medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>I do not recognise "infanterist" as a British English term: and IIRC
"Infantryman" is not used before the 16th century.
I'm not British, and by infanterist I mean a footsoldier. As a seaman
Cadfael did not feel comfortable on or near a horse, so if he was a
man-at-arms in the literal sense he would have been a horse soldier of non
knightly, or even sergeanty rank, which I doubt Cadfael was. He was probably
a bowman or pikeman. Is there talk about both in the books; I'm not sure.
>But sub-knightly status or not, there is a chivilric quality to this
description of the as-yet-unnamed and future Brother Cadfael.
The early 12th c was pretty early for real knighthood tales and behaviour.
Henk
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