SC - Elizabethan buffet (long)

[david friedman]

At 2:19 PM +0200 10/20/98, Aletta Saayman wrote:
>Aletta Saayman
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Brenna [SMTP:sunnie at exis.net]
>> Sent:	20 October 1998 01:23
>> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>> Subject:	Re: SC - Period Wedding
>>
>>
>>
>> There is however a question I would love to pose, if I may: what kind
>> of
>> > dancing and entertainment, if any, was usually done at medieval
>> > weddings?
>> Forwarded to Atlantia list for more information.

>> We like to do bards a little during feast and music, but most of our
>> entertainment during feast is simply enjoying the company of those
>> around us.
>> We do our serious entertainment after feast while people are relaxing.
>> Then we
>> bring out the bards, the musicians, and all types of period dance
>> (brawls are
>> fun at weddings as they are very upbeat and joyous).  For other
>> enjoyment at a
>> wedding, try the cloven fruit game (a piece of fruit is imbedded with
>> tons of
>> cloves, whoever has the fruit offers the fruit to another person, if
>> the person
>> pulls a clove with his/her hand you kiss her on the hand, if the
>> person pulls
>> the clove with his/her teeth you kiss on the mouth...it's fun in some
>> circles).
>> You can hold contests (usually before feast) in just about anything
>> that strikes
>> your fancy.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>> Brenna
>>
>>
>> Thanks, this really helps a lot. My fiancé would love to have a plain
>> old dance, but I'll most probably be able to counter that with "true
>> period" entertainment.

You seem to be assuming that the post you are responding to is about "true
period entertainment." Brenna started her response "we like to do"--she was
describing current practice in her part of the SCA. In my experience, at
least, things done in the SCA are sometimes based on period activities, but
quite often not.

For example ...  . I don't know of any evidence that cloved fruit is a
period practice--my vague impression is that it was invented in the SCA. I
know of no evidence that the sort of contests we often have in the SCA
corresponded to anything that would have happened at a medieval wedding
feast. I wouldn't be surprised if people danced at medieval weddings, but I
don't actually know that they do, and the fact that SCA people dance at SCA
weddings is little evidence of period practice.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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