Negative Space: Middle Ages
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- Did people in the Middle Ages take baths?
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“For most people, having a private bath was not an option—it was simply too costly and too time-consuming to have their own baths. That does not mean they went without bathing, for public baths were very common throughout Europe. By the thirteenth-century one could find over 32 bathhouses in Paris; Alexander Neckham, who lived in that city a century earlier, says that he would be awakened in the mornings by people crying in the streets that ‘that baths are hot!’”
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A fascinating, all-too-short book of just what it says: the day-to-day and year-to-year life in a medieval castle.
This book is a nice, breezy overview of life in a fair city, the kind of fair that figures prominently in many fantasy campaigns.