What are the most disturbing facts about the Middle Ages that most people do not know?

“ That most people do not know” is the part of the sentence that some people who answered totally ignored.

The vast majority of people who study the middle ages know about jousting tournaments, melee’ or mock battles, the weapons that were used such as flails, war hammers, battle axes, broad swords, the mace etc.. Most who study the middle ages are introduced to the torture devices, and the dungeons used for prisoners. So to list these would be a moot point.

As far as listing something that most people don't know which could be disturbing for the majority of people especially if they are Christian is the fact that nudity was very common in the middle ages up until the

Protestant Reformation. Public bathing was a very popular past-time in the middle ages.

The above are illuminated manuscripts circa 14th century.

Nudity was a symbol of purity in the middle ages and everyone participated in it. Bathing, dancing, games, and feasts in the nude among mixed company were very common.

Below are paintings from the Renaissance.

These are facts that most people do not know because the church after the Protestant Reformation made nudity a sin, and even started an Inquisition to torture those who participated in it.

Books that mentioned anything about sex, or nudity were destroyed, as well as statues, frescoes, friezes, etc. So somehow between the 16th and the 17th century the world went from this