Editing High Middle Ages (section)

==Fun Facts and Moronic Misconceptions about the High Middle Ages==
* Arguably, the first acts of "shitposting" or memes can be found in some illuminated manuscripts which have such things as knights jousting with snails, animals beating up humans with weapons and people showing off their genitals to one another.
* Most educated people believed/knew that the Earth was a sphere and could even broadly estimate it's circumference. You know those Orbs with crosses on top that Kings often hold in paintings and tapestries? Those were designed as globes with (very) rough maps of what medieval people thought the world looked like with a cross on top to represent Jesus as master of the world. It was however still widely believed that the Sun goes around the Earth, the centre of the universe
* Modern football partially originates from the medieval version known as "mob football" which themselves could take a variety of shapes and forms.
* "Cures" for diseases could get truly bizarre such as: wearing a bird's beak around the neck, drilling a hole in the head and ingesting ground-up emeralds. Interestingly, they were occasionally not too far off, even if the practices were one hell of a lot more dangerous than our contemporary medicine of course. Drilling a hole into a skull is still the very basic principle of neurosurgery, after all and the Miasma theory, for example, at least got the "don't enter a room full of sick people" right, even if it was later disproven.
* Filth in the cities really started becoming an issue later in the period when construction picked up as previously there were literal "greenfield" spaces within city walls that would absorb the bulk of organic waste, and the rest would have been eaten by pigs and dogs. This problem would actually continue well into the 19th century due to the abundance of horse poop filling the streets, with major cities like New York worrying that they’d soon be under mountains of literal shit if the population kept increasing. It actually ended up being the invention of the automobile before poop-filled streets would become a thing of the past.