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They so want to live in medival times bless them
IN BRITAIN! I think some of the posts on here are very anglo-centric. I like that HN is a place that serves no one particlar nation or people.
As a noob asking from a place of curiosity, does “Medieval” mean anything outside of the Europe sphere of influence? Medieval evokes a certain imagery in my mind, rather than a time period. It feels weird and Eurocentric to refer to Asian countries in ~1200 as “Medieval” for example.
These are used in modern scholarly writing, like "The Medieval Archaeology of Somaliland" from 2002 at https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.566 and "China in medieval Indian imagination: “China”-inspired images in medieval South Asia" from 2021 at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000176 .
However, as others have commented, just because people do use them isn't enough to say if that's the primary form to refer to that period of time.
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Looks like a Gothic font with spelling differences, I think the first line translated is something like: > (something) tale I will now tell Except the spelling is like: > (something) take y wyll yow tell I can also read what seems to be "me to blame" on the 6th line.
Here's the best I can do with the first bit, several edits later: A letyll tale y wyll yow tell y troye hit wyll lyke yow well þat ye shall habe gud game ooooo Bot were(?) it was y dar? not say for appyr.??ly a nod? day hit myght t?ne me to blame ooooooo ?ow take gud hede evrython(?) how a yomon come rydyng alon hafull fayre way he fond ooooooo he lokud be syde hym lyght glydand he fond a hare full fayr syttand a pon…
I was expecting to read the text. :(
The academic paper has quite a bit more detail. The link to it in the Vice article seems to be broken, but it's available (open access!) on the journal website. https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236869902_'The_Hunt...
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The oldest recorded joke[0], as recorded on a Sumerian tablet somewhere between 1900 and 2300 BC: Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart on her husband’s lap. [0] https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/oldest-know...
An intellectual was told by someone: “your beard is now coming in.” So he went to the rear-entrance and waited for it. Another intellectual asked what he was doing. Once he heard the whole story, he said: “I’m not surprised that people say we lack common sense. How do you know that it’s not coming in by the other gate?” Most of them suck by today's standards, but that one is genuinely still funny today!
This one is funny and deep at the same time.
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Interesting. The table of contents is rewritten in modern cursive, though I can't read everything even there. Contents The Hunttinge of the Hare. A Mock Sermon. ... From there we can flip forward to the actual content and ... yep, can't read it. Honestly the only reason I know it says "huntinge of the hare" centred at the top is because I read it in the table of contents. I can tell it's English, but that's about all…
I think the table of content is modern. It says "rebound in 1964" after all. This is what seems to be the first page of the text https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1341... I recognize latin characters in what my classmates called "gothic font" in highschool. But I can't recognize the language.