Knightly Path

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss. But, of all pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." ~ 17th-century poet Abraham Cowley

On the other hand, THIS is what good movie sword fighting SHOULD look like. 🤗🤗🤗 A clip from Swords Not Words by the HEMA group Adorea Olomouc (the group every filmmaker should really be hiring)

Here's a much longer thread I wrote about medieval knights for anyone interested! xitter.gq/TimothyEveland/status/…

The evolution of the knight is a really interesting case! In the Early Middle Ages a knight’s lands were lent to him in return for military service and would go back to the prince after death. By the Late Middle Ages, the knight and his family (nobility) became less associated with military and more bourgeoise because it’s always been in their interest to lessen the services they owed to the prince. Thanks to more articulated society one could now achieve knighthood or nobility through hereditary rights called primogeniture (because a knight's sons usually always became knights), and the families that knights raised grew to become the aristocracy of early modern Europe! "Noble" used to mean virtuous and upright. Now you no longer needed to prove anything to hold your noble status, and while many good knights still did prove themselves there were many others who forgot the word's true meaning.