Medieval England

I've read "The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England" by Ian Mortimer. It's a serious book but if you are interested in Medieval England, it's quite interesting. The story brings you back to the fourteenth century. Conversational voices can be heard, and stinking can be smelled when you read it. This book makes me realise that Medieval society was young, because their lifespan was shorter than modern times, half of all adults died before they reached fifty.

According to this book, men were in their prime in their twenties, mature in their thirties and growing old in their forties. As for women, they were in prime at seventeen, mature at twenty-five and growing old by their mid-thirties! That means that people had to take on responsibility at a young age, and such  a situation must had made people more precocious. Medieval women must had been strong, because they had produced five or more children by mid-twenties (some of those would have died), and many of them were widows as a result of wars. Gosh... I must had been a protected species or a dead women in medieval times.