SC - Great Celebration in Atlantia

[Ted Eisenstein]

>> "Tea" as in an afternoon social activity may be very much out of date; can
>> we also work on getting rid of the "Queen's <whatever>" as well? How often
>> in period would there have been a Queen's <whatever>?
>
>Why? Why is it necessary to forbid the Queen, when organizing a gathering,
>to refer to herself in a possessive? Or are you proposing that the Cook's
>Guild suggest to the non-fighting half of our Regional head teams (that
>is, kingdom royalty) that they not hold gatherings at all?
(Errrr, I just noticed I worded my original statement very badly. I did not
mean to suggest banning the gathering itself, but rather the name of
the gathering. Oooops. Mea culpa.) 
I am not forbidding the Queen from doing anything; I'm suggesting that when
she does so, it should be in as much a period fashion as possible (except when
it's obviously being done tongue-in-cheek - which does not apply in this case).
Nor am I suggesting such gatherings not be held, just that the name be
period.


>And by the way, period queens held gatherings, meetings, meals, etc. all
>the time. In many places, the royalty generally travelled, met with people
>and often even ATE separately.
I am now informed that queens Back Then would hold social gatherings.
 I have yet to recieve any information that such social gatherings would
have been called a Queen's Brunch, or Queen's Tea, or Queen's Nosh, or
indeed a Queen's <anything>. 

>The constructive criticism approach to something one percieves as not
>period is to research and present a period alternative, not simply to
>'work on getting rid of it'. Those who practice the opposite of
>constructive criticism where authenticity is concerned in the SCA are
>referred to by an epithet and a battle cry: "That's not period!" 
Yeah, but sometimes it really is "Not Period"! The messenger may be
a total schmuck, but the message may be quite accurate nevertheless.
Criticizing criticism is worthy of being criticized. <grin>

Alban, mostly tongue-in-cheek now