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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: 4 On Fealty
- Message-ID: <725737046.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:44:56 GMT
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- Arval wrote:
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- JM> Fine, I agree. What is a fee is the context of the SCA? You apparently
- JM> include only "real" things like a baron's tenure, and perhaps a peer's
- JM> rank. I include a great deal more, taking my lead from the medieval
- JM> practice of exchanging payment of some kind for service, which was also
- JM> described in period as "fealty".
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- Technically, in period a "fee" was a source of income, typically land.
- Also qualifying in later times were fees and perquisites from an office,
- the "livery and maintenance" given to knights standing castle-guard, and
- the money fief or "fief-rente" (what we would call a pension or annuity).
- I don't think lump-sum payments qualify....
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- Tadhg, Obelisk
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