The vision about samurai is quite correct, but with a small issue: the role, position and panoply of the samurai changed through time, so Alonso is expecting the surveys to reflect the Modern age samurai, the warrior who sticks to a honour code, armed with his katana and yoroi, fighting one enemy at a time and to death, with great technique.
Does that match with the Middle Ages samurai? No. So, he believes this will be a great start to our study, and to develop a comparative between this figure through Middle and Modern ages.
We all know that for "Christian knight" the first thing that pops to mind is one of the military orders, and probably the words templar and crusade as well. If i was one to play, i'd put my money to it.
So Mar knows she's got the end of the stick, being as she is in charge of the lay and courtier knights. she's not expecting a lot of material to work with.
But hoping against hope, she'll suppose someone thought about those knights instead of their religious counterpart. In that case, she expects obedience to the king, honour and virtue, some things related to feudalism (castles, lords, vassalage...), and also swords, shields and, obviously, the horses themselves
She begs of you, describe a handsome lay knight in shining armour!
Paula is afraid that the vision about those knights related to the military orders and their loyalty will be, in many cases, stained with the rejection to everything church-related what is common in the last few decades. Nevertheless, she dares to think that their physical appearance, their weaponry and fighting techniques remain as a positive idea in the popular tradition .
Armours, swords, shields, spears... those are elements we see in the movies and series, and that have kept a certain amount of consistency with us archaeologists can verify.
Is the view we've got correct? She thinks so.
Who will win the battle of wits, the lay knight- and therefore, Mar- or the religious knight -and so, Paula? Stay tuned!
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