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Re: SCAdians (was: some train thing)
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:34:24 GMT
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In article <GCCv0u.GIA@lugnet.com>,
James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> I think plague counts as one of the "bad parts", so we ignore that. And I'd
Only if you don't target the people making things political. :)
> never switch to all things Renaissance... you'll never catch me waving
> around one of those silly pokey swords, and wearing fruffly clothing.
But in the Renaissance, armor and weapons got so much more elegant.
Of course, this was largely because the cannon of the king and the
arquebus of the common foot soldier made nobility and their armor
a) irrelevant and b) captured. So they made their armor pretty to at least
not _look_ useless, even if they were. After all, if you looked like you
had money, you got captured for ransom instead of getting dead. :)
On the other hand, were I an SCA type, I'd just as soon have the nice
ugly brigandine anyhow.
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) I see people like that at all the time in the SCA; I think the preferred term is "fop" or "dandy." 8^) (...) I have several suits of chain, and SCA people ask if I fight in it. I say, why would I? It offers no impact protection, coupled with (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I think plague counts as one of the "bad parts", so we ignore that. And I'd never switch to all things Renaissance... you'll never catch me waving around one of those silly pokey swords, and wearing fruffly clothing. <grin, duck> James (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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