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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5599821" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Modern Wiccism dates from the mid-20th century, Druidism from the 19th. The Romans wiped out Druidism in Roman Britain in the late 1st century AD, and there's no evidence for any organised paganism long postdating the pre-Saxon conversion to Christianity in Britain & Ireland (the Irish conversion being roughly coterminous with the Saxon invasion of Britain). Of course the pagan Saxons were then converted too. Individual non-Christian folk beliefs & practices survived, of course, such as Easter eggs and Maypole dances. The Witchcraft hysterias seem to have mostly post-medieval (and post-Reformation), and there's no evidence there were any real witches with a non-Christian belief system, though there were certainly folk practices that met with Church disapproval and eventually persecution.</p><p></p><p>In terms of what era D&D most resembles, I'd say pre-4e D&D most resembles the first half of the 16th century, ca 1530 AD - which is technically Renaissance, but still looks a lot like what people think of when they think 'medieval' (hence Ren Faires?). The society depicted in Machiavelli's The Prince, or even that recent Henry VIII tv show The Tudors. 4th edition's Points of Light paradigm feels more Dark Ages, technically with Plate armour, but given that the 'plate' there is barely better than scalemail it has no impact on the setting. It could just as well be a bronze breastplate or even cuirboulli, like ancient Greek hoplite armour.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5599821, member: 463"] Modern Wiccism dates from the mid-20th century, Druidism from the 19th. The Romans wiped out Druidism in Roman Britain in the late 1st century AD, and there's no evidence for any organised paganism long postdating the pre-Saxon conversion to Christianity in Britain & Ireland (the Irish conversion being roughly coterminous with the Saxon invasion of Britain). Of course the pagan Saxons were then converted too. Individual non-Christian folk beliefs & practices survived, of course, such as Easter eggs and Maypole dances. The Witchcraft hysterias seem to have mostly post-medieval (and post-Reformation), and there's no evidence there were any real witches with a non-Christian belief system, though there were certainly folk practices that met with Church disapproval and eventually persecution. In terms of what era D&D most resembles, I'd say pre-4e D&D most resembles the first half of the 16th century, ca 1530 AD - which is technically Renaissance, but still looks a lot like what people think of when they think 'medieval' (hence Ren Faires?). The society depicted in Machiavelli's The Prince, or even that recent Henry VIII tv show The Tudors. 4th edition's Points of Light paradigm feels more Dark Ages, technically with Plate armour, but given that the 'plate' there is barely better than scalemail it has no impact on the setting. It could just as well be a bronze breastplate or even cuirboulli, like ancient Greek hoplite armour. [/QUOTE]
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