A semi-serious take I have is that if you want to get a sense of what central medieval lordship would have been like on a day-to-day level, you could do a lot worse than looking at Tony Soprano
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Late in the series especially they take some opportunities to show the kinds of things Tony effortlessly balances and finesses in the course of his day, and how unsuited even his smarter guys are to this kind of work. That's lordship imo
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I use a fairly similar set of metaphors to explain the position of a Roman aristocrat working within his networks of patronage.
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It must have been second nature, no? Even without the...record-keeping problems facing a mob boss so much navigation of these bonds must simply have been governed by social intelligence
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