What Hygiene Was Like For Medieval Peasants
video description
Date: 2022-12-29
Related videos
Comments and reviews: 20
education
A lot of this is technically correct, however, reasons are not given for many things, for example, It states that people back loved bread and beer and ate/drank too much of it. They did not necessarily love bread and beer, but there was so little choice in what you ate and drank, and very often bread was your whole meal. As for beer, besides water, there was little else, there was no coffee, tea, fruit juice, little milk, wine, and there was certainly no gatorade or redbull. As for too many calories, nonsense. These people worked such hard labour for many hours every day, I doubt there was enough food energy for most. Too much of this is taken out of context and not explained. As well many living conditions like these are common in many parts of the world now. Also, the living condition of the peasants were much harder than those with more wealth, and this often confuses these living conditions, saying that some things were available to peasants that in reality they could not even hope for.
reply
A lot of this is technically correct, however, reasons are not given for many things, for example, It states that people back loved bread and beer and ate/drank too much of it. They did not necessarily love bread and beer, but there was so little choice in what you ate and drank, and very often bread was your whole meal. As for beer, besides water, there was little else, there was no coffee, tea, fruit juice, little milk, wine, and there was certainly no gatorade or redbull. As for too many calories, nonsense. These people worked such hard labour for many hours every day, I doubt there was enough food energy for most. Too much of this is taken out of context and not explained. As well many living conditions like these are common in many parts of the world now. Also, the living condition of the peasants were much harder than those with more wealth, and this often confuses these living conditions, saying that some things were available to peasants that in reality they could not even hope for.
reply
Sabrina
Unfortunately there are still people in this day and age who have very poor personal hygiene.
The only thing that has changed is that everyone has a bathroom in their homes, soap, shampoo, tooth brushes, tooth paste, hair brushes, deoderant. etc.
Now it's really by choice of each person whither they bathe or not.
Sadly, when someone has poor personal hygiene what comes to my mind is how good of a job the parents did with that individual and no one should be forced to be tortured by those smelly individuals.
One has to wonder why there are so many new weird infections or viruses now a days.
reply
Unfortunately there are still people in this day and age who have very poor personal hygiene.
The only thing that has changed is that everyone has a bathroom in their homes, soap, shampoo, tooth brushes, tooth paste, hair brushes, deoderant. etc.
Now it's really by choice of each person whither they bathe or not.
Sadly, when someone has poor personal hygiene what comes to my mind is how good of a job the parents did with that individual and no one should be forced to be tortured by those smelly individuals.
One has to wonder why there are so many new weird infections or viruses now a days.
reply
education
People smelling of sweat was of little or no concern to peasants. There was next to nothing they could do about it so everybody smelled of sweat, and nobody gave it any notice. Deodorant has actually only existed for 80 or 90 years. and for the first 20 or 30 years of it's existence, only women used it. Nobody cleaned out peasant cesspits, once they were full, they were abandoned, and a new cesspit was started. Sending your clothes to a professional laundress? NO SUCH THING EXISTED. People washed their own clothes. Wood ash was commonly used to clean your teeth.
reply
People smelling of sweat was of little or no concern to peasants. There was next to nothing they could do about it so everybody smelled of sweat, and nobody gave it any notice. Deodorant has actually only existed for 80 or 90 years. and for the first 20 or 30 years of it's existence, only women used it. Nobody cleaned out peasant cesspits, once they were full, they were abandoned, and a new cesspit was started. Sending your clothes to a professional laundress? NO SUCH THING EXISTED. People washed their own clothes. Wood ash was commonly used to clean your teeth.
reply
MCL
Gaels used animal fat-made soap. It wasn't fragrant (fragrant soap was only introduced to Europe during the Crusades, but 'siapo' was invented by Celts. It was a legal requirement to bathe four times a week, and use sopa (soap) and scrub off dirt and other things. If you didn't you could suffer heavy fines for being filthy. If you were wealthy, afterward you'd rub yourself (or have servants or slaves) in fragrant oils.
reply
Gaels used animal fat-made soap. It wasn't fragrant (fragrant soap was only introduced to Europe during the Crusades, but 'siapo' was invented by Celts. It was a legal requirement to bathe four times a week, and use sopa (soap) and scrub off dirt and other things. If you didn't you could suffer heavy fines for being filthy. If you were wealthy, afterward you'd rub yourself (or have servants or slaves) in fragrant oils.
reply
Ab
Seeing all these hygiene videos I wonder how the humanity survived to this day! The amount of diseases, lack of hygiene, lack of food and how they provided to still make children so we can exist to this day and have all these crazy hygiene opportunities! To think there were rats, mouses and flees all around their houses and very likely touched the food they ate! Thats disgusting!
reply
Seeing all these hygiene videos I wonder how the humanity survived to this day! The amount of diseases, lack of hygiene, lack of food and how they provided to still make children so we can exist to this day and have all these crazy hygiene opportunities! To think there were rats, mouses and flees all around their houses and very likely touched the food they ate! Thats disgusting!
