“Then bespake him Little John All unto Robin Hood: ‘Master, an ye would dine betimes It would do you much good.’ Then bespake him good Robin: ‘To dine I have no lest, Till that I have some bold baron, Or some uncouth guest,…That may pay for the best, Or else some knight, or some squièr That dwelleth here by West.’
“…Thereof no force,’ then said Robin; ‘We shall do well enow; But look ye do no husband harm That tilleth with his plough.‘No more ye shall no good yeoman That walketh by green-wood shaw; Nor yet no knight nor no squièr That will be a good fellaw.‘These bishops and these archbishops, Ye shall them beat and bind; The High Sheriff of Nottingham, Him hold ye in your mind.”
This is a general anti-authoritarian position: he doesn’t like the clergy, he doesn’t like the royal officials, and he doesn’t like the aristocracy with the exception of those in the lower rakns who uphold the social contract.
However, he’s not anti-religious, he hangs around with Friar Tuck, he’s particularly devoted to the Virgin Mary (which is why he doesn’t kidnap or rob women), etc.
A nobleman like Robin of Locksley? No. Noblemen served in the Crusades either as part of their feudal obligations to their liege lords or as volunteers. And the vast majority of commoners in Crusader armies were professional soldiers or volunteers too.
On a separate topic, it pisses me off how working-class figure of resistance Robin Hood got turned into nobleman savior and good king loyalist Robin of Locksley. The Richard Lionheart loyalist stuff was added in the 16th century, and the nobleman thing didn’t come in until practically the 17th century.
The O.G Robin Hood was an anti-monarchical yeoman.
Sheraton Hotel Workers in Stamford need your help. The Sheraton management have hired anti union law firm Cruz and Associates in order to bust the campaign to unionize the Sheraton.
Please call Thomas Carlos and tell him to fire these union Buster’s and allow the workers to organize in peace!
There weren’t term limiits for any office in the Constitution originally, which suggests something of the Founders’ attitude to the idea. Not that we should necessarily go by what they thought.
Not likely if they want to ever get re-elected. They’re trying to bluff Pelosi into stepping down so they can vote for some other Democrat, but it’s not going to work.
Here’s my plan with Fire and Blood, Volume I. This book is a bit of a tricky combination of stuff that’s taken word-for-word from previous texts (WOIAF, Sons of the Dragon, etc.), completely new stuff, and stuff that was in previous texts but has since been expanded.
In each post then, I will just link to where I wrote about the word-for-word stuff when the previous book came out, then continue…
Carlin’s series is excellent on the military side, less so on the political or cultural side.
In terms of recommendations, I would look to iTunesU for history courses from various universities. There’s probably a couple that have lectures on WWI from the angle you’re looking for.
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