Posted by Dinah on November 16, 2011, at 16:44:32
In reply to Re: the political climate you would like, posted by sigismund on November 15, 2011, at 22:21:28
Anglosaxon? An interesting concept.
https://www.msu.edu/~stumpdan/hs/anglo.htm
How do you see Anglosaxon politics differing from the Roman imperial politics that preceded it, or the Norman French politics that followed it, at least in England? Did they bring the political system from their native lands, or did they take up prevailing European fashions in government?
I found this quote interesting:
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%2051%20anglo%20saxons%20ii.htm
"The country had been devastated by Vikings and everybody complained about government inefficiency and failure to act and implement policy. Things could not really get much worse. It was at this point that Archbishop Wulfstan of York preached a sermon to the highest people in the land.
'The devil has led this people too far astray... the people have betrayed their own country [literally their "earth"]. And the harm will become common to this entire people.
'There was a historian in the time of the Britons called Gildas who wrote about their misdeeds; how their sins angered God so much that finally He allowed the army of the English to conquer their land. Let us take warning from this... we all know there are worse things going on now than we have heard of among the ancients. Let us turn to the right and leave wrongdoing... Let us love God and follow God's laws.' "
I always enjoy reading the ancients complaining about the good old days.
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