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Original Title:	The Measly Middle Ages
ISBN:	0590498487 (ISBN13: 9780590498487)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Horrible Histories #8

The Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories #8)

Terry Deary

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 2032 Users | 96 Reviews

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Title	:	The Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories #8)
Author	:	Terry Deary
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1998 by Scholastic (first published January 1st 1990)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Childrens

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I guess you already know from my previous review that Terry Deary is one of my favourite authors, because he knows how to retell history in a laid-back and funny way. Now I'm going to talk about a historical period that began to interest me since I have learnt about Beowulf and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in my English Medieval Literature class. Though Romantic writers tried to reinvent and paint the Dark Ages in pinkish shades, it's pretty hard for me to understand how come courtesy, beautiful love poems and songs could live side by side with religious dogmatism and lack of basic hygiene, two causes that triggered the plague and many other bizarre diseases.

According to Measly Middle Ages timeline, one of the most despotic, bloodthirsty and ignorant historical periods, from my point of view, stretches from post-Roman England, to the time of Alfred the Great, the Norman Conquest, the Angevin rule, The War of the Roses, to Christopher Columbus' discovery.

In this book you can find out how people lived in the Middle Ages, how women and children were treated, what rules they had to obey, what kind of clothes and accessories people wore and how monks lived. You will also read about the Norman Conquest and the feudal rule, the Angevin Dynasty, the Black Death and inefficient medieval remedies, odd facts about food and drinks and so on.

If you wonder which chapter I found the most interesting and intriguing, the answer is Rotten Religion. In the Middle Ages, people's ignorance and naivety were exploited by monks and priests, who forged all sorts of holy relics and other items which apparently cured any illness. For example, “Saint Apollonia is the patron of toothache, thus she could cure your tortured tootsie-peg. (...) Hundred of monasteries had a tooth from her mouth. Big mouth? No, simply another miracle, the monks explained. Henry VI of England collected a ton of them” (Loc. 908-911).

If we think about Medieval schools, the monks and priests were the only teachers of the time. Life in the countryside, as well as in towns, was very hard, therefore, many small boys and girls were sent by their parents to join the church as monks and nuns. Here, the author reveals the letter of a boy, who has been studying in a monastery and the way he describes his daily routine: harsh discipline, an exhausting schedule not fit for a child no older than 8 or 9, firm teachers, scarce food, fasting, praying and a lot of Bible reading. I don't know about you, but when I read this letter, it occurred to me that Medieval school is as bad as Victorian school.

Towards the end of the book, Terry Deary writes that in Tudor times life began to be slightly better and people believed that the crude and Measly Middle Ages seemed very far away; however, if we look through the newspapers of our day, we may notice that those horrible times have not ended completely just yet.

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I picked this book up recently because I am interested in anything to do with the Middle Ages and i thought that this would be good research for my own books. I have read some Horrible Histories books before and while i know they are for children, I like them too. (I am no longer a kid.) They're so funny and I always learn more when I'm laughing at something or when I'm enjoyiing something. (and with these books, I'm doing both.) There were loads of facts that I didn't know and I liked the fact

Packed full of facts and figures... not too much depth but enough to elicit interest and get the reader wanting to do further research... or google it!! These are fun little books and well worth a quick read although I can never remember the facts and figures in the books ehy are fun and nicely illustrated.

Terry Deary keeps the same line of thought -lest we say repeats himself- he started some time earlier: history is made by bullies who repeat themselves. In the epilogue he writes: "But a clever Frenchman called Voltaire said, 'History never repeats itself... humans do.' The cruelty and stupidity and superstition of the Middle Ages should be a distant nightmare. Yet in the 20th century people can still find ways of making life miserable for others. Bullies with muscles, bullies with money or

Informative and fun perfect for children who arent squeamish

Oh the nostalgia. Truly loved this series as a kid. And listening on audio just made it even better.

Well, this was one interesting and disgusting book. I say disgusting because the book listed very detailed ways on how people were cured during the Middle Ages. This was another fun book to read and I enjoyed it despite the gross facts that I read.

OK, clearly I got this book for Balint, but I ended up reading it too. I heard different opinions about this series and wanted to make sure it was something I am not going to regret putting in my son's hands. I have to say, it was a very fun read. History facts were correct, plenty of cheeky English humor, all the horrible history stuff boys like and I loved how the author finished the book with his take on history. I will be checking out the other "Horrible" books (history, science) and heard