Banning of the Kilt in 1746

[GlassMan]

(slightly OT) Is this proposed to rectify a particular problem??


blu

As a historian we have a habit of assuming that if a law is passed it is meant to address an existing problem in the society.

However, looking at modern legislatures I often question that view. They seem to be more interested in crafting laws which appeal to an particular interest group or that allow them to grand-stand instead of actually facing the problems of the day.

Although the assumption that laws reflect actual problems does make reading the Medieval Confessionals interesting. Those were books meant as manuals for priests trying to determine what penance to give for any given sin. Many of them have over 50% of their text covering sex with farm animals! It's funny to think that it really mattered how many goats were involved but somehow I think it had more to do with the filthy imagination of the monastic authors.

[Big Paul]

I'm in!

[Schultz]

It's funny to think that it really mattered how many goats were involved but somehow I think it had more to do with the filthy imagination of the monastic authors.

I'm sure the repressed imagination of the monastic authors had something to do with it, but those manuals were written during the height of Scholasticism, whereby everything was classified, stamped, and filed, so to speak.

Everything, even sex with farm animals...and how many.

[GlassMan]

The ones I'm referring to are actually much older than the height of scholasticism. I primarily studied the time from 600 to 1100 AD.

[Schultz]

AH,I see. The "penitential books" written primarily by the Irish monks?

Have you written anything on the subject?

[highlander_Daz]

to my knowledge Rab, jack the lad will exampt the skien dubh, i remeber an interview with him to that effect.

[GMan]

Well being the iconoclast that I am, I definetly will be wearing my kilt, you know human rights.