The Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories S.)

by Terry Deary

Paperback, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

940.1

Series

Horrible Histories (Original)

Genres

Nonfiction

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Publication

Scholastic Hippo (1996), Paperback

Description

"All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for..."--Publisher description.

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LibraryThing member 16louiss

I really enjoyed reading this book because i learned alot about what happend during hte middle ages. This book teaches you in a fun way like sometimes instead of explaining somthing they will turn it into a comic with a picture and you would still learn the same thing. i would recommend this book

to anybody over the age of 8

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LibraryThing member JalenV

The Measly Middle Ages is another book in the entertaining Horrible Histories series. The timeline the book gives the Middle Ages (also known by the less easily spelled 'medieval' ages) is 410 A. D. to 1492, Columbus' discovery of the Americas.

The two made-up 'Paris Post' news stories for 22 June

and 22 July 1358 about the Jacquiere revolt reminds me of the ten March 1815 headlines from the 'Moniteur Universal' newspaper about Napoleon's victory march to Paris, which apparently were equally made up by Alexandre Dumas in 1841.

The Lady Godiva legend is written as if it were fact, although the Peeping Tom part is noted as added later.

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