SC - Speaking of non-period children's material

[Jenne Heise]

> Copyright, plagiarism and all the negative connotations which accompany it 
> are relatively modern ideas and really are irrelevant concepts when applied 
> to medieval writings. I am surprised that the use of these terms are 
> inappropriately applied to period manuscripts with regularity. Copying may be 
> a 'bad' thing now but it most certainly was NOT throughout almost the 
> entirety of SCA period.

Ras is right. They had other problems (like lesser-known authors passing
their work off as the work of a known author, as in the case of the
'Pseudo Albertus Magnus', or Gervase Markham who was brought to court by
his multiple publishers and forced to sign a pledge to publish no more
books on certain topics) but lifting other people's work was really not
seen as a problem. One cited one's authorities in order to lend
credibility to the text, rather than to give them their due.

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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