This is yet another relatively well known image that gets shared quite a lot when people try to convince us that mucky medieval folk were just flinging poo out their windows like it was an Olympic sport, but is that what it really depicts?Let’s have a look. The image comes from ‘Praxis rerum criminalium’ by … More Analysing the ‘Praxis rerum criminalium’ by Joos de Damhouder, 1554
The image below is often shared as an example of bad medieval hygiene, specifically to support the idea that emptying a chamber pot out of the window was a normal, generally accepted, common and/or regular occurrence in Medieval Europe.But the truth is a little different. First some of the technical details, the image comes from … More Analysing the Narrenschiff window scene (1494)
Let’s review a youtube video. “What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague“, made by ‘Weird history‘, a channel with 4.6 million subscribers. This video has 1 million views.First illustration is from 1625… not medieval. The thumbnail: The video is about the “black plague”, but it’s actually about the Black Death.Plague was the disease, Black … More Youtube review: “What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague” by ‘Weird history’
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