From: Paul Reilly (paul@phyast.pitt.edu)
Date: Tue 05 Jul 1994 - 20:01:12 EEST
Paul here. Sandy writes:
I scoffingly disbelieve in the existence of "a few" medieval French female knights. Maybe over the entire period of the Middle
Scoff away. I doubt that quoting medieval chronicles would change your opinion. In any case my claim is not that female knights existed in real life (unverifiable without a time machine or an extremely lucky archaelogical find) but that period historians record their existence (easily verifiable at any major library). I tend to base historical campaigns on period source material when possible, and get ideas for fantasy campaigns from period sources also. For "ancient" campaigns, I can believe in Amazons if Herodotus can.
Sandy, do you scoff at the existence of female gladiators? If so I will give you an argument.
Note that I am leaving out examples like Britomart, I am referring to serious historical sources. People apparently recording what they regarded as sober fact.
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