Hi everyone.
I have been looking around for infomation on the average height of people in the middle ages. So far the net has only givien me the one figure that i allready know from my own history books; about 1.73 for north europeans/Norwegians.
This figure is about 7 cm shorter than the pressent average.
So, can anybody help me out with average heighs for, lets say, France or Spain?

Try some of these sources, which comment on differences from country to country over the centuries:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Human-height

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/science/art...140_103140

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040405fa_fact

http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/Communication/komlos.html

http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=cuff.anthropometric