Medieval culture had an "enchanted" worldview in which the miraculous was part of everyday life. All levels of society believed that the supernatural was woven into the fabric of the visible world. Many people believed these forces made themselves apparent in the contexts of their ordinary lives as they worked in their fields, workshops, and houses. A big part of what separates modernity from the more distant past is the so-called "disenchantment" of the world as the Scientific Revolution and the secularization of politics and society changed how the western world viewed the natural world. However these ties with our cultural past have not been completely cut as this gallery shows.
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