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Grimy Middle Ages

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Historian and reenactor Ekaterina Mishanenkova's book debunks popular myths about the Middle Ages.

In the Middle Ages, people were terribly dirty and smelly—they never bathed, their clothes weren't washed, knights defecated in their armor, and wore wide-brimmed hats to protect themselves from the slop and contents of chamber pots constantly emptied from windows. Queen Isabella of Castile vowed not to change her underwear until the Moors were expelled from Spain and bathed only twice in her life. Louis XIV stank "like a wild beast." King Frederick Barbarossa nearly drowned in sewage. And scented curtains were hung on the windows of the British Parliament to protect against the stench emanating from the Thames.

What is fact and what is fiction? What was a medieval bathhouse or toilet really like? How did people wash clothes and what incense did they use in the Middle Ages? Let's look at the facts.
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