Fewer hands? You think a larger proportion of society owned property in medieval times than now?
Not to mention Rome! But I still don't get how this relates to my claim that things are better now than in the medieval period.
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Yes, all is better now than the Medieval. & the BBC4 tendency of historians to be its apologists, rather than its explainers, irks, or, as Mrs. Bennet would say, vexes me. 1 does need to understand WW Rostow's "take-off to economic growth" to get the conditions for the modern.
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Hang on, that last sentence is pompous piffle. I mean, we need a certain amount of economic growth to get the conditions for the modern.
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