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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Digital nonsense.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      bottom scene is literally a raid at dawn.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I actually thought that richard v or whatever it was had good color

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Forget the colors, the armor is the silliest thing about the bottom pic. Especially the mail on the main guy. Even though the background dudes look like they're wearing the cheapest fabric "grandma's sweater" mail, at least it looks OK from far away. The king looks to be wearing a modern gay bondage costume under his badly proportioned breastplate.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You're not allowed surcoats in current movies.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The most annoying thing about the Game of Thronesification of medieval movies is the absence of surcoats, coats of arms and flags. How the frick are you supposed to know which side you're on?

      It's so dumb especially since the ASOIAF books AREN'T like that and do acknowledge nobles and their men at arms have their own sigils and colours.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's an older phenomenon than Game of Thrones. I would rather blame Hackley Scott's Robin Hood

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sad.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/W8Mlgt4.jpg

      But why?

      There were only three periods of the Middle Ages that could be attributed to the "Dark Ages": the immediate collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the economic collapse of Europe as a whole due to Islamic conquests disrupting Mediterranean trade routes, and the widespread death toll of the Black Death.

      Both "correct" depictments of medieval life on both pics, is incorrect.
      Blue fabric didn't exist in everyday life and was an aristocratic, very expensive thing.
      The reason is absolutely simple: Blue dye wasn't cracked untill recently and best you could get is a washed out blue (Which the first drawing do depict kinda right, on the girl's dress)
      Strong blue on clothes? Only if you were ultra rich

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >on
        in

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >blue fabric
        woad, very cheap. you mean certain shades of blue

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          https://kahikateafarm.co.nz/product/woad/
          Very cheap
          Very shitty "certain shades of blue"
          That's why I said "strong blue" which is what most movies depict (and the OP's drawing)

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        If it isn't mr hilarious party guest.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The only knights with the strong blue is a noble and his bodyguard. I would say they count as very rich. As picrel shows nobles did ride onto battlefields with strong blue colors.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Strong blue on clothes? Only if you were ultra rich
        Like being the king of England and large parts of France?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah the top would work great for the dour atmosphere The King was going for
      Bright colors and starving people. Brilliant.

      This complaint has it's place, Napoleon for example the color grading is insane. But sometimes it's just fricking dumb. Like here. If you think The King needed more color you're an absolute dumb frick.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Contemporary society hates the medieval period because it depicts a successful religious and hierarchical society.

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    israeli hearts start beating rapidly if they see happy Christians

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick off, schizo

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Just activate your spambot to shut it down, Chaim.

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Demoralization agenda

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The israelites trying to convince people that the middle ages weren't actually a traditional Catholic paradise where all virginal men were given trad milkmaid wives and Satan hadn't created gays and blacks yet. Or at least that's what I've been told

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its called the Dark Ages for a reason moron.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because Europe became sandwiched between vikings in the north and Muhammadans in the south so it took centuries for them to be sent back home

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        No its because the Catholic Church was burning scientists and books instead of learning from them so everyone was literally in "the dark"

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >No its because the Catholic Church was burning scientists
          Uh no actually science was codified into Catholic law when Muslims was philosophy was banned because it said two truths could exist.
          So please lower your tone.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            homie, learn english before you post

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Please actually open a book about this period which you know nothing about.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                he was obviously baiting my brother

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Is that why Catholic monks would spend their lives copying books by hand to keep everyone stupid

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >copying books
            In their epic secret club language. Tom the plowman wasn't going down to the Abbey to read Aristotle in Latin.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Tom the plowman wouldn't go read anything at all, he was busy plowing and partying, you mongoloid

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              He wasn’t going to be doing that until the mid 19th century regardless

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Latin was great as a literary language at the time, it had consistency and could be read by anyone literate anywhere. Imagine if they had to translate every book by hand into their local languages, it would take a lot of work for something only a few locals would be able to read and not for long since languages change. And you also didn't have national languages like today, you had a bunch of local dialects.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Tom the Plowman couldn’t read the originals in classical Greek either man

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Tomus the plowmanius wasn't reading Aristotle at the Bibliotheca in ancient Rome either.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Ah yes latin the language of the secret club of.. anyone who was reading anything anywhere anyway

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            If they loved science so much why did they kill Galileo?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              No one killed Galileo

              >moron, you thought the interior was baroque
              But it is!!!

              It's not, there's a statue in the altar that's baroque, the rest of the church is medieval gothic, and no an altar isn't an "interior"

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It's not, there's a statue in the altar that's baroque
                exactly the thing in the picture you posted.
                >the rest of the church is medieval gothic
                but you didn't post the church you posted the altar. because you didn't knew it was post medieval and real medieval art isn't fancy enough for you
                >and no an altar isn't an "interior"
                Well it actually is but I don't expect you to have the minimal basic integrity to admit you were wrong.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >baroque thing in the background of overwhelmingly gothic image of gothic building
                >clearly this must be a baroque image
                have a nice day moron

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                thing in the background of overwhelmingly gothic image of gothic building
                It's not the background it's the center piece of the picture YOU CHOOSE.
                this must be a baroque image
                Yes I noticed that. And instead of admitting to that mistake you are shitting and pissing yourself for half an hour.
                >have a nice day moron
                Wow you are really mad about that mistake you made huh? I mean it is pretty embarrassing so I get that.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                didn't read your breath smells like wiener

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >real medieval art isn't fancy enough for you
                Frick off, moron
                >Well it actually is
                The hell it is, I've never seen anyone refer to an altar as the interior of the church

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's your line now?
                >Yes I posted a picture of a baroque altar as medieval art but you called it the interior of the church which idk gives me the ick
                How do you live with yourself?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not even that guy, he posted a picture of the interior of Chartres and you focused solely on the baroque altar as your argument, because you're a homosexual. If you ignore the fricking altar the point still stands, you absolute moron.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >focused solely on the baroque altar as your argument, because you're a homosexual.
                Because it's a picture of the altar.
                >If you ignore the fricking altar the point still stands, you absolute moron.
                But he didn't make that point. He (you) deliberately posted a picture of the altar because he (you) thought it was medieval.
                There is really no other way around it.

