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Title stacking

2007-07-03T14:21:48Z

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'''Title Stacking''' is the [[SCA]] practice of using multiple [[title]]s in order to try to fully qualify which SCA [[award]]s someone has and to which [[order]]s they belong. For example, Alexandre d'Avigne who is a member of the [[White Scarf]], a [[Master]] of the [[Pelican]], a [[Baron|Court Baron]] and [[Viceroy]] of [[Ostgardr]] might be called "Viceroy Baron Master Don Alexandre" while [[Edward Zifran of Gendy]] who is a [[triple peer]] as well as a [[Viscount]] might be "Viscount Sir Master Master Edward". (He's also a Court Baron, so you could toss in a "Baron," too.)

Needless to say, this can get very silly very quickly and furthermore bears little relationship to any sort of period practice. (Then again, neither does any facet of the SCA's award structure, really.)

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Tradition

2007-07-03T14:16:15Z

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A '''tradition''' is an activity that have become commonplace.[[Recreationist]]s can have many traditions that are not related to history.

==SCA Traditions==
The [[SCA]] has many '''traditions''', most of which are subject to [[InterKingdom Anthropology]]. Some are as simple as whether or not one should reverence (bow/curtsey) when one passes in front of the [[throne]]s if they are unoccupied, others are a little more complex. In the [[West]], and now [[Lochac]] (as a scion of the West) it is often said that [[Law]]s can be changed, but tradition is immutable. Even so, some traditions drift out of favour, and new ones emerge all the time.

Some things should be thought of as [[fads]] not traditions (even if something lasts a few years it may just be a passing thing).

=== [[SCA]] traditions ===
* [[The SCA birthday song]].
* [[Cloved lemon]]s (and other fruit)
* [[No Shit, There I Was]] stories
* cheering - [[huzzah]], [[vivat]], [[hoobah]] and [[wassail]].
* [[SCA time]]
* [[Cleaning up]]
* [[White belt]]s for knights
* The [[Order of the Rose]]
* and many more this editor can't think of right now.

''See also:''
* [[Customs]].
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Guelph

2006-11-18T12:24:02Z

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The '''Guelphs''' were a political faction in [[Italy]] active from the [[12th century]]. The Guelphs supported [[pope|papal]] power within Italy, as opposed to the [[Gibeline]]s who supported the [[Holy Roman Empire]].

Ascendancy over the Ghibeline faction in the late [[13th century]] saw the faction splinter in [[Florence]]. These two sub-factions were the ''black guelphs'', who continued to support the papacy, and the ''white guelphs'', who wanted neither an [[Emperor]] nor a Pope.

As a general rule, Guelphs came from wealthy mercantile families. Supporters of the Guelph faction would often add a ''[[chief|capo d'Angio]]'' to their [[device]] in order to show their allegiance.