Re(2): SC - Re: sca-cooks Creativity

[Sue Wensel]

> I'd written:
>   >Robin Vinehall wrote:
>   >  We are, after all, supposed to be creatively anachronistic.
>   >
>   >"I don theen that phrase meens wha' you theen it meens".
> 
> About which I was told, by Donna White:
>   Perhaps we are all allowed our own interpretation.  Whatdya theen abot
>   tht?
>   
> Sure.  But, let us do so in an informed way.
> 
> anach.ro.nism 
>    [prob. fr. MGk anachronismos, fr.  anachronizesthai to be an
>    anachro]nism, fr. LGk anachronizein to be late, fr. Gk ana- +
>    chronos time 1: an error in chronology; esp : a chronological
>    misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each
>    other 2: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place -
>    anachronistic aj
> 
> We combine items that were from separate times and places, that would
> otherwise be anachronistic.  Like my marriage between a 1384 Savoyard and a
> late 16th century Italian...
> 
> It doesn't mean to just lay down the boogie from anywhere and anytime and
> call it period.  Does it?
> 
> 	Tibor

One of my peeves has been people saying, "But we are the Society for CREATIVE
Anachronism."

Ahem.

Society for Creative Anachronism.  Interpretations:
	1.	Therefore, using the medieval period as our framework, we displace 
		people, events, object, and customer in regard to each other in a 
		creative manner.
	2.	In so far as it is inescapable, we make errors in our chronology to 
		allow 20th Century objects to co-exist with the medieval culture we are 
		attempting to recreate.
	3.	We displace medieval customs, objects, etc. to the 20th Century.
	
I think that all three of these interpretations of the phrase Society for
Creative Anachronism are fine as long as we keep in mind that our goal is to
selectively recreate the medieval period (400-1600A.D. [1650?] Europe). I
think we are the Society for Creative ANACHRONISM. We recreate the Middle Ages
in so far as we can, not try to blend the Middle Ages with the 20th Century,
the 19th Century, or the 18th Century.  We have enough anachronism with our
chosen period of Middle Ages, why compound it?

Derdriu
swensel at brandegee.lm.com 
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