RolloTreadway on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 npub1ukpsf…8lqxw There's also the wars. The core feudal ...
npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) npub1ukpsfr6ezdmvaykmp2autscyqkh6azphga4406rvqk20sxnc7f9sa8lqxw (npub1ukp…lqxw) There's also the wars. The core feudal agreement is land in exchange for arms.
Mind you, they probably romanticise those too. Hell, there were people romanticising medieval warfare *whilst it was happening*, so there's certainly no shortage of that today.
But the medieval romanticisation of battle was very big on pious chivalric soldiers dying for the cause. Rather than the modern notion of waving a big sword about, riding a horse, then going home for a nice bath.
And those wars were full of death. Full of horrendous injuries (with no anaesthetic and no treatment). And also, less romantically, full of dysentery - so, so much dysentery - and long marches.
So, basically, going back to be a minor noble means a very high chance of either shitting yourself to death or dying with a lot of infected wounds.
Mind you, they probably romanticise those too. Hell, there were people romanticising medieval warfare *whilst it was happening*, so there's certainly no shortage of that today.
But the medieval romanticisation of battle was very big on pious chivalric soldiers dying for the cause. Rather than the modern notion of waving a big sword about, riding a horse, then going home for a nice bath.
And those wars were full of death. Full of horrendous injuries (with no anaesthetic and no treatment). And also, less romantically, full of dysentery - so, so much dysentery - and long marches.
So, basically, going back to be a minor noble means a very high chance of either shitting yourself to death or dying with a lot of infected wounds.