[MR] [Archers] New Article "War Archery & Social Status

[Garth G. Groff]

  Duke Logan, Greetings.

I fully agree with Your Grace that a peerage must earned, and probably 
should be fairly rare. As I understand it, a path WITHIN our discipline 
(as separate from service and research)  is not available to archers, 
but is to fighters in theirs. If I am correct that Your Grace is or has 
been an archer, I am sure you will agree that great skill and much 
practice is needed to achieve excellence in archery. So why shouldn't 
such skill and effort among the best archers be rewarded in ways 
comparable to heavy or rapier fighters? What inspiration for others to 
excell!

Kind regards,


Lord Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot

On 9/15/2010 12:19 PM, logan wrote:
> there are already several target archers in the sca that have received a
> peerage for their research and excellence combined.  the basis for arguing
> that everyone should be able to get a peerage is misguided.  everyone can
> get a peerage by following the paths laid out for each (service, research,
> fighting).  trying to shoehorn every single aspect of interest in the sca
> into one of those simply wont work especially since most activities already
> have a brass ring so to speak that is a showing of mastery and excellence in
> that particular activity.  at least thats my opinion.
>
> regards
> logan 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Garth G.
> Groff
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:01 PM
> To: Archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org; Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] [Archers] New Article "War Archery&  Social Status
>    
> . . . As for the question of a peerage for archers, there is no reason we
> shouldn't have such ranks. There certainly is plenty of material to
> justify peerage. In addition, the the Known World of our society is not
> a slavish imitation of the real middle ages, but rather one of our own
> creation where anything can happen if we have the will.
>
>