… in the medieval period, estates and kingdoms were regarded fundamentally as entrusted patrimonies bestowed by heaven, not capital resources defined by law. It was a world “charged with the grandeur of God”, to quote Gerard Manley Hopkins, equally blessed and terrifying.
Sunday, March 08, 2020
A lost dimension …
… Regaining our spiritual commons – Mark Vernon.
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In the computer business (and perhaps many others) one hears that "The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than it is in theory." It is perhaps the case that in legal theory the kingdoms and estates were so regarded. But consider the conduct of the Hundred Years' War, all those chevauchees, some of them surely across the territory the English argued was their own.
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