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Background To History
Monty Python The Background to History, Part IV PROF. JONES: Good evening. One of the main elements in any assessment of the medieval open (A rocking beat starts and a 60s To plough once in the winter Sowing, and again in Lent, Sowing with as many oxen Sowing with as many oxen As he shall have yoked in the plough Oh yes Oh yes As he shall have yoked in the plough. Oh yes Oh yes PROF. JONES: But of course there is considerable evidence of open Theeeeeere's evTheeeeeere's evThere's evidence (evidence) Evidence (evidence) Evidence (evidence?) There's evidence (evidence!) Evidence of settlements with one long village street, Farmsteads, hamlets, little towns By the tiiiiime ... (OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST!) The rural framework was complete Rurframewacom PROF. JONES: This is not to say, of course, that the system was as sophisticated as it later came to be. I asked the Professor of Medieval studies at Cambridge why this was. PROF. HEGERMAN: (stuttering) Well, i PROF. JONES: To do boonwork? PROF. HEGERMANN: That's right. There's an example, ah, from the village rolls, ah, in 1313. |
