I argue this because in the early years of English feudal society, the king didn't have absolute central control over England, but had to co-exist with a few extremely powerful earls in northern england.
...
Regarding peasants in henins:
England passed a series of sumptuary laws in the late 1300s to restrain wealthy peasants from dressing in the fashions of the nobility (those curly-toed shoes were part of the problem).
We tend to be presented an image of English and French peasants as uniformly downtrodden, but in actuality, western Europe at the time of the Black Death had a prosperous middle class of urban merchants and rural land holders (land holders who had bought up their neighbors' lands and were local big-shots, but were not nobility or knights).
-Tim
The girl (3336) may look like a princess ... (I think she does, and I think I'll always think, because she was a princess in my childhood
) but, I have to say, this comes from iconography. However, many (and very many) of the iconography we inherited is from a romantic XIXth century literature, that is somewhat little accurate in its reproduction of some medieval "realities" (...), e.g., Arthurian legend is portrayed many times in a XIVth XVth century fashion, although the better place (in time & fashion) would be an Britain abandoned by Rome, in the VIth century -- as some literature of the XXth century have been proposing (...).
It makes me think the recent brief dialogue between master Rich Count Bogro, for a very similar phenomenon: in English (?), the
count had been known as a scribe (...).
It is interesting (to me) to search about these things: in German, the name of the 3336 girl is Burgfräulein, that we might translate as court maiden (translation isn't an exact science (...)). The count (3375) is called Graf, which is literally count.
I wander where Bart de Smet picked up these titles for them ...
'Cause, if I could give my two pennies
for a change, I'd love to see my princess intitled as princess, as I think proper for her!
Of course, it isn't that accurate, so that I can make her princess no matter that her official name is countess. I imagine the 3336 girl on the top of a tower, awaiting for a knight ... It's a child thing in itself, and no matter how deep you two go into the historical details, it's a silly question of a 30 year-old boy who's been again fascinated with the 3336 princess, and dreaming about making stories pop out of books! (And they pop out of the internet wonderfully!: they have been popping out, the last three months! they're even beginning to arrive in the Carioca toy stores, now!
...)
Even so, it's great joy to see your comments on the matter
And, seriously, maybe then, if a single klicky item was to be in the market as princess, perhaps she would be more like the girl of
3665?
I miss the hat of 3336 ... And I've never put hands on the "new" version (already old, too ...), in 3679 (King's Court, at Knights, Collectobil ...
I can't link it right now, it seems I've reached the limit, and Collectobil began to block me).
G.
