Ask the Normans in Normandy!Ask the Normans in Sicily
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Ask the Normans in Normandy!Ask the Normans in Sicily
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'ELP, 'ELP, I'M BEIN' REPRESSED!PAY YOUR TAXES OR DIE!
Isn't this what feudalism basically is? Just legalized banditry? I personally struggle to see the difference between a nobility enforcing feudal dues and a mafia organization forcing businesses to pay them protection money.
It's about the same as the difference between insurance and gambling.Isn't this what feudalism basically is? Just legalized banditry? I personally struggle to see the difference between a nobility enforcing feudal dues and a mafia organization forcing businesses to pay them protection money.
Algomavores ( mugawir)state in Spanish border lands with continued reconquista conflict.Banditry was of course an issue up until the 19th century in some places and the roots of the concept of banditry go back to before antiquity(before the Greco Roman era) and the ideas of rebels in the countryside with motive part criminal part political existed in the form of the Baguadae in late roman Gaul.
How can we have bandits, woodsmen or highwaymen in the medieval ages end up ruling a kingdom or domain of great size-basically a criminal state,
How can medieval authority collapse into this point?
Is this even possible? I
It's about the same as the difference between insurance and gambling.
Only if you lose. Insurance is still betting against financial loss.In gambling, you pay a fee (the house edge) to increase your financial risk
Related question -- since OTL has had it share of pirates (/ bandits) who stratight up took over a (/ founded their own) country, what is the most powerful a low born criminal could become in terms of said pirate kingdom being a world power player?
Well I was more focusing on the "low born Criminal" part.AIUI (and I may well not), the Mamluks Dynasties were really more akin to a bodyguard seizing power (or to a "standard" military coup, in the modern sense) than to an outlaw or pirate "conquering" the country.
The Mamluks were not criminals, unless I am very much mistaken, but slaves; I was asking about someone taking over a country more or less as a criminal.Well I was more focusing on the "low born Criminal" part.
The Mamluks were not criminals, unless I am very much mistaken, but slaves; I was asking about someone taking over a country more or less as a criminal.