              • 3 months ago
                Galileo

                So you make shit up like the Black person you are. The picture was of the church and the altar is inconsequential, end of story.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah like said I didn't expect you to admit your error. But judging by your level of seethe hopefully you have learned enough about medieval art this thread to not spout such bs again.
                You may now continue with your excuses.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Did any equivalent of Galileo exist anywhere else

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              The truth is inbetween what tradlarpers and fedoras say. The main thing was the authority of the catholic church. This was during the reformation and they were very insecure about that. Protestants had no issue publishing his findings, so this wasn’t a christian thing, it wasn’t even a scriptural thing because ptolemy is not biblical. The church felt anyone contradicting them might be a schismatic, and when galileo a) could not prove his theory and b) insulted the pope, they seethed pretty massively. They didn’t kill him, but let’s be real, making a 70 year old man travel to the vatican to be bullied and intimidated and then put under house arrest isn’t exactly saintly. But it was the ego of the ruling class in the clergy more than it was anti science. You can see from their correspondence with him that they knew his theories were probably correct, they just didn’t want to look stupid after a big public row.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Basically in the time of Galileo, books where published in the form of Dialogue. So your Science book was two guy talking, one asking questions and the other answering.

                Galileo inserted a third guy ''Simplissio'' which was a priest. The chruch didnt liked it and asked him to retract and he did not. They killed him. But the real reason the church went so hard is that they were in the beginning of the reformation and loosing power, so they overreacted.

                This is also why MSM and leftist today are getting more and more unhinge. They were the predominant ower since at least the 70s and are now loosing power to the new heretics and the new printing press.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >They killed him.
                They did not, he lived under house arrest

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                they didn’t kill him where do you people get this shit from

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                If they didn't kill Galileo then bring him out so we can talk to him.

              • 3 months ago
                Galileo

                I'm here, any questions?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >They killed him.
                They did not, he lived under house arrest

                The same place they get things like ''the church stopped scientific progress'' or ''the early christian destroyed libraries''.

                Public education.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It’s mad innit. In my schooling I was taught that the church tried to stop columbus sailing to america because they believed the earth was flat. Very weird that i’d get taught something I now know to be flagrantly false. I wonder how qualified the teachers even were

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                They are very qualified, but their goal is not exclusively education.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The Salamanca dispute, from when that myth originates, was real, but the funny thing is that the Salamanca sages were right: basically they knew the actual distance between Europe and India(Colombo original target) and told him he would have died of hunger and thirst by going that way; Colombo got lucky though, and found America in the middle.
                But yes, take America out of the ocean and it would have been a massive failure.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The teachers are qualified to wrangle kids and to move information from McGraw Hill textbooks into children’s heads
                Very little of primary school ‘teaching’ has anything to do with a teachers knowledge of a particular subject - an ‘informed’ teacher is just one that happens to be interested in reading more on their own about some niche subject and often this is actively penalized because a teacher might spend 2 days of class on the types of armor that knights wore, which is fun and accurate information for students, but will not be on any standardized exam and these lessons come at the cost of days that could’ve been spent learning information relevant to the state/national exam
                The optimal ‘meta’ as a teacher is to teach for the exam and focus on wrangling kids
                Source: taught for a few years

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >They killed him
                Dude no, he was forced to abjure
                The one who was killed is Giordano Bruno

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >call the church a pack of morons
                >wtf why is the church mad at me

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >why did they kill Galileo
              What's the point of making shit up? Why are you even talking about things you obviously know nothing about?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Confusing him w Giordano Bruno? Thing is we don't know why Bruno was executed because Napoleon carted off a bunch of Church archive for no resean and lost them on the way back to Paris (probablu used as toilet paper by dumb frogs).

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Looking at his other post (this is 100% the guy behind

                No its because the Catholic Church was burning scientists and books instead of learning from them so everyone was literally in "the dark"

                ), there is no fricking way he ever heard of Bruno. "Galileo was burned at the stake because he discovered the Earth is round and the dark age happened because the Church was holding back science" is typical pop history bullshit that morons heard once and will repeat again and again.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >happened because the Church was holding back science
                They didn't even believe in evolution or space lol. They thought stars were angels.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It was a monk that discovered genetics.
                >they didn't believe in evolution!
                They didn't believe in global warming, or gender psychosis, or the covid vaccine either.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Mendel is really interesting because he knew what he was looking for before he found it. Mendelian paradox.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Because it’s clear you don’t know what time periods are being talked about or the knowledge of anyone involved, it’s clear to anyone reading your posts that your opinions are wrong
                1. Galileo was not burned at the stake
                2. At the time of the controversy, Darwin had not been born and wouldn’t be for a couple hundred years

                You’re projecting your views on modern ‘
                conservatives into people four hundred years ago - stop talking about things you have no idea about, it’s like seeing somebody claim ‘all toothbrushes are red because mine is red today’

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I know its fun larping as a tradcath its time you except that the Dark Ages were a backwards, violent time to live in. Women didn't have any rights and slavery was practiced. Are you that set on being edgy that you can't admit that the literal actual Dark Ages weren't that great of a time? Most people had no rights, would live to 35, and die from the plague. Assuming your village wasn't burned down by some king or you weren't drafted into his army to die on the frontline.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >its time you except

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                You do not get to decide. Not him but your whole logic is womanly and feminine
                >It's time to accept...
                Ok, says who? You? Frick you! You are not the judge. And I hate womens rights, I hate feminism, youre just admitting youre a modern day feminist and view history through that lense.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Women were actually far better off in the middle ages than they were in rome. They could own land in most places, that’s the only thing a progressive should actually like about the era. You start seeing powerful women. Also people didn’t die at 35 most of the time, that’s a statistic skewed by childhood and infant mortality. If you lived past 10 you would probably see 55. And most armies were made of mercenaries, they were about 10% peasantry.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Slavery is still practiced, but only by brown people so nobody can criticize it.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I’m an atheist
                You’re still projecting (and I say this because you call me a ‘tradcath’) and also you don’t know history (I say this because you confuse figures and centuries in each of your posts)
                You don’t know what the dark ages are and you have strong opinions about them
                to test this, without using google, what years do you believe are the dark ages?
                Without referring to some secondary source, you don’t even know what time period you’re arguing about
                You’re upset about a period you think is defined by ignorance but you’re the most glaring example of it in this thread now

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >years do you believe are the dark ages?
                300 to 1789

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                You googled "Nicene Creed" and "French Revolution"? Props for moron effort...

