[Mid] Re: fealty oaths

"Sally Backhaus" <beth@arq.net> wrote:
>Why, why, why does any ONE oath have to be IT? I know we like our
>traditions, but what is so wrong with a little "creative" authenticity?

Amen, sister!

To be fair, different people do use different ceremonies. Off the top of
my head, I can think of Munenori's Japanese knighting, and the Elizabethan
laurelling (maybe Anne Greye's?) which followed the period ceremony used
to release an apprentice from service.

We could stand to see a lot more diversity in this regard. Of course, with
the fealty and peerage oaths that are sworn every reign, it might be more
difficult to introduce different versions. It seems a little unfair to the
knights who have memorized the oath if we change the oath every reign, or
every court...

Fairfax

From: atterlep@cs.com
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ to unsubscribe, send a message to
`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~` majordomo@midrealm.org with
. | | | | | | | | 'unsubscribe sca-middle' as its body.
Received on Fri Jan 11 12:32:43 2002