Missing the "Good Old Days"

[Minimalist75]

Torchwatch,
I have heard or read much of what you had in you recent post.
However, on comment is new and surprising to me.

"In mediaeval Europe if you had no money you lost your home, you sold your clothes to buy food and then were thrown out of town to wander naked and helpless on the blasted heaths outside the law"

Do you have any reference of this?