Were the Peasants Really So Clean?

Started by Justin Durand on Sunday, January 5, 2014

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1/5/2014 at 11:48 AM

Here's a fun article about the problems with seeing the Middle Ages in the movies:

Were the peasants really so clean? The Middle Ages in film
https://www.academia.edu/1065114/Were_the_Peasants_Really_So_Clean_...

Spoiler alert: "the Middle Ages in the movies are often modernity in drag."

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1/5/2014 at 12:08 PM

It's like cars in movies. Old cars are always extremely clean and shining, and when a car crash in a US movie it always explode in a fireball, so I would never dare to buy an American produced car...

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