Why did the Victorian era butcher the Medieval period?

Meat was very expensive, but spices were even more so - you'd never waste spices on bad meat or risk eating bad meat - medieval medicine wasn't great and really bad food poisoning could, if you were weak already, kill you.' Victorian times. VictorianCollagelowres. read more

Victorian poetry, however, has much closer links to their Medieval predecessors. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (henceforward known as PRB) was a group of poets and artists who made it their duty to capture some of the feelings from that bygone era of courtly love. read more