Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8881468-20131229020408/@comment-18016240-20140108150508

Neithan02 wrote: monks do not predate brotherhoods ;) brotherhoods are millenia old, whereas monks or knightly orders make it only up to ~ 2 millenia, with knights coming up in the 7th and 8th century ad and monks ~ from ad 320 onwards. That has absolutely no bearing on the argument. The fact that space marines live largely monastic lives implies what GW wanted to include in their character.

Purely medieval you say? Let's see... Grey knights, Black Templars, Dark Angels (heavily inspired by knightly orders).

Not exactly medieval now, are they?