About half of the people died before they were 20 (this includes the infant mortality).
Many women died in childbirth, and many men died in wars.
But those who did not die in these ways often lived to be 60 or 70 or older, and there are parish registries with records of people living to be over 100.
Life expectancy for a farming peasant was around 40 to 45, if they made it past the first 3 years of life (infant mortality was as high as in 19th century India and Russia).
Monks, bishops and other clerics could live into their 90s, demonstrating the marked benefits of a life in the Church - Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury died aged 84, while Gerald of Wales (Archdeacon of Brecon) lived to be 74.
Among the nobility life expectancy was very low by modern standards, although the Birth Rate was also much higher than today - infant mortality among this group was also very high. A typical 30 year old noblewoman in 1185 had already been twice widowed and had borne 7 children.
Poor diet, warfare, accidents, disease, famine, lack of medical care and infected water were among the many causes of high mortality rates.
This goes to explain why the legal age for marriage was just 7 in the 1160s, rising to 12 in the 1170s. A short life expectancy meant that people became "adults" at a much younger age.
People in the middle ages suffered their most dangerous life interval before the age of 5. If they survived to that age, and then survived to their 20s and didn't succumb to infectious diseases or broken limbs, they lived as long as we live now in the modern world.
The life expectancy usually calculated in the 30s or 40s for people in the middle ages takes this high infant, childhood, and adolescent mortality. If they got past those life stages, they lived to their 60s/70s, or even beyond.
Yes they did
Many insane died young. Some were accused as witches, others lived in the outskirts of towns and the forests. There was no care for them so they had to fend for themselves.
90% of the population were serfs. They grew the crops, fought the nobility's wars, died by the thousands in war, disease, and accidents.
Average life expectancy at birth was only 35, and half of all people died before the age of 16.
Doctors in the Middle Ages had no real medical knowledge whatsoever. They needed a degree in Theology to practice, and knew a little of ancient Greek medicine, but they believed in (and treated accordingly) demons and miasmas as the cause of disease. The main "treatment" for just about everything was bloodletting to bleed out the demons. Obviously, many patients died from lack of blood making their real conditions worse. Doctors today base their practices on science instead of religion and superstition, and have the accumulated knowledge of all the past studies in medicine to look to for answers.
No. The Dark ages are usually classified as being between the fall of the Roman Empire, and 1000 ce. They're a point at which Europe is in total political turmoil. By the start of the Middle Ages, certain kingdoms (Ex. England, France, Spain, Portugal have created more firm societies. The middle ages usually are said to come between 1000 ce and the founding of the Americas. There is no doubt however, that certain times during the Middle Ages weredark.
It is possible that flu killed people in the middle ages, but it was not identified as "flu" but something else. Since no medical records were made or kept it is hard to know what people died of most of the time.
Many thousands of people died from disastrous circumstances during the Middle Ages. During 1347 to 1352, an estimated 25 million people died of the Black Death, also called the Bubonic Plague. Jewish people were persecuted, which also resulted in thousands of deaths.
They buried them.
Couldn't do much since there was no understanding of the body or science. People died as much from the treatment as they did from illness or injury.
Because they had nothing better to do with it in the middle ages and they did not bury them because many people died back then and it would be a hard,backbreaking and tedious task.
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The life expectancy at birth was about 37, but this does not mean what most people think. The infant mortality rate was very high, and about a third of all the children died before they were two. So the 37 was an average between a third of the people who died at ages 0 or 1, and the other two thirds of the people. This means that if you lived to the age of two, you could expect to live to an average age of 55.
No, Saint Nicholas lived in ancient times, and died about a century before the Middle Ages started.
During the Middle Ages, the most common idea about spread of disease was that the cause was bad air, which they called maisma. Believe it or not, one result of this belief was that medieval people bathed a lot.
Organized schools were not set up in the middle ages. The middle ages was a time of no learning or study. About 90% of the people couldn't read or write and those who did were nobles who had been taught by monks.
3/4 of Europe died.
3/4 of Europe died.