How Did People Keep Clean During Medieval Times?

[@jeanniemainzer8551]

I've never been so grateful for flushing toilets and showers than I am now. The things we take for granted these days!

[@fringestream990]

I'm sure our modern hygiene will seem archaic too someday to future generations.

[@jimibaked4235]

Yeah we have a lot more comfort today then kings and queens enjoyed

[@mortyfalch]

talk 4 yourself. still suffering fleas here...

[@THExROYSTER]

Why only now? These are thing that 50% of the world's population doesn't have to this day.

[@ribertfranhanreagen9821]

And some people have the audacity saying current era is worse than before lol.

[@stardresser1]

Plumbers are rock stars. Period.

[@alexsacco776]

Plumbers and electricians!!

[@steveneardley7541]

I found an Italian book of manners written in the 15th century, mainly about table manners. It included rules like "When sneezing at the table, be sure to wipe the snot off on your sleeve." My favorite was "When relieving oneself at dinner, use the furthest corner from the table." If these were the recommendations, one can only imagine how the "uncultivated" person acted.

[@arthurrytis6010]

Steven Eardley.probably Shat on the nearest empty plate !

[@princessatellaluma]

@@arthurrytis6010 LMAOOO 💀💀

[@steveneardley7541]

Apparently in the 15th century, you could smell the city of Paris from 20 miles away. Shit was thrown into the streets or buried in the backyard. London was just as bad. It didn't have a modern sewer system until the mid-19th century. The Thames was basically a giant sewer. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were very clean. Not so in the Middle Ages. There's that line in Monty Python and the Holy Grail "How do you know he's a king?" "He's not covered with shit, is he?"

[@arthurrytis6010]

@Tia P. They must have been, otherwise we wouldn't be here.

[@screamingtima1318]

I remember reading that in Versailles, guests would relieve themselves in corners. Of all the places! Just thinking of how bad the smell was makes me want to 🤮!

[@someguy5035]

Until you have been without it for a long period of time, you will never realize that the most important advancement in human history was clean, running water. Cooking, drinking, cleaning, etc. Flushing toilet. Option to take a shower daily. Just being able to wash your hands whenever you want.

[@someguy5035]

@@bonnie7898 There are still some older people in the US that remember when indoor plumbing was a luxury. I'd be willing to bet that there are a number of people still living without running water now. I spent a few years in warzones and we went without water quite often. It is hard to communicate the importance of running water to people who have never gone without it.

[@evil1by1]

Not to mention how far it went in quelling outbreaks of cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis and even polio. Just think we don't routinely vaccinate for cholera, typhoid or dysentery yet most of us today in developed nations have never seen any of them. Thanks water sanitation

[@marionmarino1616]

Thank the Romans who created acquducts centuries ago. When I visited Spain they were still being used throughout the country.

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

Naw, not running water. Just having a toilet is a miracle, especially when you have diarrhea.

[@virginiagrundman4012]

I've been to 23 countries. Trust me, I appreciate clean water every day.

[@dakotagreg1177]

Indoor plumbing gets near zero recognition for ending so many diseases.

[@ydoicare2000]

@@dakotagreg1177 I would add waste disposal to that. Many so called civilized countries still accept open sewage. When I watch a news report of somewhere it has overwhelmed our drainage system and see kids playing in the water 😱😱😱😱😱

[@alanmacpherson3151]

@@ydoicare2000London 2024.

[@GeinsArtAndCraftSupplies]

Imagine your death certificate saying "tried to take a bath"

[@tiryaclearsong421]

Still pretty common today. People fall in showers and hit their head or drown in baths. Though hopefully no one writes that on their death certificate.

[@andreibaciu7518]

Tries to bathe: *Dies from strong water currents* Doesn't bathe: *Dies from an infection*

[@AnAdorableWombat1]

Death by doodoo water

[@sashavjs]

As someone who has lived in the developing world for extended periods, it struck me that more than anything else, how waste is managed is the biggest signifier of civilization. As soon as that goes titis up - you're right back in the dark ages. We owe so much to the people who maintain and manage the our water sources and the dirt and filth we produce. After living without the basics, I've a lifetime's worth of gratitude for modern day plumbing and waste disposal. I think about this a a lot - glad to see many in the comments section do too! Washing clothes in urine though? Seriously???

[@pattieodonnell723]

Thank you for not shying away from women's cleanliness challenges. Half of all of us have to deal with that and wonder how our predecessors dealt with it. (I also wonder if women with fibroids just died of blood loss, or would they be dead from all the diseases you listed in a previous video before they were old enough to bleed to death from a fibroid)

[@Shinzon23]

Looking at historical information yes it was usually either they bled to death or they died from infection when someone tried to cauterize the issue

[@claricestarling6510]

Fibroids are directly related to diet apparently and have become much more common in recent years

[@deniseroe5891]

Rags were still used during the depression, my mum and I had that conversation before she passed. She was born in 1924.

[@stevenweasel2678]

OLD NEWSPAPERS / CUT UP INTO SQUARES ALSO USED

[@SkyeID]

cloth menstrual products still exist. I just looked it up, and funnily enough the first search result was a website called Glad Rags.

[@bluedragon7925]

This knowledge should stop us all moaning and be thankful for small mercies. Especially if we have as many as sixteen bathrooms! 🙏🏻

[@BradGryphonn]

It's sobering to think that medieval communities had almost industrial-level arrow and bow-making industries for war but couldn't figure out basic sanitation.

