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September 09, 2019
Anglos, Saxons, Franks, Frisii: Awfully Good at Government?
Germanic tribes. Good at government? Just lucky? Or something else?
Discuss.
“The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] the original principles of our present laws and manners.”
--Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter IX (1782)
The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] the original principles of our present laws and manners.
--Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter IX (1782)
Posted by JD Hull at 11:11 PM | Comments (0)