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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <726022829.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 16:30:37
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- Jeremy de Merstone wrote:
-
- P> While it may be true that efforts towards a *systematic* Latin blazoning
- P> system date from the 1600s, it is demonstrably true that Latin blazoning
- P> was used in period. The Matthew Paris rolls [c. 1260] have the arms
- P> described primarily in Latin, as do many other heraldic documents of
- P> Tadhg's "core period" in England and elsewhere (even in areas such as the
- P> Holy Roman Empire which were outside of "Western Culture" by Tadhg's
- P> definition). So this argument will not fly.
-
- Excuse me ... what "Tadhg's definition of Western Culture" are you (and
- others, apparently) referring to here? I am not aware of defining "Western
- Culture" at any time. I have specified the area from which I would prefer
- to see us take our armorial style, and I am of opinion that that certainly
- represents the CORE of the "Western Culture" that the SCA exists to
- emulate, but at no time have I claimed that that area represents the
- *whole* of "Western Culture".
-
- I'm more or less inured to catching flak for opinions that I *do* hold,
- but I categorically refuse to be shot at for opinions that I *don't *
- hold.
-
- Tadhg, Obelisk
-
- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
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