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Originally Posted by DtheP47
There's a lot of "blurring" with the history of the Middle Ages. The Bloody Assises/The Monmouth Rebellion and Judge Jeffries - the Hanging Judge. Beheadings, Hanging, Drawing and Quartering and all that grisly stuff prevalent at that time. Deportation if you were a lucky one.
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Beheadings, Hanging, Drawing and Quartering and all that grisly stuff, eh .... sounds a lot like Sharia law ... I think the only reason they don't do the HDQ is that it involves three operations ... multi-tasking
And because men, and men only, are in control, there ain't much multi-tasking happening.
But, there is no "blurring" with the history of the Middle Ages ... in fact, there are no Middle Ages; history tends to be kinda seamless. It's not like: "Listen up guys. A whole new way of doing things is gonna start tomorrow. The Middle Ages ends at midnight tonight, and the Renaissance will be starting up."
The reason that we can't find all that much in the way of history for a few centuries is that "history" as we know it, is a fairly recent invention. Although much has been lost over the centuries, there is still a vast amount of documentation available. Trouble is, no one bothers to read it ... and not too many folks can read Medieval Clerical Latin.
And the Monmouth rebellion happened in the seventeenth century, which is a little late to be thought of as medieval. Even those who stubbornly refuse to quit breaking up history into silly units, see the end of the middle ages as happening around, let's say, 1485, when the ruler of England tried to sell the country for a year's supply of horse burgers.
In brief, you are talking through the wrong orifice.