Heraldry
Deborah Sweet
dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
Tue Apr 11 16:43:51 PDT 1995
Diarmuit wrote:
>> Perhaps only break things down into Scholastics (with area
>> specialists) and Beadles (the Loud People who make announcements)
>> and only grant the title of "Herald" to one who actually *does*
>> both. And then, only allow Heralds to do the Court thing...
Savian wrote:
>This lumps the "book herald" together with the heraldic artist,
>essentially saying all good researchers are good artists and vice
>versa. I know I keep harping on it, but I think the art aspect of
>heraldry is very important.
No, I don't think that's what Diarmuit is saying. IMHO, he is lumping
all the book heralds, name heralds, artist heralds, precedence heralds,
and any others who don't *make*announcements* (ie, voice, court, field
heralds) into the Scholastics, which will then have some kind of
differentiation describing exactly what that person's specialty is. For
example, Bob does name research, especially in French names, then he
would be a Scholastic (French naming). If he also did artistic work, he
could then add Scholastic (French naming, Artist).
Personally, I really like Diarmuit's division. It seems reasonably
simple and you can easily know what each person does. It might take
some paperwork to keep track of who's what, but then almost any system
would.
I think this would be advantageous in many situations, because some
people are deathly afraid to make announcements or herald a court,
while others don't care to do research into volumes and volumes of
books. Each person would receive a job title that would only commit
them to doing what they wanted to do in the first place.
Estrill Swet
Dancemonger
Mooneschadoweshire
Stillwater, OK
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