SC - Removes and Feastocrat

[Catherine Deville]

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From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: SC - Removes and Feastocrat


> Catherine Deville wrote:
> >
> > If it is not medieval, then how does it show up in period table
settings?
> > I'm sure it's just the way I'm reading it, but to me these two
statements
> > contradict each other.  Clarification, please?
>
> Because (and this is an excellent example of the pitfalls of using the
> word "period" as a catchphrase) it shows up in table settings of the
> period referred to, which is more than 100 years post-SCA-period.
>
> > And just for clarification, what *we* called a "remove", a group of
courses
> > which went out at the same time, *was* "removed" when the next "remove"
> > came out.  (That's why I understood that it was _called_ a "remove".)
>
> Well, it makes sense. Like a lot of other things that make sense,
> penicillin, for example (they had blue mold _and_ distillation!) it
> turns out not to have been done that way, or at least we haven't found
> any evidence that it was. On the other hand, we have menus and other
> SCA-period textual references to feasts being served in courses (in
> English texts, French texts seem generally to refer to services, I
> believe, but someone more familiar with French texts _in French_ would
> know more).
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
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