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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
- Path: sparky!uunet!seas.smu.edu!utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!ocitor!FredGate
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <725040701.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:51:02
- Lines: 31
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- Simon wrote:
-
- JB> Well, I think we can all agree that some things are bad pottery, even if
- JB> they were done in period --- period potters must have produced their share
- JB> of cracked pots. On the other hand, in that case we can define bad as
- JB> "not useful".
-
- JB> What this says to me is that the Society ought to make an effort to find
- JB> out / decide what we consider "useful" in terms of heraldry. Which is one
- JB> of the things Arval has been saying all along....
-
- There IS a consensus regarding what is "useful" with respect to heraldry
- in the SCA; Arval just disagrees with it, apparently because it doesn't
- include everything that was ever done in period in one big grab-bag.
-
- One of Laurel's oft-repeated maxims is "We follow the general practices,
- not the exceptions", and red bends and chiefs on blue fields were
- exceptions, not general practices; considered in the context of western
- European heraldry as a whole, regional practices such as green mounts on
- blue fields, however much they may have been the height of fashion in
- Hungary or wherever, were still exceptions rather than general practices.
-
- I have made a modest contribution in that directio with my "Ten Word
- Blazon Test", the rationale for which is "if they did it a lot, they had a
- term for it; if it takes you a lot of words to describe it, then they
- didn't have a term for it, and so they probably didn't do it a lot, and so
- it probably isn't good style".
-
- Tadhg, Obelisk
-
- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
-