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Were the Middle Ages really as brutal and sadistic as we imagine today? There are many records from the time that actually do prove the stereotype to be true

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewgabriele/2018/11/28/middle-ages-not-murder/
The Violence Research Centre at Cambridge University (UK) just unveiled a new data-visualization project that maps murders in medieval London. Across a city of about 80,000 people at the time, the

https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/life-violence-middle-ages-murder-crime/
An exceptional case, even by medieval standards, is provided by 14th‑century Oxford. Levels of violence there were considered unacceptably high by contemporaries: in the 1340s, the homicide rate was around 110 per 100,000. (In the UK in 2011, it was 1 per 100,000.)

https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/myths-middle-ages-what-life-like-facts/
The idea of the 'dark ages' was one dreamed up by Italian scholar Francis Petrarch in the mid-14th century. Petrarch was an early humanist thinker, and one of the features of humanism was to disparage the Middle Ages as an era of blind and uncritical dogmatism. Needless to say, this is rubbish. Medieval thinkers, particularly in the context

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/tix2gc/how_brutal_was_the_daily_life_in_the_middle_ages/
2/2. All of this is to say that violence was treated very differently in many legal cultures of the medieval period, and that it's a near certainty that violence was more common, to say nothing of the kind of petty, day-to-day violence like the kind children might receive from parents, schoolmasters, or trade masters. But that violence was almost always funneled through customary systems of

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-world-history-of-violence/violence-and-murder-in-europe/E1FFC7F84D135C5AD5B1A9F6A519F27A
How Violent Were the Middle Ages? Medieval Europe boasts a long-standing reputation for brutality and disorder. Nurtured by formative scholars such as Henry Charles Lea and Johan Huizinga, this vision of endemic violence and lawlessness is deeply entrenched in scholarly perceptions of the Middle Ages. In this narrative, violence was a normal part of everyday life in medieval Europe.

https://www.medievalists.net/2010/01/violence-and-predation-in-medieval-europe/
Traditionally, historians have seen the medieval period as one of great violence and lawlessness, which resulted in the rise of kings and states, starting in the twelfth century, as a way to deter this violence and bring it under their control. Legal sources and other medieval works often note that punishments for violent offences and other

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.07.23/
The editors and contributors should be congratulated on producing a collection that so clearly demonstrates the importance of issues of violence, its representation, and interpretation to classicists, ancient historians, archaeologists, and medievalists alike. If, in doing so, the book encourages scholars to look beyond their own areas of

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/02/medieval-violence-and-criminology-using-the-middle-ages-to-understand-contemporary-motiveless-crime/
The aim of this essay is to adopt an investigation of medieval violence as a tool to explore the sentiments behind contemporary motiveless crime. The article reviews both medieval and contemporary sources. It argues that understanding the spectacle element in medieval violence can help us decode the 'motivelessness' in crime today.

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Were the Middle Ages really as brutal and sadistic as we imagine today? There are many records from the time that actually do prove the stereotype to be true. Let's face it we all know what the character Marsellus Wallace meant in the film Pulp Fiction when he threatened, "I'm gonna get Medieval on your a*s!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1oy6f2/people_seem_to_think_that_medieval_people_were/
Granted, in a rural environment, there were a lot of nasty jobs and poop-scooping since it was great fertilizer. Cities may have been worse, but the largest cities in medieval Europe were between 20 and 50 thousand. Paris, for example, had only 20,000 people in 1000 CE and didn't reach 200,000 until the end of the middle ages.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/02/21/is-everything-you-assumed-about-the-middle-ages-wrong
Medieval Horizons. By Ian Mortimer. Bodley Head; 256 pages; £22. "I n public, your bottom should emit no secret winds past your thighs. It disgraces you if other people notice any of your

https://www.academia.edu/49471393/Reflections_on_Early_Medieval_Violence_the_example_of_the_Blood_Feud
This book reassesses the relationship between the late medieval rise of the state in France and aristocratic violence. Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called private warfare, the French judicial archives reveal nearly 100 such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne from the mid-thirteenth through the fourteenth century.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/o46xds/why_were_humans_so_violent_and_extremely_brutal/
Require no one but the violator and the victim. It is fast, it is immediate, it gets the violator what they want. So why were humans so violent and brutal in the past? Because social structures were simpler, and violence as a form of communication, was the simplest and fastest way to get one's point across.

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Were the Middle Ages really as brutal and sadistic as we imagine today? There are many records from the time that actually do prove the stereotype to be true. Let's face it we all know what the character Marsellus Wallace meant in the film Pulp Fiction when he threatened, "I'm gonna get Medieval on your a*s!"

https://www.worldhistory.org/Medieval_Folklore/
Definition. Medieval Folklore is a body of work, originally transmitted orally, which was composed between the 5th and 15th centuries in Europe. Although folktales are a common attribute of every civilization, and such stories were being told by cultures around the world during the medieval period, the phrase "medieval folklore" in the west

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https://listverse.com/2024/02/13/10-fascinating-glimpses-into-medieval-crime-investigation/
Today, we describe a particularly gruesome and vicious attack as "going medieval" on someone. Though it may be argued that the Middle Ages is no more brutal than contemporary times, we are still staggered by the amount of daily Game of Thrones-level violence in medieval society, even in times of peace.. It has been calculated that homicide levels in England during the period were 10 times

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/493o9q/were_the_dark_and_middle_ages_really_as_grim_dark/
It is important to remind ourselves that the past was a violent and unfair place, so much so that I don't think the 'Dark Ages' were any more or less 'barbarous' than any other period. The majority of the population, whether in the Classical period or during the Middle Ages, worked in the fields and had nothing to do with philosophy, art, or

https://www.historyhit.com/most-bizarre-creatures-from-medieval-folklore/
The folklore of medieval Europe was a mixture of legends from various sources, such as ancient regional stories mixed with Judeo-Christian religious tales and myths from the Roman Empire and the Near East. Whether or not people believed in all of these creatures is difficult to say, since it was not really the point to believe or disbelieve (although many would have been convinced of the

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/qbeokl/how_common_was_violence_in_the_middle_ages/
That is, for every brutal person in the world today, there were proportionately forty more in the Middle Ages, and for every peaceful person in the Middle Ages there are over forty more today. In other words, the most violent person out of two hundred today was as violent as the most violent person in the Middle Ages in a group of five or six.

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/7/792
Using medieval religious drama as a model, Honduras' Teatro La Fragua has developed a Gospel dramatization program that both reflects the practices of medieval theater in style and expresses the issues of a modern-day world in message. Their vernacular cycle plays are performed in public spaces by local people, written by and for the community, and staged in the streets and public spaces for

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/11tebc/how_violent_were_the_middle_ages/
Death in battle was uncommon for a mailed knight due to his armour, so killing one's enemies once you had them in your power was a bad show too, and would lead to a serious vendetta. This lasted for all of the Anglo-Norman period and into the reign of the plantaganets. People frequently refer to the Middle Ages as being far more violent than

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4738fh/why_were_vikings_so_violent/
EyeStache • Norse Culture and Warfare • 8 yr. ago. The TV show 'Vikings' is probably the least accurate depiction of early medieval Scandinavian life, culture, and warfare on TV. That said, sure, when men went on víking they killed unarmed people, though rarely. The purpose of a víking was to acquire wealth, whether in material (silver