[Artemisia] [Fwd: [Announcements] Peerage Exploratory Committee Announcement - Possible Rapier and/or Cut & Thrust Combat Peerage]

[Artemisia Seneschal]

An FYI. Any comments should be sent to the contact information listed at
the end of this email.

Thanks,

Katya
Kingdom Seneschal

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Subject: [Announcements] Peerage Exploratory Committee Announcement -
Possible Rapier and/or Cut & Thrust Combat Peerage
From:    ea at sca.org
Date:    Fri, November 2, 2012 3:04 pm
To:      announcements at lists.sca.org
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The Board of Directors seeks to explore the possibility of creating a new
Society-wide Peerage to recognize as Peers those participants who meet the
general requirements for a Patent of Arms and who demonstrate prowess in
Rapier and/or Cut & Thrust Combat. To that end, a Peerage Exploratory
Committee has been formed whose work will help determine if we should move
forward with the Society's first new Peerage in decades and, if so, how we
might best proceed.

This Committee will focus on developing a supporting narrative and
recommendation. If the recommendation is in favor of such a Peerage, the
committee will also recommend a set of implementation requirements. This
set of recommendations would include specific implementation plans for
heraldry, regalia, Corpora changes, and identifying and addressing
associated issues around creating and implementing such a Peerage. The
Committee's supporting narrative for a recommendation (if positive), and
the nature and quality of the implementation plans provided by the
Committee may prove instrumental to the Board's determination regarding if
and how we might proceed with the new Peerage. The Board reserves the
right to adjust, define, expand, narrow or reject any or all portions of
the recommendation but will not do so without cause or explanation.

The results of the Committee’s work will be made available to the
membership for review and comment. A much larger and more representative
Review Committee will then review the results of the Committee, along with
any comments from the membership concerning those results. The Review
Committee will be established at a later date by the Board of Directors
and will be comprised of representatives selected by the relevant groups
and organizations within and across the Society (e.g., the Kingdoms,
Peerages, Heralds, Seneschals, Grand Council, Rapier Fencing Community,
and C&T Fencing Community) as a final input into the process. As required
by the governing documents of the SCA, if any proposed changes to Corpora
result from this process, they will be submitted to the membership for the
standard commentary period.

The Committee members are listed below:

Jim Toscano (Giacomo Vincenti di Firenze)
Andrew Heinrich (Mateo Montero de Madrid)
William Wilson (Gwylym ab Owain)
Greg Wylie (Laertes McBride)
Jay Rudin (Robin of Gilwell)
Michael Perry (Kenric of Warwich)
Braddon Giles (Giles Leabrook)
Alyssa Pyrich (Alys MacIntosh)
Tommy Conant (Sasha Gregor'evich Vilanov)
Mark Kiel (Marcus Dundee)
Matthew Mueller (Brannos)
Salli Weston (Petranella Fitzallen of Weston)
Matthew Parker (Saito Takauji)
Henrik Olsgaard (Henrik of Havn)


Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas,  CA 95036

You may also email comments at lists.sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for
Creative Anachronism , Inc.  Permission is granted to reproduce this
announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic
mailing lists.

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