saint louis! he was real! it's not just a dying midwestern city he literally scoured himself and wore a hairshirt and was just this bizarrely JUST king can you imagine?!
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there was an accounting error when a huge ransom was paid for him to saracens, and he underpaid by 10% after being released after imprisonment he actually went back and gave his captors the balance owed
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one of his nobles killed three students for poaching rabbits he took away the guys forest, forced him to Jerusalem for three years, and made him build a shrine to each student with mass said daily can you just imagine this?
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i think im pro-monarchy now on account of gosh its fascinating we need more Kings
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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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gosh will durant is sassy
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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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