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

[Solveig]

Noble Cousins!

Greetings from Solveig! As for cut-off dates. There is, last I 
looked, no early-period cut-off date. Thus, there is no inherent 
homogeneity in the cultures recreated by the Society. All that can 
really be said about them is that they are pre-modern. Historically, 
the Society started out with a more Arthurian/Tolkeinesque bent which 
quickly expanded to include: Hastings, Runnymeade, the Elizabethans, 
and even Japan by AS III. Some of the founders of the Society were 
fans of "sword culture" and some early advertising emphasized sword 
culture.

As a practical matter, it is now extremely difficult if not 
impossible to "roll back" the cut-off to anytime prior to 1600 CE. 
This is especially true when the BoD continues to obsesses about the 
flattening and even dipping of the SCA population curve.

Currently, the official goal is to recreat pre-1601 stuff. 
Documentation for this can be drawn from lots of sources including 
post 1600 literary sources. In practice, the SCA continues to embrace 
lots of stuff which is known to be post period. This includes dances 
which are reputed to have been invented by Ukranian imigrants in 
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
-- 

					Your Humble Servant
					Solveig Throndardottir
					Amateur Scholar

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