EaterOfSnacks on Nostr: It's interesting, in a gritting-the-teeth kind of way, to read about the rise of ...

It's interesting, in a gritting-the-teeth kind of way, to read about the rise of feudalism and the chipping away of every right enjoyed by peasants: movement, common land, decisions about the division of time and labour, who could marry whom, using your own flour mill, and so on ad infinitum. Always in favour of the local lord. It was quite the grift.