ANST - A Scribe's point of view...

[Weiszbrod, Barbara A (Barbara)]

Well put, Mistress Lasair.  

An additional point that I would like to make is in regards to the
educational aspects of the charters; I seem to remember that was a concern
of Master Tadgh's in one of his posts.

Yes, the charters that we use are not what would have been used in period.
That, however, does not say that they are not a good educational tool.  When
a new person sits down to paint a charter they are starting to learn
something of the culture of the Middle Ages.  The first question they have
is "what would look right", so they pull out the books and look at colors,
designs, how highlights were used.  They start to try to put themselves into
the mind-set of an artist from that era.  Isn't that a part of what we are
trying to do in the SCA?  Through examining the different aspects of their
lives we come closer to understanding them as people.  

Again, our charters are not legal documents in their style, but the only
thing keeping our charters from being reproductions of Book of Hour pages is
the text.  Is there not value in that?


Alys
Steppes.
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