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- From: atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Cardinal Ximenez)
- Subject: Re: peer structure
- Message-ID: <atterlep.722474856@vela>
- Organization: National Association for the Disorganized
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:27:36 GMT
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- SAUNDRSG@qucdn.queensu.ca (Graydon) writes:
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- >Unto Charles the Clerk and the Rest of the Rialto, Greetings!
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- >My problem with 'automatic titles' is that we have way serious too many
- >high ranking people for an actual medieval kingdom.
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- The explanation I've heard for this is that the SCA represents only the upper
- class of a real medieval kingdom and that there are several hundred thousand
- hypothetical peasants supporting us. In that context, it doesn't appear quite
- as ludicrous.
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- Let's see...I can think of 12 Ducal rank, 14 County rank, 30 territorial
- barons/baronesses, and maybe 40-60 court barons/baronesses currently active
- (county is probably low, and I didn't take time to look at all the barons and
- baronesses that I knew...
- This doesn't seem unreasonable for a kingdom with an aristocracy of about
- 7,000 people (which is about twice the paid membership of the Midrealm.) The
- number of dukes is certainly inflated, but isn't incredibly inflated...
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- Alan Fairfax Aluricson, Fenris Herald
- Canton of the Riding of Hawkland Moor
- Barony of Northwoods, Midrealm
- atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu **Magnitudo Vocis**
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