This book explores whether there's a factual basis for some of our most common urban legends and features fun facts about the legends through entertaining sidebars.

3) Did castles have bathrooms?: and other questions about the Middle Ages

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Kerns, Ann

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Is that a fact?

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Lerner

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English

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Knights in armor weighed so much that they had to be lifted onto their horses. Medieval barbers doubled as dentists. Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate seventeen statements about the Middle Ages and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones stump even the experts! Find...

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