[Ansteorra] Courtesy challenge

[Marc Carlson]

>Lisa A. May maaggie1 at gmail.com
>I think it's more an ideal SCA thing vs. an historical accuracy  thing.  As 
>everyone knows, this game of ours started out as a party,  just kinda 
>"growed" into what it is today, and somewhere along the  way, the 
>Aurthurian ideal became ingrained firmly in its culture.   For many of us, 
>it's one of the things that keep us coming back year  after year - the 
>romance of it all, as unhistorical as it might be.

Like I said, a 19th century fantasy thing :)

I don't mean that in any sort of insulting way. I'm just noting that what we 
think of chivalric courtesy and proper behavior isn't doesn't go back much 
before the Victorian era, and wasn't much more than an ideal at that.  If 
that's what folks want to aim for, I'm all in favor of it.  I'm just 
pointing out the flawed dichotomy of "21st century thing vs. 16th century 
thing".

Marc/Diarmaid