iamnotaparakeet wrote:
How come no one likes Medieval or current?
"Current" is real to me, well, sort of, and so i excluded it automatically from my comparison; all the others being unreal imaginary things.
But medieval, hmm. There was some fun stuff going on. Sifr did choose a medieval period ( i think !?!) Spain at the time of Arab/moorish conquest, with advances in medicine, religious tolerance, philosophy, astronomy, etc.
And the position of women in the 1100-1200s, when gained some far reaching independence as a result of the men going off to the crusades so that women had to run things like during WWI & WWII. they took on the administration of great estates, finances, trade, and wrote poetry and music.
Unfortunately it didn't last long. The men came back from battering other people in the middle East, and took out their failure on the women, by shutting them all up again. Witch burnings rewarded any who expressed resentment at this turn of events.
So medieval as a whole, yep, too barbaric.
I'd like all of history if could travel through it relatively freely, detached, with escape capsule!!
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