[Sca-cooks] When DID the Renaissance End???(was:Nocino, period cordial or not?

[Mairi Ceilidh]

<much snippage>

>
> Yeah, I spotted that, too. See, everyone knows the Renaissance is the
> lifetime of William Shakespeare, see, and dat's da 17th century. And
> da end a da 17th century is 1700, see? So 1700 is technically, the
> Renaissance...
>
> Ada... erm, Ras
>

I have always heard that scholars considered the end of the Renaissance to
be the death of Rene Descarts in 1649.  Shakespeare died in 1616.  Either
way, if the SCA period of study is supposed to cover the Middle Ages AND the
Renaissance, why are we cutting the time short?  This really irritates me
when some people start getting picky about dates in documentation.  Heck, if
we have to cut everything at 1600 to be in period, there is a great deal of
dance that we will have to quit doing.  I have had judges at Art/Sci comment
negatively because I used a "post period" sourse.  'Scuse me?  Were the
recipes developed the day the cookbook was published?

Guess I'm just grumpy because the weather is lousy, and I am trying to make
some headway against a feast for 350 this weekend.

Mairi Ceilidh