2012م - 1444هـ
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in

this tale are historical, and the episodes which are

used to illustrate them are also historical. It is

not pretended that these laws and customs existed in

England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended

that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other

civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that

it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to

have been in practice in that day also. One is quite

justified in inferring that whatever one of these laws or

customs was lacking in that remote time, its place was

competently filled by a worse one.