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NotFishing

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wakkace said :
NotFishing said :
Annie1227 said :
I ment the time the plot is in.

Which I already knew. So how is that relevant?

she's saying (clumsily) that standards of child care were a little different in that time period

While that may be true, we also need to take our standards into account. It's difficult to depict someone whacking a little girl over the head and still have the readers go: "That guy, right there, is a hero." Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

08-Nov-2015 05:10:14 - Last edited on 08-Nov-2015 05:10:41 by NotFishing

Azigarath

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Historically, parents deeply cared for their children in medieval Europe, hence why you often see depictions of children going to heaven on cathedral walls. It was believed that their innocence made them automatically fit to go to heaven, unlike knights and cardinals, who are not uncommonly depicted suffering in hell.

There isn't much evidence to suggest that children were beaten with handles, for example. Orphans were looked after by local lords or clerics, poor children were fed, children were taught manners and to respect women and the poor (especially if nobles), and inside the household, parents were expected to love their children and show that love daily (in conversation during mealtime for example).

There are many letters during this period that suggest mutual love for the entire family. Alessandra Strozzi mentions in a letter that she ". . .I think I shall die of the need to see you again . . . " in regards to her children.

08-Nov-2015 05:20:27

NotFishing

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Azigarath said :
Historically, parents deeply cared for their children in medieval Europe, hence why you often see depictions of children going to heaven on cathedral walls. It was believed that their innocence made them automatically fit to go to heaven, unlike knights and cardinals, who are not uncommonly depicted suffering in hell.

There isn't much evidence to suggest that children were beaten with handles, for example. Orphans were looked after by local lords or clerics, poor children were fed, children were taught manners and to respect women and the poor (especially if nobles), and inside the household, parents were expected to love their children and show that love daily (in conversation during mealtime for example).

There are many letters during this period that suggest mutual love for the entire family. Alessandra Strozzi mentions in a letter that she ". . .I think I shall die of the need to see you again . . . " in regards to her children.

Actually, the presence of gunpowder suggests we are more in the early renaissance period. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

08-Nov-2015 05:23:22

Azigarath

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Ha, speaking of the Renaissance, women had more rights during the Middle Ages than the Renaissance, oddly enough. But yeah, I should have noted that we were talking about the RP rather than history.

Ancient Times were crazy, Phoenicians would burn newborn babies alive, Canaanites buried children alive under temples under construction, Romans could buy children of any age to use for pleasure, and children could even find themselves pushed into the front lines during sieges. Not fun, I'm glad Christianity spread when it did to tackle that cruelty of the pagan world.

08-Nov-2015 05:45:34 - Last edited on 08-Nov-2015 05:45:54 by Azigarath

Gunslinger Z

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The ties Ulfric had with the Thalmor were the main thing that gave me pause, after I originally sided with the Stormcloaks. Plus, the fact that the Imperials were mostly begrudgingly allied with the Aldmeri Dominion, which sort of gave me the idea that their 'alliance' wouldn't last long. I'd presume that after the Civil War, if the Empire wins and regathers their forces, they would probably end up at war with the Thalmor, anyway. So, after I originally sided with the Stormcloaks, I read up on the whole lore and decided, in the interest of ultimately destroying the Thalmor, I probably ought to have sided with the Empire anyway.

But originally, I did side with the Stormcloaks. Plus, my character was a Nord. Had I been playing as any of the Elven races, or even Khajit/Argonian, I probably would have gone with the Empire.

08-Nov-2015 06:17:24

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