What time periods were the peak of stinky? I remember reading how the middle ages were actually rather clean compared to the rennaisance, but I cant find any solid sources
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What time periods were the peak of stinky?
"Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote to his wife Joséphine, while he was campaigning: 'Please don't wash, will arrive in three days'.
Paris was the dirtiest city on Earth for most of its history
It shortly escaped from it between 1900 and 1990, but then brown immigration plunged it back into filthiness
>blaming Ahmeds and Ngubus for p*risian filthiness
Nice try, Pierre
There were plenty of times between the Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Early Modern Age, into the 19th century, that were unfavourable for Western civilisational hygiene. The earlier centuries of the Middle Ages weren't quite as bad as people generally think. Yet, during the worst periods for Western hygiene, generally speaking, people still bathed, even if weekly or biweekly, and some people cleansed themselves more often than that if they wanted to. It is important to remember that the Romans (Eastern Romans, Byzantines) of the Middle Ages had access to relatively good hygiene, compared to many Central and Northern Europeans, though the differences were not as enormous as many think. Not everyone went to a bathhouse every day, after all.
>people still bathed, even if weekly or biweekly
and you obviously have no idea how much stink that schedule implies. not to mention their clothing.
Hygiene is overrated, the primary source of stench is malnourished people. The dark age and modern age are both times of stench, in spite of modern chemistry masking it in public.
Today. Any place in India.
the idea that medieval/renaissance europe was a filthy shithole with zero hygiene is a myth, but they did stagnate in sanitation overall compared to the roman era, and it wouldnt get better until like the 20th century. even today i think most europeans dont shower or bathe as much as other groups with italians being the exception for some reason
Typically the period of rising urbanism were extremely stinky. 3rd world, middle eastern favelavilles like Rome, Ravenna or Constantinople were great examples of that. So are the dreadful cities of Egypt, Mesopotamia or the Indus river valley. Meanwhile the steppe lets the wind through. Smells get blown away. Retvrn
Stinkiest event in European history
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
>Filthy river, filthy river,
>Foul from London to the Nore,
>What art thou but one vast gutter,
>One tremendous common shore?
Nice.
Victorians invented the Middle Ages as being stinky to cope with their lack of sanitation.
>Modern day - India
Industrial Revolution era, probably. There was grime and shit everywhere
nothing can be any more stinky than victorian london
Absolutely the industrial revolution was the stinkiest period in history
Here's how medieval Europe is represented in the current era
That's not Europe being represented thoughever
>mediaeval stinky
Oh no you have poo on your shoes and you haven't washed for a week haha
>industrial stinky
the sky is full of coal smoke, the crowded ramshackle housing has rampant disease, you're still unwashed, and you still have shit in the streets
>In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, it's necessary that it should be observed and explained; and at the same time that a reason should be given, for what seems altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it. But as authors do not commonly use this precaution, I shall presume to recommend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attention would subvert all the vulgar systems of morality, and let us see, that the distinction of vice and virtue is not founded merely on the relations of objects, nor is perceived by reason.
What the frick was his problem?
Are you lost?
Yes 🙁
Peak middle ages were absolutely stinky this is how Plague got such good conditions to develop