Latest / The Sleepkeeper: Sleep Stories from History
How People Kept Clean in the Middle Ages | Sleep Story
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.
A clean shirt, a cold basin, a wooden comb, and a great deal more work than we would expect from an ordinary morning.
A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing you'll miss if you drift off partway.
· · ·
Tonight: washing and cleanliness in medieval England and northern France. Linen shirts and hand-washing at the table, wells and water carriers, public bathhouses and soft soap. Then a long medieval wash day — ash, lye, river water, bleaching grass — before following flax from the field into thread, cloth…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.