[Sca-cooks] What's period, was: Vikings in Minnesota
Samia al-Kaslaania
samia at idlelion.net
Mon Sep 22 12:07:43 PDT 2008
Exactly. The SCA is very open about who can play-- a wonderful advantage
at the same time as it's a source of frustration: It's hard to tell
people that "Middle Earth" is oop. :)
Samia
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> No offense taken, certainly! It's been my understanding, though, that
> the SCA's governing Corpora documents don't give any specific early
> cut-off date, and while some kingdoms do impose one for things like
> A&S competition rules, there's a very broad scope for interpretation
> of what is and is not "early period". One could argue that, for
> example, the Roman republic is well out of our scope, but it gets into
> a distinctly grey area if we argue the same for something like the
> Carolingian era, which pretty closely overlaps the Viking Era. For
> practical purposes the Dark Ages, the Islamic expansion, etc., have
> been fair game for "period" pretty much since Day One.
>
> Adamantius
>
>
> \\
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