In the early 13th century, the warrior aristocracy of Christian Europe bound its ruling monarchs to a structured legal system ...

So it had been for a century and a half — actually far longer, though earlier it had been courtiers who had exercised power in the emperor’s name; now it was a bakufu, a military government.

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