Priests in Space! [was nomenclature etc.]

> Has anybody thought of having catholic church in space? (mounting a

You mean Endymion - certainly - although from the flavour of the text,
it'd be better off in a more detailed system, the B5 system maybe

> Donogh McCarthy wrote:

> >Has anybody thought of having catholic church in space? (mounting a

Useless trivia: The Crusades were the result of a confluence of events, the
most important of which was a high birthrate among the landed nobles (in much
the same way that WWI was the result of a twenty year arms race). To be a
knight, you had to have enough wealth (usually land) to support a warhorse.
These horses weighed in at 3000 lbs and they ate a lot. At his death, the
estate was divided among the surviving sons, but in the lower rungs of the
nobility, the land was too small to be divided, and even at the higher levels,
dillution was a problem.

When pilgrims to Jerusalem came back with tales of abuse at the hands of the
Seljuk turks, a solution to an overpopulation of feudal lords appeared. The

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:04:27AM -0500, Richard and Emily Bell wrote:

Actually, under the English system, the estate went to the oldest son; it was
younger sons who had problems. The French system of division, which you
outline, actually caused much bigger problems, because it often ended up with
a situation in which nobody's parcel of land was big enough to support him.

From: Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org

> Actually, under the English system, the estate went to the oldest son;
it was younger sons who had problems. The French system of division, which you
outline, actually caused much bigger problems, because it often ended up with
a situation in which nobody's parcel of land was big enough to support him.

And the Crusaders were largely French--in fact, a lot of the political
problems between the Crusader states came about because one power group was
from northern France and another was from Languedoc