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Scott_Waddell
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Actually, the bloodline aspect of feudalism is a later Middle-Ages development. The earlier was like glorified gang warfare–if you could fight, it didn’t really matter where you came from.Many folks like the society of the Middle Ages because of the idea of a society based on birth and bloodlines. The idea that the great great grandson of a warrior chief who seized some territory is of “better birth” than the great great grandson of a tenant farmer remains attractive. Monopoly of money and property based on family membership must be great if you are in the right family. Guess it’s easier to pick the right parents than actually have to compete against the “lesser” folks in the market place. Ideas of noble blood die hard. Here in the US, we have no royalty. My white trash and Irish ancestors moved here to get away from the political monopoly of the royal families. I’m glad they did.
The Middle Ages are dead. Royalty is dying. Good.