ANST - Pompousness - dealing with

[Bob Dewart]

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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