Showing posts with label Simple History. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Medieval Cleanliness


How clean were Medieval people?
Simple History | 23.IV.2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue6KrclRvY8


Comment on their final word on cesspits:

Cess pits cleaned out actually gave farmers vert desireable fertiliser.

Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, had this system to when Napoleonic Wars depleted the numbers of surrounding vineyard owners, leading to a need for other solutions.

Obviously, if farmers came once evert two weeks or so, the task was not too unthankful.