I was browsing through YouTube and stumbled across a rather, let's say, interesting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLWwI3tRxY
This really did provoke my lazy student mind to start thinking about the relevancy of medieval history, especially in a modernist society like our own with -let us be honest here- not a huge percentage of people who are genuinely interested in the past and, more specificately, interested in the Middle Ages. Yes, without doubt, we still involve ourselves in many of the same things that our medieval ancestors did, and yes also to the fact that, with regards to religion and money, we still carry with us some of the same interests and concerns about our world. However, ideologies have changed, infact, the world has changed (arguably one could say completely)and it is progressively changing all the time, thus we find ourselves moving further and further away from that (awesome) period in history. So, is it possible that one day in the not so distant future we will change so much and become so modernist that it will be fairly impossible to comprehend the Middle Ages and its people? Is it possible that as our world and its people change further (and possibly more so and more quickly than in the previous 70/80 years) that we will be able to sustain an interest in a time that seems so very distant? Will there always be people who find the Middle Ages relevant?