Re-enactment and academic scholarship

[Nerva]

There is often quite a gap between historians, who think re-enactors are not serious scholars and can therefore make no useful contributions to scholarship, while re-enactors seem to think that academics only read books and do not use results from re-enactment.
I am now working to create a panel on reenactment of Roman military history and its value for shcolarshiop, to be presented at the Classical Association, 15-18 April 2011 in Durham

Luckily, I am too polite to point out that the Classical Association are lagging 27 years behind ROMEC and the original Roman military equipment research seminars. :-) -o o I still remember the moment in the second military equipment seminar when Jürgen Oldenstein, confronted by re-enactors for the first time, 'got it'. But then of course he was an archaeologist ;-) )

Mike Bishop

Touche...