Yeah, 8th century Europeans actually bathed a lot. Maybe not daily, but at least weekly for a full body bath and probably daily for face and hands. The notion that Europeans didn't bathe is mostly ahistorical nonsense. Bathing declined during a couple of major plagues because many people bathed in public bath houses of one kind or another, but it picked up afterwards. Just because Paris smells like piss all the time doesn't mean that medieval Parisians didn't wash their bodies/.
theres a lot of middleground between "bathed in perfume" and "refuses to bath like an 8th century peasant"
Yeah, 8th century Europeans actually bathed a lot. Maybe not daily, but at least weekly for a full body bath and probably daily for face and hands. The notion that Europeans didn't bathe is mostly ahistorical nonsense. Bathing declined during a couple of major plagues because many people bathed in public bath houses of one kind or another, but it picked up afterwards. Just because Paris smells like piss all the time doesn't mean that medieval Parisians didn't wash their bodies/.
ok smart guy where are you supposed to piss in Paris then