You are forgetting all the little intracacies of the rennisance that people always forget... so allow me to remind you:
1: Princesses were NEVER "swept off their feet" in any other sense than to be thrown down onto the wedding bed by their Prince, who was chosen by their parents for purely political reasons.
2: Granted, there were balls, but unless you are thinking of drunken twirling in a bar, they were mostly for the rich.
3: Lets not forget that ultimate art of the era, expressed through disease. The plague.
4: Seeing as how the plage was never beaten back in the least untill Pasteur insisted on cleaning every square inch of an infected town, (he thought that rats carried the plage... nah, it was the fleas), one can draw the conclusion that the whole of the era was rather dirty. It didn't get much better than the middle ages as far as being clean.
5: How about the 35 year average lifespan? (I might be off on that, I'm just guessing, but it was more than 20 and less than 50)
5: Lets not forget about the best part ever, the church. Yep, the renissance was the chuches high water mark in history. A little fey worshiper like you would be burned for the crime of being to short, and nobody would protect you.
No... it's the same thing as that damned "knight in shineing armor" archetype... if there was ever an instance where it existed... it was once... and then promptly died.
1: Princesses were NEVER "swept off their feet" in any other sense than to be thrown down onto the wedding bed by their Prince, who was chosen by their parents for purely political reasons.
2: Granted, there were balls, but unless you are thinking of drunken twirling in a bar, they were mostly for the rich.
3: Lets not forget that ultimate art of the era, expressed through disease. The plague.
4: Seeing as how the plage was never beaten back in the least untill Pasteur insisted on cleaning every square inch of an infected town, (he thought that rats carried the plage... nah, it was the fleas), one can draw the conclusion that the whole of the era was rather dirty. It didn't get much better than the middle ages as far as being clean.
5: How about the 35 year average lifespan? (I might be off on that, I'm just guessing, but it was more than 20 and less than 50)
5: Lets not forget about the best part ever, the church. Yep, the renissance was the chuches high water mark in history. A little fey worshiper like you would be burned for the crime of being to short, and nobody would protect you.
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except the music and art were better then.
and would it really kill you to be a romantic every now and again and not look at the horrible side of things?
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is there ever a time that you're not a dick to people? we used to be such good friends.
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