[Bryn-gwlad] Period question.

[Eric W. Brown]

I was reading documents from corpora, and they we discussing the SCA as
a group that reenacted, etc etc, a period including the 17th century.

I thought when I joined that the period ended at midnight, December
31st, 1599.

Does it now include 1600? How far does it go? 1625 was often bandied
about as a more logical breaking point than 1600...1699?

Are names from 1600-1699 passing now? What abou heradrly (is there a
difference?)

I'm particularly interested as my persona started as "today minus 400
years" in 1990, which put me firmly in period at 1590, this oddly enough
is no longer the case.

Or is this just a "fudge factor" for rubber band guns and the like?

Thanks,

Caladin-