The worst thing about mantel’s (and the broader culture’s) idea that late medieval english…

piersploughman : The worst thing about mantel’s (and the broader culture’s) idea that late medieval english catholicism was just ‘the poor bowing and scraping to wood and lumps of plaster’ imo is that it removes the agency from medieval people in such an absurd way. look me in the eyes and tell me you sincerely believe that people back then would dedicate their lives to something which they did…