You know, having to explain to people that depicting the middle ages as unilaterially awful and terrible is...not accurate.
the outsiders are the Moors/Saracens/other group from outside Europe that are horrible slaving barbarians that rape women and hate everything you stand for.
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We never get to see Jewish or Rroma communities, or a bunch of nuns that arm themselves and hire mercenaries over leadership of the abbey, or hell even the widespread homosexuality that seemed to be actually not that maligned in the early medieval period (compared to later)
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And even though it was judged to be a sin, the punishment was penance, not death. The later medieval period saw execution and castration as punishment, although again gay people existed and others knew they existed.
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