jducoeur

This may not be as applicable in your area, but I'd want to see some stuff about households. I'm actually trying to come up with a class or two for AEthelmearc AEcademy in October and I pondered doing something about surviving in the SCA without joining a household (as I have for 5 years) or perhaps something more general about SCA politics, but I doubt I can pull it off without pissing off half of the kingdom. It's pretty widespread around here that you MUST join a household to "get anywhere" and a lot of newcomers get sucked into some pretty crappy households and fed a lot of bunk about the SCA.

I'm also thinking, a little something about the nature of fealty and chivalry (lowercase 'c'). Some stuff I've been pondering that was brought up at Pennsic. What is appropriate behaviour? Is it dishonourable for baronial officers and champions to go mercenary for the War, for example? What is the role of a landed baron/ess supposed to be? Maybe it would be interesting to talk about interkingdom anthropology about stuff like this. I have a vague idea about some things that are different in some places, but I'm always learning new things even after 5 years with a fair amount of travelling.

This is a neat idea. I'll be interested to see what you come up with. :)