SC - No Period Feasts Allowed?

[david friedman]

At 1:36 PM -0500 2/27/00, grizly at mindspring.com wrote:

>3) in  our atmosphere of recreation, the outright defiance of the 
>Royal decree (however incorrect it may be perceived) is a 
>contradiction of the original argument that we are recreating the 
>Middle Ages.

Quite aside from the particular controversy, I would disagree with 
that statement. It seems to imply that nobody outrightly defied a 
royal decree in period, or at least that no admirable people did.

Consider the confrontations between William Marshall and John, such 
as the one where John demanded that William accompany him on his 
expedition to reconquer Normandy. Or, at a still more serious level, 
the confrontation between John and his barons that led to the Magna 
Carta.

David/Cariadoc
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