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- From: kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <kleber.725322407@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 22:26:47 GMT
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- Quoth Tadhg, in respose to Lady Sycamore:
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- "BG> Different areas had
- "BG> different flavors to their heraldic display. If a person
- "BG> has a Hungarian persona, and likes the heraldry of their
- "BG> chosen country/period then what is the basis for the CoA to
- "BG> state that it was just a fashion and not a general practice.
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- > Because this *isn't* Hungary, this is Ansteorra, or the East, or wherever;
- > in essence, because this isn't Hungary, it's the SCA, and the SCA (like
- > Hungary and every other mundane jurisdiction) has developed its own
- > more-or-less consistent style that doesn't include everything that
- > everyone else is doing.
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- I like this way of looking at things a lot, actually; it works well in
- a lot of contexts-- why we chose kings by tournament every n months,
- for example. The SCA becomes its own society, based on pre-17th-c
- culture. But the nice thing about that society is that it isn't fixed,
- that individuals can easily change it-- get something to happen three
- times, and you've created a sacred tradition, after all-- and so if the
- rules for heraldry change, then people will conform to the new rules,
- and that will change what the SCA's heraldic style looks like. Is
- there anything wrong with that?
-
- Tadhg later says that his heraldic preferences are "south of the
- Trent, north of the Loire, west of the Rhine, 1100-1400", though.
- Does that mean you think the SCA should intentionally steer its own
- heraldic style to be like this, or that's just where your
- aesthetic ideals lie?
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- --Gwydden Lawen I don't have an overactive
- Borough of Duncharloch, Carolingia imagination... I have an
- --kleber@husc.harvard.edu underactive reality... --EG
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