tinfang
Stableboy
You done with Elvie?
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Post by tinfang on Apr 20, 2005 17:38:23 GMT
Found this little bit of historical info interesting/enlightening:
"Since they owned fiefs, the bishops (clerics) were required to do military service: they could be seen at the head of their men, to help of their lord. Church councils, feeling that their mission should be one of peace rather than bloodshed, sought vainly to keep them off the battlefields. They, however found an ingenious way around this ban: instead of using swords they carried heavy clubs of iron, the result is the result being that they didn’t actually shed blood but beat their enemies to death." --Everyday Life in the Middle Ages, Suzzane Comte
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Post by Pillar on Apr 21, 2005 14:06:57 GMT
it's... a... game...
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Post by tuga on Apr 22, 2005 9:13:38 GMT
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gotta let them in the secret slowly, the shock might be too big for them to encompass it all at once.
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Post by Tempest on Dec 26, 2005 1:50:38 GMT
Yeah right. If you beat someone with a club, there's going to be some bloodloss.
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