Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
So your answer to history you don't like is to dismiss it? By all accounts, life in medieval europe sucked.
By all accounts?

Look me up GC - you'll find me on the University of Exeter's website under the Centre for Medieval Studies. Just because popular history says it sucked, doesn't mean it did.

I am utterly sick of this crap - the bald fact is that most of the things people "know" about the medieval period were invented during the Renaissance, like the frankly horrific slander that medieval scientists believed the world was flat.

Lars - Marx was wrong, because he, like you, assumed a static hierarchy and unchanging relationships. The serf may have been "owned" by the baron, but the baron was not equivilent to a 19th Century industrialist and in fact Marx actually compared the industrialist to the Guildmaster and the Proles to the Apprentices and Jorneymen in his historical works. That understanding is essentially flawed because the Journeymen became​ the Guildmasters.