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the Dark Ages were a backwards, violent time to live in
                As opposed to what? The Roman Empire era? The Renaissance? The Napoleonic era? What do you mean by the Dark Ages? When? Where?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Presumably he means compared to today, in his country (US or Canada)

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >They thought stars were angels.
                Only because Plato told them they were.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                He’s the kind of guy who will fellate classical learning when they had the exact same ideas about quintessence and the firmament that medieval people did.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >same ideas about quintessence and the firmament that medieval people did
                wut?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Tommy was a good Aristotelian.
                Plato and Aristotle butted heads a lot.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ptolemy and aristotle cosmos. Big concentric rings with stars fixed in them

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Here is a nice primer for Late Antiquity and Medieval thinking, if anybody is interested.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cool, didn't know he ever wrote on such topics. Probably not much a an intensive work, but I'm going to check it out.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                That was literally his job.
                The book is the opening lecture for his Medieval Literature class.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                You know, I feel pretty moronic now. For some reason when I think of him only his Apologetics and fiction come to mind. God I wish recording lectures was a thing back then.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Those were hobbies.
                In his apologetics he constantly restated that he isn't a "proper" theologian and is merely sharing his thoughts.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                etienne gilson is good for 20th cent christian philosophy stuff. being and some philosophers is a great book

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah. Thing is I knew all that thus the moment of realization of moronation. Any other recommendations of his scholarly work?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                this and the story of art are really good for explaining how the medieval mind worked.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          It’s called the “Christian dark ages” for a reason

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The ACTUAL dark age is VII-IX century Great Britain, because of the political unrest from Viking invasions AND because we have very few recorded sources of the period pre-Alfred.
      Dark because we don't know much about it.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >achieve space travel
      >60 years later all technological, philosophical, and metaphysical progress is spent placating jungle apes pretending they're just like us
      more literal "dark" ages are today

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Look, I agree we should kill Trump and his supporters, but I won't call the modern world a dark age just because we have to pretend they are people.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Trump isn't the one taking money from NASA to feed urban youth and pay for their school lunches

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Look, I agree we should kill Trump and his supporters, but I won't call the modern world a dark age just because we have to pretend they are people.

            An inability to look at history without analyzing it through the lens of the most recent American administrations is a sign of extremely low IQ

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    It’s literally what the audience wants. People think bright colors in a medieval setting look cheap and corny, like a renaissance fair.

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    The israelites trying to convince people that the middle ages weren't actually a traditional Catholic paradise where all virginal men were given trad milkmaid wives and Satan hadn't created gays and blacks yet. Or at least that's what I've been told

    Its called the Dark Ages for a reason moron.

    Thanks, reddit

    It’s literally what the audience wants. People think bright colors in a medieval setting look cheap and corny, like a renaissance fair.

    Literally no one thinks that

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Literally no one thinks that
      I think that
      I also think you're a troony

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Look at this barbaric mudhut from the 1200s

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      That doesn't look like the 1200s. I'd say that's closer to the 1600s, past the dark ages and the Renaissance

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Only the statue is post-renaissance

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Makes sense, the sculpture is what I based my estimate off of. It's been a while since I took Art History, and even then architecture was only like 10% of the curriculum

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Then maybe shut the frick up next time.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Its chartes cathedral, 1252. Embarrassing for you!

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          The altar was designed in the 18th century. It is physically impossible to now a single thing about the middle ages and believe the picture shows medieval art.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          where are black people???

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Black person the “dark ages” were over and done with by the 11th century, arguably before if we look at caroline stuff

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are a fukken brainlet

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >posts baroque interior in defense of middle ages
      tradlarpers all need to be gassed

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's XIII century Gothic.
        Despite the buzz, Italian architects were far behind French ones.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          No it's 18th century baroque.

          At least reverse image search before making a fool of yourself. That’s clearly gothic for a start

          I have. And it confirms that the altar is an 18th century baroque piece.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            The altar, rest of the church, which frankly looks better made than any shitty evangelical "church" in the US, is XIII century.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >baroque interior
            Weird way to say altar. Why did you say interior?

            >chuddy janny deleted it
            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
            CHUDSERVATIVISM CAN'T EXIST WITHOUT CENSORSHIP LMFAO

            Not that i’d ever report anyone because it’s pathetic, but why is liking the middle ages political now? Every scholar of the middle ages today will tell you people have exaggerated and misrepresented its flaws, this isn’t a political thing

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Why did you say interior?
              To differentiate it from the building that the altar is in.
              Can you at least try to think?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                moron, you thought the interior was baroque and now you're coping

                So what steps have you taken to remove yourself from contemporary society if it's causing you so much misery?

                Where did I say I wanted to live in medieval times? Sad cope

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >moron, you thought the interior was baroque
                But it is!!!

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        At least reverse image search before making a fool of yourself. That’s clearly gothic for a start

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you remove the statue there's nothing baroque there, it's gothic all over, try harder

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >if you ignore the one thing i posted and look at something else you get a completely different view
          Amazing but we both know why you chose the baroque altar as your first picture.

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    b***h movies should be black and white anyway.

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Its close to that, but the real answer is that the modern ''progressive'' religion has to devaluate everything that came before in order to validate its hold on public conciousness.

    By making Middle age dark, violent, gray and unappealing you reinforce your own position in the publi conciousness.

    This is very similar to how modern sequels from classic such as Star Wars has to disgrace the original heros.

    TL;DR they want you to think ''wow the medieval times sucked I sure prefer modern times''. This is also why people has to be shon unhappy in those films.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think since none of us have first hand experience of living in the middle ages, it's just an ez mode way of setting the mood.
      >da jooz
      Can you guys get a job

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I have lived in the Middle Ages - I'll be 672 years old this year - and I can tell you're a israelite
        Quite similar to the community my village expelled when I was a wee lad

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          That was hysterically funny, you should tryout for fishtank

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The point is that except for material conditions people during the middle age werent much different from us, they had fun, they went to work, had parties, they grieved for their dead etc...

        But the ''mood'' you talk about is comes of a leftist materalist point of view, and very meta in a sense, where everything has to be shit because they dont have the high tech stuff we have today and the story told has to be self concious about that.

