5 How-To Manuals from the Middle Ages
From dying to being a king , these manuals had people in the Middle Ages covered . 1. How to Die Well The Middle Ages was a good time to find out how to die . If you avoided the Black Plague and survived the 100 Years War , you still might get some of your disease - laden drinking water on a hangnail and die of blood poisoning . It was during this sentence that an instructional pamphlet , Ars Moriendi : The Craft of Dying(top photo ) , started making its rounds among the population of Europe ....