As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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Or mothers, when while yes the reality is that most people led what we may consider a dismal life comparatively, but the nuances aren’t necessarily depressing. Women controlled money/finances, they participated in agricultural and house work, invented beer/mead and so on.
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While textual sources are thin for regular people, it’s a good reason to use other evidence such as archaeology to supplement.
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