Understandable. (Although BOY: does that create new problems. Kingmakers, money, influence, sex. Maybe too medieval. LOL)
But more to the point, rather than make an intellectual answer, I'll just admit: I don't like it. :-)
While I've read a lot on the realities of the Chivalric system and what a practical, ugly, brute thing it could be, I've also read a great deal about the romance of Chivalry. Not just the post-period 19th century romantization and crap, or the 20th century stuff. But even the trouvere stuff of the period.
Honestly: I don't WANT to spend my weekend fun recreating the politics and brutality. I love the romantic idealism of the trouveres, where your inspiration drives you to new heights of success.
I know it's a stupid and counterfactual narrative. I just love it. :-)
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Date: 2014-11-13 04:37 pm (UTC)But more to the point, rather than make an intellectual answer, I'll just admit: I don't like it. :-)
While I've read a lot on the realities of the Chivalric system and what a practical, ugly, brute thing it could be, I've also read a great deal about the romance of Chivalry. Not just the post-period 19th century romantization and crap, or the 20th century stuff. But even the trouvere stuff of the period.
Honestly: I don't WANT to spend my weekend fun recreating the politics and brutality. I love the romantic idealism of the trouveres, where your inspiration drives you to new heights of success.
I know it's a stupid and counterfactual narrative. I just love it. :-)