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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In the future, when I tweet I’m not going to assume anyone has read what I’ve written, even if it was five minutes ago. The average height of 18th century Englishmen was 64/65 inches:https://mobile.twitter.com/crimkadid/status/1319499625485766656 …
The maximum height of the most elite of the elite of German nobility in the 18th century was 5’8”; the tallest people in the world in 1880 were Blackfeet Indians at 5’9”. There are numbers everywhere: you don’t have listen to bullshitters.
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It's puzzling to address a claim about medieval elites with data about population averages from hundreds of years later. (and especially from the 18th, a century where heath and nutrition took a notably bad hop)
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The elite of the elite are going to be well fed at any point in time
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