Part One, Category 42 of "Ge's Law" stated: "When we offer hospitality, we must never treat people differently."
This meant relief had to be provided without discrimination. Yet some people were to be given "alms," while others were to be offered "hospitality." In other words, alms had to be distributed according to the person.
Some people needed sympathy. The French troops had long lacked food and clothing, with no shoes or warm garments. A little concern was enough to make them weep bitterly.
Others were proud. Because the Greeks had a custom of "hospitality," she had once looked it up in a dictionary. It was an old book from the twelfth century, and at the time, the word "hospitality" carried the dual meaning of receiving guests and distributing charity.
After leaving Calypso's island, Odysseus soon encountered Poseidon's revenge. Though he was fortunate enough to swim ashore in the end, he was completely naked. The clothes Calypso had woven for him grew heavier after absorbing water, so he found an opportunity to climb onto a piece of driftwood and take them off. He arrived in the land of the Phaeacians with nothing to his name.
The princess saved him and gave him human-made woolen clothes to change into, allowing Odysseus to appear before the king properly dressed and tell him the story of the Cyclops.
Machiavelli's Florentine Histories recorded the Ciompi Revolt. At the time, there was a wool carder named Michele de Lando, who carried the banner of the standard-bearer of justice and walked naked through the chaotic streets of Florence.
Although Florence was in Italy, it was deeply connected to England through "wool." In 1349, England issued the Statute of Labourers, prohibiting charitable aid to able-bodied vagrants and requiring the authorities to capture them, forcing them to fend for