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For the anti-bathing fad, you'll want to look to the mid-late Renaissance (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by PugJesus to c/historymemes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Me, seeing this saying "medieval people" and realizing it means "a slice of the world's population that lived in this (probably western European), but I guess fuck the rest and they don't count"

[–] PugJesus 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

'Medieval' to refer to societies outside of Europe remains a very contested usage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fair point, but that doesn't stop people using "bronze age" and others (often forgetting that the chacolithic is even a thing) within Europe and a bit beyond without acknowledging that the dates for that (and the "iron age" for that matter) can vary a great deal.

[–] PugJesus 27 points 6 days ago

"Bronze Age" and "Iron Age" are not regional in the same way that "Medieval" is. They can be used as global or developmental terms (ie 'The Bronze Age world', or 'A Bronze Age society'), but medieval, by contrast, refers to a specific period of time, and, by origin and usage, generally a specific region - Europe. It would be like complaining that Italy is never mentioned as being part of the Sengoku Jidai in the 15th and 16th centuries AD.