Info Favorites Register Log in
myArmoury.com Discussion Forums

Forum index Memberlist Usergroups Spotlight Topics Search
Forum Index > Off-topic Talk > Medieval Hygiene Reply to topic
This is a standard topic  
Author Message
Guilherme C.





Joined: 06 Mar 2017

Posts: 8

PostPosted: Wed 20 Sep, 2017 5:10 pm    Post subject: Medieval Hygiene         Reply with quote

Well guys, I guess this is the most Off-Topic post ever. But since a lot of you know a great deal about the Middle Ages, I've decided to come here for help.
I have an Youtube channel here in Brazil, to bring information about the middle ages to the people, as my country is filled up with misconceptions. I'm planning to do a video about medieval hygiene, but I'm lacking reliable written sources. Could anyone help me with this? I would really appreciate. Even if you don't know a written source, if you have some knowledge you want to share, I will make this topic part of the written sources in the video description Big Grin
Thanks to everyone who took time to read this!
View user's profile Send private message
Matthew Amt




Location: Laurel, MD, USA
Joined: 17 Sep 2003

Posts: 1,456

PostPosted: Thu 21 Sep, 2017 6:41 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Might be some usable sources in this thread on the Historum board:

http://historum.com/european-history/128177-b...urope.html

Not really a subject I've worked on, so I don't have anything citable at my fingertips.

Matthew
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Niels Just Rasmussen




Location: Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Joined: 03 Sep 2014

Spotlight topics: 15
Posts: 828

PostPosted: Thu 21 Sep, 2017 9:04 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard has made a short english resume of his article in 2008 about Danish bathhouses in the middle ages.
Source: https://tidsskrift.dk/kuml/article/view/24661?acceptCookies=1
Full Danish article: https://tidsskrift.dk/kuml/article/view/24661/21608

Might be interesting for you to learn, that sweat baths were much more common than tub baths and the bathhouses were frequented by all social classes together (even royalty).
The fear of syphilis diminished their widespread popularity, but it was probably mostly the growing negative attitude towards nudity in public, that caused them to become more and more rare, they we can still find some even up into the 18th century.

A likely sweat house had been identified from ~1st century BC in Slesvig (Rantrum), so it is probably a very long tradition.

Based on etymology you had apparently two types of bath in the viking ages and middle ages:
"Laug" is washing = wet baths -> (origin of Lørdag (Saturday) = washing day).
"Bad" is sweating baths in dry air with short intervals of steam introduced.
View user's profile Send private message
Lafayette C Curtis




Location: Indonesia
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Reading list: 7 books

Posts: 2,698

PostPosted: Thu 16 Nov, 2017 1:52 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

This one might have some amusing and useful facts: http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/people-dr...ddle-ages/
View user's profile Send private message


Display posts from previous:   
Forum Index > Off-topic Talk > Medieval Hygiene
Page 1 of 1 Reply to topic
All times are GMT - 8 Hours

View previous topic :: View next topic
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum






All contents © Copyright 2003-2024 myArmoury.com — All rights reserved
Discussion forums powered by phpBB © The phpBB Group
Switch to the Basic Low-bandwidth Version of the forum