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The King Cnuts of coronavirus

11 June 2021

12:20 PM

11 June 2021

12:20 PM

In eleventh century England, King Cnut was told by his admiring courtiers that ‘there is nothing on earth that dares to disobey you, O king.’ To teach his subjects the limits of temporal authority, the wise king ordered his throne to be set next to the sea, from which he commanded the tides to stop.

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