[@HITARIX]

A peasants cleaning is not the king’s concern. Tools and weapons to protect or invade is. Nah, I don’t know.

[@arthurbenedetti9146]

just watch other medieval channels to have a better image of how cleaning worked, this channel is bias, shadeversity or metatron offer a better idea of how medieval hygiene worked. Then you will see that technology wasn't that different in war and other areas.

[@zachdalmaso2131]

Is that really a surprise though? Obviously they had their priorities straight! Because a sanitary, hygienic kingdom makes little, if any, difference in stopping an invasion/conquering. They'd just be clean, hygienic people getting hacked down instead.

[@AwesomeYena]

@@arthurbenedetti9146 Proof?

[@chrismath149]

Are you fucking kidding me? There was an entire bathhouse INDUSTRY and culture in medieval times. It fell into decline during the plague pandemics because people knew how the sickness spread (but not why). Regularly washing was seen as necessary for sick people and down regularly for sick people... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing#Medieval_and_early-modern_Europe There also were laws regarding the removal of human waste, set-up areas and streets in towns where pigs could be moved, open canals for the removal of waste, professional waste collectors (urine was one of the primary sources for sulfur to create black powder - cannons were a thing in medieval times and hand cannons already in service in the 14th century.

[@lilahphoenix4109]

I was hanging tough with these descriptions until we talked about the guy with a shirt crawling with so many fleas you could grab them by the handful. I have to go outside and take a breather before steeling myself for the rest of the video.

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Timestamp?

[@dimitristripakis7364]

A hundred years ago most of Greece did not have running water. So people had the "laundry place" which was an outdoor fireplace. So they. would boil water in a cauldron and would wash the clothes in there with soap. They would also wash themselves locally, mainly armpits, butt, genitals and feet. My mother (born 1943) remembers this experience, as they got running water in the 60s. She says everyone and their clothes was spotless and clean.

[@robinkuster1127]

As far as I know medieval sources generally talk about things that are different or special. So, the Anglo Saxons might have made fun of the Vikings for bathing once a week when they only did it twice a year but that doesn't mean that neither of them had a quick daily wash in the local river. And cities were especially filthy because they didn't have the infrastructure we have today. There are probably thousands of villages and towns across the world where people washed cloths and themselves for centuries in a very uneventful manner like your gradma. It's just that nobody ever thought about writing it down. Kinda like how future humans probably wouldn't know how we wiped our butts with toilet paper if people on the internet didn't figure out that some people stand and some sit whilst wiping and now there's a lot of discussions about that stuff.

[@SirenaSpades]

I dated a guy from Greece, and his family there still does not have indoor plumbing. They have to go "to the field" to (use the bathroom...but there is no bathroom..) just the field. So when he visits, he looks forward to the field issue. Not even an outhouse. I don't know why they don't have an outhouse?

[@EnrickFall]

@@SirenaSpades that is indeed very strange, I had no idea a country like Greece would be like this

[@dimitristripakis7364]

@@EnrickFall It's not, she is full of it. I know nobody and no place in this condition and even if there was, she could not bave dated them because they would not speak English. Just a troll, don't feed her.

[@hillarysudeikis2264]

Lord Jesus Christ is coming back everyone, please don’t worship celebrities and entertainment, focus on Him alone. I promise there’s more to life than money, partying, homosexuality and music. Hell is real, repent from sinning confess your sins and ask God to forgive you, I know He will if you’re sincere. Anyone who thinks the Name of Lord Jesus Christ is a joke, boldly mocks and scorns Him or takes pleasure in people who do is in for a big unpleasant surprise on judgement day IF they don’t repent and follow Lord Jesus Christ. Hell is very hot, people please repent! In the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen 🙏💪✝️💜❤️✝️! Idolatry such as, Islam, Catholicism, Sangomaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Santa Clausism, Confucianism, New Age, Science, Evolution, halloweenism, Harry Potterism, Politics, Donald Trumpism, Easter Bunnyism and other religions/faiths that are outside Biblical Christianity lead to hell! Don’t believe them, believe the Almighty God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ, who begot Him. Our Creator, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is mighty, He doesn’t need a woman to beget a son, He is God. I choose to put my faith in a God who can do anything and everything, a God who has unlimited and infinite power to beget! So, it’s time to confess that Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord and to believe that He died and rose from the grave after three days and you shall be saved if you only obey Him by praying, worshipping, praising, reading the Bible and living holy and righteously according to the Bible. You have to endure until the end, carry your cross daily and build your relationship with God by following Lord Jesus daily until the end. You must never renounce your faith in The Lord Jesus Christ, there’s hell awaiting those who reject/deny Lord Jesus Christ and those who continue living sinfully, even the Christians who don’t want to repent will face the same fate, so please repent beloved people, in Lord Jesus Christ’s mighty and precious Name, Amen. ✝️

[@deadalready7467]

As a kid, we would vacation for 2 weeks each year to visit my grandparents. On my Mom’s side, they had an outhouse as well as only ONE indoor sink in the kitchen. Imagine how appreciative that (poor) whiny city kid was. My poor, grandparents worked so hard, as farmers, & that was their castle. I didn’t know how lucky I was to have them in my life & learn from their ways. Many Blessings All 🙏🇺🇸

[@hillarysudeikis2264]

