This may explain my puzzlement and irritation at folks I have seen on the web who dress up in supposed Mediaeval and Renaissance costume, singing supposed Mediaeval and Renaissance songs that are nothing of the sort, playing supposed Mediaeval and Renaissance instruments that are entirely modern (bowed psaltery, steel string guitars, steel string mandola, Irish bouzouki!). I'd always put it down to sloppiness or the want to make a quick buck out of those with no historcal knowledge, but it turns out it's just a bit of silliness. Well, good luck to those who enjoy that sort of thing. Not my sort of thing, I think.

"one does run across the occasional authenticity Nazi" I am still reeling at this comment. Someone who has a 'thing' about historcal accuracy is in the same camp as a race-hater and supporter of mass murder? I think not. I know (I think) it was meant as a throw away comment, but when there are those still living whose friends, relations and lovers were murdered by the Nazis, I, for one, will never use that word flippantly.