Alcohol

Play­ing video video games, road-trip­ping throughout Amer­i­ca, binge-lis­ten­ing to pod­casts, chat­ting with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence: these are a couple of of our mod­ern plea­sures not simply unknown to, however unimag­in­in a position by, human­i­ty within the Mid­dle Ages. But medieval peo­ple had been, in spite of everything, peo­ple, and as Ter­ence put it greater than a…