History is written by the victor needs to be complemented with "and also by the wealthy" - it was very expensive to learn, produce and store the media used for reading and writing. Then the wealthy could care less about the peasant 500 miles away, but patronage artists dealing with subjects of their interest.
This is specially important if you want to know how people truly felt during big historical moments, and compare them with modern lifestyle. We know very little about most of humanity throughout history, their feelings and worries and suffering and if they slept in 2 phases or whatever. So we have records of those big events, and practically no clue what the hell regular folks at that time thought about them.
This is specially important if you want to know how people truly felt during big historical moments, and compare them with modern lifestyle. We know very little about most of humanity throughout history, their feelings and worries and suffering and if they slept in 2 phases or whatever. So we have records of those big events, and practically no clue what the hell regular folks at that time thought about them.