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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 1763110" data-attributes="member: 17262">I would like to cast "Dispell Misconception" on this.  Here's a nice little quote written by James F Dunnigan and Albert A Nofi on the subject of hygeine in the medieval era.  You can find all sorts of information on this in your average college history text or with a quick Google search.  In a nutshell, the above quote statement is highly inaccurate.Popular myth, including television, movies, and fiction, all tend to view the medieval period through the lens of the Renaissance authors who wrote about it.  If, however, you look at contemporary source material, you will find that the average medieval was at least moderately clean.  Now, they were not as clean as modern standards would like, but they were not generally covered in lice, dirt, and open sores either.</blockquote>