Friday, February 11, 2005

 
more stupid emails mirroring the Corner from yesterday

Re: The 13th century's Magna Carta:
"One man's Runnymede is another man's Persian conquest."-Genghis Khan..
-don't 'spose that "one man's Samarkand" scans any better.....

yep, you're right- B. Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror:The Calamitous *14th* Century"