History Main / MedievalMorons

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwA1VeYpvaM If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate - Disney Musical Parody - With Rachel Bloom]]. It shows a horrific medieval life rife with disease and backwards attitude.

* The two protagonists of ''Film/LesVisiteurs'', Jacquouille in particular. It's not helped by the fact that they have travelled time from their era, the 12th century, to the 20th century. [[FishOutOfTemporalWater The medieval way they interact with 20th-century life constantly gets them in trouble]]. For instance, they utterly destroy a postal van, thinking it to be a devil-powered cart driven by a Saracen (he's a black postman actually).

* PlayedStraight with ''[[Film/TheNameOfTheRose In The Name Of The Rose]]'', the film version. Everyone but [[TheWatson the narrator]] and the hero [[DetectiveStory William of Baskerville]] is a moron or a fanatic or both. It is averted in the novel.

* Sometimes it is almost impossible or nearly impossible for a society at certain points in the past to have known what we know. The heliocentric solar system is an example. Medieval societies from the post-classical Roman Empire to England believed that the Earth was the centre of the solar system, but without data and empirical evidence developed in the Early Modern Era, it is extremely difficult to develop evidence for a Sun-centred solar system, especially if you don't believe that orbits have to be circular but can be elliptical which was an error that Ptolemy had made and was questioned by Islamic scholars. It is very difficult to explain why stars don´t appear to move from the perspective of the human eye, and prove that the cause of any movement that even could be seen by later telescopes even was that the Earth moved rather than something like atmospheric haze. With telescopes and better mathematical methods, alternatives were proposed and given strong evidence in the 16th and 17th centuries and commonly accepted scientifically in Europe by the late 1600s and the early 1700s.

* Sometimes it is almost impossible or nearly impossible for a society at certain points in the past to have known what we know. The heliocentric solar system is an example. Medieval societies from the post-classical Roman Empire to England believed that the Earth was the centre of the solar system, but without data and empirical evidence developed in the Early Modern Era, it is extremely difficult to develop evidence for a Sun-centred solar system, especially if you don´t believe that orbits have to be circular but can be elliptical which was an error that Ptolemy had made and was questioned by Islamic scholars. It is very difficult to explain why stars don´t appear to move from the perspective of the human eye, and prove that the cause of any movement that even could be seen by later telescopes even was that the Earth moved rather than something like atmospheric haze. With telescopes and better mathematical methods, alternatives were proposed and given strong evidence in the 16th and 17th centuries and commonly accepted scientifically in Europe by the late 1600s and the early 1700s.

-->"[[CatchPhrase And that's the way it was and we LIKED it]]!"

* Sometimes it is almost impossible or nearly impossible for a society at certain points in the past to have known what we know. The heliocentric solar system is an example. Medieval societies from the post-classical Roman Empire to England believed that the Earth was the centre of the solar system, but without data and empirical evidence developed in the Early Modern Era, it is extremely difficult to develop evidence for a Sun-centred solar system, especially if you don´t believe that orbits have to be circular but can be elliptical which was an error that Ptolemy had made and was questioned by Islamic scholars. It is very difficult to explain why stars don´t appear to move from the perspective of the human eye, and prove that the cause of any movement that even could be seen by later telescopes even was that the Earth moved rather than something like atmospheric haze. With telescopes and better mathematical methods, alternatives were proposed and given strong evidence in the 16th and 17th centuries and commonly accepted scientifically in Europe by the late 1600s and the early 1700s.

* The FlatWorld myth is a DeadUnicornTrope. No, medieval Europeans (at least the scholars) didn't think the Earth was flat. And no, they didn't think it was [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail banana-shaped]]. Europeans learned that the Earth was round during the time of UsefulNotes/AncientGreece and that knowledge was never lost. The idea that belief in a flat Earth was widespread during the Middle Ages appears to have been invented during the 19th century, for the purpose of giving a HistoricalHeroUpgrade to UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus and casting him as a proto-Enlightenment thinker who achieved glory by challenging medieval superstition. In reality, it was Columbus who made a huge error over the size of the Earth, claiming one could sail directly from Spain to India. His detractors (including clergy members) rightly said it was far larger and this couldn't be done. His fleet almost ran out of food and the sailors had gotten to the edge of mutiny when they ran into the Americas. That other wiki has an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth article]] about this specific issue.[[note]]TL;DR: The myth was started during the debate over biological evolution in the 19th century, were evolutionists attempted to portray this specific debate as an eternal struggle between religion and science.[[/note]]

-->'''Dennis (peasant):''' We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major...
** Not an active subversion, but in the DVD commentary Terry Jones noted that while researching the era it sppeared that human remains had mostly intact teeth (albeit with ground down molars). Jones surmised that this was due to a diet without refined sugar but lots of coarse grain)