Hygiene in the Middle Ages is often misunderstood, with many assuming people rarely washed at all. In reality, practices varied depending on social class, access to water and religious beliefs. While ...

Although cleanliness in the Middle Ages was primitive compared to what modern people enjoy, it doesn't mean medieval hygiene didn't exist. Despite living in an era long before indoor plumbing, shampoo ...

A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the period ...