ANST - Event Steward vs Autocrat

[Mark.S Harris]

Bob Dewart wrote:
> :)  I gotta' ask.  Could someone, please help out a dumb old archer?  Since
> the mid 70's the person running an event was called the autocrat.  Here in
> the last year or so I've notice a rather pronounced changing to the tile of
> steward.
> 
> I have obviously missed something here.  Is this a happy to glad thing?  Is
> it a preference thing? Or is it a PC thing?  Or what? :)
> 
> Gilli

There has been a noticable shift throughout the regions of the Known World
to using more authentic, medieval or at least medieval sounding titles and
vocabulary as opposed to the fantasy/made-up cutesy titles that predominated 
in the early years of the SCA. Personally, I think this is wonderful and I
encourage this.

Some of those that I am familar with include:

Old                  New
autocrat          event steward
feastocrat        headcook, kitchen steward, feast steward
       (this one has generated much comment on the SCA-Cooks list. No
        period term matches exactly and some like sewer, aren't likely to
        be used today)
troll             gate guard
landocrat         landlord?
dragon            wagon, wain, cart
eric              list field
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