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14 Dec 2007, 7:36 am
OUCH: "Hurrying in after the signing was over and signing the EU 'Reform' Treaty by himself, Gordon Brown reminded me of King John when he became a vassal of the Pope and made England a fiefdom of the Papacy. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 12:35 pm by Margaret Wood
  I focused the talk around King John and his rapacious habits as a ruler: demanding extraordinary fees from his feudal vassals, seizing hostages, and losing battles. [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 8:29 pm
Calvin in the comics said that "in the middle ages lords and vassals lived in a futile system" (the strip is here, but is it bootlegged?). [read post]
15 Jun 2014, 1:05 pm by Old Fox
We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
A French Vernacular Legal Culture from England to the LevantAssistant Professor Thomas J McSweeney (William and Mary Law School)The King's Courts and the King's Soul: Pardoning as Almsgiving in Medieval EnglandProfessor Richard W Kaeuper (University of Rochester)John Ruskin, the Medieval Ordines, and Meritorious SufferingProfessor Peter Coss (Cardiff University)Neifs and Villeins in Later Medieval EnglandDr Dave Postles (University of Hertfordshire)Bibliography of the Writings of… [read post]
19 Jul 2003, 6:54 pm
The Vassall Tribunal in 1963, set up to examine a homosexual spy scandal involving naval intelligence officer, John Vassall required journalists to give evidence and two Fleet Street reporters were jailed for refusing to reveal their sources. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 4:43 am
Our best guess is that he considered himself to be the ruler of England and that John was only his vassal. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 6:12 pm
I need not say how much I am Your ever faithfull Friend.Alas, John replied as if she'd written in jest. [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 5:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This is a case of magistrates serving as dependent vassals with no capacity for independent decision making whatsoever. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 4:00 am by Sarah Sutherland
The mistaking of protocol for power may be best illustrated by the image of Louis XVI fleeing the revolution wearing a pink wig instead of riding a fast horse [John Ralston Saul, Voltaire’s Bastards, p 63]. [read post]
22 Jun 2008, 2:16 pm
As the military historian John Keegan puts it, military risk-taking legitimized rule. [read post]
8 May 2015, 4:00 am by INFORRM
”  MLA chair John Battle, head of compliance ITN, welcomed the new edition and went on: “Reporting the courts is central to every news organisation. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 6:09 am
John McGinnis argues that she is “the most liberty loving” of the noble characters: She gathers forces by declaring her interest in freeing slaves and leading them as free men. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 4:00 am by Thomas J. Crane
” Clearly, the rights in the Magna Carta were guaranteed to all free men, meaning not to vassals and the like. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 4:00 am by Thomas J. Crane
” Clearly, the rights in the Magna Carta were guaranteed to all free men, meaning not to vassals and the like. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 5:40 am by Thomas J. Crane
” Clearly, the rights in the Magna Carta were guaranteed to all free men, meaning not to vassals and the like. [read post]
22 Jun 2014, 5:31 pm by INFORRM
  The booklet has been revised by media law barrister Guy Vassall-Adams. [read post]