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It was in a good measure due to the fact that, as followers of Pauline Christianity, most Europeans had abandoned religious laws demanding personal hygiene. Jews and Muslims, on the other hand, who were bound by strict religious hygiene laws, did not live in the same filth and squalor as Christians.

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People during much of the middle ages did not consider frequent bathing to be desireable, or even healthy.

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It made it easier for disease to spread

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