Re: [EK] Re:native american persona? (fwd)

["Heather Swann" <swannh@psi.com>]

Poster: "Heather Swann" <swannh@psi.com>

>  
> Poster: Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU> 
>  
>   She is correct. I contacted the Corporate Minister of Arts and 
>   Sciences. Mistress Juelda said that Corpora does not state 600 as 
>   being our beginning date. It just says Pre 17th century. The rumor 
>   of 600-1600 is all over the SCA and she has tried very hard to verify 
>   it. Mistress Juelda told me that it is only rumor. There is no 
>   starting date - only the ending date of 17th century. Unfortunately, 
>   I have been guilty of spreading that rumor myself. 
>  
> As I wrote earlier today on the Eastern list... 
>  
>   SCA is Western Europe pre 1600.  -- Sheridan 
>  
> That is the first approximation. 
>  
> In the document which (for lack of introducing legal terms) is our 
> promise to the IRS, we merely say "pre-17th-Century Western 
> Culture."  That does not mean we have to do all of it, it is just 
> a boundary that we cannot step outside of. 
>  
> If you read the rest of the governing document materials, they talk 
> about "Middle Ages" "Medieval" and "Renaissance" re-creations.  
> Mostly middle ages and renaissance, if you check word frequency. 
>  
> We don't specifically prohibit Iron Age recreations, but we sure as 
> heck don't talk about doing it.  (In this case, I mean in the 
> documents.) 
>  
> The ice is thin here, Sheridan... don't break it.  (:-) 
>  
> 	Tibor 
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As I recall years ago we used to say something about the Fall of the Roman 
Empire as the beginning point...I don't recall where that came from, though...

Miri

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