“a large subculture of nonworking religious scholars, supported by state welfare”
sounds suspiciously like an abbey to me… just “the state” instead of “the king/pope”
(note: lots of the other bits don’t sound quite the same… but still, there are some similarities)
Well, a lot of abbeys were self-supporting.
sounds suspiciously like an abbey to me… just “the state” instead of “the king/pope”
(note: lots of the other bits don’t sound quite the same… but still, there are some similarities)
Well, a lot of abbeys were self-supporting.