SR - thoughts on city states ... different politics

[j'lynn yeates]

On 3 Jul 98, at 13:50, Donal & Sosha wrote:

> Not to add a fox to the hen house, but has anyone thought that perhaps
> Bryn Gwlad, Bjornsberg, and Tempio should be The Principality...or at
> least a Free City State (thankyou Collin)?  

have always wondered about the possibility of "city states" ... are they 
mentioned pro/con in Corpora ???  a local group could realistically emulate 
a city state, but i don't know if multiple cities could (slightly outside my 
areas of study ...) but i could easily see a political alliance of such city 
states as being viable 

biggest con against the idea, is that these political entities were based 
much more on "commercial" / "growing middle class" / "politics of the 
church" than the traditional "medieval feudal" model that is at the core of 
the SCA to date ... though you could also argue that the wide-spread 
support of the "light weapons" / "cavalier culture" shows that there might be 
potentials worth exploring .... 

also, seems that they would open more doors to the "breaking up the 
kingdom" complaints  ... city-states, while they might be in a kingdom / 
empire, they were much more autonomous inside their walls / spheres of 
influence and bound more by theirt own agenda's that that of the larger 
political entity ...

though as history shows ... a viable stage in political evolution (time to dust 
off the machiavelli perhaps ....)

'wolf
... it's always hard to see your child grow up and start making their own 
decisions that are often at odds with your belief structures (g)



... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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