Pelham Barton, Birmingham U.K. Modern times, with new-fangled ideas. When they were that much more obsessed with the often precarious business of staying alive, you doubt they had time for the tedious navel-gazing and identity crises of the current era. They'd have just lived in the present.
Definitions only make sense in historical perspective, and even their use is limited.
M B Drennan, Oxford, UK Apologies to M B Drennan for not making it clear that I did not regard the film quoted as being entirely accurate. I thought that the obviously absurd reference in advance to the Hundred Years' War would do it.