leicanthrope t1_ir3netu wrote
Reply to comment by Infamous-Bag-3880 in See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop by unheated1
> Presentism is rife. We're quite smug with our modern judgments.
...and you provided a nice example of it.
You're assuming that she's basing her happiness on a modern scale. If being a medieval peasant is all she knows, that's going to frame her perceptions.
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