Word: feudality
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...Capetains and Plantagenets were amateur gangsters; they were land-grabbers and money-grubbers, they ignored the sterling principles of the feudal code, and they were usually in trouble with the Church. "I would sell London," said Richard, "if I could find a purchaser." Richard's atrocities get objective reporting, as do the incidents which have become legend, such as the meeting between Richard and Robin Hood...
...item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol of British imperialism-Veal Steak a la Nelson^-and one of Hungary's famous feudal families-Beef Steak Esterhdzy.- There were other dishes whose names had no politically dyspeptic connotations, but which were simply obscurantist, e.g., Filet de Fogas Orly,†† Veau a la Bonne Femme...
...Russian Composer Modest Mussorgsky began putting together a notebook entitled "Khovanchina; a People's Musical Drama-Materials." It was the biggest project of his career: a historical opera dealing with the abortive revolt of the feudal Princes Khovansky and their followers (Khovanchina) against the Westernizing influences of Peter the Great's court...
Thus, concludes Professor McMahon, Oxford grew and flourished, even at a time "when feudal wars had drained a great part of England's wealth...
...Once? Protestantism needs its own external signs and symbols, but what, he asks, shall they be? "What is the symbol of Jesus Christ in a non-feudal world? Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises focus around Christ as a feudal Lord or earthly King and military Leader, requiring a soldierly bodyguard who in blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ...