What's interesting here is that historical standards of evidence are so different! Again, early modernists are discussing this, that's the history of epistemology

OP and his supporters, some of whom have done PhD work and should really know better, are treading into an intricate debate where there actually is quite a lot of evidence going YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE COOL? BLOOD FEUDS

And it's not even like there's an apparent consensus they're disrupting, there's a question right now of whether homicide rates dropped steadily from the middle ages through the early modern into the modern; or were low, then rose in the 1500s and 1600s, and dropped suddenly in the late 1600s