Anyone know stuff about the medieval ages?
- witch persecution took mainly place after the Middle Ages
- there was a bathing culture in medieval cities during a certain period, so not everybody was dirty in the Middle Ages
- nearly nobody believed that the earth was flat
- Charlemagne never claimed to be Roman Emperor
- there was actual intellectual life going on back then
- in many places, peasants and cities managed themselves without a monarch
- in some aspects the Middle Ages saw major technological breakthroughs
- Muslims, Jews and Christians didn't always fight against each other
What assistance do you require specifically, OP?
To essentially anarchy in middle age Iceland
(to the extent of essentially modern socialist levels of control)
to essentially anarchy in middle age Iceland
That's just an illustration of how mindsets were different a 1000 years ago. The most important thing is to try to wrap your head around that.
I have to confess that I know little of Byzantium's social and economic history, but I doubt that a medieval state could have reached modern, let alone socialist, levels of control.
I'm quite interested in Roman history though, and I know that even the Dominate never achieved to be as powerful as the modern state. The Roman bureaucracy just hadn't the numbers and the technology to efficiently supervise its population. So how, and which areas of daily life, did Byzantium regulate as heavily as modern states?
Iceland wasn't an anarchy but something I would call an oligarchy. While the poors had only little rights, the rich landowners participated in the people's assembly. IIRC, this was also the place were certain cases werde decided.
Sure the tradition of blood feud was strong, but it was a formalized and accepted custom - it didn't challenge the power of the state because public institutions never tried to stop it.
To be honest your scenario is more an illustration of the current (American) mindset. The country is so divided that nobody could hope for a constitutional amendment to be passed. So you have to use the SCOTUS which obviously is the last institution capable of acting.
- witch persecution took mainly place after the Middle Ages
Yeah, I know a fuckton about the Dark Ages, from the Battle of Ronceveaux Pass to Offa of Mercia (or Merica) to the Kalbid dynasty of the Emirate of Sicily to ESPECIALLY THE CRUSADES to Roussel de Bailleul to Pisan ownership of the Balearic Islands to pretty much everything HRE (Kingdom of Arles, Rex Teutonicum, etc.) to the First Bulgarian Empire to Brian Boru's Ireland so yeah ask me a question and it'll get answered pretty much.
That's why he said it took place after.This part isn't really true. Witch panics we're more of a feature of the Early Modern period. The Papacy openly preached against a belief in witches during the Middle Ages. It wasn't until the Protestant Reformation, and the resulting social stresses, that you saw people openly persecuting 'witches'.
This part isn't really true. Witch panics we're more of a feature of the Early Modern period. The Papacy openly preached against a belief in witches during the Middle Ages. It wasn't until the Protestant Reformation, and the resulting social stresses, that you saw people openly persecuting 'witches'.
To be honest your scenario is more an illustration of the current (American) mindset. The country is so divided that nobody could hope for a constitutional amendment to be passed. So you have to use the SCOTUS which obviously is the last institution capable of acting.
Since I said mainly, my point still stands. Sure there were medieval persecution of witches, but they weren't as common as during the Age of Reformation.