There is for sure a statute of limitations there but that basically cuts off for us around the start of mercantilism. It's not really a set time frame but yknow, I'm not about to get mad at a swede cause significant fucking material shifts have occurred that makes certain historical relations irrelevant because that dialectic has smoothed out. If it wasn't necessary to judge these specific instances of history through a present lense people wouldn't be getting educational use from doing so, compared to say applying the mindset to a mideval peasant and wondering why they aren't atheists. It'd cause a midieval peasant being religious doesn't really have the modern consequences of creeps historically fucking kids and that being used as a reason to do so now. It's just a piss poor and self serving way of looking at the past that justifies only bad stuff.