[Ansteorra] Start/end of Period

[Brandon McDermott]

There are many groups dedicated to to reenacting very specific points in history, even specific places at a specific time. The Company of St. George, 21st Legion, Magnus Kompanie, Company of the Wolfe Argent etc. They are all wonderful groups with high standards, but they tend to only have 20-50 members at their height. We have tens of thousands of members and many more participants that even with our "set" time frame of 500ad to 1599ad....centered in Europe....with visitors from the east....and elsewhere, we will never have a truly cohesive look as a group. So if people stray outside of the line sometimes...so be it, my Lady looks wonderful in roman attire. But, I do agree that we should talk to our newcomers and tell,no show them what we are supposed to represent as a group. Help them research, teach them to sow, make armour, weave, speak, write, dance, and play in a more "period" way. So in short we all need to play by kinder garden rules: Play nice w/others, share, and
 If you color outside the lines a little, know your mom will put it on the fridge any ways.
   
  Lochlan

Jay Yeates <jyeates at realtime.net> wrote:
  go back and look at the beginings here - principality and kingdom. you'll
find a predominance of "early period" celts and norse. the late period
trend developed much later. looks like the pendulum is swinging back ...
maybe it will get interesting again.



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[mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Lori Campbell
Sent: 2006 - September 21 - Thursday 10:52
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: [Ansteorra] Start/end of Period

> > It may be a good piece of Interkingdom Anthropology to study 
> > differences that people believe the SCA covers.
> > Brendan

I'm gonna say, just for anthropology's sake, that Ansteorra does not appear
to confine itself to the period typically labeled "after the fall of Rome".


We've always had the occasional Roman persona, but in recent years there has
been a definite trend towards people adopting a Roman mode of dress and
naming practices.

I think, perhaps, Ansteorra isn't alone in this. As I recall, the Grand
Council's discussions were generated from concerns about similar trends
elsewhere - the idea that the SCA time period might be edging earlier and
earlier, away from the true middle ages and more towards "late antiquity."
Some believed it to be counter to our purpose of recreating the middle ages,
hence the reason we were asked to discuss the possibility of setting a
definite start date for the period covered by the SCA. As Brendan said, the
idea wasn't popular.

> there are a lot older folks out there!
> Alden

And I'm convinced that a fair number of them participate in Grand Council
discussions. At almost 20 years in the Society, I'm usually still
considered a newcomer. :)

Kat MacLochlainn
(GC member, at-large)

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