[Sca-cooks] Amateur vs. Scholarly Experimental Archaeology

[Stefan li Rous]

 From my SCA-Stories2-msg file, one of my favorites:

> From: una at bregeuf.stonemarche.org (Honour Horne-Jaruk)
> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
> Subject: Re: fun with history
> Date: Mon, 09 May 94 12:37:36 EDT
>
> jeffs at math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki) writes:
>>  To a greater or lesser degree, experiental archeology is what
>> some of our most driven SCAdians are doing.
>> William the Alchymist
> 	Conversation in my college medieval history class, 1977:
> "OF course, as the caption in the book makes clear, knights couldn't actually
> get out of a mailshirt alone; this illustration is fanciful, and is intended
> to show how poor the knight is."
> 	"Sir, may I use your office phone for a moment?"
> "Go ahead, but remember, we've just begun class- don't take long."
> (I return to class, two minutes later, and sit down & shut up.)
> Twenty minutes later-
> 	"Excuse me, sir, I'd like to return to our first topic- allegorical
> versus realistic illustrations?"
> "What more could possibly be said about it?"
> 	"friend, could you come down front?"
> (Friend proceeds to skin out of mailshirt in manner identical to illustration)
> 	"Now, professor- about the `allegorical' illustration by the same
> artist, of women assisting in the defense of a castle..."
> 	...And I still got an A- . I love experimental archeology, I do, I do,
> I do!
> 				Honour/Alizaunde

Hee. hee.
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