The Borough of Felding

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Who We Are
The Borough of Felding is a part of an organization known as the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a worldwide organization that has dedicated itself to recreating history before the year 1600. However, note the word "Creative" in the name. There have been a few changes made, including the addition of modern plumbing, medicine, and religious tolerance.

For a detailed description of how our Borough is governed, please view our Constitution.

Felding is contained within the boundaries of the Barony of Carolingia, which is itself a part of the Kingdom of the East. Carolingia is loosely defined in the rolls of the East Kingdom as the "Greater Boston Area," but as everyone in Carolingia knows, "Carolingia status mentis est," making us perhaps the largest Barony in the world, given the migratorial instincts of the college students who are members of the Boroughs. (For those of you who don't speak Latin, it means, "Carolingia is a state of mind.")

Current Membership
The Borough of Felding (also known as the Felding Medieval Society) is open to all students, faculty, and staff members of Wellesley College. Membership fluctuates as students graduate and go on leave, but a current list can be found here.

Officers
Felding has four elected officers: Provost, Steward, Exchequer, and Historian. Most of us are listed in the Liber and are best reached by email, though more detailed information can be found here.

FirstClass
If you are on Wellesley Campus, you can access our FirstClass conference by going to Wellesley Conferences --> Student Forums --> Student Organizations --> Felding Medieval Society. It is an open conference and all are welcome. Come and post your questions about the SCA or about medieval life in general. Upcoming meetings are announced on this conference, as well as reminders for local practices and guild meetings. It is a good place to make arrangements for rides and also to post suggestions for the Provost as to what you'd like to see at future meetings. It is also a place for our members to socialize, so don't be surprised if some of the conversations stray a bit from the official topic of the conference.

Get Involved
If you are a student, faculty or staff member and think all of this is really cool but don't know where to begin, check out this page.

Activities
The Boston area is rich in Guilds and activities. You can find a list of them here. Feldings are encouraged to find subjects that interest them and pursue them independantly of the group. This is generally quite easy to do, as most activities are accesible by public transportation and are free.

Events on Campus
Upcoming Events We are in the process of scheduling meetings for the rest of the semester. Check back here periodically for postings about upcoming workshops.

Pictures from Past Events
We've been taking a lot of pictures lately. Go to this page for a list of all the pictures currently available.

Our Neighbors
Our Borough has reasonably close ties to the several other Boroughs that are in the area that surrounds the present-day city of Boston, including:
 
 

• Ivory Keep at Tufts University
• Fenmere at Brandeis University
• Duncharloch at Harvard University
• Mitgaard at MIT
• Huntington Green, on the campus of Northeastern
• Southbanke at Boston University

Directions to Felding
If you are coming out to Felding for any reason, we recommend that you check out our directions on how to get to our Borough.

Resources
We have compiled an eclectic list of resources on the web for the use of Felding and other SCAdians. They are mostly oriented toward women, as our membership is drawn from a women's college, and also toward those who are new to the SCA. There are some that are useful for any member of the SCA.

SCA Terms
Listening to SCA members talk, you might be confused at first. We have our own vocabulary to refer to various things, people, and events. Using historical terms helps us create and maintain the atmosphere of the past. You'll get used to it quickly, but here's a list of the more common words you might encounter. As always, if you do not understand what someone is talking about, ask!

History
In the year 1990, C.E., our Provost at that time, a woman known as Radegund von der Feuchtenstadt, presented the rest of the Barony of Carolingia with a history of our Borough. Although this History only documents Felding up to the year 1990, it is a fine document and an excellent chronicle of those years.

Felding Aunties
We call Feldings who have graduated from Wellesley "Aunties". You can find a list of them here. Recently, the Borough lost membership, and if several Felding Aunties had not intervened, the Borough might have vanished completely from active life in Carolingia. To those Aunties, the entire Borough sends a hearty thank you!

Favorholders
The Borough owes a lot to our Favorholders as well. We depend on nice people to give us rides to events and practices, give our members sage advice, and come out to the Borough to teach us wonderful and exciting things. The Felding Favorholders have gone above and beyond the call of chivalry to help the ladies of Felding. A list of them can be found here.