        And this would also imply that movies today should all be gray moody shit because we dont have the high tech stuff available in 100 years from now.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >where everything has to be shit because they dont have the high tech stuff we have today and the story told has to be self concious about that.
          Or maybe it's because they were born as chattel to inbred nobles, broke their backs doing pre-industrial agriculture, and constantly died from raids, starvation, and preventable illnesses.

          >but they worked less than we do today!
          This is an urban legend.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >this is an urban legend
            coooooppeeee

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >watch this YouTube video because I lack the wherewithal to articulate a point myself
              No wonder the zoomer morons educated by pop-history channels have the worst takes on this site

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok fine then, we know for a fact they worked about 2/3 of the year. For one thing you don’t need to work in a land based economy when there’s nothing to harvest. For another thing, we know every feast day they got off work and shit like that, as well as how long their breaks were. For most of winter they would barely have to do any work aside from household maintenance. And for another thing, your idea of a peasant isn’t accurate. They owned land. Peasant land was passed down generationally and their barons didn’t have the right to remove them from it- this went all the way up to the enclosure acts in england. Some peasants were independently wealthy merchants. You’re talking about 80% of the medieval population and making moronic sweeping assumptions about them. Happy?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >For one thing you don’t need to work in a land based economy when there’s nothing to harvest.
                Harvesting isn't the only part of agriculture. Tending to your property to ensure fertility is a year-round undertaking. Not to mention animal husbandry and various cottage industries for producing other necessities like clothing. Just because you weren't threshing or harvesting grain doesn't mean you were chilling in your hovel with your thumb up your ass.

                >For most of winter they would barely have to do any work aside from household maintenance
                You can't believe this. Trees still need to be felled, firewood chopped, homosexuals collected, livestock fed, food cooked and stored, etc.

                >They owned land
                Generally speaking they were leased properties to farm for their manor lords. A serf isn't the same as a yeoman or freeholder, and most peasants were serfs.

                >Some peasants were independently wealthy merchants
                And most weren't

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Trees still need to be felled, firewood chopped, homosexuals collected, livestock fed, food cooked and stored, etc.
                Oh wow! So much work! A normal person would have collapsed after so much effort!

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Glibness isn't an argument

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The argument is that that type of work is not the backbreaking slavery, you're just gay

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >year round fertility
                Crop cycling eliminated this. You’d have fallow fields you cycled between each year, which aren’t that complex to maintains. And I said as much, they still would need to fix their leaky roof or repair their clothing, but this isn’t exactly a back breaking slave drive- it’s stuff most human beings had to do since time began, and this didn’t stop for most even up until the last century. Managing the woods near their homes wasn’t something their lord compelled them to do for a certain duration every day, it was just part of life. The part we are arguing about, the actual labour hours compared to today, is true. If it was as demanding as you say it was, they wouldn’t be getting breaks to eat and nap every few hours which we know they did, and they had food provided for them. That sort of natural pacing of the day, working for 2 hours and resting for an hour and a half, wouldn’t be possible if all these domestic matters were as pressing and as time consuming as you say. There’s no way they could have managed slave labour and tending their own property and household. Furthermore, and it’s weird I have to say this, but they weren’t chattel slaves. They met with their lords once a week most of the time and rents were established by discussion and agreement. Of course you’re right, there’s that threat of violence there, and it did happen on occasion, but it wasn’t as frequent or as brutal as people make out. I’m not saying they lived an idyllic life, and they could be exploited badly, but the picture culture gives us of peasant life is a load of bullshit. Another fact is that a lot of peasant oppression came from OTHER peasants. They weren’t a monolith and there were class divisions between them. Most of the time peasants kicked off it was because their baron wasn’t taking the distinctions between them and their lessers seriously enough.
                >serfs didn’t own land
                They did. They’d pay an inheritance tax

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >For most of winter they would barely have to do any work aside from household maintenance.
                You have no idea how back breaking providing basic amenities are without modern technology and conveniences. Collecting water, firewood, cooking, laundry, looking after your animals, making your own clothes, tools. People who say shit like this I bet haven't even gone camping even with modern camping comforts.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                None of those things take more than a few hours in the morning

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah dude I do all that every morning with my pickup

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                t. Apartment dweller

                t. actual apartment dwellers

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                t. Apartment dweller

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                there are people in the countryside still doing these things and it’s not that bad. go visit a farm

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >put ten times more effort in to refuting my bullshit or you lose
                have a nice day

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe try putting in ANY effort instead of plopping your brown ass into a chair and copy and pasting a youtube link

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                He wasn't even me, but it took him more effort to find a youtube link to a comprehensive video on the subject of how much more people have to work to support themselves in the post-industrial world than it took you to go "um this has been debunked" pre-emptively because you knew that would be the response to your moronic post saying the medieval era was worse because.. because.. IT JUST WAS OKAY
                I will not accept any rebuttal to any of this that isn't thoroughly sourced

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Absolutely zoomer brained post. Try reading books, they're like YouTube videos made of trees

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            wow just like today

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >chattel
            Except for serfs, most peasants in France and England owned the land they worked on, and had to pay 10% taxes to Clergy and Nobles. Jeanne of Arc dad was actually a middle class land owner and when he petitioned the local lord for an escort for his eccentric daughter, the lord listened.

            Try to petition your mayor/senate rep to stop Black folk from raping your daughter.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              to be fair a lot of this shit depended on the when and where rather than being black and white much like today.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Exactly, hence why "muh muddy grim middle age" being such a brainlet take.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >wow I'm glad I have no rights because at least my manor lord is a based tradcath white man and he leases me a half acre to farm barley and cabbage

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            So... like most of human history? Do you people honestly believe that stuff like that happened all the time everywhere constantly and no one was ever happy?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              So what steps have you taken to remove yourself from contemporary society if it's causing you so much misery?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              OH NO NO NO

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wow it's almost like movies aren't objective views of reality, I am utterly shocked bro.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Thats exactly the point, the question is: why are those artistic choices made?

            The answers, like

            >where everything has to be shit because they dont have the high tech stuff we have today and the story told has to be self concious about that.
            Or maybe it's because they were born as chattel to inbred nobles, broke their backs doing pre-industrial agriculture, and constantly died from raids, starvation, and preventable illnesses.

