If you needed surgery, would you go to the barber shop? If you lived during the Middle Ages you would. Readers find out all about yucky medieval diseases, and their yucky treatments, in this fun reluctant reader book.

Surveys the dwellings, occupations, food, religion, festivals, cathedrals, clothing, diseases, and customs that prevailed in Europe during the Middle Ages.

Describes clothes and crafts throughout the Middle Ages in Europe while also discussing the everyday life of the people, their technological skills, and social and economic systems.

Presents an overview of the history of European society during the time known as the Renaissance, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.

"A detailed overview of the history of medieval Europe from about 1000 to 1500"--Provided by publisher.

"The medieval world had a variety of ways of dealing with crime, sorcery, and other instances of breaking societys rules. Few of them were pleasant in any way. Indeed, many of these responses were embarrassing or painful for those being punished, and quite a few involved outright torture or even death"--From the publisher's web site.