Positive
"...never before have I entered the Middle Ages and tasted their mighty fare. Talk about food for the gods...."
-Dornford Yates, She Painted Her Face (London, 1937), CHAPTER XII, p. 315.
Negative
"Most boats were out fishing. Most males not aboard them were in the fields, toiling with hoes and spades. Charlie had thought the Middle Ages atmosphere romantic, but now he started to see why the League felt that everybody had a right to modern machinery as soon as he could safely use it."
-Star Prince Charlie, 2, p. 26.
"With scant organized entertainment, and most of them illiterate, these people were happy to meet outsiders. Charlie's opinion of the Middle Ages went down another notch." (3, p. 30)
When the fire department rents its horses to tourists because the mayor's treasury is (seen as) more important than fishers' cabins:
"Charlie's view of the Middle Ages sank still further." (4, p. 40)
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Kaor, Paul!
And the real people who lived during the "Middle Ages" would have agreed! Advanced technology and modern sanitation, among other things, was far preferable to what was known or available in circa AD 1300.
That said, what we have to day also came or sprang from the achievements of the Middle Ages. Including such things as inventing the horse collar (to make better use of horses) and the mechanical clock, a very basic invention (circa AD 1200 onwards).
Sean
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