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Periodic reminder that if a “medieval” fantasy setting has the approximate social mores of the 1980s, minus the more libertine parts of the Sexual Revolution, it’s actually roughly what medieval mores were.

Specifically:

Slavery was largely abolished in the Latin West between about 750 and 1436, and to own or traffic in slaves was latae sententiae (ipso facto) excommunication from the Catholic Church. Originally this ban only applied to Christian slaves but by the 1000s it was all slaves.

Even where slavery existed (fuck you Venice), no Catholic or Orthodox Christians have ever allowed masters sexual rights to slaves.

Women owned property, practiced trades, filled lawsuits, testified in court, and voted in any assembly (city councils, parliaments, chambers of commerce, I think Imperial elections) open to their social class. All in their own names not as proxies of husbands or sons.

Women learned to read as often as men and the receipts of the bookshops show they bought more books. Arthurian romance, by far the most popular fiction genre, was written for a female audience.

Spousal abuse was grounds for civil divorce and criminal proceedings. Under this heading they included taking one’s “conjugal rights” by force.

Rape investigations were begun on the same basis as any other crime, without the need to show a struggle as in China or produce multiple witnesses as in Islam.

They had the first war-crimes laws in human history, the Peace and Truce of God, which banned civilian atrocities, looting, and damaging infrastructure. Due to those rules, the Nestorian Christian monk Rabban bar Sawma, sent as an ambassador to the Empire by the Mongol Khans, was amazed how small-scale and non-devastating Latin Christian wars were, compared to the one in Asia.

The penalty for violations of those laws was interdict: the clergy go on strike in your entire territory, so nobody gets married, buried, baptized, ordained, or given confession, in your domain, till you make amends (usually concessions to the victim territory combined with charitable donations). This started to break down in the late medieval, as professional mercenaries began replacing the territorial levies, since they weren’t attached to territories.

The main labor force, serfs, were essentially free, except for being allowed to travel without permission or own military weapons. They were allowed to carry agricultural and hunting tools for self-defense, though, and they could not be made to leave the land even if they also couldn’t choose to leave it.

Serfs also couldn’t have the amount of labor or produce they owed their lord increased without their consent (and I wouldn’t compare the percent they owed to my tax rates, if I wanted to keep feeling good about modern life).

Medieval hygiene was as good as most modern hygiene, with public baths being very common, something like 1 facility for every 90 people. Most people bathed at least once a week, and when they didn’t they would still usually take sponge baths (except probably with washcloths not literal sponges).

Medieval medicine was better than 19th century medicine, sterilizing tools in rubbing alcohol and using anesthesia like laudanum (opium mixed with wine, learned from the Kurds during the Crusades), and low doses of hemlock.

Their understanding of disease was less advanced than of surgery (though still not much worse than most of the 19th century), with treatment mostly based on diet and herbal remedies, like a mix of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. But for example miasma theory (which was not abandoned till Pasteur) is largely adequate to prevent epidemics.

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no its not, because none of them are nazis. if trump and musk are nazis why are they taking so much money from AIPAC and have a cabinet that is almost entirely jewish or jewish funded.

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Actual demons

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Post the gif of Harris "Nazi salute" you troglodyte and embarrass yourself further.

why do you need the gif when i have given you proof of it. and before you get the wrong idea i am not a trump supporter or a fan of elon, im just trying to make sure people dont have double standards

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trump can rot with the rest of the politicians

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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and yet most in support of this dont realize why this was passed

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He even tucks the thumb

oh boy

Welcome to the Fourth Reich dickheads. This is what you wanted. This is what you get.

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yes

is it over because nothing ever happens or does nothing ever happen because it's over?

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A classic!