SC - Henry Peacham

[Christina VAN TETS]

Hello!
Ras, I think perhaps you misunderstood the use of the Henry Peacham 
extracts.  Although they were published in the 1620s and 30s, he 
wrote them originally for his charges (he was a tutor).  Now if I 
had written something for an individual, I think I'd wait a decent 
interval before publishing it for all and sundry, purely as 
politeness.  Judging by the rest of his writing, I think he'd 
probably feel much the same way.  In addition, he was writing when 
fairly old (oh, 37?) about what the continent was like in his youth.  
Since his youth he had worked as tutor, and so his charges would have 
known the continent too and this stuff would have been unnecessary.
To my mind, then, he was writing of things fairly close to our cut 
off date, and could presumably be used (if no earlier, better 
description exists) of an Englishman's impressions of French habits 
in late period.  Sure it doesn't give you mediaeval, but the the SCA 
isn't just 'mediaeval'.

Cairistiona
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