30 Reasons Life in Medieval Era Wasn't Great

The medieval era is full of fascinating but little known facts. Take the mysterious disease known as the “sweating sickness”. We don’t know exactly just what it was, but it terrorized and devastated people for decades, then vanished, never to be recorded again. Or the scary sickness known as “Saint Anthony’s Fire”, that killed untold thousands in excruciatingly painful ways. Or the time convents erupted in frenzies of biting nuns, that drove authorities to distraction. Following are thirty things about those and other fascinating medieval facts.