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Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 15:22:35 EDT
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From:  cjh@CCA-UNIX (Chip Hitchcock)

   There's been quite a bit of nonsense about the SCA in this digest. Since
I am in no way an official speaker for any part of the SCA and since this is
getting rather far off the topic of the digest, I'll put in a very short
summary:
   1. The SCA is generally considered to cover over a millennium
temporally; common dates are ~500 (fall of Rome) to 1600.
   2. The original orientation of the SCA may have been Western European in
some peoples' minds, but this limitation has basically been erased. There are
in fact ronin* of various periods seen as well as everything
geographically between there and Ireland; the Fan Guest of Honor at the 1984
Worldcon is known in the SCA as Mandarin Vuong Manh. The tendency is toward
peoples with established cities anywhere in that period (but I haven't seen
any African personas, which is a big hole, and there have been woad-wearing
Britons). A recent issue of the SCA quarterly, TOURNAMENTS ILLUMINATED, was
devoted entirely to period Japanese subjects
   3. Jim Washburn's rodomontade may be answered (although not to his
satisfaction) since there will be some very capable ronin at this year's
war.

	CHip
	(Chip Hitchcock
	(CJH@CCA-UNIX
	(...cca!csin!cjh)))

* Japanese warrior (usually means unattached, since "samurai" means "servant")