The mongol bow required 166lb pull force. That is one bad midget.
As far as I know, no time travel movie has ever depicted the real first reaction somone from 2020 would have if they went centuries back: "Wow, these people are midgets!". Medieval suits of armor look like they were designed for 13 or 14 year old boys.
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The suits of armor that survived were typically either boys' pieces or 3/4 size artifacts to show off craftsmanship. You can measure skeletons and see that medieval nobility were well within modern tolerance.
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Last time I looked at this I found the opposite - surviving pieces of armour indicate knights and professional soldiers were decently sized. Makes sense since any nutrition problems wouldn't affect the wealthy as much.
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Might be what I read before was about a particular collection - finding much more varied results as I look further.
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That’s because plenty of soldiers were that age back then. “Old people” were generally in their 40’s.
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Sed contra, the average height of medieval men was around 5'7" - shorter than today (5'9.5" for US men) but not by much. Charlemagne was around 6'3" and accounted tall, but not freakishly so.
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It depends heavily on which century you visit. Whenever population outpaced agricultural productivity, or taxes did, you got short ppl.
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