Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

I think I picked this up off a 2.99 sale just because it was Terry Jones. Since one of my reading goals this year is more nonfiction, I finally got around to reading it. It's a very quick read and yet full of trope-destroying information each chapter of which could fuel a unique novel in its own right. Did you know monastic orders forbid eating meat except in the infirmary, so all the monks started taking their meals in there? Did you know Shakespeare's Richard III is almost entirely drawn from Tudor propaganda? Maybe you did. Maybe you read about medieval history all the time. But if you don't and would like an easy to read dip in archaeological records of the middle ages, I definitely recommend this one.