notes on inside medieval mind - power

if harold have won then avoided subjugation of britons?

5% pray, 5% nobles + knights, rest -> work

william langland - 14th century poet on serf women
Vision of piers plowman - bad living of serfs
gentleman - same root as gene

knights waring class. war enobling + more land
terrorize locals for they toil the land for fear of being destroyerd

i think this program over plays it + caste system + aryan nobl;eman longer history

King John pissed everyone off -> magna carter 1215 put him back under law (no action taken without agreement of peers and the law)

Parliament evolved thru need for cash to fund wars -> this way funders came into the fold of the nations power structure -> step toward demcracy

but still 1/3 population in bondage mid 1300s

black-death put value of labour up

laws rushed thru - including branding peasants so class could be reinforced

John Ball on blackheath (church)
Poll tax
Tyler