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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <725446268.F00006@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:23:22
- Lines: 61
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- Pagan le Chaunster wrote:
-
- JG> Gentle lord, may I take your last point first:
-
- JG> "The Society is based on the landed nobility of the JG> European
- JG> Middle Ages and Renaissance" (_The Society for Creative Anachronism
- JG> Organisational Handbook_ (Oct 89), "Scope of the Society", p. 74).
-
- JG> I believe the other statement of scope mentions "Western Civilisation".
-
- Actually, the term used by Corpora and the Articles of Incorporation is
- "pre-17th century Western culture".
-
- JG> Neither of these, good my lord, makes mention of "Western Europe" and
- JG> it is a cause of quite some concern to me that you seem determined to
- JG> apply your personal preference of the confines of period, which you
- JG> state as:
-
- > [south of the Trent, north of the Loire, west of the Rhine, 1100-1400,
- > is Tadhg's preference.... if you want to be precise.],
-
- JG> to the entirity of the Society's heraldry.
-
- As the above quotation makes clear, those are my *preference*; I
- nowhere suggest any "determination to apply my personal preferences to
- the entirety of Society heraldry" ... unlike Master Arval, I should
- like to point out. Perhaps your concern might be more appropriately
- directed toward him.
-
- And, to address your original point, if you would care to present any
- evidence that "Western culture" and "Western Europe" are not
- functionally synonymous, I'd be quite interested; many seem to be under
- the impression that there is some significant difference between the
- two.
-
- JG> Indeed, SCA heraldry is SCA heraldry, but surely the realm of possible
- JG> SCA armory should at least contain the body of heraldry from the times
- JG> and places of the SCA's period. If there is, as you seem to suggest,
- JG> no point of contact between Society heraldry and actual historical
- JG> heraldry from period, why don't we just go the whole hog and create an
- JG> heraldic corpus with our own creatively anachronistic charges?
-
- "Bog beast", "compass star", "Cross of Samildanach", "star cross", "Dun
- dragon", "honeycombed", "maily", "Hrassvelg monster", "mascle knot",
- "riven star", "Piping beast", and "pawprints" come immediately to mind
- -- no doubt a careful combing of the *Pictorial Dictionary* could
- double that list.
-
- JG> My lord, it appears that you wish to apply the strictures of modern
- JG> English heraldry to a limited range of mostly French and English
- JG> medieval heraldic possibilities.
-
- I see nothing in any of my statements, public or private, in favor of
- "modern English heraldry"; if you perceive any such, then you are
- mistaken. As you so clearly cited above, my preferences are for
- classical Anglo-French heraldry of the High Middle Ages; how you equate
- that with "the strictures of modern English heraldry" I cannot fathom.
-
- Tadhg, Obelisk
-
- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
-