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In article <9301091427.aa18909@mc.lcs.mit.edu> SAUNDRSG@qucdn.queensu.ca (Graydon) writes:
>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.
>

Just because most common soldiers acted like, well..er, soldiers,
doesn't mean you have to too. (BTW you forgot to add Blasphemy to your
list. Learn to say "Goddamn" as often as possible if you want to be
truly authentic.)

>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??

The pro's call it "Experimental Archeology". We can recreate the
artifacts and emulate the skills of the Middle Ages, etc. far more
easily than we can recreate the mindset of the people who made the
artifacts and practiced the skills.  
>

Lothar (who has on many occasion nervously noted that that his herald's
tabard puts a nice, big, yellow "X" right on his center of mass).