Lord Jesus Christ is coming back everyone, please don’t worship celebrities and entertainment, focus on Him alone. I promise there’s more to life than money, partying, homosexuality and music. Hell is real, repent from sinning confess your sins and ask God to forgive you, I know He will if you’re sincere. Anyone who thinks the Name of Lord Jesus Christ is a joke, boldly mocks and scorns Him or takes pleasure in people who do is in for a big unpleasant surprise on judgement day IF they don’t repent and follow Lord Jesus Christ. Hell is very hot, people please repent! In the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen 🙏💪✝️💜❤️✝️! Idolatry such as, Islam, Catholicism, Sangomaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Santa Clausism, Confucianism, New Age, Science, Evolution, halloweenism, Harry Potterism, Politics, Donald Trumpism, Easter Bunnyism and other religions/faiths that are outside Biblical Christianity lead to hell! Don’t believe them, believe the Almighty God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ, who begot Him. Our Creator, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is mighty, He doesn’t need a woman to beget a son, He is God. I choose to put my faith in a God who can do anything and everything, a God who has unlimited and infinite power to beget! So, it’s time to confess that Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord and to believe that He died and rose from the grave after three days and you shall be saved if you only obey Him by praying, worshipping, praising, reading the Bible and living holy and righteously according to the Bible. You have to endure until the end, carry your cross daily and build your relationship with God by following Lord Jesus daily until the end. You must never renounce your faith in The Lord Jesus Christ, there’s hell awaiting those who reject/deny Lord Jesus Christ and those who continue living sinfully, even the Christians who don’t want to repent will face the same fate, so please repent beloved people, in Lord Jesus Christ’s mighty and precious Name, Amen. ✝️

[@homosexualitymydearwatson4109]

Honestly in a country like America the fact that most houses didn’t have proper plumbing isn’t much of a blessing at all.

[@zappababe8577]

My mum and uncle used to get bathed together in an old tin bath in front of the fire! Imagine the work of heating the water, carrying bowls and jugs to fill up the bath, and then having to empty it out afterwards!

[@marionmarino1616]

Ha, ha, yes we had an aunt and uncle with a farm. I hated the outhouse, it had a hornet nest in it! And they had a small water pump in their sink. Talk about the good old days!

[@marionmarino1616]

True. My relatives had a dairy farm, all they did was work. Had nine kids, people had big families so they could help with their farm. When their kids grew up, they left. My relatives sold the farm. It was too much work.

[@jhonayo4887]

That's the one thing that would stop me from wanting to spend more than a day in this timeframe. Hygiene is soooo crucial and i can't believe how these people lived like this.

[@marisapaola9010]

Most died before age 40

[@fromthesouthofafrica6815]

@@marisapaola9010 That statistic is inflated due to infant mortality. Those who survived pass childhood probably lived longer.

[@katarinalove8649]

Europeans

[@Pollicina_db]

@@katarinalove8649 you called?

[@BreadFred3]

In Central America, my parents lived in the rural areas with extreme poverty in the 1960's thru the early-1980's. It fascinates me on how they, my sister and relatives live without toilet, A/C, electricity, and no watch. The conditions was quite the same when I visited in the late-1990's through the mid-2000's. I always disliked my visits: sleeping in stuffy heat while mosquitos are always biting, showering in cold water, taking a dump in the woods, drinking water from the well which always gave me diarrhea.

[@halamish1]

Very interesting. You forgot to mention that Queen Elizabeth I once said (seriously) that she took a bath once a year whether she needed it or not. By the way, when I grew up in Wales in the 1940s there were no sinks in public lavatories.

[@MrTakvam]

Grew up in the 1940s? Bro are you still alive?

[@dnsoulx]

@@MrTakvam dude’s in their 70s or 80s

[@Danielle-wo6vn]

I’d rather pee in the corner, public toilet, no way to wash your hands 😳 thankfully we now have sinks in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿public toilets

[@dannytran1587]

sir can i be put in your will

[@BingleFlimp]

@MioAkiyama3686 True. The time he's talking about isn't accurate anyway. She apparently was said to bathe once a month, not a year, whether she "needed it or not". This may be in reference to the church disliking bathhouses as they were attributed, rightly, with spreading disease. Queen Elizabeth I of England bathed more than most people today. I can't remember the last time I bathed, because I don't bathe, I shower. Bathing is a specific method of cleaning oneself, not cleaning oneself in general.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I like to think that it was usual, but unrecorded, for people to wash the stinky parts daily in a bowl or pail of warm water. An immersion, hot bath was never affordable for the poor, it would just consume too much firewood, hauled water and time. I have lived this life, where every drop of water had to be carried up a steep hill from a spring and the wood to heat it had to be chopped. I managed a daily wash in a bowl heated over a fire, and a weekly shampoo in winter, and with cold water in summer. It’s not impossible, except that in the Middle Ages, firewood was usually not abundant for the poor because gathering it was restricted by landlords.

[@joshmastiff1128]

Haunting...

[@fainitesbarley2245]

My family washed like this most of the time. Except the water was cold and in a sink. Baths were expensive and weekly only

[@therealhellkitty5388]

In England, wood under 24 inches in diameter could be freely gathered by the peasantry. Anything over that size had to be paid for to the land owner. In theory, peasants could have washed quite frequently especially if there was a cooking fire lit every morning and evening.

[@tyjifeku]

Dry bathing was probably a lot more common. Requires no water, only a relatively clean and dry cloth (or a couple) for wiping your body down with.

[@valmarsiglia]

01:22 Oh come on, that's obviously a Viking coke spoon.

[@sirwi11iam]

What I was thinking! 😂😂

[@NathanEllisBodi]

I'm guessing the price has come down considerably..

