
How Filthy Were Medieval People?
From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 1/16/2026

From Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Published 1/16/2026
If there's one sure way to irritate an historian of the Medieval period, it's to ask why the people of the Middle Ages didn't wash.In this episode, we did just that with Dr Eleanor Janega. Kate and Eleanor get into whether there really was poo everywhere, how the Victorians ruined the Medieval…

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