Minister of Arts and Sciences

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The Minister of Arts and Sciences is responsible for encouraging the production and display of arts and sciences within the Kingdom. In the early history of the Kingdom, and of the SCA in general, there were often separate offices for Arts and for Sciences. They were eventually coalesced at the Corporate level, and the Kingdom soon followed suit.

The Minister of Arts and Sciences is the immediate superior to:

• Chancellor of Collegium Caidis
• Deputy Minister of Combat Studies

List of Kingdom Ministers of Arts

Arts Badge: Purpure, an Irish harp Or, discontinued after 1992

• Meg Shelford, 6/1974-?
• Tyra Stewart of Moray, ?
• Jessica Llyrindi of Northmarch, ?-6/1978
• Louise of Woodsholme, 6/1978-6/1979
• Neptha of Thebes, 6/1979-6/1980
• Elinore Windemere of the Moors, 6/1980-11/1981
• Kristin Alfhildr of Trondheim, 11/1981-1/1984
• Diana de Savigny, 1/1984-1/1986
• Xena Baxter Wynthorpe, 1/1986-1/1989
• Marie de la Rochelle, 1/1989-1991
• Catarina della Zimarra, 1991-1992, Arts and Sciences combined into one office

List of Kingdom Ministers of Sciences

Sciences Badge: Per pale Or and argent, a pair of calipers sable, discontinued after 1992

• Friedrich Erich Helmut von Rheinhausen, 6/1974-1976
• Däwyd Soumalainen von Markheim, 1976-1977
• Guinevere Elspeth Malyn (de Bremble), 1977-6/1978
• Anne de Villanova, 6/1978-4/1981
• Käthe Willig von Mainz, 4/1981-6/1981
• Deorwulf se Deorc, 6/1981-4/1982
• Rosemary Petsley, 4/1982-3/1985
• Conrad von Regensburg, 3/1985-11/1988
• Eden Elizabeth MacNab of Sommerhawke, 11/1988-6/1990
• Eadwynne of Runedun, 6/1990-1992, Arts and Sciences combined into one office

List of the Kingdom Ministers of Arts and Sciences

• Albra Katerine Marie Isabelle Bautiste, 1992-1994
• Giles Hill of Sweetwater, 11/1994-11/1997
• Finella Harper, 11/1997-11/2000
• Maria Theresa Ipeñarrieta, 11/2000-?
• Thea Gabrielle Northernridge, ?
• Renata Kestryl of Highwynds, ?-11/12/2005
• Thea Gabrielle Northernridge, 11/12/2005-6/3/2006
• Giuseppe Francesco da Borgia, 6/3/2006-6/2008
• Thorvald Olafson the Swordmaker, 6/2008-2010
• Illora of the West Lea, 2010-?
• Catharine Hawkwod da Barbiano, 09/2012-06/2015
• Sophia de la Roche, 6/2015-4/2017
• Adelheit Schwarzenkatze, 4/2017-01/2022
• Whilja de Gothia, 01/2022-06/2023
• Rebecca Mary Robynson, 06/2023-present

More Information

Kingdom Officers Page

• Arts & Sciences page on Kingdom website
• Email the Minister of the Arts & Sciences

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