[@yupyupyup3497]

😂😂😂

[@AugustDH]

@@NathanEllisBodiAnd it doesn’t have to be smuggled in someone’s anus before it enters your nose

[@cherrytomato6139]

An interesting fact - using sphagnum moss for personal hygiene is not such a bad idea. Several types of moss have antibacterial properties, that were used in WWI and WWII for wound dressing. Many Northern indigenous people used (and still do!) it for diapers and sanitary pads, which were absorbent and helped to keep skin dry and free of bacteria. Medieval people may not have known why it worked, they just knew it did. For instance, they used sun rays to disinfect wooden tabs for butter and cheese making. Another interesting fact some commentators below also mentioned - monasteries having bathing facilities, often with addition of various medical herbs to relieve various medical conditions.

[@nancya.nelson5810]

Dry the moss first...

[@carlsaganlives4036]

Works great, cheap, or free. "Sphagnum for the Sphincter©" indeed.

[@mikehicks2283]

Cheesy V's

[@Sarcasmavadakedavra]

My grandma told me to scratch my feet with it cause it's effective on warts. It is.

[@aby110]

I'm good I got tp

[@serenapopowich8084]

The association between bath houses and sexual immortality was only significantly widespread in the later part of the middle-ages, in fact in many cities bath houses were run by religious orders and built by the local Church so that people regardless of wealth would be able to bathe, it was considered charitable work. And although excessive commitment to hygiene was considered vain, cleanliness is close to Godliness and care for the body is and was considered as showing respect for God's creation.

[@AMK544]

I suggest looking up the difference between the word “immortality” and “immorality” 😂😂😂

[@serenapopowich8084]

@@AMK544 so I made a typo, grow up.

[@cageybee7221]

@@AMK544 i suggest not adding 3 emojis to the end of comments if you want people to take what you have to say seriously.

[@maxthompson159]

@@Sillynyan-360 I suggest things to random people online 'cause it feels good!

[@nathangarland9453]

AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT GOES ON IN THE CHURCH.

[@robnewman6101]

There was so much suffering in those periods!

[@TinekeWilliams]

Born in the Netherlands, bath once a week in an iron tub. Change of underwear and ready for the next week. Now living in New Zealand, shower once a day and change underwear once a day or more depending if I go out or not.

[@UptownLexi]

It’s incredibly uncomfortable to be dirty. Head lice alone is like actual torture imo.

[@laurenceclutson5000]

Did medieval people ever shave their heads to avoid this ?

[@marionmarino1616]

@@UptownLexi I see discarded shoes that the homeless leave all over NYC streets. The men would rather go barefoot than suffer the torture of those biting lice.

[@thedaggonator]

I’m a Boy Scout. One time I was camping, and we had to do a project for our Scoutmaster. We had to build a dam out of clay mud. Afterwards, we all shared this dirty muddy water in the fire bucket. Afterwards we dried our clothes by the fire. (It was super rainy.) So yea. I’m grateful for my shower :)

[@mickadatwist1620]

I'm so glad to be born in 1977! Life on earth looks was horrible before modernity.

[@chrismath149]

Would someone please consider that usually medieval sources inform us about remarkable situations. If someone drowns while bathing and it ends up being recorded one might assume that it was a rare, or special situation. Also in 2017, 26 people in my little home nation sadly drowned in rivers or lakes. In the US it was close to 4000.

[@theonlineanimal6009]

It makes more since that it would be remembered and written down as warning for other people. Afterall if something is dangerous. It only makes since that people want to remember it.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Engineers may have saved more lives than modern medicine.

[@jakobofcincy]

honestly you might be right about that, most (but NOT all) dissease is a result of poor sanitation, if I had to choose between sanitation and modern medicine I am probably going to choose the former.

[@jimmybrad156]

cheap energy goes a long way

[@kaykarahalis829]

Before the modern fuse box if there was too much electricity being used the house would actually go up in flames…. Because the engineering wasn’t there yet. Now if there’s to much electricity being used everything gets shut off automatically and everyone’s annoyed, but nobody dies! (Usually)

[@kevinolsen8779]

In terms of lives saved per dollars spent, no one tops the guys who clean the sewers

[@theswede5402]

How all the hygiene knowledge of the greeks and romans could have been lost so bad is beyond comprehension.

[@theswede5402]

@@Dimitris_Half Oh yes they where, ever heard of roman bath houses or greek hygiene? To most ancients it was pretty natural to clean yourself and not throw shit in the streets.

[@robinshankland3499]

Religion. All of the lost knowledge was actually replaced with ignorant and repulsive superstitious beliefs.

[@theswede5402]

@@robinshankland3499 Romans and Greeks where very religious too, its Abrahamic religions from the desert that made science a sin.

[@NickyNicest]

@@robinshankland3499religion is humanities biggest downfall.

[@JaSeanCarter_1]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@NickyNicestTerminally online Redditor atheist detected.

[@lyndonpacholko4960]

Thanks for the tips, my current utility bills are making me reconsider several of these options.

[@Misses-Hippy]

lol

[@S.Anderson-Bey]

The irony that the Moors were considered savages.

[@Saranda4787]

Funny how an ad for shampoo appeared just as you were speaking of head lice. Especially ironic for me, since I shave my head a couple of times a week.

[@JNJG1999]

@Saranda I shaved my own head does it still feel like you're hair is still there then when you go to feel it you remember "oh wait I don't have hair now." - I had that feeling for months after shaving my shoulder length hair off,.