            >but they worked less than we do today!
            This is an urban legend.

            ar good example of this mindset, in that the goal of those artisitic pieces is to judge the past from a materialistc point of view.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >judge the past from a materialistc point of view
              You dorks are all talk. You wouldn't last a single day in the pre-industrial agrarian paradise you're so desperate for

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's basically it, if the middle ages were portrayed accurately people would wonder why the frick our current era isn't more like that.
      It's ironic because the "dark, violent, gray" ends up being closer to our shitty post-WW2 dystopian "culture".
      I also blame 9/11, Hollywood made everything dark and emo past 2001.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I would say that people in Medieval times had the same ''capacity'' for happiness that we do today, which is quite different from materialistic welfare which is unquestionably better today. But these are two independent concept and you may want both.

        The problem with leftist is that they want to mix both material wealth and happiness, the next logical step being of course all the redistributive policies and the subsequent Sate led oppression such redistribution necessitate.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >modern ''progressive'' religion
      The depiction of the dark ages as an age of violent primitives dates back to the enlightenment philosophers.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It started in the Renaissance.
        It was literally a dumb boomer meme.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          it was humanists uncovering caroline manuscripts they mistook for lost roman knowledge
          pretty funny

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Maybe it had something to do with the collapse of the Western Roman state that afforded large cities safety and stability

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            the western roman state hadn't offered that for like 300 years before the alleged dark ages started

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      holy shit that horrible greenscreen

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        What studio do you work at? They hire queers that spout nonsense to fit in that post on an anonymous Pokémon card and dragon dildo trading marketplace?

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The real reason is that colorful period pieces look campy and garish and many aim for a darker mood and tone. It has literally nothing to do with some israeli psyop or Cinemaphile tradgays and their persecution complexes

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    chuds be like
    >living in a world without antibiotics or anesthesia and dying of an infected toe at age 37 was good actually!

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    There were only three periods of the Middle Ages that could be attributed to the "Dark Ages": the immediate collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the economic collapse of Europe as a whole due to Islamic conquests disrupting Mediterranean trade routes, and the widespread death toll of the Black Death.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I recognise these dudes

      The altar was designed in the 18th century. It is physically impossible to now a single thing about the middle ages and believe the picture shows medieval art.

      In english gomez

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Let me try to translate for you:
        you big dum dum
        smart grug know not middle ages

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The frick you onabout?
      The dark ages are specifically from 410AD to 850AD
      The fall of Rome to the Vikings.
      The Viking raids marked the beginning of the middle ages and the start of the age of disovery culminating in the Crusades and then the transition into the Renaissance.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        There is no "dark age" in modern historiography, they dropped the concept about 20 years ago. The fall of Rome at 476 AD is is the start of the early middle ages.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >modern
          stopped reading there. It was called the dark ages because during those centuries, we lost so much knowledge, wisdom and information it was a complete reset for western Europe. We regressed back to base tribalism.
          Only by the grace of Rome did the little knowledge that remained propagate throughout the world once again.
          I don't give a frick what some mark who got taken by an institution calls the ages passed.
          His predecessors were were far more learned than our modern 'experts' who have been corrupted by false ideals and notions and grandeur.
          The Dark ages were just that, a dark period for mankind, losing all civilized progress of our forebears for centuries.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            And that corresponds to the early middle ages, you would have known that if you read his post

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >losing all civilized progress of our forebears for centuries
            they didnt have any

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah except the part where this literally didn’t happen. Do you only read history books from the 1700s?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Italy falls apart into tribal fiefs
              >Gaul and germania fall into tribal conquests resulting in the Goths and Vandal raids and sackings of mainland Europe
              >Muslims conquering Hispania
              Britain recovered fairly well after the fall Rome mainly because a fair amount of Roman governors and military personnel stayed behind because they had made a life for themselves in Britannia.
              The Saxon raids and settlement of Britain specifically happened because of Tribal conquests forcing them out of Saxony.
              You're a moron and so am I for arguing with you.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                You’re acting like this was a sudden thing. Western rome was doing the muttmerica tactic of paying off barbarians to attack other barbarians for centuries, it got to the point where most generals were gauls and goths. When the emperor stopped being able to pay them after north africa went to the vandals, they simply stopped listening to the emperor. But for one thing, the eastern empire continued fine, and for another, knowledge wasn’t “lost”. There was a period of instability and tribalism for a couple of centuries during which the church preserved codes of law and copied books. Once charles the great comes into the picture literary culture was already back on its feet and thriving. The medieval world of the 13th century surpassed a lot of what the romans were capable of, it just wasn’t a unified empire anymore, and it still isn’t. The idea that “progress” in any way was permanently disrupted is just whig history nonsense

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                none of those things caused an age of darkness. Neither technology nor learning regressed, there were just smaller states and less organized record keeping. It was always called the dark ages because records from it are noticeably harder to find than the classical period or the high medieval period.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            You are just repeating vague talking points written by 250 years ago, which you probably got from a youtube video. We have access to more records and infinitely more ways to assess material conditions than when these ideas were written, which is why they've been abandoned by the discipline.

            Do yourself a favor and actually look into this stuff for yourself, don't take the word of some homosexual farming views to make money.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >written by 250 years ago
              NTA but written by 250 years ago? Strange name.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm gonna name my kid 250 Years Ago just to confuse people in 250 years
                Why were they like this

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Gibbons and his History have been a disaster for the human race.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I like vikings, but were the viking raids really significant enough to warrant their own European time period?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Dark ages end more with consolidation of frankish rule but in some ways yes.
          The outside pressure of muzzies vikangs and hungarians required localised military districts to mount effective defense.
          The quintessential feudal element of local lords ruling largely autonomous steems from that.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          They get hyped up to distract us from the near-catastrophic effects that Umayyads brought down.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't wanna be one of those moronic "le vikings were actually le migrants" ~~*historian*~~, but by mixing with French(Normans) and Brits later, they changed the history of Europe.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          ‘Foundations of Geopolitics’ claims that it was outside pressures, insufficient to overwhelm but sufficient to force collaboration between kingdoms, that resulted in modern European nations
          Pressure from 3 sides, four if you count perfidious Albion, solidified the northern raiders as a sufficient element in establishing the modern order

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Did they actually wear these helmets into battle?

