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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