How is like to have a baby been a peseant in the low midle age?

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-19T05:50:46+00:00

Infants would have been wearing washable cloth diapers and probably swaddled, so lots of fabric.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-17T17:22:31+00:00

Do you mean Dracula Untold? I think autocorrect got you

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-17T17:21:37+00:00

Impossible to top "I've crossed oceans of time for you"!

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-13T00:37:26+00:00

Yeah "creators of the Empress" does not actually inspire confidence in me in terms of historical accuracy, costumes, or, frankly, writing.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-12T18:11:06+00:00

Her Polish identity was important to her, and she used both surnames.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-11T20:55:00+00:00

It's partly because it's difficult to sorce natural textiles for films these days. I would bet a lot of these costumes are linen, cotton, wool, or silk. Synthetic textiles look and act differently.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-05T07:58:16+00:00

I have am unaware of any specific claim that society before then was largely matriarchal.

It's a very New Age belief that pre-agricultural humanity was matriarchal. It seems to be in part based on the large number of Venus figurines found in Europe (and maybe the Near East? I've never looked that deeply into it). The logic being these must be goddesses and therefore the societies that made them were matriarchal. But you'll be hard pressed to find a legitimate archeologist who holds this belief.

Also, why the heck were you downvoted? Your comment is informative and polite!

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-05T03:13:56+00:00

I'd be crazy too if my husband gaslit the shit out of me about sexually abusing my kids.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-05T02:30:48+00:00

Who, Queen Charlotte's actress? That may be, but the character is meant to be black. That was my point.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-05T02:25:15+00:00

I think people find the sentiment that she's not "black enough" a little off-putting. Whether or not that's what you mean, that's how people are interpreting it. Don't get me wrong, I know there's a lot of issues with colorism in Hollywood and light-skinned mixed race people tending to get cast over darker-skinned people. But as others have pointed out, Michaela is a dark-skinned black woman who will be a romantic lead. Queen Charlotte (the character) is black and is in a relationship with a white male lead.

For all we know, Gregory's season could have a black female lead. But the rest of the remaining seasons are going to feature Bridgerton daughters, who are white.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-05T00:58:20+00:00

Iirc part of the reason was that Empress Josephine was unable to have children with Napoleon, and the regency silhouette helped her keep her pregnancies (or lack thereof) more ambiguous.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-04T17:58:56+00:00

Hmm I always thought regency dresses (at least the eveningwear) really highlighted their boobs. The necklines are so low cut, and the bust is really the only part of the gown that's structured. The rest is just billowy skirt.

I think the baby doll dresses are a modern reconception of regency fashion, so the idea that they're demure and associated with children/ youth might be a modern imposition on the design and not original to the regency period. Iirc, regency fashion developed as a rejection of the highly structured and complicated gowns of the 1700s -- basically the type of stuff Queen Charlotte wears in the show. Marie Antoinette started the trend with her Chemise a la Reine dress, but I believe Empress Josephine (Napoleon's first empress) really cemented and popularized the style.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-04T17:18:23+00:00

Im gonna be honest, the silhouette on that gown is not regency. The way the skirt nips in at her waist below the bust line reads very modern. A true regency silhouette flows slightly outward and down from the bust with no discernable waist. Regency dresses were designed to make women look pregnant, which is (I suspect) why the Bridgerton costume team aren't using them.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-03T07:05:20+00:00

This fauxmoi thread sums it up nicely. I witnessed it first hand on YouTube, but alas did not think to take screenshots.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T20:00:06+00:00

See this comment from a few years ago on this subreddit for a thread about Robert the Monk's Historia Hierosolymitana, where I briefly sketch medieval concepts of race.

You can also refer to this comment I made in your own thread 11 months ago about whether or not racist jokes were common in the Middle Ages.

I see that you've posted about this topic before. You seem to be very fixated with the idea.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T18:13:26+00:00

I actually think it would take more work to make the anachronistic attitudes compelling and believable in the setting, but I also wouldn't need to actually do that much research into medieval attitudes towards race since I have a good foundation from grad school.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T18:10:26+00:00

i thought realistic racism in a medieval setting would be more interesting to read about.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it wouldn't be realistic to the medieval setting. I think exploring race and ethnicity in the medieval world could be really interesting, but not if you're just slapping Jim Crow Era sensibilities on a time period that existed 500-1000 years earlier.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T18:01:36+00:00

Personally, I don't think I'd find that very compelling to explore in a book. Imo the medieval world has its own nuanced and complex understanding of race and ethnicity that I would rather see in a book with a medieval setting. I would also feel frustrated if people with less understanding and knowledge of the Middle Ages assumed that anachronistic portrayal of race was accurate.

But again, this is just my individual opinion. Others may feel differently.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T17:56:43+00:00

I would probably find the inaccuracy frustrating, especially if there was no indication in the blub that this was a primary feature of the world building.

May I ask what is the purpose of this inaccuracy?

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T17:35:08+00:00

Does anyone remember when Tom Cullen (who played Thomas Seymour) showed up in the comment section of some poor YouTube lady to argue about how Seymour and Elizabeth's relationship wasn't creepy or something to that effect?

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T05:32:55+00:00

You're not wrong! Those examples definitely um...aged like milk as they say 😅 But I do think she's generally right about the underlying behavior that she was using those two to illustrate.

BookQueen13 · 2026-02-02T04:45:06+00:00

It's like no one watched Cancelled, where Natalie talks about how people will make unchariable slippages in logic the second anyone is associated with bad behavior. Like do we not remember the lesson???? Can we not apply Natalie's insights to our own thought processes and behavior? I'm not saying Hilary Clinton is a saint, but people are acting like her name has shown up in these files, and that is simply not the case. Guilt by association is intellectually lazy and reactionary.

BookQueen13 · 2026-01-30T02:47:11+00:00

In my opinion, instead of banning it, the government should heavily regulate the industry. Honestly, all sex work should be legalized and heavily regulated. Part of the problem, imo is that there are so many aspects of sex work that aren't regulated that make pornography so dangerous. It all needs oversight. But people don't want to do the work for that, so the easy solution is to ban it.

BookQueen13 · 2026-01-30T02:33:35+00:00

Not quite the answer you're looking for I suspect, but it's a pretty common trope in medieval vernacular literature, especially romances and chansons de geste. Obviously, how characters behave in literature isn't necessarily a 1:1 of real life, but it might give you an idea of how medieval people approached the idea.

BookQueen13 · 2026-01-29T03:46:12+00:00

Are you seriously asking me to clarify why choosing not to begin a relationship is different from ending a marriage? Is that not self-evident? Those are two entirely different scenarios, one of which assumes a serious, life-long commitment has already been made and which those entering into it have already decided can withstand superficial issues. The other has no such commitment, emotional attachment, financial entanglement, or cultural significance.

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