#of course it WAS probably a jousting head-injury that made henry viii bad even by angevin standards

[tlaquetzqui]

As Chesterton said somewhere, one obvious moral superiority of medieval to either modern or ancient society, is that in the joust, the rich people beat the shit out of each other as an entertainment, rather than paying poor people (or keeping slaves) to get beat up for them. (Okay the high salaries of pro sports muddy this, of course, but those are people of poor background, whereas the team owners are from the business elite. In medieval Europe you’d see Clark Hunt and Rob Walton out on the gridiron getting traumatic brain injury.)