this is also like when people were trying to argue that the low life expectancy in the pre industrial age was only due to child mortality and that most adults lived something close to normal life spans if they survived child hood, and like they absolutely did not! you can literally just go click on any large royal family on wikipedia and see how many of them were dying in their 20s due to disease, war and childbirth, and that’s just a weighed sample of the nobility who generally had a less stressful life
Also dying in your 50s, 60s or early 70s is still young by modern standards.
We have to remember that the preindustrial era had no cure for any cancer, heart disease, diabetes. And surviving an infectious disease can still leave you with messed up organs.
Created in the late 15th century, is one of the most iconic works of art from the Middle Ages. This masterpiece features a series of six tapestries that depict a noblewoman and a unicorn in various scenes, surrounded by a lush background of plants and animals. The tapestries are believed to have been created for the wealthy Le Viste family in France and are now on display at the Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris.
*explaining kitchen appliances to my pet medieval knights* The microwave, or Micheal the Wavious, and metal fork, or Sir Silver Prong, are sworn enemies and can never cross paths lest their meeting spell destruction for all.
i love reading medieval literature because it will be like “here is a knight that has lived in the woods absolutely stark raving mad out of his mind eating dirt for three years. we are not unpacking all that. anyways the next day he decides to go on a journey of redemption after gaining momentary mental clarity and now he is using the stupidest moniker known to man and now he’s fighting a giant.” and this all happens in the span of like 50 lines.