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >chuddy janny deleted it
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    CHUDSERVATIVISM CAN'T EXIST WITHOUT CENSORSHIP LMFAO

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I was born in le wrong century

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Is outnumbered by both the English and the Burgundians
    >Invests all of his points into FTH and gunpowder
    >Wins

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >directors and historians keep jerking off on Agincourt anyways
      I hate anglo bias

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >on
        to

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >oh noooo I'm being raided by bandits and murdered
    >at least there's no movies with black people ^_^

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >daughter raped by pakis and teacher beheaded by mudslimes
      >"AT LEAST I'M NOT A RACIST"
      Btw, bandits were exactly why you paid taxes to KNIGHTS. Because fricking knights, unlike politicians, were hard motherfrickers who would find bandits and skin them/behead them, not put them in prison with 3 square meals a day.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I was born in le wrong century

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do the middle ages make them fume so much wtf

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          wasn't that caused by a israelite who converted to Christianity who then translated the talmud?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >King Louis IX ordered four prominent rabbis to defend the Talmud. They faced off against Nicholas Donin, a Parisian israelite who had abandoned his faith and converted to Catholicism. Donin was not a fan of Judaism; he was also the one who’d written the damning letter to the Pope that started this crisis.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I wish I could have heard this debate. Imagine four medieval ben shapiros defending passages about raping goy children

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >King Louis set the rules. Rule number 1: The Rabbis couldn’t criticize Christianity in any way. And if rule number 2 could have been announced, it would’ve been that there’s no way the israelites can win.
                >The trial did not go well. At one point, King Louis got so enraged, he shouted that a good Christian would plunge his sword into a israelite and not debate. One rabbi had to flee for his life. The remaining prominent rabbis argued all they could, but the Talmud was found “guilty” and condemned to burning.
                >Two years later, official searched all over France for any remaining volumes of Talmud and other Hebrew books. On June 17, 1242, 24 wagons deposited close to 10,000 books at the Place de Greve, near Notre Dame Cathedral, where they were burned.
                Based Louis.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >loses debate
                >spergs out
                Rather sad if you consider this a W

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's all anti Semitism personified.
                >Too dumb to reason or win a argument.
                >Just rely on violence.
                No wonder they always lose long term.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Because their king was a stupid brute incapable of winning a argument?

                Valid enough reason.

                Found the medieval haters kvetching

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Medieval time was cool. Most kings were stupid shits though.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The article was written by a woman or a israelite judging by the writing.
                No fricking way you can defend the Talmud in an honest discussion, it's bronze age mentality barbarism and greed infused.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Makes you realise why certain “frenchmen” wanted rid of the monarchy

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Did the israelites manage to infiltrate the Templars? I know they were screaming the last Grandmaster's name during Louis XVI's execution.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Because their king was a stupid brute incapable of winning a argument?

                Valid enough reason.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Why are former israelites ALWAYS the biggest antisemites?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                They know

                I'm also reading a book called "Blood Easter", by a Roman israelite Ariel Toaff, that talks about the Ashkenazi blood rituals in the XV and XVI century, and he says the proofs, unfortunately (for him) are damning. Of course him being a israelite says it was only some bad Ashkenazi orthodox and that Roman israelites weren't into that, but gonna take him with a pinch of salt.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >and he says the proofs, unfortunately (for him) are damning.
                Very much doubt that. Especially considering there is as much evidence for fairies existing as there is for blood rituals.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Fairies are real.
                They are not very nice but they are real.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yes he pointed out parts of the talmud which were very clearly references to jesus being boiled in excrement. I’m sure all the weird shit about molesting gentile toddlers, or killing gentiles with impunity wasn’t popular either once it was all translated

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Damn, the Qui were getting very uppity in the 1490s.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Portugal deported them into the ocean?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          SEA YOU LATER

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >israelite are going to Brazil!

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >He doesn't know about the Fall of Atlantis

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          to Sao Tome, an African island

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kings wanted money this many times
        Greedy dicks.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        This explains a lot about Genoa.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          do you mean venice?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Venetians had the sense to invent the ghetto and make them live on one shitty island.
            Genovese have always been shitheels

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              There is no information about genoa in that pic. You have italy the wrong way round.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Genoa is on the west coast
                Venice is on the East.
                Bridegroom of the Adriatic, blessed by St Mark.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes this means the pic has no info on genoa ffs.
                Hence the comment "this explains genoa" is wrong

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                There are two israelite arrows going there.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          The Black Death was brought to Europe by Genoese merchants, coincidence?

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Absolutely zoomer brained post. Try reading books, they're like YouTube videos made of trees

  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    That’s because nobody wants to watch medieval peasants go about their day. It would probably be boring and not sad and pathetic as we see in the movies.
    It’s the same with the Wild West nobody wants to watch some guy work on a ranch they wanna see cowboys shoot savages

  23. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The real question is why so many in this thread are desperate to defend Hollywood's grimdark middle ages bs.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because it reinforce leftist worldview.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      There's been an ongoing israelite/commie raid on Cinemaphile since 2020

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      leftypol is here

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because not everyone wants campy, saccharine period dramas because some brown tradcaths on the internet feel wounded by darker tones

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because it’s bait.

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Blue filters in medieval movies is white genocide.

  25. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >But why?
    antiChristianity really
    all these kingdoms had great Catholic Kings, but we cant have that on tv or movies

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You need to frick off with your christrannity persecution complex.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >screeching about trannies out of nowhere
          you're done

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            you called him a troony literally in the post I replied to

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          if the mere word troony triggers your insecurities this hard you might just be one.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >call someone a christtroony
            >rebut that by saying actually atheists on a statistical basis support trannies the most
            >UGH YOURE TRIGGERED

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I refuted your claim about catholic kings in movies you inbred.
              the troony part was just an insult because I assumed it would send you into flying rage.
              And yes you are and for good reason I assume lol

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >throws feces
                >feces thrown back at him
                >goes into a tard rage
                Stick to reddit, my guy.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It is you who is inbred.

  26. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    lmao the guy seething about Saint Louis itt
    Want some more cheese with that whine?

