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MEDIEVAL INQUIRY continued

Another matter we considered was whether housing/households made any difference. When very young, a knight would have lived in a nicer house with a garden. Eventually he lived in a grand house or castle with lots of rooms and a kitchen that was far away in case of fire. Also, in a castle there was a kind of toilet but the contents went into a moat. Not very hygienic!! Finally we pondered the matter of battles. Some wars lasted many years. Often a knight’s foe was very skilled. Often knights received fatal blows at home and abroad. Battles clearly did not improve a knight’s life expectancy. To conclude, we think a knight might have lived longer than most other people of those times if luck was on his side in battle. By all of Room 5 September 2010