![]() ![]() Now, let me present some historical facts in order to vaccinate my reader against what has been affirmed in the unfortunate e-mail on the Internet. Sometimes the falsification is deliberate, sometimes unconscious but always the past is altered to suit the prejudice of the present against the time of Christendom. ![]() (Actually, historians consider the 1500s the Renaissance/Early Modern period, so even the date is misleading.) These stories are so inaccurate it is difficult to believe that anyone with a higher than elementary education could take them seriously.īut several friends assured me that this e-mail has been going around for a long time, and that some uninformed people today believe these tales, since they are broadly spread by movies and television shows presenting the people of the Middle Ages as dingy, drab, and wallowing in miserable hovels while all the nobles lived in castles. The other day I received an e-mail titled “Life in the 1500s’ – a preposterous list of tales that all insinuate how hard, dirty and backward life was in the supposed “Dark Ages” of Christendom. False statements about life in the Middle Ages - Critique and Refutation by Marian T. ![]()
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