wat were good and bad things that knights did in midieval times?
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You should watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".  It is a very accurate portrayal of the good and bad things that knights did.
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Nice use of Rome as an example. Only that you left out the part where the Romans treated the Goths and Visigoths as a source of cheap but more often as slave labor. \n\nSounds very familiar.
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Wow, its amazing he number of misconceptions regarding Friday the 13th.\n\nit was on Friday the 13th when the Roman Catholic Church destroyed the Knights Templars.  The KT was a powerful group within the Church and was responsible for opening up trade routes from Europe to the Middle East.  They also developed the first true banking system to aid travelers, so that travelers did not have to carry large sums of money across Europe, thus avoiding robbery.  The KT became so rich and influential that the Catholic Pope decided they were a threat, and conspired to destroy them. The plot was carried out on Friday the 13th. Thus, Friday the 13th became an unlucky day.
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time and civilisation  killed them.\n\nOnce a warrior gentle of birth,\nThen a person of civic worth,\nNow a fellow to move our mirth.\nWarrior, person, and fellow — no more:\nWe must knight our dogs to get any lower.\nBrave Knights Kennelers then shall be,\nNoble Knights of the Golden Flea,\nKnights of the Order of St. Steboy,\nKnights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy.\nGod speed the day when this knighting fad\nShall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.
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Basically it was bad! Punishment was very harsh - there were 3 ordeals to test if a person was guilty of a crime - that was the closest people got to a trial. 1. fire (hold a red hot poker - a few days later, if your hand was healing you were innocent, if it wasn't you were guilty) 2. Water (be tied up, thrown in water - if you drown your innocent, if you float you're guilty - and probably will be killed another way) 3. Combat - for lords mainly (they'd fight to the death). Thieves had their hands cut off. Prisons were expensive so criminals were mutilated and then set free as a warning. \nDisease was everywhere and medical treatment was harsh - if you had a headache it was suspected as demons and evil spirits in the head - you'd have a hole driled into your skull and a part of your brain cut out to release the demons. Other 'treatments included leeches and blood letting to release bad blood. \n\nCheck the site below for links to lots more info
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sure\njesus had a child with mary magdaline,\nthen they went to france\nthen the church kept it a secret\nthen some guy got murdered\nthen there was a bunch of stereotypical action and muder mystery stuff\n\nand it all worked out in the end cause the bad guy gandalf got caught
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http://www.dfwx.com/medieval_cult.html\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~ehlavaty/medieval.html\nhttp://users.netonecom.net/~clchoponis/medieval/medieval.htm
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail tends to make fun more of the romanticised view of knights and the middle ages created by Renaissance and Victorian story writers rather than real minstrels/ knights etc.\n\nThe minstrels in Holy Grail were depicted in this vein. In the romanticised version they were hangers on who just sang the praises of their lords (although in Holy Grail, the minstrels made fun of Sir Robin's cowardice instead - at least until they were eaten). Real minstrels were more likely to be multi-skilled high ranking servants in a court of a king or lord, specialising partly in entertainment, but also partly in retelling oral history. Minstrels were adept at recognising the emblems of lords and kings and would also act as heralds, and as signallers in battle (with trumpet or drum signals). Travelling minstrels (or troubadours) wandered the country earning what they could from entertaining the people. These tended to play coarser songs that appealed to the common people (they also tended to be thieves).\n\nThe idea of "courtly love" and protecting those in distress is also largely a victorian myth. Codes of Chivalry existed, about not killing those who had surrendered etc, but was only practiced amongst the knights themselves. If you were a peasant, you didn't count. The idea of knights storming castles to rescue damsels in distress, as Lancelot does when he storms Swamp Castle, were created by Victorian writers selling the idea that women were to be weak and submissive. In fact, Medieval women were not particularly weak and submissive and there are a number who were war heros in their own right.\n\nMonty Python and the Holy Grail is not a satire per se, but rather a gently pastiche of all of those swashbuckling movies of the 50s and 60s (often starring Errol Flynn or Burt Lancaster) that the Pythons probably remember watching as kids (mixed up for good measure with ideas from Dante etc that both Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam were fond of, hence the muck and disease). The animation comes about, partly because it's a recognisable element from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and partly because they were working on a very small budget and couldn't afford anything better (hence also the coconuts). The "documentary" sequence with the Famous Historian were relics from earlier drafts of the script where Arthur's knights eventually found the Holy Grail in the modern day, in Harrods.
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Here is the best I could find - there are more links on the site to help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_2:_Total_War\n\nGood Luck!!!
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Language and Culture:Well depending what literary and historical version your basing your King Arthur on, your language and culture could be vastly different.  If you want the first historical version of King Arthur back as far as the 5th-8th century A.D., your Arthur would have spoken some kind of Celtic/Roman language, and would have been living in vary barbariac circumstances.  If you like T.H. Whites' and  Malory's accounts of Arthur, you are looking at a more civilized Camelot, that would probably speak proper English, and be following the chivalric code.\nRoyalty: The early 5th-8th century Royalty would have been anyone who had Roman ties or had proven himself on the battlefield.  The later 'versions' of Camelot, are going to be what we think of Royalty today, Kings&Queens, everyone who is related to them would lords and ladies, then slightly lower on the rank would be your Knights and Church bishops, and sinking further still...\nImmortality: Historically, King Arthur died on the Battlefield at Badon.  However, in literature King Arthur is taken to Avalon to recover from his fatal wounds, and their lies sleeping till Britain needs him again.
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There are good and bad.
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Years ago? how about centuries ago. Even Robin of Loxley (our hero Robin Hood) fought in our own holy war against the Muslim Turks. He knew the difference between right and wrong. Just look what he did with Maid Marion. Friar Tuck also once said "Kill those pesky goo goos".
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http://crusades.boisestate.edu/Europe/france/05.shtml
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I found these sites to be very insightful.\n\nhttp://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html\n\nhttp://www.kingarthursknights.com/\n\nhttp://legends.dm.net/kingarthur/\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur\n\nHope this satifies your interest.
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i read this a few years back, think i can remember; its about a group of archaeologists on a dig in france and they go back in time to the period they have been studying. theres knights and battles and stuff. thats pretty much all i can remember! i know i enjoyed it though. sorry i cant help more!
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http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medknight.html\n\nhttp://www.britainexpress.com/History/Knights_and_Fights.htm\n\nhttp://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle35.htm\n\nJust do a search on google.  You'll find tons of sites.  What a fun topic for study.\n\nGood luck, and enjoy summer break!
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Excalibur Hotel has a really nice Chapel, and if you are into Medieval they will let you get married in clothes of that time. Unique.