ABSTRACT
This week I had to teach a high school class. I wanted them to come to some understanding of loyalty within a feudal situation. I had been given a ‘history brief, you see: loyalty within a feudal situation-this is an ‘English’ class. I did not, therefore start thinking about how the place was going to look. I did not start thinking, ‘Right, we need a Tudor mansion’. Instead I said to myself, ‘How do I introduce the whole idea of loyalty? What strategy will I use whereby there shall be a slow realization that the choices between loyalty and disloyalty become available to the class? And, how do I do this within a Tudor framework? And what shall be the dilemma? What will make it possible for them to make that choice?’ They were fifteen years old.
