and THEN this fucking guy tells us that "we're reading too much into this" re: control over pregnant women.
well exactly. and i told him, the only way we can understand the past is through a modern lens.
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because we view things a) not in a vacuum and b) within the context of our own period
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and trying to study med. history from the perspective of medieval ppl is useless, b/c we can never understand their views totally
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EXACTLY. like the only way that we've made advances in history is through viewing it from OUR modern context.
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