What are some normal aspects of life 500 years ago that we would find shocking today?

Lice.

It was every where and every one had it. It is the sole reason for why the majority of upper class citizens shaved their head (the men at least) and wore wigs. Wigs had nothing to do with justice as we normally see the legal profession use in modern society like the below picture.


Kings, nobles, and lords frequently could afford the outrageous sums charged by a haberdasher. Haberdashers during the medieval era made wigs unlike today they are known to be men’s clothing makers.

Edited side note: Want to know a famous haberdasher that single handedly saved millions of peoples lives even today? Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - the inventor of the microscope. Bet he was the life of the high class party pulling out his home made magnifying glass and showing people the little animalcules crawling on the King’s head.

As well back then there was no justice system of which the likes we enjoy today. The King and eventually his nobles - more accurately his Lords - were the single solitary source of “justice” or legal system back in those days.

It is fittingly ironic that the Judges, Magistrates, Barristers, and Lawyers that you see walking around wearing the traditional attire of a wig are wearing it because of that disgusting little evil blood sucking vermin lice. hahahah I love it.

It was so much easier to shave one’s head and don a wig than to have a head of your own hair but full of lice.

Long unkempt lice ridden hair in those days was frowned upon since lice was seen as a scourge upon the poverty stricken by God for being lazy and slothful. And no one wanted to be viewed as a peasant. Though here is the catch: long hair on men and women was still desired because long hair when not covered with lice looked beautiful. So you did what anyone would do if you were going insane from scratching every inch of your body non-stop every day for 24 hours straight. You shaved your head and probably every other orifice that had hair. Then paid princely sums of gold for a wig of which the best ones were made from human hair. Though a few unscrupulous swindlers attempted to sell wigs made of horse hair, goat hair, or even straw! No noble worth his salt would be caught dead with a matted straw wig going to the King’s banquet.

Please read more here: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-normal-aspects-of-life-500-years-ago-that-we-would-find-shocking-today .


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Even it doesn't make sense to me.