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Anti-245 posted...

Dragonblade01 posted...

I imagine a lot of it has to be the romanticization of the period through all the stories being passed down and new versions emerging year after year after year. Probably little more than a fondness developed over centuries of stories being told in regions, the people from which would take those stories with them wherever they went.

They may fall in and out of popularity at various times, but the "nostalgia," so to speak, remains.

I don't see how they could be nostalgic given how most people were serfs in feudal Europe. They'd be like me being nostalgic about colonial America when slavery was legal.

It's not the actual time period itself, it's the romanticized stories that come from it that spread along with the Western empires. The truth of the history doesn't really matter all that much. What matters is that stories from and about that era have bled into the generations that were influenced by them.