[@cleocatra9324]

Why several times a week?

[@amber_long]

@@cleocatra9324 keeps the scalp smooth and shiny like a mirror

[@cleocatra9324]

@@amber_long ah i see😊

[@fhurcfkplyafw]

Danke!

[@MrKimpan88]

In Sweden saturday is called lördag whitch is short for lögardagen and the word lögar is old Swedish for washing and therefor translates to washingday.

[@badillanadia2365]

I have a book with your font it in there were cages for the bear

[@MoaMorgenstern]

I love your channel! It’s super interesting and you make it so easy to understand, not using complicated words. English isn’t my main language and I understand your videos perfectly. I feel like something is too advanced it might get boring and also difficult to understand. You’re great!

[@pattskatoey3139]

They were filthy.The smell alone would tell you something isn’t right.The thought of pooping and not washing your butt for years is bloody frightening.

[@samanthaesra4035]

My great grandparents washed my grandmother in a tub of water infront of the fire in the U.K. they only had an outside WC in a shed only. One kitchen sink. Many people in those days worked in the coal mines. The women who stayed at home, had to wash and care for their husbands when they came home.

[@raspyraspberries]

I love the little blurb of vikings being so clean they can get with any woman, the standards of medieval women are much the same as a modern one.

[@narcisoanasui246]

And they bathed only once a week so how often (or seldom) was everyone else’s bathing habit? 😭

[@ocudagledam]

By mistake or not, the video actually says that women shunned them. Which reminds me of how, supposedly, Napoleon would write to Josephine to signal when he was returning home from his campaigns so that she would stop bathing (and smell like a real woman when he arrived).

[@bromptondevice7685]

@@ocudagledam Yup. The true meaning of "Not tonight, Josephine."

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

@@ocudagledam I’m low-key curious what a real woman smells like according to Napoleon. I can only imagine 😅.

[@evil1by1]

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 picture a trash barge at low tide...

[@MadeByChinkee]

Lye is always used in soap making. Although there will be no more trace of it in the final product, and is already safe to use. So, if you see something like "lye free soap making", it's not true.

[@jakobofcincy]

slight correction, the church didn't hate bathhouses directly, it was the fact that brothels often set up in and around them that the church didn't like.

[@Mathrox-uu1qh]

Odd - since often the churches owned the brothels .True fact.

[@lando8913]

The Roman's used almost the exact same recipe for washing their hair over one thousand years before.

[@skyhawk_4526]

The Romans also conquered Britain, so it might not be a coincidence.

[@lando8913]

@@skyhawk_4526 There you go Russia, there's your ticket to success.

[@Miss-Anne-Thrope]

They believed that periods were a punishment from God? Yup, I can understand that idea! 🙄

[@blink184]

That's why it's called MENstration. Lol.

[@johnmeyer74]

That's not true they knew what it was that is a wife's tal

[@angelaatwood46]

@@johnmeyer74 seems if they weren't so stupid they could connect periods, and the ability to have a baby when you get them. I'm not saying the rest of their bodies were ready, 11 or 12 year olds I don't believe all of them could carry a baby, much less pushing it out. But these are girls, so, they shouldn't be having babies. Still, the medieval doctors should have figured it out, and also pain medication because it's a gift from the divine we can have children, not a curse from God.

[@angrydragonslayer]

@@johnmeyer74 source please

[@stonecoldsteveaustin9353]

they also believed that sneezing was demons leaving the body. that's why people still say "bless you" when someone sneezes

[@bromptondevice7685]

I was really disappointed that when I last went to Warwick Castle they had blocked the toilet just off the medieval kitchen so that you can no longer see the river through the drop hole.

[@Alucard6921]

Before I even clicked the link I was thinking lye. Then you proceed to tell me Vikings (who are awesome anyway) used lye soap bars?! You have earned yourself another subscriber!

[@alexf9381]

A few things mentioned here confused me. For instance the part where it's stated that public baths were supposedly an idea brought back to Europe by the crusaders... I just read a book about ancient Rome detailing how there were public bath houses all around the empire, Italy and the rest of Europe, that the civilians visited regularly

[@andrefromelpasotexas3236]

It was the ancient Roman’s who created the public baths. The Roman empire was so large that it was split in half. The western half fell and that started the dark ages, called so because of the loss or rejection of much Roman knowledge, including public baths. The eastern half of the Roman Empire became the Byzantine empire, which was later visited by Europeans through the crusades. Much Roman knowledge was “rediscovered” by Western Europe during the crusades, which includes the public baths. This rediscovery of knowledge is what started the renaissance.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

The English city of Bath still has extremely well-preserved Roman bathhouses. Visit if you can. (The best preserved Roman ruins I've seen weren't in Italy, they were in England.)

[@Fliegermann777]

@@GeraldM_inNC I've been to Bath, England several times over the years (beautiful city) and once took the guided tour of the ancient Roman ruins of the public baths there beneath an elegant restaurant - The Pump Room. The Roman Baths were quite an extensive system and intricate process, apparently performed by progressing from one cleaning station to the next in a certain order, i.e., hot water to steam room to cold water, etc., becoming cleaner at each stop. While going through the process one would have the clothing professionally cleaned. Must have been for the wealthier class. Glad I went because I learned there was at least some level of hygiene awareness in Europe even 1,000 years ago.

[@Pollicina_db]

@@Fliegermann777 it was actually for everyone, even slaves bathed

[@RadarS92]

Books are written by human, the truth is never really known!!!

[@vickilindberg6336]

Weather factored in Viking style. Ear wax functions to protect the inner ears from damage from cold & wind. Beards may have done the same. Yes, let's hear it for our favorite: indoor plumbing.

[@CharDhue]

Kind advice for time traveler: Don't go back in time too far

[@SkyeID]

there is no time in the history of humanity where I wanna go back to. I just wanna move forward to a hopefully better future.

[@dm607]

My imagination hit the gutter during this one. Thinking of the after sex stench of the long time unwashed......ewwww!

[@taycharlese]

I always think about this during shows like Game of Thrones 😭

[@AFatalPapercut]

imagine ye olde brothel...at like 9PM.

[@jazmynbrown6820]

Especially as a woman. We can get some odors after sex. They had to be funkyyyyy. 😁

[@thewholeninelives]

Not to mention fungus infections down there🤢

[@12345678927164]

Moist moss vagoo smell.

[@michaellyons5208]

Enjoyed that stifled chuckle on "ear spoons." Love the content.

[@SkyeID]

ear spoons still exist. I've tried them, and they work pretty well

[@nickystripe3303]

My mother’s parents had an outhouse and no running water in the house until the late 1960s or early 70s, I can’t remember which. The water pump was out in the front yard. I always get somewhat confused about the frequency of bathing in the middle ages. It was my understanding that some royalty only bathed once or twice a year if even that often. I wonder which ones bathed more often than that and which did not. I have seen KZbin videos about how complicated and time-consuming it was to remove stains from clothing. I’m not surprised that laundry day was relatively infrequent and time consuming backbreaking chore. I went to Texas school for the blind, and we did not have washing machines or dryer’s until 1965. We did a portion of our laundry on old fashion wash boards and sent the rest away to a state laundry. So I know what it’s like to do laundry on a scrub board.

[@robinshankland3499]

And here we have another reason for the separation of church and state. These times, these "dark ages" came AFTER the Romans had long ago figured out basic plumbing... Even the ancient Mayans had the sewage issue figured out.... Then came forced "religion".....

[@isthattrue1083]

It's bad enough that there was enough poop that SHIPS couldn't get through it... No wonder there were plagues.

[@ambermaccraig7316]

Hey, long time subscriber here. I just wanted to take a few seconds to tell you how much I appreciate your videos on the medieval time era. For countless reasons, it is my favorite historical topic and it's hard to find a good channel devoted to all things medieval without boring you to death or being over "wordy" lol. Please think about adding live animation to your videos, it makes it so much relatable and interesting to many viewers. Thanks for sharing your knowledge w us. Appreciation from High Point, NC USA.

[@marcosmota1094]

It took ages to feed the algos and find your channel. I love your delivery and the easter egg jokes. Dude, the nuggets that you sneak in are why I keep coming back. And it's hilarious when you make fun of us...TMI, I wash my toes and belly button... *thoroughly.*

[@RedSiegfried]

I too enjoy hot, clean water and antibiotics!

[@GeraldM_inNC]

There's an episode of "Pinky & The Brain" in which they almost did succeed in taking over the world. They had traveled back to the Middle Ages, and had convinced the people to let them take over. So close! But then The Brain announced his plan to make the people bathe, and the two mice had to run for their lives.

[@SnoopReddogg]

I liked their plot to take over the world using country music.... this close!!!

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

What are we going to do today Brain?

[@ayela562]

This might be my favourite KZbin comment ever

[@JanetLouisePenyistas]

The same thing we do everyday...​@@lastofthe4horsemen279

[@Mr-wv1tu]

I see lots of comments about "the old days", when someone was young and visited their relatives and had to make due with an outhouse. Well, 1½ year ago I moved from the third biggest city in Sweden (about 360 000 citizens), to a house built 1923 in the north of the country. The house is in the countryside, with no bathroom, and no hot running water. I have an outhouse (where someone has scribbled the date of the construction - also 1923 - on the inside wall), and I have (VERY) cold running water from my own well. When I'm going to take a bath, I heat water, and bathe in a big plastic tub, that's originally for mixing concrete. It's no problems keeping clean, and it's not only in my own mind that I'm clean - if some part of me was dirty, I would hear about it very quickly from those around me. Apart from it being a bit cold on my arse now during winter (last year I had -28° C), I have no problems whatsoever with lacking a bathroom. I love the countryside, and would NEVER trade this life for one in the city. It's no big deal having to heat water etc; we humans can get used to most things, and it's not like I'm having to do something that 96% of humanity hasn't had to do before our modern times.

[@alkan71]

Medieval Hygiene. One of the world’s shortest documentaries

[@Misses-Hippy]

Right up there with Scottish cusine.

[@zackzittel7683]

Yeah I used to carry a small spoon around but it was for different scoops.

[@frederickburke9944]

The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg. Fascinating history of hygeine

[@francisfischer7620]

Just fascinating! This is such an interesting series. Thanks so much!!

[@rhondajohnson8310]

I love your content!! Keep up the great work, so hilarious!

[@smashleybreaks]

Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites and is def one of the best imo.

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I've said this many times to other channels, but if you really want to make a channel stand out, make the content relatable. You continue to impress me with long form videos of the things most of us have the most questions about, but no one seems to answer. What a wonderful time to be alive, with the worst parts of our civilization long gone and able to look back in retrospect.

[@luciazaviacicova3594]

How can anybody claim that those were the "simpler" days?

