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

[Signora Apollonia Margherita degli Albizzi]

I'm hoping that by the middle of next month, I will have a little extra cash
to play with.  That's been one of the bigger problems.  :)

What I meant by the living history comment was that the SCA is a technically
a living history group, but it is a completely different breed of living
history group than most of the others out there.  Same general idea, but I
think it's probably easier for a group who reenacts, say 1365, at one
particular battle (and having a more militaristic lean towards the group) to
be more authentic in general, than it is for a group who reenacts ?-1600 CE.

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.)

And after you and I got into that argument* about modern items on Sacred
Stone's list way back when, I thought, really thought, about what you had
said, and following the rules.  And you were absolutely right.  The rules
are there, they are law, and it hurts my honor not to follow them.

While my Coleman camp chair is convenient, it unfortunately does not fall
under the "life,
culture and technology of the times under study".  I am working on plans for
a wooden chair that would fit in with my persona.  And I have some ideas on
shoes also...


Apollonia

*The argument was about me wanting to bring my Coleman chair, and wear my
sneaks while at an event.

Signora Apollonia Margherita degli Albizzi

Seneschal of the Incipient Canton of Salesberie Glen
Kingdom of Atlantia
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