Middle Ages. Gray K.

Middle Ages. The most controversial and contradictory era in the history of mankind. Some perceive it as the times of beautiful ladies and noble knights, minstrels and buffoons, when spears broke, feasts were noisy, serenades sang and sermons sounded. For other Middle Ages, this is the time of fanatics and executioners, bonfires of the Inquisition, smelly cities, epidemics, cruel customs, unsanitary conditions, universal darkness and wildness.

Is it really true that the knights and in general people in the Middle Ages were small - not above one and a half meters, and those who reached the current average 175 cm were considered almost giants? And in the Middle Ages, in fact, no one except the monks knew how to read and write, washed only twice in his life - after birth and before his death, stinks terribly and teeming with fleas? And the sword weighed 20 kg, and the armor is 100, so the knight was raised on the horse with the help of a winch, and he had to go to the toilet right in the armor, because it was just not to remove them?

The new book of the “Complete History of Eras” series will help to figure out what's what.