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Is your post written in jest? Nobles could not "literally" kill peasants on a whim. This is a preposterous claim. The nobility had a duty to protect the peasant
by lo_zamoyski 3y ago
Is your post written in jest? Nobles could not "literally" kill peasants on a whim. This is a preposterous claim. The nobility had a duty to protect the peasants on their land and they were bound by various general and specific moral duties toward them. Whatever the faults of the people and arrangements of that era, what you've written is a caricature, like something pulled out of the stockpile of slanderous nonsense that appeared in Enlightenment pamphlets and other rags.
- neaden 3y agoWhile they are exaggerating robber knights were a total thing where two nobles feuding would rob/kill each others peasants as part of it. Different times and places might have rules against it, the Holy Roman Empire very famously outlawed it but actual enforcement on the ground was minimal because there is nobody around to actually enforce those decrees. This isn't going into actual wartime conflicts at all in which case mass murder of non combatants was absolutely a common thing that was essentially sanctioned.
- _joel 3y agoUnless it's a Scotsman carrying a crossbow in York.... https://www.stupidlaws.com/it-is-lawful-to-kill-a-scotsman-in-york-if-he-is-carrying-a-bow-and-arrow/ https://www.stupidlaws.com/it-is-lawful-to-kill-a-scotsman-i...