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    I'm really partial to pic related. It's mainly about the Hundred Years War, but that in and of itself has so many key elements (bubonic plague, beginning of English & French nationalism, adoption of gunpowder in Europe, Joan of Arc, Henry V, horrific peasant revolutions, etc.)

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it was an age that smelled of shit where dumb religious lugnuts screeched at anyone intelligent (the example of scholar rabbis being screamed at and killed because the dumb french king can’t win an argument has been posted). Centuries of science and art was lost. Eat shit. It’s thematically accurate to portray the era as miserable

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Well, if you're interested in the scientific progress stuff mentioned in this thread, pic rel. Somewhere there was a chan pic of a review done by the guy who writes the history for atheists website, pretty interesting but can't find.

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why did that innocuous post asking for reading recommendations get deleted?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      It adds intrigue

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think he made a typo when he wrote "I don't hate israelites" and he didn't want people seeing it.

        Call the spymaster. Interrogations must be made.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think he made a typo when he wrote "I don't hate israelites" and he didn't want people seeing it.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      troony jannies don't like it when the convo goes the wrong way.

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    medievalchads won in another thread

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      medievalbro THE PIOUS, the NOBLE, the LEARNED ARISTOCRAT, the ASCETIC the CHIVALROUS the ROMANTIC the GENTLEMAN the KNIGHTLY the COURTLY the VIRTUOUS the SCHOLASTIC MEDITATIVE PONTIFICATE of CHARISM the HOLY the GALLANT

  32. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    NEVER TRUST A GENOAN.

  33. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    when is the neo sincerity movement starting where we can have colourful kinos about gallant knights again and not just endless misery porn

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why would Hollywood be sincere?
      They are in an agenda pushing mode.

  34. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If blue was so expensive, what did the average French soldier wear? Any surcoat or did they just huddle around a single fleur-de-lis standard?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Chiefly greens and yellows.

  35. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone have that chart that shows how scientific achievement dropped off during the Christian dark ages?

    • 3 months ago
      Galileo

      Why do you believe scientific achievement is so important? Outside of medicine and agriculture most of it is useless.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        How dark is your skin?

        • 3 months ago
          Galileo

          You didn't answer the question. People can live comfortably without most of the stuff we have now, in fact they'd live better without them.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Industrial society has its problems, for sure, I just find it funny how pseudo-luddites who fetishize pre-industrial societies never put their money where their mouth is. Kind of like pinkos who b***h about capitalism but are unwilling to make the smallest of sacrifices to avoid participation in it.

            • 3 months ago
              Galileo
              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                The people who post this comic are worse than the people they try to parody
                Tweeting about the working conditions in China is not comparable to installing seatbelts in cars - one is an empty and useless complaint, a popular activity online, and the other is an actionable observation (installing seatbelts)
                Upvoted though

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah they post this trite comic because they have no actual rebuttal. It's not that they're unable to lessen their participation in capitalism, it's that theyre unwilling to make any sacrifice to do so, and then cope by saying they have no choice. You see the same thing here with morons who deride the material comforts we have now, but wouldn't actually give them up in a million years.

              • 3 months ago
                Galileo

                Black person, how the frick am I gonna live like a medieval person in modern America? Literally how? Society is entirely different than it was, it's just not possible.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Obviously you can't live EXACTLY like a 10th century serf, but you can reduce your dependency on technology, and lessen your participation in modern society (like the Amish or off-the-grid homesteaders). But like I said, you won't, because you're all talk and unwilling to make sacrifices

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                See [...]

                To what end? In the medieval you were a peasant because the social order provided you a wife and children as well as a home with a farmstead. In addition you got a warrior and noble classes who protected you. Nowdays you have politicians who lie to you and no warrior class just rich kid feds who arrest you on made up charges.

                The reasons to live like a peasant are gone, so why live that way anymore?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >The reasons to live like a peasant are gone, so why live that way anymore?
                Read the thread. A bunch of tradgay anons think life was so much better before modern material comforts made us soft, degenerate, and decadent, so much so that israeli tv producers have to psyop the population into thinking that pre-industrial Christian Europe was REALLY bad. If it was so great, then why not make minimal efforts to preserve or emulate it?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >If it was so great, then why not make minimal efforts to preserve or emulate it?
                Try strongmaning your own question. Tell us why not?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >strongmaning
                Try again ESLanon

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                See also steelmanning, ie the opposite of straw manning.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Life was better reread my comment. I'm saying I'd rather marry a wife, own a house and have children (things I'll probably never attain) than to have air conditioning and the internet. It's a trade off.

                Obviously if stable households and modern tech were both possible that would be preferrable, but some might argue they're not. Either way just giving up tech won't give you a wife, children and a home of your own. It'll just make you the weird hermit living with his parents that doesn't use the internet and autistically refuses to watch tv with his parents. Or if you're successful you might be living alone and doing the same strange habits, but either way you won't get what makes the trade off worth it so why bother?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I became convinced that online dating was psychologically unhealthy and so I went out and met a woman who I am now going to marry this year - I also think television is psychologically unhealthy and so don’t watch it (though I still post in threads about shows I haven’t seen)
                The people who decide that the internet as a whole is unhealthy then stop posting here, so there’s an obvious selection bias
                Regardless, many people - like me - have cut out ‘convenient’ technologies and benefitted from this

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >"The Left care about Chinese workers!"
                >Trump tries to bring jobs back to the US by deregulation
                >"REEEE MUH ENVIRONMENT!! REEEEE!!"
                Why are Leftists like this?

                Also peasants in the medieval weren't miserable and if they met a modern person they'd probably call you a filthy wretch for not covering your women and worshiping God with Latin chants. They actually were trad Catholics not modern online variants. So pretending they wouldn't execute communists and liberals is silly.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >put their money where their mouth is
              There is nowhere in the US you could even if I gave you a 200 acre farm. Living an agrarian lifestyle is incompatible with property taxes at a fundamental level. Heck you would be expected to pay fifty-fold to the state what a literal medieval peasant would owe his Lord. Per year.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yea but peasants couldn't vote.

