The medieval era was much less violent than either the ancient or early modern era, in part due to religious laws. So please for once stop using medieval as an insult and admit Singer shouldn’t have done so.
The key thing is the comparative basis. Compared to *now* the Middle Ages were very violent. Compared to the late antique or early modern periods, it was probably less violent overall (with more, but substantially smaller, wars that tended to be less destructive).
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Yes, I agree it was more violent than now, hence why I said 'ancient' and 'early modern'.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I think you can get into an interesting argument as to if that has more to do with restrictions on violence against co-religionists or weaker state capacity, though both seem to play a role. It is striking that when the norms are broken, it tends to be in religious conflict.
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Though, for the sake of caveating my own argument, the Hundreds Years War is the rare instance of a very destructive conflict in the Middle Ages (albeit on the door-step of the early modern) which is not a religious conflict. So they do happen, just less often.
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Well ...108 million dead in 20th century wars and 1 million and counting in the 21st so not letting us off the hook.
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