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Jul. 7th, 2007 07:00 amI made my concluding entry on New France, on my other journal. It's mostly a summary of everything else.
I keep stumbling across various bits of trivia.
One 19th-century treatise on legal history says that residents of Roman Gaul had a tradition of trial-by-combat (the theory being that God gives victory to the one who's right). If a peasant and noble fought, the noble had to arrive without any armor but a shield, and any weapon but a staff. If he tried to cheat by showing up in armour and on a horse, these were taken from him, and he had to fight unarmed from a chair. If he got up, he would've been put to death.
I work today -- hopefully not tomorrow, but I'm not sure yet. And tonight, there's a benefit drag show for the NDP at Cleopatra.
I keep stumbling across various bits of trivia.
One 19th-century treatise on legal history says that residents of Roman Gaul had a tradition of trial-by-combat (the theory being that God gives victory to the one who's right). If a peasant and noble fought, the noble had to arrive without any armor but a shield, and any weapon but a staff. If he tried to cheat by showing up in armour and on a horse, these were taken from him, and he had to fight unarmed from a chair. If he got up, he would've been put to death.
I work today -- hopefully not tomorrow, but I'm not sure yet. And tonight, there's a benefit drag show for the NDP at Cleopatra.