Book review: ‘Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries’ by Andrea Bardyn, Chanelle Delameillieure, Jelle Haemers (2019)

For a long time historians have been more interested in the stories of royals, nobles, knights and other important and powerful people, than they have been in the lives of the common folk.But I’ve always cared more about what life was like for people like me, not rich, not powerful, not living in palaces, etc. … More Book review: ‘Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries’ by Andrea Bardyn, Chanelle Delameillieure, Jelle Haemers (2019)

Youtube review: “What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague” by ‘Weird history’

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’

Book review: ‘Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe (2013)

I’ve just finished reading ‘Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe, Professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia.More about the book here. If you still kind of belief medieval folks weren’t into bathing and didn’t mind living in towns were people just chucked waste into the streets, … More Book review: ‘Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe (2013)