> warring fiefdoms to bureaucratic administrative states. As a warrior at some point you realise that you need "learned men" that can grant you legitimacy thro

> warring fiefdoms to bureaucratic administrative states. As a warrior at some point you realise that you need "learned men" that can grant you legitimacy through their writings/sayings and who at the same time can help you collect taxes from the masses. For how things started in Western Europe during the Middle Ages see Adalberon, bishop of Laon [1], and his "oratores, bellatores, laboratores" triad: > He seems to be famous in French history because of a poem in which he made mention of (the) three orders in society : "oratores, bellatores, laboratores" : the clergy ("praying Church"), nobles and chivalry ("the fighting church"), and, third, the labouring people ("church of toiling"), the last one supporting the others, and all supporting the whole edifice of mankind. This idea was incorporated into the "three social orders" of the Ancien Régime in France. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalberon_(bishop_of_Laon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalberon_(bishop_of_Laon)