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- From: rancke@diku.dk (Hans Rancke-Madsen)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225709.25832@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:57:09 GMT
- References: <725737046.F00002@ocitor.fidonet>
- Sender: rancke@freja.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 37
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- Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim) writes:
-
- > I define "western culture" to include those areas that were part of the
- > western half of the Roman empire, a position for which I suggest that a
- > substantial case could be made. This means Britain, Gaul, Spain, Italy,
- > and I even look askance at most of Germany....
-
- I'd very much like to know what culture you define medieval Scandinavia to
- be part of. All this sounds (to me) very much like you've decided what
- result you want beforehand and then tailored your definitions to fit your
- desires. Germany and Scandinavia were very much part of western culture.
-
- > Non sequitur. To quote Laurel, "We follow the general practices, not
- > the exceptions."
-
- The impression I've gotten is that you mostly follow English practices,
- which on the evidence appears to be the exception (As opposed to most
- other Western European countries).
-
- > The College of Arms (to a lesser extent than I do) focuses on the
- > practices of the "core" of feudal civilization: south of the Trent,
- > north of the Loire, west of the Rhine. You seem to perceive "western
- > Europe" as some sort of homogenized mass, from which any cupful is
- > identical to any other cupful. Not so.
-
- I should like some evidence to support the contention that the area you
- describe is somehow the core of feudal civilization.
-
-
-
- Hans Rancke
- University of Copenhagen
- rancke@diku.dk
- ------------
- "Free speech gives a man the right to talk about the
- 'psycology' of an amoeba, but I don't have to listen".
- Elihu Nivens in 'The Puppet Masters'
-