SC - OT: Eating the Script Girl

[lilinah@earthlink.net]

Alban declared:
> 6. Many of us aren't Christian, and couldn't care less whether
> it's Lenten or not. . . 

Yes, in mundane life this is true. However, if you are serious about
understanding how folks in the period we study lived and thought, I
think you must take such things into account. While religious restrictions
affected folks in different regions and in different social levels 
differently, they did affect most folks in this time period to some
extent.

I doubt I would like living under the restrictions to the level they
did, and many were not happy about it then, but I think such things could
be studied and used at SCA events to help give us an idea of what it
was like to live in those times.

Such restrictions could, in fact, be a good outlet for creativity. How
would you work around those restrictions to present a delightful dining
experience to the guests of your master when that special dinner just
happened to fall in Lent or another fast day?

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