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Originally posted by RACooper
Sub-Roman Britian is one of my specialities so here goes historical: . . . .
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Thanks for the info, especially about chain mail. A few comments:
As for "knights," certainly there was a more noble, if you will, horse-soldier/cavalry class as early as the Romans. My objection to use of the word "knight" was two-fold: (1) It is not an historically accurate word in that it is Germanic, not Latin (or Celtic) -- the roots of it would have come in with the Saxons (and Angles and Danes) that "Arturius" and company were fighting. It seemed a more Roman term should have been used. And (2), it implies a connection to medieval concepts of chivalry. These things being so, use of the word seemed a strange choice in a movie attempting to get at the "truth" of the Arthur story.
As for Pelagius -- true, he did have quite a following in Britain. He was British himself. And he may indeed have been a champion of the common people. But I was struck at how the movie subtly suggested that support for the common people vs. the establishment was why he was declared a heretic, rather than as a result of specific teachings he espoused.