Facts about medieval chivalric Health

Ah, the knights! Ah, the lovely ladies! How it all nice and romantic. However, the reality is that this woman met a modern knight, she would have been horrified.

10th place: Firstly, the Knights were small. At the turn of the XIV-XV centuries average growth knight rarely exceeded 1, 60 m (population then was generally undersized).

9th place: unshaven and unwashed face average knight often been disfigured by smallpox, because it in Europe at that time almost all the sick.

8th place: Under the knight's helmet, his hair matted and dirty in the folds of his clothes in a variety swarmed lice and fleas. Baths in medieval Europe, as we know, was not, and washed knights, not more than three times a year.

7th place: In the tangled beards chivalry often stuck leftovers and god knows what else.

6th place: As the teeth in those days had not been cleaned, from the mouth of a knight so strong smell that for modern ladies would be a terrible ordeal not only to kiss him, but even the next. By the way, is often the main snack knights was garlic, which they used for disinfection.

5th place: Teeth knight already 25 years was by no means a complete set. So, most likely, during the conversation he had strong lisp.

4th place: During the campaign for days was a knight clad in armor, which he for all his desire could not remove without help. Procedure on and off armor takes about an hour. For this reason, all our need celebrated noble knight in armor ... right.

3rd place: Medieval archives provide a lot of evidence that women in times of knights lived a very difficult life. In a noble knight's environment was taken while hiking raping virgins village, and the more such "feats" made a knight errant - the more respected him.

2nd place: To the noble ladies of medieval knights also concerned by today's standards, very roughly, absolutely no regard for their opinions and suggestions.

1st place: The concept of protection of women's honor knights were very specific: every knight considered it his duty to fight off the woman at the fellow on the sword. Opinions ladies, thus, no one asked, it will automatically accrue to the one who won the dismantling of chivalry.