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July, Les Tres Riches Heures

A medieval manuscript illustration depicting the work on an agricultural estate during the month of July. From 'Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry', c. 1412-1440 CE. (Condé Museum, Château de Chantilly, Oise, France)

Image by Limbourg Brothers

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Queen Marie of Yugoslavia with her sons, Crown Prince Peter and new born Prince Tomislav in 1928. 💝🇷🇸

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“Write about how this young man squeezes the slave out of himself drop by drop and how one fine morning he awakes to find that the blood coursing through his veins is no longer the blood of a slave but that of a real human being.”

Anton Chekhov, letters to a friend

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Guard Ivan: He's doing fine, considering... We were gentle enough, the little rat just gave quite a fight.

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"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." — Confucius

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2024 feels like we’ve just weaseled our way back into serfdom without any of the benefits of serfdom.

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Serf

Medieval serfs (aka villeins) were unfree labourers who worked the land of a landowner (or tenant) in return for physical and legal protection and the right to work a separate piece of land for their own basic needs. Serfs made up 75% of the medieval population but were not slaves as only their labour could be bought, not their person.

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Towered Pavilion, Eastern Han dynasty, 2nd-3rd century. 

Earthenware with green glaze,  w44.5 x h104.5 cm. 

In ancient China, rulers and upper-class people liked to bury with models and pottery figurines that imitated real life objects, hoping that they could enjoy life as they were alive after death. 

The pavilion in this work is in the form of a watchtower, with a total of four floors, which was the most advanced high-rise building at that time. In addition to the figures with bows and crossbows, the pavilions also show figures who look like musicians and serfs. At that time it was quite popular to use green glaze as a glaze for painted objects.

The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka ; Gift of Sumitomo Group (The Ataka Collection). 

Photo Kazuyoshi Miyoshi

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>mfw the cringe lord commits a moste terrible crime and gets drawne and quartered and the new lord is serving

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Notion

Capitalism is a pyramid scheme Always got somebody pitching you a dream

Fantasies of how you can become supreme But liberation is diametrically opposed to its congenital theme

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Féodalité

La féodalité était le système en vigueur dans les sociétés médiévales européennes des 10e-13e siècles où une hiérarchie sociale était établie sur la base d'un contrôle administratif local et de la répartition des terres en unités (fiefs). Un propriétaire terrien (seigneur) donnait un fief, ainsi qu'une promesse de protection militaire et juridique, en échange d'une forme de paiement de la part de la personne qui le recevait (vassal).

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Revuelta de los campesinos

La Revuelta de los campesinos, también conocida como la Gran Revuelta, fue un levantamiento popular que ocurrió en Inglaterra en junio de 1381 sin mucho éxito. Entre los líderes de la rebelión se encontraba Wat Tyler, querían cambios sociales masivos que incluían la eliminación del impuesto de capitación y del límite a los salarios laborales, la redistribución de la riqueza de la Iglesia y la abolición total de la servidumbre.

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