[Sca-cooks] Laurels for sciences or research

[Stefan li Rous]

Jeff Gedney asked:
> the prblem with nearly all responses so far is that there is a
> presupposition that the Laurellate is arts related.
>
> But what about those who do sciences or research?
I would consider both of these to fall under the arts at least as it is 
defined for the Laurel peerage.
> My self I produce very little in the way of artifacts that I can enter
> into any competition though I am not shy about teaching.
>
> what path do people like myself have to get to the laurellate?
Write up that research in articles and get it published where other 
folks can make use of it. The Ansteorran A&S contests often have a 
category for research papers. In fact, there was a perfect score given 
to an entry in the recent Gulf Wars Arts and Sciences Contest. For a 
paper about horsemanship and dressage in period.

Another place to get some visibility, as well as increase the Known 
World knowledge of the arts is to get it online so that more than your 
local group or your kingdom can read and learn from the research you 
have done. And, I have just the site in mind for many such papers. :-) 
For any papers submitted to the Florilegium, the author keeps the 
copyright and I will accept updates at any time. Thus you can still 
submit your paper to other places such as TI. Yes, there has been at 
least one paper published in the Florilegium first and then in TI as 
well as the reverse.

Mistress Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester, who had a number of articles 
published in the Florilegium before she got her Laurel has said that 
she credits having her work published in the Florilegium and elsewhere 
as helping to get the recognition that got her her Laurel. Of course 
Mistress Nicolaa has gone on to do other things since then, like be 
editor of TI and the Pennsic newspaper.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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