In days of old
when knights were bold
and ladies most beholden
straw seemed like silk
and water, milk
and silver almost golden
when knights were bold
and ladies most beholden
straw seemed like silk
and water, milk
and silver almost golden
Not so sure about that limerick – it was probably a cruel world – those days of old. Yet much of it was fascinating and in some cases surreal. The relationship of “man” and God, for instance. Or better yet … “man,” animals and God. Unlike today, when most believe that animals were put on this Earth for humanity’s pleasure or utility, most people in the Middle Ages believed that God granted free will to Adam, Eve and all of His creatures. Animals were responsible in some strange way for their own actions and therefore should be held accountable for them.