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At a medieval banquet, do you want the guests to feel at home and let the roast chicken crow? Renaissance ladies had to rely on goat bile to have perfect eyebrows? In Enlightenment era beach fashion, wool socks were a key accessory? There are pictures to prove it, and there is no logic that makes historians completely collapse and cannot praise the strange life history of Europe! This book is a collection of articles from the very popular American history blog "What are the clever ideas of our ancestors". The author combed through 200 authoritative texts from the Yale Peabody Library to restore all aspects of European citizens' life in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment era, including home life, communication and travel, beauty and fashion, parent-child education, health and wellness, social etiquette, etc., Coupled with more than a hundred four-color historical illustrations, in a humorous way, showing the unique creativity and life philosophy of countless predecessors. The author of this book, Elizabeth Archibald, holds a Ph. D. In history from Yale University. She uses colorful pictures and humorous text to express the fantastic thoughts about the lives of ancient European citizens that she has collected. She reproduces the historical details that are not mentioned in the textbook. It is full of weird creativity and humorous elements, and is highly informative and interesting. This book is rich in content, humorous in language, and rich in pictures and texts. It can be said to be a small encyclopedia of the life of ancient European citizens.