[Sca-cooks] IKA - head table seating?

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

I would first talk to TRM's about doing this...and make sure that the Autocrat and local nobility are cool with it as well.  I would also put a brief note in your event program that you're following a style done during the period in which your feast is set.  Other than that, I think it's a grand idea!

Kiri


> Greetings,
> 
> This discussion dovetails nicely with an issue that I have been
> pondering regarding my upcoming feast.
> 
> In reading Roy Strong's "Feast" to try and get an idea of format for
> the feast (12th Century Sicilian) I came across the discussion of the
> position of honor and how it changed over time. He pretty much says
> that during the time I am looking at the position of honor would be
> the far left and not the center.
> 
> So my question is, how do you think people would react to setting up
> the head table with the King and Queen at the far left and descending
> order of prescedence going towards the right. It kinda makes sense.
> With the King on th far left people could come up and speak to either
> Him or his Queen without standing in the middle of the feast hall with
> their tushines facing all of the feasters. I have had the need to go
> speak to their Majesties and found myself very uncomfortable and
> therefore crouching infront of the table so as not to block access.
> 
> What say you all?
> 
> Glad Tidings,
> --Serena da Riva
> 
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