the middle ages were crazy like you hear stories about it and they're just marvel movie tropes basically but that shit HAPPENED it really did just heard a story of an iberian queen who rode between the armies of her husband and son and shamed them to peace trooooope AND YET
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people pretend that parliamentarians and presidents can be Great but no way thats pure cope don't hold a candle to kings in terms of storytelling potential
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"King Robert the Bad was so-called partly because his history was written by his enemies, and partly because [he ignored government to chase courtesans]"
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"His son Robert the Second . . . lived much the same sort of life as "the Bad," but was called "the Good" by amiable biographers, perhaps hoping to avoid a confusion of names"
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we don't have much variety in government these days that seems pretty bad compare middle ages with messy patchworks of governments free cities, republics, theocracies, kingdoms, petty nobles, tribes lot less opportunity to learn from variation within todays uniform crop
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no one actually talks about ideal government forms anymore i mean yarvis ok but i couldnt bring myself to read past the third paragraph of that i guess hanson too but you cant find examples of these irl there's no natural variance so you're stuck with history or hypotheticals
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"we are venetians. after that, we are christians." -- old venetian proverb
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You've been playing a lot of CK2 though.
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Broke: We live in times at the end of history. Woke: We live in times long after the death of history.
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