Should we judge the past by the standards of its time, or by the standards of our time? Explain.

I would have to say both, because if you judge something on only one standard then would it be right, we have different points of views and we should look at them all. Example this book, if we look at it in their time apparently she is a person that sleeps with a lot of men, I believe in our standard that would be normal, because she married at least two of them and this was all in a thirty year period.