[Sca-cooks] IKA - head table seating?

[K C Francis]

In the West, the high table is reserved for Royalty with the few exceptions 
I have already noted.  We do not normally fill out the table with the 
"highest ranking other members" present at the event.  Any unfilled seats 
can be filled by invitation of the Royalty and can be anyone they choose 
regardless of rank.  This doesn't happen often, as we have so many Royals at 
any given time, it is usually the problem of fitting in a large enough table 
to hold them all.

Katira

>From: Volker Bach <carlton_bach at yahoo.de>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] IKA - head table seating?
>Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:14:56 +0200
>
>Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 19:20 schrieb iasmin at comcast.net:
> > Although I'm interested in the inter-kingdom anthopology of a much wider
> > issue than this, I'm a bit afraid of the mountainous responses I could 
>get
> > asking this question too broadly....
> >
> > When your feasting halls have a head table, what are the seating
> > arrangements of the head table? That is, who sits next to whom and when
> > does this change under various circumstances? What size and shape are 
>the
> > tables?
>
>I swear I thought that read 'IKEA'...
>
>I'm no protocol maven, but from what I gathered at our events in 
>Drachenwald,
>a high table is considered practically mandatory if royalty are present. 
>They
>are oblong and the guests are seated along the long side facing the 
>gathered
>diners - I've never seen it done any other way. Most high tables seat 
>between
>6 and 8. The royals are seated in the centre, with the  filling the places 
>to their right and left, proximity being governed
>by rank. There have been some acrimonious debates within earshot whether a
>representative of the hosting group (seneschal or marshal) should be seated
>there, but I gather the answer is 'not unless s/he has the rank'.
>
>Drachenwald has lots of local variety, though. This may just be the way 
>they
>do things where I happened to be at the time.
>
>Giano
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