ANST - Pompousness - dealing with
Bob Dewart
gilli at seacove.net
Fri Oct 23 15:58:06 PDT 1998
Germany you say....Interesting.
Gilli
Tomonaga writes:
>Greetings one and all:
>
>There have been so many posts on this subject, it must be a matter of
>great interest to a lot of people. After reading some of the words
>about how to deal with such matters, I thought I'd throw out some ideas
>on how to make people think more about how they treat others, by
>reviving old customs.
>
>I've read several places that among many orders of knighthood, and in
>many households, it was tradition that usually once a year, often at
>Yule or some other event associated with the passing of the year,
>knights were called upon to give an account of their activities during
>that year. That would include telling of any particularly great deeds
>done, but would also be an opportunity for others to bring them to task
>for infractions. Something like this need not bog down into long-winded
>storytelling as long as the person in charge of the event keeps it on
>track.
>
>Another custom I've read about might be more amusing for some, but may
>not go over so well. Some books I've read made reference to a custom
>that was apparently common on Bavaria and other parts of Germany, and
>not unknown elsewhere: Sometimes knights attending a tourney would be
>brought into a sort of drumhead court, and punishment meted out for some
>offense they had committed. There are stories of knights being fined,
>ridden around the tourney site on a rail, and ejected from the site
>until they did sufficient penance (?) for the offense. Some kind of
>equivalent mechanism might be enacted for our purposes. And it would
>certainly be a spectacle.
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