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Medieval Hygiene: Why People Feared Baths More Than Death | Boring History for Sleep
Published 8 months, 1 week ago
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Tonight, we drift into the scratchy, smelly, and suspiciously dry world of medieval hygiene. Why didn’t people bathe? What did they use instead of deodorant? And how did chamber pots become deadly projectiles? Lie back, relax, and discover why “clean” was more spiritual than physical in the Middle Ages.