The Superstitions that Guided Decisions of Kings and Emperors

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Official history often explains to us the great war conflicts, famines and dynamic pacts using the cold logic of geopolitics. Border maps, trade treaties and tax rates occupy school textbooks as the only engines of political action. We often forget that behind the silk of the royal robes and the gold of the crowns beat the same vulnerability that any walker experiences in the dark. In the cabinets where the lives of millions of subjects were dec…