[Sca-cooks] The Puritans

[Stefan li Rous]

Elizabeth replied to me with:
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 20:32:07 -0500 Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
> writes:
> >However, it could be limiting if you do it in an accurate way. I doubt
> >the Puritans would be partying or dancing as many wish to do at SCA
> >events. Did they make alcohol or drink it?
>
>     There is a *lovely* book called *The Anatomy of Abuses*  by a man
> whose last name is Stubbs, and I believe his first name is Phillip.  In
> it he deplores everything that makes life fun, from cosmetics to clothes,
> and (I think) food.

>     But the thing is, if he had to complain about everyone doing this,
> that and the other, that means *of course* Puritans were doing those
> things also.  If all your brethern are good, holy and meek, then you
> don't need to chastise them.

Yes, but here we get back to a point you made in an earlier message:
> The Protestants of the late sixteenth-early
> seventeenth century have a bad rep, I realize, but we tend to hear the
> extreme arguements, not the vast middle.