[@fringestream990]

Well it was simple, crap in a outhouse and use some leaves to clean up. Almost everything was very basic. Compared to today where everything is very complicated, confusing, and expensive lol

[@fonziebulldog5786]

It was because they didnt wash.

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

@@fringestream990 Things were complicated, confusing, and expensive even then, but because we have greater perspective we think past eras had it easier than they actually did. Do some research because although things may appear to be harder for us now, we can’t deny that we have more rights, opportunity, luxuries, and even benefits such as longer life spans compared to back then.

[@torhildsagenghansen6074]

"Let your water often, and relieve yourself, even if the king himself rides by." Translated to English from a poem about health and cleanliness, in Norwegian. An old poem, from the 1700's, if my memory serves me well. :)

[@necrisro]

Just because the brits were supersitiously filthy doesn't mean every mendieval society was. As the majority of population was rural outhouses were actually the main doing your business solution for the majority of the population and conaminating the river was frowned upon as they knew dirty water can kill both people and livestock. Also people forget a fire was a daily occurance in a household, excess heat wasn't wasted (like any other resource back then) and water was boiled for cleaning every day. These behaviours can be observed in even the poorest parts of the worlds today where they don't have much education but know better than to kill their communities with filth.

[@Maria_Svetlana_5923]

Ive tried ear picks and they help in getting ear wax while not wasting anything from using cotton buds.....dear god how lucky am i for indoor modern plumbing

[@SkyeID]

yeah, I've tried them too. Some hygiene products just never die.

[@paulwells782]

At the end , the Mostar bridge! I was there when it was still bombed out.

[@gijbuis]

I believe that in Roman law there was a fixed penalty which could be imposed for throwing excrement from a building onto the heads of passersby below. The satirist, Juvenal, warns, "Each open upper casement along your route at night may prove a death-trap: so pray and hope (poor you!) that the local housewives drop nothing worse on your head than a pailful of slops."

[@robnewman6101]

👑 Keep Calm and Carry on.

[@purpurina5663]

Contrary to popular belief, people's teeth were very decent. They decayed due to use, not cavities. No processed sugar made a big difference. Part of the hygiene problem was due to the idea that water was improper, as ir entered into areas of the body not meant to be seen or felt.

[@myriamickx7969]

The idea of water propagating miasma and diseases came later, around the 17th century in France. Notoriously, the royalty and nobility crowding the Palace of Versailles were foul-smelling because they never washed or bathed, but used very strong perfumes to camouflage the stench. By the next century, however, water came into fashionagain and thingsgot better.

[@kimberleysmith818]

And a lot Of the bread for example was very course which served to ‘scrape’ the teeth. There is a food video by English historian Susannah Lipscombe about how Sugar was such a big killer in Tudor Britain.

[@Lozzie74]

What is “processed sugar”?

[@purpurina5663]

@@Lozzie74 guess I meant "refined" sugar(s)

[@marionetteworks]

Please keep developing it and adding new features, I’ll gladly pay for a new expansion.

[@alangknowles]

Surely the quote should read "The Danes... were ABLE to undermine..."

[@rarebird_82]

Thanks for that mate! OCD trigger confirmed watching this, itching like crazy and feel like I need another bath LOL, cheers 😭

[@endergamer7483]

*we like to think of medieval people happy to be living in dirt* Me, flashing back to this Monty Python line: *OYE THERE’S SOME LOVELY FILTH OVER HERE DENNIS*

[@screamingtima1318]

Movies/shows romanticize all these era’s so much, but I’m super grateful for living in times where we have soap and toilet’s.

[@SkyeID]

they had soap in the middle ages

[@Tysto]

3:06 cities in England in the late Middle Ages were no more than about 10,000 population. Even London is thought to have been no more than 40- to 50,000. Only Paris, Rome, Constantinople, & one or two others would have had 100,000 or more, & some of them had sewer systems. That's not to say the small cities didn’t have a waste problem, but it wasn’t wildly out of control.

[@lilyofthevalley5586]

Yup! So glad I live in modern times and have much! Must have been horrid!

[@dianalee8967]

My mother was born in Mexico+ 191012 years after that she said they used rags what are the periods then in 1980s when I visited my boyfriend's parents and Tijuana Mexico there was no flushing toilets and you had to go in the town for a shower they had bath houses on the Main Street and his mother's stuff pillows with rags but I lived in California born in 1934 I always had everything I still live in Southern California so I never knew of poverty but I know it's still exist

[@bridaw8557]

Using moss while camping in the forest is so nice! It’s soft and slightly damp so you feel clean. It’s better than toilet paper, actually.

[@wreckastow6575]

Imagine I'ma CNA and wipe butt all day and get absolutely no clout. I would be the shyt back then🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@shamarlow3054]

Great video man 👍

[@80sMetalHead]

#KeepItUp! Great Work. A+

[@nedmccarroll8462]

Love your history telling so entertaining 😂😂

[@belovedinthebuilding]

I am so grateful for everything the Lord has blessed me with. From clean water to clean clothes. We have it so good now.

[@RPlavo]

Remember that on Election Day

[@f.drachenfels4503]

We‘ve had the Romans in Europe for ca. 400 years and didn‘t learn from them about hygiene or their heating system.

[@mattwest5403]

This made me want too wash my hair again 😅🎩

[@MarySchipke]

I have suffered homelessness for over 10 years. Why does so much of this sound so familiar? Oh, ya, no toilet, no running water, no shower, no sink, no nothing.....

