I don't see much protection of pilgrims en route to Jerusalem happening here. On the contrary, it seems to be mostly cutting birthday cakes and playing dress up. These guys might as well join a drag party for the same kind of fun.
ouch, mercyless
as someone who has read a lot about the crusades and has visited some of the places involved by hapenstance, it does seem to me that the practice of learning the hard won leasons of history has as pointed out, been turned into something else entirely
reading the only first hand descriptions of King Richard as written by the daughter of the King of Constantinopal does give the whole mad affair a bit of perspective, we also have some other descriptions of what constituted the living conditions of Kind Richard and his knights while on crusade, and the notion of "living rough" does it no justice, but from middle easter sources we do have glowing accounts of how much they coveted the crusaders horses, and how time and time again, a night was spared any direct attack as it might injure the horse he was riding, the deduction I get from that is: horses were valued by everyone so highly at the time that all in all, it was better to be a horse.
And as I somehow ended up having a destrier myself, I can empythise.
It's all a matter of personal taste, IMHO, each to their own.
In the domain of LARP'ing cosplaying I'll take The Grey Company* over these SMOTJQ+ Templar wannabe's any day, and with all due respect to Great Horses that can suffer the weight of a full tin can and chain mail insert I prefer, and own, the Waler (and Kimberley stock variations)**.
"If it's a good enough horse to take a great grandfather through a four mile cavalry charge into and over machine gun nests, it's good enough for me"
So, freemasonery with a different goon, and a bit of racism. Kkk-lite, in a way.
People who like to dress up can also join the order of Malta, which can actually boast continuous existence since 1099.
I don't see much protection of pilgrims en route to Jerusalem happening here. On the contrary, it seems to be mostly cutting birthday cakes and playing dress up. These guys might as well join a drag party for the same kind of fun.
They're literal Drag Knights not Drag Queens though .. seems more like a bottoms in search of a top scene.
ouch, mercyless as someone who has read a lot about the crusades and has visited some of the places involved by hapenstance, it does seem to me that the practice of learning the hard won leasons of history has as pointed out, been turned into something else entirely reading the only first hand descriptions of King Richard as written by the daughter of the King of Constantinopal does give the whole mad affair a bit of perspective, we also have some other descriptions of what constituted the living conditions of Kind Richard and his knights while on crusade, and the notion of "living rough" does it no justice, but from middle easter sources we do have glowing accounts of how much they coveted the crusaders horses, and how time and time again, a night was spared any direct attack as it might injure the horse he was riding, the deduction I get from that is: horses were valued by everyone so highly at the time that all in all, it was better to be a horse. And as I somehow ended up having a destrier myself, I can empythise.
It's all a matter of personal taste, IMHO, each to their own.
In the domain of LARP'ing cosplaying I'll take The Grey Company* over these SMOTJQ+ Templar wannabe's any day, and with all due respect to Great Horses that can suffer the weight of a full tin can and chain mail insert I prefer, and own, the Waler (and Kimberley stock variations)**.
"If it's a good enough horse to take a great grandfather through a four mile cavalry charge into and over machine gun nests, it's good enough for me"
* https://greycompany.com.au/
** https://walerhorse.com/about-the-whsa/the-waler/