...high IQ in the middle ages.
High IQ don't mean

. My pa has a friend who went to Harvard and after 20-something years he makes under $40,000 annually.
In the old days it meant you had ideas, ideas that were the birth of science. The church did not like science...
Wrong. It wasn't so much the church as it was the philosophers with brash egos that didn't like getting proved wrong.
Like when kids prove adults wrong. Do adults like that certain kids have more insight and wisdom? Heck no. They just shoot down the kid's self-esteem if they can.
As a matter of fact serial killers tend to have high IQs if you'd like to speak in terms of cunning...