Part 5: Documentation as Courage This will be the last post in our series on the Virtues of documentation.  Throughout this series of posts we’ve used the virtues associated with the peerage orders of the SCA as a lens to look at documentation.  The last virtue we’ll discuss is courage.   As one of the main... Continue Reading →

Part 4: Documentation as Perseverence  Continuing our series looking at documentation in the Arts & Sciences through the lens of the virtues exemplified by our Society’s peerage orders, we will look now at one of the less commonly discussed virtues: perseverance. In our Society, we’ve come to associate perseverance with the Order of Defence.  The... Continue Reading →

Part 3: Documentation as Service  This post will continue our series looking at documentation in the Arts & Sciences through the lens of the virtues exemplified by our Society’s peerage orders.  Today we will talk about service.   To a very large degree, the SCA is an organization built on service.  This tradition of volunteerism is... Continue Reading →

Part 2: Documentation as Courtesy  In the first post of this series, we talked a bit about what we mean when we talk about documentation in our Arts and Sciences.  The remainder of this series will talk about how documenting our re-creation efforts furthers the various virtues that we hold dear in our Society.   Often,... Continue Reading →

Part 1: What is Documentation Anyway?  This is the first in a short series of posts about documentation in the SCA. We in the A&S Ministry, as well as folks in the broader A&S community often speak about documentation.  But, those of you who are newer to the Society or have only just begun a... Continue Reading →