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awarded | Yearling |
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Apr 9 |
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How “religious” was the average person in the Middle Ages? My point was not to deny the role and importance of orders such as the Franciscans, nor to imply that the pre-Reformation Church 'wasn't doing it's job'. The question was 'how religious was the average person', not 'did the church care about the average person'. The answer to the first question is both 'very' and 'but not in a modern sense'. If you view medieval religion through the filter of our modern concept of individualistic 'person-centric' religion and church-going, it is never going to give you a satisfactory answer. |
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Apr 8 |
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Was the American Civil War the first to include multiple multi-day battles? The Battle of Bannockburn (1314) lasted two days. |
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Apr 8 |
answered | How “religious” was the average person in the Middle Ages? |
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Apr 8 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Apr 8 |
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Why did the kingdoms of Scotland and England merge? Upvote ... for reading books. |
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Feb 15 |
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What is the origin of the myth of St. Valentine? I think you mean 'is first recorded around the time of Chaucer'. Chaucer didn't invent it, he just recorded it. |
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Feb 15 |
answered | Life in the middle ages for ordinary people? |
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Dec 15 |
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How severe were the casualties in ancient/medieval battles? I'd say any generalisation this broad is almost bound to be inaccurate, especially when you're talking about a time scale of thousands of years, in completely different places,with completely different weapons. If 3 British battles fought within 30 years can have very different levels of fatality, imagine it over 3000! My answer then is 'there is no answer'. It's ipso facto easier to kill someone who has their back to you and is running away in disarray, particularly before the invention of guns, but there are so many other factors in any battle that affected the result and mortality rates. |
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Dec 15 |
answered | How severe were the casualties in ancient/medieval battles? |
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Dec 14 |
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Medieval Scottish clan society and legal structure It's a huge subject, but you could do worse than look at Andrew Barrell's 'Medieval Scotland' and Alexander Grant's 'Independence and Nationhood'. The latter is a bit out of date, and there's a lot of stuff I wouldn't really agree with, but it makes up for it in readability and being broadly thematic.You could also try 'Scottish Kingship', edited by Michael Brown and Roland Tanner, although that's taking it to a fairly heavy-duty academic level. |
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Dec 14 |
awarded | Revival |
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Dec 13 |
answered | Medieval Scottish clan society and legal structure |
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Jun 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 21 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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May 19 |
awarded | Teacher |
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May 19 |
answered | How would you accurately use older British currencies? |
