SC - chocolate cream - 1604

[Stefan li Rous]

'Lainie's correct- Corpora states, depending on what you're reading, either
pre-1600 or pre 17th century, although many people try to push the envelope
by slipping up to 1650. whether because there's a recipe they want to use,
or they think the garb is nifty.

OTOH, many are just as vehement about cutting off early SCA period at 600,
despite the fact that corpora gives absolutely NO early cut-off date- in the
Middle Kingdom, no A&S is considered if it is documented before 600, DESPITE
the fact that there's no real reason to do so. There are, however, many
reasons for choosing earlier dates- 200, for some, or roughly 450, as I
prefer, as the end of the Classic era and the Roman Empire and the beginning
of the Byzantine Rome and the Middle Ages.

But, if the intellectually lazy are loud enough, things get changed,
regardless of what logic and scholarship might determine.....




Phlip

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