Middle Ages. The most controversial and controversial era in human history. Some perceive it as the time of beautiful ladies and noble knights, minstrels and buffoons, when spears were broken, feasts were noisy, serenades were sung and sermons were heard. For others, the Middle Ages were a time of fanatics and executioners, fires of the Inquisition, stinking cities, epidemics, cruel customs, unsanitary conditions, general darkness and savagery. Is it really true that knights and people in general in the Middle Ages were short in stature - no taller than one and a half meters, but were those who reached the current average height of 175 cm considered almost giants? And in the Middle Ages, in fact, no one except the monks could read and write, they washed only twice in their lives - after birth and before death, they stank terribly and were infested with fleas? And the sword weighed 20 kg, and the armor weighed 100, so the knight was lifted onto his horse using a winch, and he had to go to the toilet directly in his armor, because it was simply impossible to remove it? A new book in the “History on Fingers” series will help you figure out what why.