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- From: mittle@watson.ibm.com (Josh Mittleman)
- Subject: Re: 4 On Fealty
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:00:22 GMT
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- Greetings from Arval!
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- I had written:
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- > I can swear fealty to or take fealty from anyone I wish, regardless of my
- > rank or that of the other party.
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- Tadhg objected:
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- > Incorrect. You have succumbed to the misapplication of the term
- > "fealty" common in the SCA. You can swear *homage* or take *homage*
- > from whomever you wish; it isn't *fealty* unless a *fee* is involved,
- > by definition.
-
- Fine, I agree. What is a fee is the context of the SCA? You apparently
- include only "real" things like a baron's tenure, and perhaps a peer's
- rank. I include a great deal more, taking my lead from the medieval
- practice of exchanging payment of some kind for service, which was also
- described in period as "fealty".
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