[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 1010 KB, 2518x2878, The essence of Fantasy Writing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19818459 No.19818459 [Reply] [Original]

Truly great literature

>> No.19818499

I was reading today about a Burgundian nobleman under Charles the Bold who had committed what we would today call war crimes and was actually prosecuted for it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_von_Hagenbach
>Following a rebellion by towns of the Upper Rhine against his tyranny, Hagenbach was put on trial for the atrocities committed during the occupation of Breisach, found guilty of war crimes, and beheaded[1] at Breisach. His trial by an ad hoc tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire in 1474 was the first “international” recognition of commanders’ obligations to act lawfully.[2][3] He was convicted of crimes, specifically murder, rape and perjury, among other crimes, "he as a knight was deemed to have a duty to prevent." He defended himself by arguing that he was only following orders[2] from the Duke of Burgundy, to whom the Holy Roman Empire had given Breisach.[4] Although there was no explicit use of a doctrine of command responsibility, it is seen as the first trial based on that principle.[1][5]

>> No.19818965

>>19818499
more of a /his/ type thing

>> No.19819327

>>19818459
during the time of Tolkien's lifetime, 1892 - 1973, England wasn't shite

>> No.19819332

>>19818499
More proof that the Holy Roman Empire was indeed Holy, Roman and an Empire.

>> No.19820258

>>19819327
>England wasn't shite in 1892-1973
lol sure

>> No.19820270
File: 85 KB, 620x620, morgoth2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19820270

>>19818459
>Then Fingolfin beheld (as it seemed to him) the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses; and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar. Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came.

>> No.19820322

>>19819332
>no oxford comma
disgusting

>> No.19820336

>>19818499
>>19819332
Wagner was right, the HRE was a beautiful thing and the lost of the empire was one of the greatest tragedies of the world.

>> No.19820484
File: 795 KB, 792x791, anglo-sax.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19820484

>>19820270
>That was the last time in those wars that he passed the doors of his stronghold, and it is said that he took not the challenge willingly; for though his might was greatest of all things in this world, alone of the Valar he knew fear. But he could not now deny the challenge before the face of his captains; for the rocks rang with the shrill music of Fingolfin's horn, and his voice came keen and clear down into the depths of Angband; and the chad Fingolfin named the virgin Morgoth craven, and lord of slaves.