Who would I be in 1400AD?

[vilakins]

From communicator: who would I be in 1400AD?

The Prioress

You scored 11% Cardinal, 74% Monk, 53% Lady, and 41% Knight!

You are a moral person and are also highly intellectual. You like your solitude but are also kind and helpful to those around you. Guided by a belief in the goodness of humankind you will likely be christened a saint after your life is over.

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Yes! I've always thought I'd get me to a nunnery if I'd lived back then. Anything's better than the awful alternatives open to women, especially dying giving birth in some arranged marriage, and besides it's quiet, it's peaceful, and they have reading matter and possibly interesting discussions over dinner.

I very much doubt the last bit though. I think most people I encounter are good, but taken as a mob, humans are a dreadful lot. I also don't think you get sainted for cracked intellectual theories about religion or a fondness for the meals that break up the monastic day.

Comments

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

I got the Prioress as well. Christened a saint not so much. Burned as a heretic is more likely. XD

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't even think "christened a saint" is a term. I know babies are christened/baptised and not much about the saint process except that it's something long and difficult and Roman Catholic. You have prove miracles etc.

My only other alternative would be a witch with several cats and a folk medicine dispensary/ :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I think that "sanctified" is the term that the quiz setter was looking for. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought that was 'made holy' as in ground, buildings, or objects. [looks up Wikipedia] Yep, it is. It's canonised that saints are. :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course! Thanks.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

There's probably a horrible pun in there somewhere involving the wrong number of Ns.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

I like it. Nothing wrong with horrible puns...

[popcorn-oracle.livejournal.com]

I got Monk <_<; I guess because I'd rather stay home and read than most of their options. Or the fact that I kept refusing to have anything to do with killing people. I don't know about the religious reading though!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I expected to get monk/nun. Prioress is really too much responsibility for me. :-P But yes, staying home and reading beats any other option for women in that era, and pretty much any till the last few decades.

[kerravonsen]

I was the Prioress too. Mind you, there weren't a lot of options on the list.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It looks as if everyone who likes reading is a prioress. Not that I'm absolutely sure what one is, but it's better than 'mother superior' considering the fate I'd be fleeing. ;-)

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I might do this in a mo.

I agree, I've always thought I would have plumped for the nunnery option rather than all the points you listed

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd assume quite a fair proportion of nuns did. Otherwise the mortality was comparable to men who went to war.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Yep, that definitely fits:).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Lots of quiet, reading, and a cell to myself!