From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 14:21:29 +0000 (+0300) Subject: posts, 0a4: Simplify lengthy footnote X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=deb0dee40d6574deb04506b15520e3d514405ef1;p=thetarpit.git posts, 0a4: Simplify lengthy footnote --- diff --git a/posts/y06/0a4-targoviste.markdown b/posts/y06/0a4-targoviste.markdown index d82d856..9b6efb0 100644 --- a/posts/y06/0a4-targoviste.markdown +++ b/posts/y06/0a4-targoviste.markdown @@ -195,31 +195,17 @@ second one isn't really worth it. [^1]: "Târg" may also denote a small town in this language. Hey, don't blame me, I'm just the messenger. -[^2]: I don't know how else to put it, so who knows, someone apter - than me at this linguistics/history thing might illuminate me. - - "Curtea Domnească" is literally "the court of the Domn", where - "Domn" is what local rulers called themselves. The word comes from - the Latin "Dominus", i.e. a master, ruler, king, etc. However, - Wallachia and Moldavia weren't ever really sovereign, much like, - despite tons of pretense, today's Romania isn't really a sovereign - -- sovereign entities don't abide by whatever random rules are set - in place by external parties, do they? And so, much like today's - Romania sucks up to NATO and the EU, medieval Wallachia sucked up - to the High Porte. Yes, Vlad and Ștefan did burn and impale a few - thousands of Ottoman fuckers when they tried to undermine their - religious independence, but they still paid that tribute to keep - their heads in place. - - So then, I think it'd way too much to say that Wallachian and - Moldavian voyvods were "Domini" in the true sense of the - word. Lords, surely, and "pământeni", i.e. of the land, as opposed - to the more recent Phanariote rule; but they paid well to hold - their castles and, as can be seen in Vlad the Third's case, they - otherwise paid with their life once external (and local, for that - matter) support ceased to exist. +[^2]: "Curtea Domnească" is literally "the court of the Domn", where + "Domn" was locally used to denote the absolute owner and ruler + over some particular piece of land. The word comes from the Latin + "Dominus", i.e. a ruler, master, in other words, a lord who is + [given][concedo-hoc] dominion over some domain. + + What can I say. The more things change, the more they stay the + same. [logz-1938822]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-28#1938822 [ov-wiktionary]: http://archive.is/YJRl4 +[concedo-hoc]: http://trilema.com/2019/concedo-hoc/ [logz-1935969]: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-09-13#1935969 [altemberger]: /posts/y05/07d-klausenburg.html#selection-296.0-296.3