Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Facets of Knighthood

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From: Bryan J. Maloney
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00

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I first encountered this announcement on "soc.history.living", and my
response is colored by that fact.  I have read the excerpts on their web
site and have come to the following conclusion:

If you are interested in the interpretation of "Knighthood" peculiar to
the SCA, then this book will be of interest to you.

If you are interested in actual medieval knighthood or the history of the
development, acts, or philosophies of knighthood through history, this
book is not worth your trouble.

This is, of course, if the excerpts are typical of the book as a whole.

The individual excerpts are well-written and entertaining, but the book is
of extremely limited scope, and not really a book of history or for
"living historians".  It appears to concern itself exclusively with the
fictional subculture of the SCA's "knighthood" with some nods towards the
historical.

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From: bjm10@cornell.edu (Bryan J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Facets of Knighthood
Date: 1996/02/29
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