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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 464348" data-attributes="member: 3477">@jgbrowning: Well, the Middle Ages ended 1500, so your numbers seem to support my view. My numbers are for Germany, but maybe here the situation was better than in England, because it was the period of colonisation, which provided all people who didn't have enough income in the west with new land to support themselves. Anyway, the skeletons speak an unambiguous language: Those from the the Middle Ages are of healthy individuals most of the time, whereas the people of the following era show signs of malnutrition and skeletal deformations due to inhumane labour conditions.Well, of course the technical and medical development make a difference for the individual. I tried to give a hint to that in parantheses in my former post <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.Comparisons with states of the 3rd world of today don't provide a valid result. The standard of living in Africa has deteriorated significantly during the last few decades, due to world trade, wrong developmental projects, and, paradoxically, because of modern medicine.As far as literature goes: Sorry, it's in German, so won't be appropriate I'm afraid <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.@jdavis: Salt was one of the goods which was very expensive in the Middle Ages, so it was a bit expensive for preparing meat. Meat could be bought freshly, as it was easily available. The reason for the early death might be a bit different: the typical medieval man or woman was an alcoholic. Drinking water was unhealthy, therefore, all water was conservated with alcohol, either as beer or as wine. People drank several litres of wine and beer each day. You can imagine what happened.In the region where I was born, the big medieval farmhouses, where people and cattle lived under the same roof, are still in use. They are actually huge - that's why <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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