SC - Chivalry-OT-OOP

[Jenne Heise]

> What we call 'chivalry' in the SCA is a carefully codified dance of
> manners and mannerisms that have little to do with the Middle Ages, and
> much to do with our discomfort with play-acting that we are all
> nobility, even when we obviously are not. I think that our modern
> egalitarian sensibilities (especially for those of us in the US) make it
> difficult to truly behave as nobles (especially in the absence of an
> overt underclass), so by creating a set of rules to control our
> interaction, we control our comfort levels.

I know a number of people who are involved in an ongoing discussion of
what chivalry really meant in the middle ages. It's a complicated
situation, and a lot of the things that were considered chivalric virtues
in the MA are things that our modern warriors do scorn, and vice versa.
But I think it is much too complicated a topic to be encapsulated in a few
sentences.

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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hallucinations." -- Lady Jemina Starker