Re: What consitutes a legitimate knighthood

On 30 Mar, 18:15, "StephenP" <plow...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Nicholas

Perhaps it is a case where knights are a thing of the past in the same
way that an organisation set up to protect certain medieval craftsmen
is a thing of the past?

Yours aye

Stephen

I believe knights and knighthood are very much part of today's world,
at least in the European and Western context.
What has changed is the idea of what a knight is.
Knighthood and chivalry - in the nostalgic sense of the Knights of the
Round Table and the idea of dedicated service to the sick and helpless
- are no longer the main charcteristics, if indeed they ever were.

Knighthoods today are often linked to meritorious service, or are
political rewards. THis is so for "state-level" knighthoods as well
as for knighthoods in private bodies.

Only my view of course.

.

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