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[Tim McDaniel]

Noted just for the record.  In all sober seriousness, I do not
recommend it.

Danielis (comely men of good age, however, ...) Lincolinum

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     Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:40:14 +0000 (GMT)
     From: Barbara Webb <bwebb at inf.ed.ac.uk>
     To: sca-dance at sca-dance.org
     Subject: [SCA-Dance] A hint on reconstructing 14th century dance?

I just came across this fascinating snippet from the "Yconomica" of
Konrad of Megenberg, written about 1350 (translated in C.Page "German
musicians and their Instruments" Early Music, 1982, April, p192-200):

"Fiddles inspire joy in minds, and they are therefore more appropriate
to the dances of women . . . Indeed, in modern times the shawms and
loud trumpets generally banish the sober fiddles from the feasts, and
the young girls dance eagerly to the loud noise, like hinds, shaking
their buttocks womanishly and rudely."

Caitlin

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