[MR] Egyptian Personas in the SCA

[Sandra Rangel]

The thing I am most concerned with finding is the Egyptian tie to
European culture. It might be tough....but Im thinking agriculture and
textiles might be the key. Im actually debating real hard about
whether or not to pull off a simple A&S display at WoW.

I have always been impressed with Egyptian art but there's something
about seeing this stuff in person. That's how I choose Byzantine...and
researching its roots in Ancient Roman history I keep finding myself
looking at Ancient Egyptian (if you are ever in Cologne Germany and
plan to stop by the Cathedral there is a German-Roman History museum
right next to it... it is FaBuLoUs!)

Rohesia


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:01 PM, David Chessler <chessler at usa.net> wrote:
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>> Thanks to others who have offered some leads, but I am definitely
>> looking for stuff that is pre-6th century Egypt. And even more so
>> pre-4th century. :)
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> Generally, the SCA covers the period  600 to 1600. There is more formal
> acceptance of the period before 600 than the period after 1600, but you won't
> find a lot of roman period emulators. On the other hand you will meet with no
> serious objections to almost any   persona. But you probably won't find a lot
> of people in any local group in the SCA that do anything other than about 1200
> to 1650, except for the vikings who start about 787 (or 793).  People will
> probably be sympathetic, and will be willing to share what they know, but you
> will swiftly find that YOU are the expert on the time and place, and YOU will
> be giving the courses at the SCA university for your kingdom, or the collegium
> for your barony.
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> (1600-1650 is not formally part of the SCA period, though you will find
> documents that say it is. In any case, I include it because most of the
> sources for rapier fencing come from the period 1600-1630, or even
> 1600-1650.)
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> Davitt il Bigollo da Pisa
> Procurator parumper aurifex in Portus Liburni
> Officina pro Moghul terra
> Curalium quod Smaragdi ex Indicum quod Serenus
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