Inside the Medieval Mind - Power

One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was a part of the natural order: the life of serfs was little better than those of animals, while the knight's code of chivalry was based more on caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were."

http://www.open2.net/medievalmind/power.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bartlett_%28historian%29

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