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Background To History

Monty Python
2003-03-013:47 minLetras sincronizadas

"Background To History" é uma música de Monty Python, 2003, Pop. A música tem 3:47 de duração, 66 lines / 502 words.

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0:07One of the main elements in any assessment of the medieval open field farming system is the
0:13Availability of plough teams for the winter plowing
0:16Professor Tofts of the University of Manchester puts it like this:
0:19A rocking beat starts and a 60s style folk rock song with some heavy caribbean influence begins
0:28To plough once in the winter Sowing and again in Lent
0:31Sowing with as many oxen
0:34Sowing with as many oxen
0:37As he shall have yoked in the plough
0:43Oh yes
0:46Oh yes
0:49As he shall have yoked in the plough
0:50Oh yes
0:55Oh yes
0:58PROF JONES:But of course there is considerable evidence of open field villages as far back as the tenth century
1:07Professor Moorhead:
1:08Dramatic metal chords reminiscent of British punk or perhaps groups like Black Sabbath
1:10Theeeeeere's ev I de ence
1:10Theeeeeere's ev I de ence
1:23There's evidence
1:25Evidence
1:25Evidence
1:27Evidence
1:28Evidence
1:29Evidence
1:29There's evidence
1:30Evidence
1:31Evidence of settlements with one long village street
1:34Farmsteads hamlets little towns the framework was complete
1:35By the tiiiiime
1:36OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST
1:37The rural framework was complete
1:47Rur al
1:47Frame work
1:48Wa as
1:50Com plete
1:51PROF JONES:This is not to say of course that the system was as sophisticated as it later came to be
1:57I asked the Professor of Medieval studies at Cambridge why this was
2:02PROF HEGERMAN:
2:02Stuttering
2:03Well I it may not have been a a statutory obligation but uh I mean uh a guy who was a freeman whuh was obliged in the medieval system to
2:18PROF JONES:To do boonwork
2:19PROF HEGERMANN:That's right
2:21There's an example ah from the village rolls ah in 1313
2:25PROF JONES:And I believe you're going to do it for us now
2:28PROF HEGERMAN:That's right yeah
2:29Pop beat sets in reminiscent of the Beatles in their later period but with some of the spastic quality of a Joe Cocker
2:31Oh it's written in the village rolls
2:32That if one plough team wants an oxen
2:33And that oxen is lent
2:34Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the loooord's consent
2:35Yeah yeah
2:35Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:37Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:38Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:42Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:43Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:45Na na na na
2:47Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:48Na na na na
2:49Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
2:54Na na na na
2:54Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
3:10Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
3:40That was a talk on the open field farming system by Professor Angus Jones
3:44Some of the main points covered in this talk are
3:47Now available on a long playing record entitled The Ronettes Sing Medieval Agrarian History
One of the main elements in any assessment of the medieval open field farming system is the
Availability of plough teams for the winter plowing
Professor Tofts of the University of Manchester puts it like this:
A rocking beat starts and a 60s style folk rock song with some heavy caribbean influence begins
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 field villages as far back as the tenth century
Professor Moorhead:
Dramatic metal chords reminiscent of British punk or perhaps groups like Black Sabbath
Theeeeeere's ev I de ence
Theeeeeere's ev I de ence
There's evidence
Evidence
Evidence
Evidence
Evidence
Evidence
There's evidence
Evidence
Evidence of settlements with one long village street
Farmsteads hamlets little towns the framework was complete
By the tiiiiime
OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST
The rural framework was complete
Rur al
Frame work
Wa as
Com plete
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 it may not have been a a statutory obligation but uh I mean uh a guy who was a freeman whuh was obliged in the medieval system to
PROF JONES:To do boonwork
PROF HEGERMANN:That's right
There's an example ah from the village rolls ah in 1313
PROF JONES:And I believe you're going to do it for us now
PROF HEGERMAN:That's right yeah
Pop beat sets in reminiscent of the Beatles in their later period but with some of the spastic quality of a Joe Cocker
Oh it's written in the village rolls
That if one plough team wants an oxen
And that oxen is lent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the loooord's consent
Yeah yeah
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Na na na na
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Na na na na
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Na na na na
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
That was a talk on the open field farming system by Professor Angus Jones
Some of the main points covered in this talk are
Now available on a long playing record entitled The Ronettes Sing Medieval Agrarian History

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