NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/org/sca/15956

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From: [e-mail] (Josh Mittleman)
Subject: Re: Homage, Fealty, and Tommyrot
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Greetings from Arval!  I wrote:

> I recommend to your attention Boulton's "The Knights of Crown", which is
> the most thorough and scholarly discussion of medieval orders of
> knighthood.  He notes several examples of orders which accepted
> non-knights into their membership.  In some cases, companionship included
> a knighthood; in others it did not.  Some of the orders even had ladies
> as companions.

Tadhg replied:

>  *What* orders? *Name* them and discuss how they support your position,
> don't just say "notes several examples".

If I wanted to write a scholarly article on the subject, Tadhg, I would
have done so.  If you are interested, read the book; it's in print.  The
introduction is a fine overview of the subject.  Perhaps the most relevent
points that the author makes are first that most scholarship on the subject
is appallingly bad, and second that it is impossible to generalize about
the nature, rules, function, or membership of orders of knighthood.

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Arval Benicoeur                                       [e-mail]