SC - Watermelon

[Mark Schuldenfrei]

  3.4 What is Period?
  The period (and place) of interest to the SCA, as defined in Corpora and the
  By-Laws, is
  Western Europe and cultures that had contact with Western Europe before the
  17th Century.

Except that this statement is patently untrue.  Corpora doesn't define
period at all, and the By-Laws state:

  "III. The Society shall be dedicated primarily to the promotion of
  research and re-creation in the field of pre-17th-century Western
  culture, as stated in greater detail in Article II of the Society's
  Articles of Incorporation."

The Articles of Incorporation state (primarily):

  "2.II. Research and education in the field of pre-17th-Century
  Western Culture."

Whatever it is you are quoting, is wrong.  And probably not "official".
After all, the Preface to the Governing Documents say that the Articles of
Incorporation, By-Laws, Corpora and G&PD decisions form the basis of the
Society's definition.  See also Appendix A of Corpora itself.

In other words: what you quote is neither official, nor is it correct in
what it says about other documents.

	Tibor