SC - Fw: [Mid] Feasts

[Alderton, Philippa]

Just picked this up on the 'Bridge. Comments, anyone? Adamantius, I KNOW
you'll have something to say! :)

Phlip


Never a horse that cain't be rode,
 and never a rider that cain't be throwed.

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> Date: Thursday, November 13, 1997 06:54:31 
> From: Steve Muhlberger
> To: Middlebridge
> Subject: [Mid] Feasts
> 
> I have a preference in feasts.
> 
> I like feasts to be a reasonable length.  
> 
> In the Middle Ages, from what I can tell, the big fancy feasts were
> standalone events.  You had a feast and it was the one event that day.
> In those circumstances, the feast could last a very long time, and
> clearly people did not sit down during the whole thing.  They took big
> breaks and did other things.  (Judging by their furniture, I think
> medieval people must have spent much less time sitting down than we do;
> he said, sitting in front of his computer).
> 
> We squeeze our feasts into the evening portion of some other event, yet
> try to serve something similar to the huge standalone feasts.  Feasts
> become long.  Also, the physical setup for the feast tends to take up
> most of the site, which means our freedom to do other things is cut
> down.
> 
> If a feast is not the whole event, and we expect people to sit down
> through a whole feast, then it should not be too long.   That way it is
> neither a great medieval feast, nor a reasonable length meal for modern
> people.
> 
> As to autocrats vs. event stewards.  I don't mind the new term, but I
> like the authority that the old term gives to what is our most important
> officer on any given day.   I think that's why the term was picked way
> back when.  The autocrat was probably one of our very first officers. 
> (Wish I could check this).
> 
> Finnvarr
> -- 
> The ORB Late Antiquity Pages begin at:
> http://www.unipissing.ca/department/history/orb/lt-atest.htm
> 
> 
> From:  Steve Muhlberger <stevem at faculty.unipissing.ca>
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