 
phrase 'pre-17th century Western culture' has had a prominent position 
in the By-Laws since at least 1985 when I read it for the first time.

I wonder what it was that you read that gave you the impression that it 
was a recent addition?

David/Kwellend-Njal