More on Re-enactment ...
Apart from administering holy communion, the closest I've come to"re-enactment" was singing in the chorus of Verdi's"Macbeth." My big scene was a sword fight with Macbeth in which I took a terrific fall. Got real good at it, if I do say so myself. Over at Crooked Timber, Belle Waring generated an interesting discussion of battle re-enactments. Those from both the English civil war and the American civil war get mentions. Several commentators at Crooked Timber think something less innocent than re-enactment goes on at these events. Then, there is this remarkable British site which schedules your events and outfits you for a price in eras ranging over the last 2000 years of western civilization. Need a full suit of body armor, a targe, or a crossbow? No need going to war ill-equipped. Now, about those Cliopatriarch robes and miters that I had on order .... Nothing gaudy, you understand; still something grand and suggestive of authority.
Update: It was bound to happen sooner or later. The Cranky One is blogging a battle re-enactment this afternoon at Hobart and William Smith.