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The Battle of Poitiers “Men trod in their own guts and spat out their teeth; many were cloven to the ground or lost their limbs while on their feet. Dying men fell in the blood of their companions and groaned under the weight of corpses until the Gabe out their last breath. The blood of serfs and princes flowed in one stream into the river.” - Geoffrey le Baker

“We don’t often make laws to enforce what everyone is already doing. Instead, we make laws to stop people from doing something we don’t want them to do.”

“It’s an uncomfortable truth that most societies are held together far more loosely than those living within them care to recognize: Apply enough pressure, and the cracks in any community will quickly show.”

“Richard, the Lionheart, in his captivity, had supposedly refused to render respect to the holy Roman emperor, proclaiming rather famously that he was ‘born of a rank that recognizes no superior, but God.’”