[@katthefantastic]

He wore a hair shirt full of fleas and lice! Just let that sink in for a bit. Jeez

[@MoaMorgenstern]

I’m actually watching this while in the bath.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Modern life isn’t perfect but at least we don’t have lice-ridden hair, bodies and clothes! At least, most of us don’t.

[@marionmarino1616]

I guess you don’t ride the NYC subway system.

[@Karolina25541]

Lol 😂 The TROTULA Shampoo is Hilarious😂😂😂

[@ManuelPinner]

Thank You My Lord that I live in this Century where We have indoor Plumbing, A Clean Saint here is a Happy Saint,

[@ydoicare2000]

God how horrific.

[@Shinobi33]

Bath houses were also Roman. Being that Britain was a former Roman colony I'd think they got the bath house idea from them.

[@ambermaccraig7316]

"Where you going, babe?"..., "Sorry, sweetheart, I forgot my ear scoop, I'll be right back". 🤢🤮

[@rncine]

Living in Florida, I dread when hurricane season is on. To not have water running after a hurricane is a disaster, I need my hair Clean with no lice ☺️

[@marionmarino1616]

I’ve lived in Florida. It had every bug, snake, lizard, fly, known to man. Even the ocean is deadly, those Portuguese Man-o-Wars sting you even when they’re dying on the sand. We had a Scorpion wander into our office once. Scorpions are supposed to live in the desert!

[@VanillasteaGorl]

Ewwwwww good gosh I’m so glad we are in todays world knowing all this information

[@BradGryphonn]

Little-known fact. It is harder for lice to glue their eggs to oily hair than dry hair. However, your hair must be clean, otherwise, the lice will attach their eggs to the dryish dirt in your oily hair. So, to help prevent head lice, wash your hair regularly with plain water in the shower but only wash your hair with shampoos when absolutely needed. Here endeth the lesson from the old fart.

[@lillemy5062]

Good work, old fart. I'm glad we still got you!

[@zachdalmaso2131]

Uhhhh, I use shampoo pretty much every day and I've never had lice even once in my life. So really to avoid lice you just need to be in an environment that isn't infested with lice, which is quite easy to do & find - at least here in the US it is.

[@robertbruce7686]

Amen

[@Pretermit_Sound]

@@zachdalmaso2131 interesting, I’ve done the same thing my whole life and never had lice either. Who would have thunk! 😉 the thing is, if you really want to have oily hair to “prevent lice”, there are plenty of products on the market that will let you do this, and still have clean hair. Sorry, but having greasy hair is gross, and trying to rationalize it by saying “it prevents lice” might have been fine in the medieval period, but not in 2022. Just my opinion though. I could be wrong 🤷‍♂️

[@lslmadi]

If you were to die today, are you a 100% sure you will go to heaven? If no, here is what the bible says, (1) Romans 3:23 KJV [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Q1. Do you know what Sin is? Sin is anything bad that we have done. Q2. Have you sinned before? Yes or No? (2) Revelation 21:8 KJV [8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Because we have sinned, and God does not allow Sin into Heaven, the punishment is burning hell. What is the way to reconcile our peace and relationship with God? Q3. Do you know the Story of Jesus? (3) Romans 5:8 KJV [8] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus = God who lived up in Heaven, but he came down on earth and became a man like us, he lived for 33.5 years without committing any sin. Then there were certain people who were jealous and therefore framed him on phony charges, and crucified him. Then he was buried and resurrected on the third day; Now he lives in HEAVEN. Q4. Do you know why Jesus went through all this bloody mess for us? A4. As mentioned, our sin is the reason why we can’t go to heaven, and the only thing that can wash away our sin is the Blood of Jesus. (4) Romans 5:9 KJV [9] Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. According to the bible, the only way for us to reconcile with God is through Christ Jesus’s blood, and not through any works that we do or merits we accumulate, such as water baptism, attending church, or any good thing that we do. The following verses clearly support this. (5) Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV [8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man should boast. (6) 2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV [10] For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. In order to get saved, repentance of one’s sin is needed to get saved, we need to be sorry, and repent, with conviction, that we are a wretched sinner. (7) Romans 10:9 KJV [9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. If you truly do believe in everything you have heard in the gospel, ,I strongly suggest you to make a proclamation to GOD! You can say it to God in less than 15 seconds !Repeat after this simple prayer, to make sure you truly get saved. Remember repeating this prayer doesn't save you, it's you telling God you BELIEVE THE GOSPEL. Ok, here is the prayer : ‘Dear GOD, I know I am a sinner, as I repent, I put my faith, that Jesus is GOD, and that he died, buried and resurrected, so that his blood, can wash away my Sins. I put my faith in that alone to save me, not my good works. In Jesus’s holy name, I pray. Amen! Congratulations ! Now you are a child of God. Download /Buy a KJV bible (I highly suggest getting a hard copy bible , as one day, it will be illegal to buy, own or even have an online version of the bible) and search for youtube channels like Truthunedited, REAL Bible Believers , The Bible Project, AoC Network, Robert Clancy, Spencer Smith to help you grow , study dispensationalism to understand the bible ( How do we reconcile the verses in the New Testament that tell us that we need works to show our faith, and another that tells us that nothing that can take our salvation away? That's why we need to study biblical dispensationalism to rightly divide the word of God.( study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, 2 Timithy 2:15) (I recommend the dispensationalism video from Genesis to Revelations by Dr. Gene Kim, kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXqXdKebequrhc0) , join a bible believing church. God bless you brother/ sister ☺. See you in heaven one day!

[@catherinesmitko]

you crack me up... as always, well done!