[Ravensfort] Theory

[doug bell]

>The people who don't play on a local level but
>participate on the kingdom level are like the English
>Gentry that had their county seat and ancestrial home
>in the country, but lived in London.  What were those
>people called?

If you are using an English model:
In the high Middle Ages they probably wouldn't have existed
except maybe for bishops.
By late period it would have been ceremonial knights, baronets,
high ranking government bureaucrats, and some merchants.

The gentry has developed more in the past 400 years if my
recall of English history is right.  This might show up in a history
of the House of Lords in the English parliament.

I have seen the SCA compared to other reenactment groups models
with one major difference.
Other groups have a 21st century tourist travel in time to
visit them in their time and period.  RenFaire takes you
to 1500s England, colonial Williamsburg takes you to visit
the English colonies in the 1700s.

At our events the visiting tourist is from some time and
place between 500 and 1600.  Their destination can
be a time and place different from that time period where they
will meet other travellers from similar places.
You don't start off as a 21st century travellers and
you will meet people who have travelled from
many different times and cultures.
The people who are visiting are historically accurate
for their time but are travelling through space and time
in ways that are not possible (yet).

my 2 deutschmarks
Magnus von Lubeck

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