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The Bronze Age Collapse 2 ft. Patrick Wyman

TRASHFUTURE

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The King Didn't Have to Like, Make Good Decisions

The king didn't actually have to do very much. He just had to be seen to be making decision. Henry the sixth could not make a decision. The legitimacy of the whole system, of all those spinning wheels, depended on the decisions that were filtered through those institutions. When they weren't seen as coming from the king, that made them not legitimate. That opened a discussion about who was wielding royal power and what their motives were.

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