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Fluid Chivalry

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The notion of chivalry is interesting to me. In my mind, when I hear of chivalry, I think of knights and ladies and honor and nobility. Which then leads my mind to manners and courtesy and always, always, always ladies first. It can mean a lot of things to different people. And that's OK. Historians generally agree the concept of chivalry originated in the late 1100s to the early 1200s AD. Most of the ideas of chivalry originated with the knighthood and the behaviors and social codes therein. Eventually chivalry came to a moral system combining the character of the warrior, the faith of the pious, and the manners of the courtier. The thing is: there was never an adopted document that outlined the code of chivalry. King Arthur never held a meeting or called for a vote for how his Knights were supposed to act. Don Quixote didn't have a book on his Kindle called "Chivalry for the Mentally Unstable." Chivalry was fluid. It varied over time and space. An...
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Becoming a Gentleman

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Today is a big day in my castle. My oldest son got into his first real fight . When I arrived on the scene, Simeon had worked himself into a lather. The other kid was tenderly nursing a black eye. And I figured this day, January 24th, in the Year of Our Lord 2018, was as good a day as any to begin this blog. I have been sitting on this space for awhile, collecting ideas and thoughts and charting a course for what I want this little corner of the interwebs to look like. I have long been fascinated with chivalry , the history of fine gentlemen , and what it means to live this life of honor . Besides the theoretical, it'll be fun to look at style, fashion, food and beverage, as well as nutrition and health and wholeness. Oh, and (like my conversation with Simeon today), how to know which fight is worth fighting . In short, just like my son today, I want this to be a space for growing into what it looks like to be a gentleman. There won't be anything special here. Jus...
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