/lit/ - Literature

>the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills
>>19157283
Yes

>>19109742
Try A Concisr History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden and In Praise of the New Knighthood by Bernard of Clairvaux. Happy deus vulting.

>>16859398
>peasants most of the time did not have the money to hold land or entertain a wife so they lived as hirelings in the farmstead of a relative
>most of the time only the oldest brother inherited all of the land, otherwise the land would have been partitioned out of existence
>worked from dawn to dusk (which implies very long work days in the summer and very short work days in winter)
>even on vacation days most had social obligations like attending very long church services in Latin or organizing some parts of the town festival
>your neighbor actually looked like you because he is your brother and if you are lucky and wealthy enough your son will marry his daughter
>even without niggers people acted like niggers due to bad education, superstition, systematic banditry, peasant revolts, robber barons, etc.
>drinking very thin beer all day because the water might kill you
>usually a vegetable diet because the local lord holds privilege for game hunting and if you should try and hunt a rabbit on your own, he's gonna behead you
>you smack your wife, she complains to the local priest, the local priest shits on you publicly in the next sermon he holds, forever ostracizing you in your tight-knit village community
By Jove, what a great world we lost!

it's time

>>16548248
With enough time and will, you can interpret absolutely everything into a symbol. If you try to project meaning into something long enough, you will find meaning but that kind of meaning will be arbitrary as it is being generated by some kind of postmodern sophistry. What protestantism gets right, albeit in an equally degenerative fashion, is that the fundamental nature of human beings is their being in relationship to one another. We are only insofar as we relate to one another and no amount of dry ideas can replace a personal relationship. That's Aristotle 101 and the reason for the incarnation of God. He became flesh so that we could relate to him in the flesh. The intellect alone will not save us because the human soul cannot operate without its body, hence why we need a personal relationship with Mr Godman in the sky who will reincarnate us with real physical bodies at the Day of Judgment. Symbols on the other hand remain abstract ideas, they are constructs and once one proclaims their co-eternity with God, one becomes possessed by them and only Hell follows. For example that's what happened after the idea of the nation was made co-eternal with God by Hitler. That's why we should be doubtful of symbols, they are only caricatures of truth. But your personal relationship with God is eternal.

>>16541275
>virtually every other reactionary
Based.

>>16540542
Yes.

Why yes, I convert pagans with the sword.

Get out of here, modernist scum. If it's in the Bible it happened for real. Just like Jonah and the whale.