Comments on: Top 10 Myths About The Middle Ages

By: noonesbuisness

noonesbuisness — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:11:45 +0000

Oh, so it’s fine to kill people because they were a specific religion, but if they had just been killing people for their actions it wouldn’t have been ok? Humm… Let’s think about this…

By: johnsm

johnsm — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:25:42 +0000

for the muslim world if a woman got married, her inheritance from her parents were hers, her property or money could not be touched by her husband and belongings of her husband belonged to her (and heirs) but no one really wants to look at muslims europe is where we are all looking at all the time

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:23:52 +0000

“It was not until the Middle Ages began to draw to a close that people like Elizabeth I began to use the death penalty…”

When do _your_ middle ages end and the Renaissance begin? Just wonderin’…

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:21:10 +0000

You got references for all these claims?

By: Top 10 myths about the Middle Ages | Everyday Theology

Top 10 myths about the Middle Ages | Everyday Theology — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:40:24 +0000

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By: JoejP

JoejP — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:41:36 +0000

Actually the Inquisition was not nearly as bad as people think, as it states in the list. An important thing to realize about the Inquisition is it did not have any power over professed Jews or Muslims, only Catholics. Also, one of the proceedings of the Inquisition was that the accused had to write out a list of his known enemies, if any of these were 1 of the 3 accusers the case was thrown out.

About the Great Famine and Black Death, or Great Mortality as it was called at that time. True there was over population because of the lack of farming technology, but this was not the cause of it. It was the Little Ice Age that caused the famine and this helped in the spread of the subsequent plague. Also, think about it from our modern perspective if there was a disease we knew nothing about and it killed one third of our population we would get pretty freaked out over it. Think of it in terms of a Zombie Apocalypse.

And of course there were revolts and wars, but remember the first war to be officially called The Great War did not take place until the 20th century, and that was only the first of 2 World Wars, the second one only the the Great Mortality did more damage to the human species.

So sure there were things going on during the Middle Ages that weren’t good, but in reality we can’t really say its any worse than our own present age.

By: JoejP

JoejP — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:30:17 +0000

Actually, an interesting fact about the Middle Ages was that women did not take the name of their husband. Also, there are different census taken during the time period that shows women as breadwinners and shop owners. And a final point can be made about the Churches marriage laws during the time which were actually more lax then they are now as they knew marriages were used for political purposes and have always stressed the freedom between the two people.

By: Wow

Wow — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:54:03 +0000

you cannot possibly think that women weren’t oppressed because two women managed to make history… for being women and also powerful. jesus

By: dah_medievalist

dah_medievalist — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:28:51 +0000

Excellent list

Gonna add one hugely common myth though: people died at thirty.

This isn’t true: yes, the average life expectancy was pretty low, but that’s because it was “rigged” by the high infant mortality rate; if you managed to make it into your teens, though, you could expect to live about as long as you would today.

By: Top 10 Legacies of the Middle Ages

Top 10 Legacies of the Middle Ages — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:08:22 +0000

[...] wrote this list as a companion to the “Top 10 Misconceptions about the Middle Ages” list. A few words on the criteria I used to put this list together. First of all, the boundaries [...]