‘Laws Are Mute When Kings Speak’
The Teutonic Knights: A Military History by William Ervin, audiobook
The quote that is the title was made by one of the few good popes, a lawyer, legate and excellent writer who went on crusade against the Turks, dying of gout on the way: Piccolomili who became Pope Pious II.
William Ervin does a precise and comprehensive presentation of this most interesting subject, fated to be so unfathomable to the modern mind, in its…