The Holy Grail
In Our Time: Religion
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Knight Errantry
I think there is an element of transference that may be going on here. We are all involved in guess work. But the fact is that if you if you look at the french middle ranking and lower nob in the for most of the twelfth century, the situation was extremely uncomfortable. They knowd e wer the no chan of marriage in their own district, so travelling as far away as they could in the hope of catching the eye of some heiress. Now, that is knight errantry, but it is a knight erranty which is born of sexual frustration. This has been transferred into a kind of for purity by the innocent, rather than search for a
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