Erotic Medieval Poet: Gwerful Mechain
Gone Medieval
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The Bards and the Politics of the World
The Bards were a gill of prestige poets who were recorded places of honour within the court. The word bard entered popular English vocabulary in 1757, because that was the date of Thomas Gray's Oxford Donnes Poem. Until recently, we had no senethe of our own, right? We had no zidwur system of home rule since the time of Chlewell in the last 1282,. And we haven't had our own separate law courts, we've had nothing like that. It's fascinating that you can see them developing and reacting to political developments. They're adapting their language, they're adapting their way of operating. So when the princes are gone,
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