Thursday, September 24, 2009

Feudalism Do Over








Ken said...

Compelling thought indeed: what if Rome's fall had not been so complete?

Have you read Millennium, by Tom Holland? It describes at length the progression of events and religious/political/social from the fall of Rome to the end of the first crusade. You realize that despite the moniker "Dark Ages," a lot was happening through those centuries, setting as you said, the stage for the modern era.

More of my thoughts on the book at:

Fausto Levantesi said...

In the Old Kingdom of Egypt, in the Akkadian Empire and in the Roman Principate "there was a leader who exerted control over the people", but nobody would call them "tribal", and nobody would say they were not "complex".