[Ansteorra] Spring Plans
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Mar 6 00:29:21 PST 2012
On ringing bells at events to signal time changes, see this file in
the SCA-EVENT-PLANNING section of the Florilegium:
event-bells-msg (12K) 4/16/10 Ringing bells at events to indicate
time or
scheduled activities.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCA-EVENT-PLANNING/event-bells-msg.html
For more on concepts of time in period before mechanical clocks and
how the clock changed things, see:
clocks-msg (28K) 5/15/01 Medieval clocks and concepts of time.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/TIME/clocks-msg.html
Stefan
On Mar 5, 2012, at 7:26 AM, SoldierGrrrl wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:20 AM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ordering time at an SCA event, although tricky, could definitely
>> add to the
>> ambience. I, personally, would like to see more of that. Being
>> conscious of
>> the wheels of time turning as people were in period--without
>> watches and
>> smart phones--would be neat for sure, since we don't normally have
>> bells
>> marking the hours in the twenty-first century.
>>
>> As always, Your Grace, many thanks for the food for thought!
>>
>> Yours in these Current Middle Ages,
>> Detlef von Marburg
>
> That would be interesting, for sure. We live near a Catholic church
> that marks the hours on the church bells and when we're outside, it's
> kind of neat to hear them. (However, one of the tunes they've used is
> a song that sounds disturbingly close to a tune I know as "The Lusty
> Young Smith," and that's a wee bit distracting.) Does anyone have an
> idea of how to mark the (not midnight or dawn) hours at an event?
> Would one person ringing a bell be enough?
>
> Helene
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
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