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Did people in the Middle Ages feel as strongly for their children as people do today?

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How do historians decide if someone was really LGBT (if they didn't openly declare themselves as such)?

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What did medieval peasants (and other peasants) do when they weren't working?

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Why did it take so many civilizations so long to use buttons on clothes? Or did they use them long ago and they're just never portrayed that way in drawings or preserved clothes?

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Did people in the Middle Ages feel as strongly for their children as people do today?	433
How do historians decide if someone was really LGBT (if they didn't openly declare themselves as such)?	293
What did medieval peasants (and other peasants) do when they weren't working?	33
Why did it take so many civilizations so long to use buttons on clothes? Or did they use them long ago and they're just never portrayed that way in drawings or preserved clothes?	2