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I've got a problem with this - it involves things I regard as unethical.

For instance, being a proper Hundred Year's archer would involve (to stick
to the typical) a tendency to loot anything not bolted down, get roaring
drunk (if possible), wench indiscriminately, and sometimes shoot at heralds.
I have no desire to act like that.

To recreate an Arthurian romance, being a proper archer involves being part
of the scenery, since all the characters are either noble or holy and
sometimes both.
I like trees, but I don't really want to be one, or indeed any other part
of the scenery.

What I *do* want to do is to be able to do what an English archer of the
Hundred Year's War era (since I have no hope of finding out anything specific
about about Saxon archery, other than it existed) could do, and with what
(so closely as I can manage) he did it with.

So, folks, what's *that* recreating??

Maybe what we ought to say we are trying to re-create the _skills_
of the Middle Ages and Renaisance...

Graydon
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