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How Bad Was Life, Really?: Everyday Life from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age: Hygiene, Food, Work, Sex, Disease, Crime, and Death - Softcover
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Was everyday life in the past really as filthy, dangerous, and miserable as we imagine?
Did medieval people never bathe? Did everyone drink beer because the water was unsafe? Did most people die at thirty? Were the streets filled with human waste, violent criminals, and public executions?
The truth is more surprising—and far more interesting.
How Bad Was Life, Really? explores everyday life from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age, separating documented reality from the myths repeated in popular culture and online.
Drawing on historical research, personal accounts, archaeology, medical history, and court records, the book examines what ordinary people ate, how they washed, where they went to the toilet, how they worked, loved, raised children, treated illness, faced crime, and dealt with death.
Inside, you will discover:
• Why medieval people were cleaner than they are often portrayed
• What ordinary families actually ate—and when hunger became a real threat
• How people slept, worked, married, had sex, and raised children without modern privacy
• Which historical medicines genuinely helped and which made patients worse
• Why minor injuries and common infections could become fatal
• How dangerous towns and cities really were before modern policing
• What public punishment, prisons, and executions were actually like
• Why the claim that everyone died at thirty is deeply misleading
• How wealth, gender, age, occupation, and geography could completely change a person’s experience
The past was not one continuous nightmare. People still found love, pleasure, humor, friendship, celebration, and meaning in their lives.
But they lived much closer to hunger, disease, pain, violence, and sudden disaster.
Accessible, vivid, and grounded in evidence rather than myth, How Bad Was Life, Really? is a field guide to the ordinary human experience behind centuries of history.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Was everyday life in the past really as filthy, dangerous, and miserable as we imagine?Did medieval people never bathe? Did everyone drink beer because the water was unsafe? Did most people die at thirty? Were the streets filled with human waste, violent criminals, and public executions?The truth is more surprising-and far more interesting.How Bad Was Life, Really? explores everyday life from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age, separating documented reality from the myths repeated in popular culture and online.Drawing on historical research, personal accounts, archaeology, medical history, and court records, the book examines what ordinary people ate, how they washed, where they went to the toilet, how they worked, loved, raised children, treated illness, faced crime, and dealt with death.Inside, you will discover: - Why medieval people were cleaner than they are often portrayed- What ordinary families actually ate-and when hunger became a real threat- How people slept, worked, married, had sex, and raised children without modern privacy- Which historical medicines genuinely helped and which made patients worse- Why minor injuries and common infections could become fatal- How dangerous towns and cities really were before modern policing- What public punishment, prisons, and executions were actually like- Why the claim that everyone died at thirty is deeply misleading- How wealth, gender, age, occupation, and geography could completely change a person's experienceThe past was not one continuous nightmare. People still found love, pleasure, humor, friendship, celebration, and meaning in their lives.But they lived much closer to hunger, disease, pain, violence, and sudden disaster.Accessible, vivid, and grounded in evidence rather than myth, How Bad Was Life, Really? is a field guide to the ordinary human experience behind centuries of history. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798188032258
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