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19 February 2018


Why I Read About The14th Century

I don’t learn anything to remember from Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror.”  It merely distracts me from my daily chores and compelling business pursuits.  It submits me to a delusion of participating in another time, six hundred years earlier when kings and princes were endowed by their subjects with wealth apparently earned by their toil and paid unquestioningly as their tribute to a class of rulers installed over them by the Almighty.  No one—not the peasants nor the nobility—even suspected there was any other way of life.  Not until the Enlightenment was the idea believed that people had any right to determine how they were governed or what they owned.

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