              • 3 months ago
                Galileo

                >year round fertility
                Crop cycling eliminated this. You’d have fallow fields you cycled between each year, which aren’t that complex to maintains. And I said as much, they still would need to fix their leaky roof or repair their clothing, but this isn’t exactly a back breaking slave drive- it’s stuff most human beings had to do since time began, and this didn’t stop for most even up until the last century. Managing the woods near their homes wasn’t something their lord compelled them to do for a certain duration every day, it was just part of life. The part we are arguing about, the actual labour hours compared to today, is true. If it was as demanding as you say it was, they wouldn’t be getting breaks to eat and nap every few hours which we know they did, and they had food provided for them. That sort of natural pacing of the day, working for 2 hours and resting for an hour and a half, wouldn’t be possible if all these domestic matters were as pressing and as time consuming as you say. There’s no way they could have managed slave labour and tending their own property and household. Furthermore, and it’s weird I have to say this, but they weren’t chattel slaves. They met with their lords once a week most of the time and rents were established by discussion and agreement. Of course you’re right, there’s that threat of violence there, and it did happen on occasion, but it wasn’t as frequent or as brutal as people make out. I’m not saying they lived an idyllic life, and they could be exploited badly, but the picture culture gives us of peasant life is a load of bullshit. Another fact is that a lot of peasant oppression came from OTHER peasants. They weren’t a monolith and there were class divisions between them. Most of the time peasants kicked off it was because their baron wasn’t taking the distinctions between them and their lessers seriously enough.
                >serfs didn’t own land
                They did. They’d pay an inheritance tax

                >They met with their lords once a week most of the time and rents were established by discussion and agreement.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Gr8 b8 m8

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cope. Your luddite bluster is just a bunch of BS considering you're unwilling to make incremental lifestyle changes.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                There's nothing to fricking increment towards. Living an autisticly minimalist lifestyle would never get you to the bullshit in da woods fantasy thats so popular. What part of fundamentally impossible in a statist overtaxed society did you fail to understand?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                See

                Obviously you can't live EXACTLY like a 10th century serf, but you can reduce your dependency on technology, and lessen your participation in modern society (like the Amish or off-the-grid homesteaders). But like I said, you won't, because you're all talk and unwilling to make sacrifices

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Read again. That's exactly what I was criticizing. .

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >There's nothing to increment towards
                Lmao of course their is. You're just a performative gay who won't make a single lifestyle change

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                At what point is it possible to transition from a minimal-no modern convinces lifestyle to a proper agrarian lifestyle? Were in your "make sacrifices" roadmap does this change occur?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's obviously near impossible to completely make that transition in a more globalized world, but to not make a single effort is the same lazy hypocrisy you see with tankies, like

                demonstrated

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Explain why someone who believes that agrarian life was culturally superior (rightly or wrongly) would start down a path that could never be completed? Why would someone forgoes all modern tech, spend half a lifetime saving, and then buy land that would be taxed away from him because agrarians don't make good taxpiggies?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      inb4 seething tradlarpers can't refute any of the data points on the graph

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anyone have that chart that shows how scientific achievement dropped off during the Christian dark ages?

        >Not posting the whole chart

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          We would have real enter-video-games devices if not for Finland...

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Christian dark ages
        That isn't how it worked at all. Historylets (liberals) need to sit down more often

  36. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Where you there? No? Then frick off.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      We have paintings. How many medieval paintings are gray? Zero. Everything is colorful.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Paint was colorful
        wow thanks buddy

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          (You)

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Gray is a color they could have used, but they used all sorts of other colors. You are a huge homosexual moron by the way and you're also a c**t and a twat and a Black person too. Oh and a troony.

  37. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dark Ages can be applied at a country by country level.
    Egypt and Greece have been shadows of their former selves for thousands of years. It's been Millenia since their civilizations were at their Apex

  38. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >people still falling for the dark ages meme
    it has dark in the name so clearly those damn religious people were holding the planet back
    thank god we can be pregnant men atheists now.

  39. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've got a buddy who is a professor of Roman history who once got called on by a studio to be an accuracy consultant on a kino. So he's there pointing out all the problems with the armor and the formations and the producer is basically like "yeah we know about that but audiences expect bracers like these even though it's not set at the right time." So the takeaway here is that they've been doing the medieval filter for so long that it's our conception of how things were and if they didn't do it that way about a third of Americans would be really confused

  40. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If I got sent back in time to the dark ages in Europe I would immediately set out for China.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Truly a nation of squandered potential
      Gunpowder but no guns, printing press but no alphabet, an intercontinental navy scuttled!
      My heart weeps for Zhuanghe!!

  41. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    why should i believe what tradlarping redpilled incels have to say? theyre just as likely to lie or bend the truth as much as any politically and religiously motivated israelite

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I just like medieval stuff bro. Not my fault they persecuted your israeli people

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cool it with the antisemetism bro. Whats wrong with a motivated israelite exactly? And be specific.

  42. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Modern historical movies try way too hard to make everything look brown, dour and miserable and at this point there is obviously an agenda to make the past seem like a terrible miserable place. It's not just antiquity, the Middle Ages, or the Napoleonic era, they do it with anything set before the 1960s civil rights movement.
    They have to sell the myth of progress.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Where you there? No ? Then frick off.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hahahaha, chill out

  43. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    medievaleers lived in dirt and squalor and did not have the type of modern detergents that maintained colors in clothing.

    Seriously, try dying something using a natural ingredient from your local environment. after a week it'll be completely washed out and grey.

    this is the weirdest forced meme on Cinemaphile.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      People at renfairs wear traditionally dyed clothes, it's not some lost art. They need to be redyed regularly to stay vivid but not every week. Easily possible for most medieval people.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Weird. My ren-fair is mostly just nerds in furry suits and mandalorian cosplay, with a handful of alt girls dressed as elves.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Your ren faire sucks
          Which country are you in? Sounds North American

  44. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's to make history seem worse than it was, if we look at it honestly it might make us question our society and realize not all that has changed has been for the better.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      nope. its because vibrant colors that last are a recent invention of clothing technologies etc.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You can make natural clothes so bright people tell you they're anachronistic at events.

  45. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    We are no longer allowed to romanticize the past. We must only praise the current day.

  46. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    > nooo my medieval headcannon is that everything was brightly colored and everyone was happy because uh
    > because some painting told me
    > because some movie told me
    > because some moron on the internet told me

    so basically the most neckbeard take ever, cool okay

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      (You)

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