tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6379275842568691442..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: The Rape of ClioFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72999536451890587972018-06-17T22:28:52.128+01:002018-06-17T22:28:52.128+01:00It appears that while the procession bearing the b...It appears that while the procession bearing the body of Aethelflaed from the Gloucester Docks to St Oswald's Priory was intended as a reenactment, the doings upon the arrival at the priory were not and were characterised as "The Rev Canon Nikki Arthy gave a solemn memorial speech in honour of Aethelflaed." (wearing a modern cope).<br /><br /><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/Jhayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07064136312272621107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-70689416732700404082018-06-16T14:52:19.906+01:002018-06-16T14:52:19.906+01:00Aethelflaed was actually the first woman known to ...Aethelflaed was actually the first woman known to have been called a lady - "myrcene hlefedi" - Lady of the Mercians. Whether she was a queen is a moot point.<br /><br />Reenactment events always present small or large problems. I've seen Anglo-Saxons with specs, a lady commanding the cavalry at a siege of the castle in Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Aethelflaed would have been OK with that) Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16365402242052425654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28420862309076484992018-06-15T18:34:05.437+01:002018-06-15T18:34:05.437+01:00Anyway... Most women doing reenactment/recreation ...Anyway... Most women doing reenactment/recreation are either interested in the sport elements (fighting, archery, riding), crafts (usually those traditional to women, although everybody thinks woman smiths are cool), dressing up to the nines in fabric arts, and/or flirting. <br /><br />Even the craziest SJW types want to act like women, in ways discouraged or devalued by modern society, and to Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17303327169287292542018-06-15T18:24:58.244+01:002018-06-15T18:24:58.244+01:00That is not how actual historical reenactments wor...That is not how actual historical reenactments work.<br /><br />That is how playbaby, uncommitted, past-resenting reenactments work.<br /><br />It is a great shame, because your UK Saxon military reenactors, as well as the craft and ordinary people reenactors, are known over here as being extremely committed and authentic to a fault, as well as being fun people and generous with their knowhow. Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22396025074247125052018-06-15T13:33:28.719+01:002018-06-15T13:33:28.719+01:00It always depresses me to hear of this sort of thi...It always depresses me to hear of this sort of thing, since one can't help but think of all the Masses for founders and "all other our benefactors" which are simply not being said. Let us hope they were said for long enough...Those poor Tudors like Prince Arthur, with their very late chantries, who got so little "value for money".Sprouting Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158776272303192025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91966309133922274532018-06-15T12:03:22.219+01:002018-06-15T12:03:22.219+01:00Not that I would defend this (post)modern narcissi...Not that I would defend this (post)modern narcissistic recreation of history, but when we look at Rembrandt's or Breughel's paintings, they also seem to construe e.g. biblical scenes with comfortingly familiar forms of human life. I wonder where is the proper limit here? Or maybe after the development of historical awareness every such misrepresentation is doomed to strike us as untrue?Kamil M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09377515258398791474noreply@blogger.com