For some reason the following caught my eye in this interesting article:<p>&quot;In between the first and second sleep the person would be awake about an hour – enough to say prayers during Matins, which would typically fall between 2 am and 3 am, study or even have sex.&quot;<p>Why the <i>even</i> :-)? Shouldn&#x27;t those three items be listed in the reverse order? Does this point to a fact about the medieval mindset or just to the sensibilities of the writer?