On one hand it makes sense that medieval european social relations imply, well, medieval european social relations and it makes sense to use your novel (or your show) to examine those.
On the other I can relate to many people wanting to see women in medieval fantasy to be represented in some other way than constant misery porn.
It's all stupid shock value stuff. They don't actually intend to make it a deep foray into the loss that people experience. People are not traumatized as they are in real life. It's just all fun and games to them. Someone will be traumatized and look all fucked up one episode and then the next they're just fine.
And the depictions of medieval times are all gritty and disgusting, but in fact most things did look clean despite them not being clean. Much like today
What, are you trying to say people find being covered and surrounded in dirt and shit and garbage unpleasant?
No people just enjoy being caked in mud and shit, visibly so even. Just a natural state of things
I know when I have shit visibly smeared and caked on my skin I find that totally normal and don’t bother trying to clean it off.