{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "\u201cGenerically medieval\u201d, by which we mean our peerage is French, our castles are German, our weapons are Italian, and everybody...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/190890024608/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://illumynare.tumblr.com/post/185014475476/jasmiinitee-prokopetz-the-venereal-bede\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">illumynare</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://jasmiinitee.tumblr.com/post/184827342288/prokopetz-the-venereal-bede-prokopetz\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">jasmiinitee</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/184486540052/the-venereal-bede-prokopetz-generically\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">prokopetz</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://the-venereal-bede.tumblr.com/post/184486398139/prokopetz-generically-medieval-by-which-we\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">the-venereal-bede</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/184482750672/generically-medieval-by-which-we-mean-our\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">prokopetz</a>:</p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGenerically medieval\u201d, by which we mean our peerage is French, our castles are German, our weapons are Italian, and everybody speaks English.<br/></p></blockquote>\n\n<p>you can have religion in one of 2 flavors: \u201cwoo hoo aesthetic garnish\u201d and \u201cSinister State Control in Bad Allegory for Problems in Modern Christianity\u201d </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Also, the latter is aesthetically French Catholic, theologically German Protestant, and has the institutional structure of the Church of Scientology.<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>not to mention that this land is simultaneously inhabited by thinly modified northern vikings (Nordic \npre-medieval/9th century), travelling mongols (European medieval/13th century) and a wealthy italian merchant family with a house full of oil paintings (Southern European renaissance/15th century). the dance of the day is waltz (refined German 18th century country dance).<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/lutheranism%3F\" target=\"_blank\">#lutheranism?</a> <a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/in-MY-11th-century-southern-France%3F\" target=\"_blank\">#in MY 11th century southern France?</a><a href=\"https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/it%E2%80%99s-more-likely-than-you-think%21\" target=\"_blank\">#it\u2019s more likely than you think!</a>\u00a0(via <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https://tmblr.co/mJZp9k_gAt389DhM95KHfjQ\" target=\"_blank\">@byjoveimbeinghumble</a>)<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Not wrong</p><p>To get on one of my hobbyhorses again, reminder that &ldquo;JRPG medieval&rdquo;, where states comprise one city each led by a single noble always almost coopted by his chancellor; wars are fought with lancers, dragoons, and heavily armored 2h swordsmen; the empire is threatening to take over while the corrupt church co-opts from beneath; and the world is a combination of stone castles, half-timbered merchant towns, surprisingly advanced factories, rural idylls and exotic savage lands, is really an <b><i>early modern German</i></b> vision.</p>"}