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The idea that medieval people left sewage in their streets is mythology.
In general, medieval people believed that diseases were spread by bad air, called "miasma," and so they tried to clean up anything that would smell. There were some people or places that were exceptional and allowed smelly messes to accumulated, but they were uncommon.
After the Middle Ages, there were certain social issues that showed decline, rather than the rebirth we associate with the Renaissance. A good example, which is fairly easy to document, is an increase in superstition leading to witch hunts, which only began with the Renaissance, and were illegal for most of the Middle Ages. But research into hygiene produces a similar result. Where medieval people bathed often, people of the Renaissance believed bathing was unhealthy, and so they only cleaned those parts of their bodies that could be seen, and relied on using perfume and changing clothes for the rest; this also is fairly easy to document. Though I find less in the historic record to support it, Renaissance people seem also to have been less willing to deal with issues of sewage than their medieval predecessors. Today, people often take a simplistic view that everything improved during the Renaissance, and so bad hygiene, like witch hunts, is associated with the Middle Ages.
There is a link below to the history section of an article on bathing, which illustrates the decline in hygiene from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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What do you call when in medieval when they throw their waste out the window and onto the street?
Gross.
Who is responsible for litter in street and bazaars?
In my point of veiw that those people who throw litter in the street or bazar so i think they have no manner they have no educated person.
Why do you vote in Australia?
It gives the ordinary man in the street the chance to throw out people in the government that they no longer have confidence in.
Did Juliet's father threaten to throw Juliet in the street for disobedience?
He threatened to throw her on the street for not marrying Paris. He said she was selfish and not thankful for what he did for her.
Why did they make the catapult?
to throw big stones at enemies in medieval time.
What caused the illness typhoid in Victorian times?
It was often drinking/ washing water that was infected by sewage that caused typhoid. You could catch it from the Thames where it wasn't illegal to throw in your sewage, but people mainly got their drinking water from there aswell, so obviously it would have been infected.
How do humans contribute to water pollution?
The sewage n garbage we throw out and the chemicals from factories contribute to water pollution.
Disposal of garbage in slum areas?
throw it in the street.
What did people throw at castles in the medieval times?
they catapulted all sorts of things.... dead animals, plagued bodies, really big rocks, etc.
How has mealtime etiquette changed since medieval times?
In the Medieval times, the people used to wipe their hands on the table instead of using a napkin. Instead of using eating utensils, the people in Medieval Times would use their hands. Lastly, instead of throwing leftovers in the garbage or saving it for the next day, the people would just simply throw it under the table!
Does Houston Street throw right or left?
MLB player Huston Street throws right.
Can you give me facts about victorian england?
*people would throw waste and sewage into the river and then wash their clothes and collect their drinking water from it!!! *Rats were very common *the houses of parliment soaked their curtains in lime juice to get rid of the smell of the river! *At night people would poo and wee in a chamber pot stored under the bed *when the chamber pot got full they would throw it out the window!!! *Night soil men would collect sewage and sell it on the streets!!!
