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 blankets, one pair good sheets, a great pillow and small pillow and feather bed."

With a greater degree of comfort came an exaggerated idea of luxury, which was criticised and preached against as it is to-day. But compared with the nineteenth century the luxury of the Middle Ages is indeed unenviable, and it is impossible to look back with any longing or regrets to the days of our medieval ancestors.