The reason:
The medieval dinner halls were cleared after dinner to make room for other business. The tables were removed and stored.
If you want to be really authentic, trim a white cloth and lay it over the tables for tablecloth. Medievals didn't eat over bare tables!
I too wish the medieval chair was available in dark brown as it would complete the table arrangement nicely and their really should only be one or two thrones at the banquet tables. The medieval chair would be great for important people and the benches for the less important ones.
(I look at him, and my mind thinks "with count Bogro" ... But then, I remember that I have another name for that count ... :lol: )
Actually, my avatar is based on that count. It used to be my favourite figure. Glad you noticed it ;)
Bogro
Aha, that's why I never made the connection between your avatar and name!
What you call a count is what in English we call a scribe.
What you call a count is what in English we call a scribe.
Count is a noble rank, like Duke, Baron, Earl Viscount and Marquis, except we didn't have Counts in England, but they occurred in many other European countries.
Aha, that's why I never made the connection between your avatar and name!
What you call a count is what in English we call a scribe.
Count is a noble rank, like Duke, Baron, Earl Viscount and Marquis, except we didn't have Counts in England, but they occurred in many other European countries.
A Scribe was a servant who could read and write, and do sums. He would help keep his lord's accounts and records straight, and I guess attend important meetings to keep the minutes, and draw up contracts and documents.
Thus a scribe would often be seen with pen, ink and paper.
I'm afraid that this bloke in green isn't a scribe. It's German name is "Graf mit tisch" - and "Graf" is very definitly a noble rank. He therefore isn't a scribe.
Hmmm ... seems like our acCOUNTant may actually be the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) or perhaps the King's Treasurer ... :klickywink:
In that case, I am very much afraid that the treasury is empty ;D
Hello, Playmofriends!
Although this maiden looks like a princess,(http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/3336x.jpg)
picture from Collectobil.com (http://www.collectobil.com/)
in Collectobil she's listed as "Countess" ...
Does anyone know why? 8}
G.
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Although this maiden looks like a princess,
in Collectobil she's listed as "Countess" ...
Does anyone know why? 8}
The "Countess" (or, lady in waiting) is wearing a tall hat called a henin. This was typical for a lady of a royal house. However, a Playmobil princess would have been wearing a smaller crown (or tiara) similar to the one the Queen in set 3263A is wearing. As you can see in this set, there are two ladies in waiting with the Queen ...
Hi Richard may I petition what your source hails from?
Specificly: what do you mean by "typical for a lady of a royal house"?
And, one last thing, Timmy ... What's all this formal baloney about "petitioning my sources" ... Where I pull most of my information from is a place that I know that you wouldn't want to visit ... :lol:
As I'm sure that you are well aware, feudalism can be just casually "lumped' into four classes. Kings, Lords and Ladies, Knights and Serfs.
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
I wander where Bart de Smet picked up these titles for them ... ::) 'Cause, if I could give my two pennies :2c: for a change, I'd love to see my princess intitled as princess, as I think proper for her! :yup:
I favor "burgfraulein" because this is an example of how old PM would push the boundaries of stereotypes.
Ergo, "court maiden" is more interesting for the questions it asks, than is YAP (yet another princess).
And, naturally, nowadays Playmobil pumps out more princesses than one can count. Every medieval woman they produce now is a princess.