[Sca-cooks] AoAs

[A. F. Murphy]

Thank you. I'm glad you also think it is confusing...

I forgot about the Known World Handbook. I should get a copy, instead of
making all you people nuts with my questions... that might be a good idea!

I intend to do lots of things. That's the point, for me - this is a place
where I can play with just about everything I've ever been interested
in...and I'm interested in many things!  And I'm already on record on
another list with my comments about awards and people who are impressed
with their own. But I thought I should maybe know what I am talking about.

I don't wash dishes more than I have to, but I chop onions, and slice
bread, and trim carrots, and... just ask the cooks I worked with/for a few
weeks ago!

Why would I want two sets of arms? Why would I want one set of arms? What
on earth would I do with arms? I'm not likely to have  a noble persona.

And I'm further confused by the idea (I may be wrong) that people call me
lady now, but I wouldn't be entitled (literally) to be called Mistress
unless I became a peer, in spite of the fact that I am likely to have a
persona who would be called Mistress Anne Somebody. But I can't be, because
I haven't earned it. But the burgher's wife wouldn't be lady...

Oh, I want that kind of persona, because she would do her own cooking,
among other things... It is high time I get back to remembering that this
is the Cook's list... Thank you all for your patience!

Anne of the Bright Questions

> [Original Message]
> From: Ted Eisenstein <Alban at socket.net>
>
>
> >And is that what armigerous
> >means?  If it is, how is it different from getting arms, which people
seem
> >to do all by themselves? (I mean, with help and permission of heralds and
> >such, but...)
> Armigerous means you've got an AoA. An AoA does not correlate with
> a coat of arms (aka "device"), which is what you register with the SCA's
> College of Arms. Technically, you can get arms via an AoA, and you can
> get a completely different arms via registering a device. Very confusing,
> all of this.
>
>
> >And don't have to worry if you don't care?
> Bingo. The purpose of this group should be having fun through learning
bunches
> of stuff; anything else is whipped cream.
>
> >I so do not understand how some aspects of this society work...
> I've been in for <mumblety mumble> years, and _I_ don't understand
> how some aspects work.
>
> (By the way: track down a copy of The Known World Handbook. Your
> chatelain/new-person's helper should have a copy. If not, get one from the
> SCA Marketplace (via the SCA's main page, www.sca.org). It's a good
> overview of the arts, sciences, fighting, and customs and such of the
SCA.)
>
> Alban
>
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