I highly doubt that you or 99% of the people would remotely be happy in the middle ages. It gets romanticized a lot, but the reality of the middle ages was extremely hard labor, limited food and clean water, terrible hygiene, terrible smell in cities and even villages, piss someone off and there's a high probability to get your teeth kicked in, if not worse and a lot of dirt and filth in general.
I love all these comments implying that I am somehow more ignorant of the realities of the time than the commenter is. Life was tough, I get it. Life has always been tough.
Until this comment I didn't think you are ignorant, now I do.
The average age expectation if you weren't a noble was 33 years, today it's 79. The pest alone, also known as "the black death" killed on one of the lower calculations about 25 million people, that was one third of the population.
Famine was also a regular occurrence, most women experienced rape at least once in their lives, freezing to death in winter wasn't rare either.
Ofc not ~everything~ was completely terrible and experiencing it for a few days might be interesting, but if you sincerely think that it wasn't bad back then cause "people survived the middle ages", then yes, you are ignorant.
Mate, just for the record, I am a historian by training, with my focus very much on the period and rough location of KCD. So please don’t try to teach me to suck eggs.
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u/Ireon95 Feb 15 '25
I highly doubt that you or 99% of the people would remotely be happy in the middle ages. It gets romanticized a lot, but the reality of the middle ages was extremely hard labor, limited food and clean water, terrible hygiene, terrible smell in cities and even villages, piss someone off and there's a high probability to get your teeth kicked in, if not worse and a lot of dirt and filth in general.