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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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21 Nov 2004 06:35:30 AM |
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OT: Hawkwood |
Money made the world go around
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1354306,00.html
The 14th-century mercenaries that people Frances Stonor Saunders's
Hawkwood remind Anthomy Sampson of our own troubled times
Anthony Sampson
Saturday November 20, 2004
The Guardian
Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman
by Frances Stonor Saunders
256pp, Faber, £17.99
Historians have already drawn parallels between contemporary horrors
and the horrors of the 14th century, when Europe was undermined by
successive disasters, from the black death to the Anglo-French wars,
to the peasants' revolts, to the schisms and corruptions of the
Church.
Twenty-five years ago Barbara Tuchman published her brilliant
narrative of the 14th century, A Distant Mirror, which began by
explaining: "If our last decade or two of collapsing assumptions has
been a period of unusual discomfort, it is reassuring to know that the
human species has lived through worse before."
Hawkwood
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Frances Stonor Saunders
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