ANST - Documentation
Charlene Charette
charlene at flash.net
Sun Feb 21 11:08:45 PST 1999
Vicki Marsh wrote:
> The SCA is rife with bits of "SCA history". When I got in, everyone
> "knew" that guns were not used on the battlefield before 1600.
> Everyone "knew" that lunge attacks were not used in rapier
> fighting in period and everyone "knew" that the styles of period
> masters such as Saviolo and Di Grassi could not be used
> effectively.
Everone "knew" Korobushka is a period Russian dance. Heck, some still do.
We're working on it.
> I'm also working on documenting quilts, among other things....
Quilting is definitely period. If by "quilting" you mean piecework -- I haven't
come across it in period, but I haven't gone looking.
--Perronnelle
--
The discontent of the people is more dangerous to a monarch than all the might
of his enemies on the battlefield. -- Isabella d'Este
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