ANST - Event Steward vs Autocrat
Mark.S Harris
rsve60 at email.sps.mot.com
Fri May 21 13:24:50 PDT 1999
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
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