tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post8483056108568023310..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: And your little dog horse, tooCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-21987422416914673592009-01-31T09:33:00.000-05:002009-01-31T09:33:00.000-05:00Steve, I've often wondered why English is unique i...Steve, I've often wondered why English is unique in that regard, but not so much that I've bothered to track it down. Now that I think of it, I also wonder why the Latin <I>miles</I> seems, to my limited knowledge, the preferred word for knight and not <I>eques.</I><BR/><BR/>It's also interesting to me that the 'technology' featured in the name for this class is the other life, the horse, rather than the arms and armor, which, I imagine! (and I only imagine, since I haven't done the research on this), were by their cost and by the expertise required to make them, out of reach for anyone without money or power. I do vaguely recall that medieval Latin will refer to knights as 'swordsmen,' but the overall preference is to focus on the horse. Why?<BR/><BR/>And Matthew, thanks again for the bib suggestions: when I think about this stuff more deeply, I'll certainly try to track all this down.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-74264926177501806652009-01-30T20:59:00.000-05:002009-01-30T20:59:00.000-05:00A more generic phrase than the English "knight" is...A more generic phrase than the English "knight" is "man at arms." While except for in English a "knight" is a "horseman" or a "rider."Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1088365713408303392009-01-30T09:03:00.000-05:002009-01-30T09:03:00.000-05:00Another idea that just came to me -- maybe there's...Another idea that just came to me -- maybe there's something in Kantorowicz's <I>Laudes regiae</I>?Matthew Gabrielehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971159578332078338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-18834685402052188452009-01-29T13:10:00.000-05:002009-01-29T13:10:00.000-05:00Matthew, thanks for the excellent recommendation. ...Matthew, thanks for the excellent recommendation. I'll definitely check it out when I decide I want to do more with this, but this is exactly the sort of I thing I want to see (especially because the footnote in Smith's article doesn't speak about blessing horses, and also because the Jean Flori article she directs me to is unavailable because of bad database management on the part of my school and because the <A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?lr=&ei=NeyBSYfKAo-SMueDiMIE&id=YF1mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22benedictio+armorum%22&q=%C3%A9p%C3%A9es&pgis=1#search_anchor" REL="nofollow">book,</A> which I presume is where the article ended up, is not available in its entirety on google books). <BR/><BR/>However, I found something wonderful in the course of my looking that deserves its own post.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-88036422139088999972009-01-29T09:57:00.000-05:002009-01-29T09:57:00.000-05:00Karl, you might want to look at Erdmann's Origin o...Karl, you might want to look at Erdmann's <I>Origin of the Idea of Crusade</I> too. It has some stuff (if I'm remembering correctly) on the blessings of arms & armor, along with the soldier. One or 2 might put the horse alongside the arms/ armor there too...Matthew Gabrielehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971159578332078338noreply@blogger.com