[Sca-cooks] Experimental Archeology

[Stefan li Rous]

Kirk commented:
> There are even stories of people eating "Love Apples" and dying from 
> the
> 1600s, or so I was told by a Professor when I was in College.

Ummm. Maybe. Maybe not. I think I'd like to know more about the 
Professor's credentials, or better, some more proof of this.

Let me illustrate with a message from the SCA-Stories2-msg file in the 
Florilegium. Besides, some of you might like this story.

> 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

Stefan

PS: Does anyone remember the cloved fruit game that used to get played 
at SCA revels and such? Well, there are some other messages in the 
Florilegium from Honour/Alizaunde claiming to have (along with a 
friend) created and introduced that game to the SCA. And she profusely 
apologizes.
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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