reply
QUEEN
I wish when ppl do these videos that the truth its told. THE BLACK MOORS SHOWED EUROPEAN ABOUT CLEANLINESS AND TAKING BATHS. INVENTED AQUEDUCTS SOAP ETC THATS MENTIONED AND SHOWED THEM TO SEPARATE ANIMALS FROM THEIR HOMES ETC AND TOILETS ETC
reply
I wish when ppl do these videos that the truth its told. THE BLACK MOORS SHOWED EUROPEAN ABOUT CLEANLINESS AND TAKING BATHS. INVENTED AQUEDUCTS SOAP ETC THATS MENTIONED AND SHOWED THEM TO SEPARATE ANIMALS FROM THEIR HOMES ETC AND TOILETS ETC
reply
Jack
The weird candle toast isnt all that weird, I think. Modern flea traps use light bulbs and sheets of card stock covered in heavy duty glue. They work, too. (Fleas are attracted to the heat of the bulb and get stuck in the glue)
reply
The weird candle toast isnt all that weird, I think. Modern flea traps use light bulbs and sheets of card stock covered in heavy duty glue. They work, too. (Fleas are attracted to the heat of the bulb and get stuck in the glue)
reply
Reflected
Given the descriptions here, what is the difference between what hygiene was like for medieval peasants and what hygiene is like for US nomads today? Maybe you can do a video on that.
reply
Given the descriptions here, what is the difference between what hygiene was like for medieval peasants and what hygiene is like for US nomads today? Maybe you can do a video on that.
reply
ZekiPeki
Let us all thank God for making us live in 21st century. For some people this century also sucks, but for majority of us that are living comfortable lives, let us never be ungrateful.
reply
Let us all thank God for making us live in 21st century. For some people this century also sucks, but for majority of us that are living comfortable lives, let us never be ungrateful.
reply
Kristopher
peasants often didnt bathe at all because it required too much work
how hard is it to find a body of water and just dive right in? finding a waterfall would be so refreshing.
reply
peasants often didnt bathe at all because it required too much work
how hard is it to find a body of water and just dive right in? finding a waterfall would be so refreshing.
reply
Elke
I find it nuts that Im alive. That my lineage of ancestors actually were able to survive through horrific conditions like that. Its such low chances, its astounding that Im even here
reply
I find it nuts that Im alive. That my lineage of ancestors actually were able to survive through horrific conditions like that. Its such low chances, its astounding that Im even here
reply
Telling
what if you gave oral got a mouth full of straw or a rat ran out of her stinky twat and he sat on a witches broomstick at the Cheesy Cock Local Medievil Leather Bar
reply
what if you gave oral got a mouth full of straw or a rat ran out of her stinky twat and he sat on a witches broomstick at the Cheesy Cock Local Medievil Leather Bar
reply
Hayleerrs
Instead of using chamber pots/waste buckets wouldnt it have been cheaper for the peasants to just pick a spot in the woods to dig a hole to use the bathroom in?
reply
Instead of using chamber pots/waste buckets wouldnt it have been cheaper for the peasants to just pick a spot in the woods to dig a hole to use the bathroom in?
reply
Christopher
dude f that I would not want to time travel back then for sure gross even the rich had to shit in a smellier Port a potty and u smelled like ass no thk you
reply
dude f that I would not want to time travel back then for sure gross even the rich had to shit in a smellier Port a potty and u smelled like ass no thk you
reply
Joe
People lived like that in the USA in the south back in the 60 and some still do. Just visit a trailer park or go to the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky
reply
People lived like that in the USA in the south back in the 60 and some still do. Just visit a trailer park or go to the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky
reply
Amanda
I never want to go back to live in a time without indoor bathrooms and personal hygiene. -- I don't mind not having AC, but I want indoor bathrooms.
reply
I never want to go back to live in a time without indoor bathrooms and personal hygiene. -- I don't mind not having AC, but I want indoor bathrooms.
reply
Евгений
Wild unwashed Europe. And they also say that we are barbarians. Slavs and Scandinavians had saunas. And probably a more developed culture
reply
Wild unwashed Europe. And they also say that we are barbarians. Slavs and Scandinavians had saunas. And probably a more developed culture
reply
Dr.
The people who cleaned the slops off the street made a ton of money. Sometimes teeth cloths would be shared among guests after eating. Yikes!
reply
The people who cleaned the slops off the street made a ton of money. Sometimes teeth cloths would be shared among guests after eating. Yikes!
reply
WizeOnez
This was informative. A great lesson of compare and contrast would be to compare the hygiene of medieval times with that of Egyptians.
reply
This was informative. A great lesson of compare and contrast would be to compare the hygiene of medieval times with that of Egyptians.
reply
Sneaker
Glad I don't have to take a dump in a bucket or wipe my azz with leaves, thank goodness for the invention of toilets and toilet paper
reply
Glad I don't have to take a dump in a bucket or wipe my azz with leaves, thank goodness for the invention of toilets and toilet paper
reply
Add a review, comment
Other channel videos
