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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
Related to (and often accompanies) The Dung Ages and Medieval Morons, where a work portrays the Middle Ages as a borderline Death World, where everyone lives in abject poverty in hovels and yet are taxed with sadistic relish by nobles who seem to prefer punishing peasants and raping brides than making money, famine and plague being the norm, people Reduced to Ratburgers because the nobility forbids peasants from hunting animals, no one to tend the fields because all the menfolk have been levied to fight in a pointless war, war consisting almost solely of starving the enemy out or setting fire to fields, the Corrupt Church is more concerned with increasing its material wealth than spiritual matters, doctors can only prescribe leeches and bloodletting to cure ills, and living to 30 years old is considered a miracle.
Obviously there's some Truth in Television here, and at some points the situation was truly bad, but there were still periods of peace and plenty.
Edited by Chabal2