[Sca-cooks] merchanting outside the town walls, or outside the marketplace

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Jun 5 23:34:24 PDT 2006


'Lainie suggested:
 >>>
> Sue Clemenger wrote:
>> You guys don't call it "merchants' row?" What *do* you call it?

> A market.

Hey, I like that! It's short, sweet, and, like medieval and all of that!

There was a trend for awhile for merchants to set up outside of a city's
gates, and just outside of the range of the authorities (mostly tax).  
A bit
more dodgy than what you might find in the official market, but they  
seem
to have made some money, or they wouldn't have done it. Sometimes I  
wonder
about setting up a couple of booths outside of the usual merchant are  
at an
event. Problem is, most folks wouldn't get it.
<<<

Not only would most folks not get it (I wouldn't. This is the first  
I've heard of this) but at Pennsic and Gulf Wars you would risk  
getting booted from the site. Merchants have been booted for less.

The merchanting at these two events is controlled by the site owners  
and they have restrictions on who can merchant and what can be  
merchanted. In part at least, to protect their own partial or  
complete monopolies on things like food sales. So, if you were to re- 
create that part of the Middle Ages you might find the re-creation a  
bit closer than you might have liked.

Stefan
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