Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages?

Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by pg on Sunday January 04, 2009 @12:23PM (#419320)

There are a lot of stories about robbery, but in reality, human societies don't function when people steal a lot.

By present standards, society didn't function in most of medieval Europe, especially in 800. That's why the flourishing trade of the Roman era was replaced by subsistence farming. Banditry had replaced pax Romana.

The rich didn't ride in carriages in the period we're talking about. The roads were too bad. Carriages didn't come into widespread use till centuries later.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? by biohacker42 on Monday January 05, 2009 @11:14AM (#420618)

This discussion is going of the deep end, but... are you sure?

Pax Romana had little to do with common muggery. The Eastern Holy Roman empire, a.k.a Byzantine was still doing OK. And for that matter the barbaric peoples at it's border, like the ones I am descendant from were as the above poster described, mostly peaceful and friendly.

[ Parent | on HN ]