I just Googled "sca" and it was the second result, so one of those amazing organizations was probably it. ;)
"SCA" is the Society for Creative Anachronism. Their mission is to re-enact and preserve the arts and history of the Middle Ages.
Illumination comes in because it was a medieval art form, and as SCAites will often say, if someone did it in the Middle Ages, then someone probably does it in SCA*. Actually, the awards given in SCA are period-authentic, hand-painted/written scrolls done on vellum, or animal-skin parchment, and this is where calligraphy and illumination really come into the SCA, besides people learning it just for the sheer beauty and joy of it.
* Which always prompts Bobby and me to ask if there is a "medieval interrogation" or "inquisition" guild that makes iron maidens and racks and such.
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"SCA" is the Society for Creative Anachronism. Their mission is to re-enact and preserve the arts and history of the Middle Ages.
Illumination comes in because it was a medieval art form, and as SCAites will often say, if someone did it in the Middle Ages, then someone probably does it in SCA*. Actually, the awards given in SCA are period-authentic, hand-painted/written scrolls done on vellum, or animal-skin parchment, and this is where calligraphy and illumination really come into the SCA, besides people learning it just for the sheer beauty and joy of it.
* Which always prompts Bobby and me to ask if there is a "medieval interrogation" or "inquisition" guild that makes iron maidens and racks and such.