Cultural anxiety in Europe has a growing number of adults pretending to be medieval duchesses and mercenaries during leisure time fantasy lives, The New York Timesreports. One 57-year old Belgian woman sleeps in a replica of a medieval bed, spends her weekends living in a castle, and says life was less stressful before phones and vacuum cleaners. As a history major who took a few classes on medieval Europe, it's interesting to learn that Ph.D programs in the subject, usually considered quite obscure, are packed. But is there a darker side to the nostalgia for knights and ladies-in-waiting? Is such roleplaying a reaction against increased Muslim immigration to the Continent, a harkening back to a mono-cultural time? Or is it all just fun and games?
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