No live portraits of Eng exist, only one painted 200y after his death. He was apparently tall, dark, and handsome. And could sing and dance well. Basically a generic harlequin romance cover hero.
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Adding this side readhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub …
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Another side read: knights vs archers, contemporaneous Indian edition. https://twitter.com/mangozeus/status/1265843370624081920?s=21 …https://twitter.com/mangozeus/status/1265843370624081920 …
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Back to the story. It’s around 1368 now. Coucy frees serfs for rent. The nobility appears to be slowly healing after 2 decades of war and plague. The brigand companies have been foisted onto Spain. Life sucks for most people but nobility is doing ok.
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Long passage now about the Visconti family of Italy who sound like psycho gangsters. They are challenging papal forces. Brigand company called the White Company fights on all sides of all conflict. Hobbesian ergodicity goingbon here.
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This knight vs Archer business seems to be running theme in every honour society. Same thing happened between Bheel archer conscripts in Rajput armies during the Mughal Rajput wars.
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huh I was not aware of this... link/ref?
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Don’t forget my favorite ploy for getting rid of them, which is to start a faraway war and send them to fight it, with the win-win-win calculation that they will either defeat the enemy, all get killed, and/or not bother coming back because they’re too busy sacking cities
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1st time I've heard the term, but I'll be using it, thank you.
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