What lifestyle are you attracted to that existed within a society before 1500 CE, and why?

Question

Such as chivalric knights and lasses, Sufi practicioners, ascetic Buddhists, etc. Anything goes! Just explain please.

Answer 1

natural living, natural foods, no food chemical gimicks like fructose or artificial chemicals sweeteners and other non-food ingredients, composting, no plastic bags and things that stay in garbage dumps forever like they do now