Dr Kat and Our Filthy Ancestors?

So the story goes, people in history were unwashed and smelly, with blackened teeth and filthy, matted hair. How valid is this interpretation though?

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyrig...  ]


Images:

Photograph of the Roman Baths at Bath, UK (image from www.visitbath.co.uk). For the site website www.romanbaths.co.uk.

Minature of the Regime dei Corpi by Aldobrandino da Siena, manuscript illumination (14th Century).

Picture from France; circa 1390s is from the work "Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis", shows a scene of the baptism of Isabella, daughter of King Charles V of France.

The Accolade by Edmund Blair (1901). Held in a private collection. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Medieval illumination of a nobleman bathing; author and date unknown. Wikimedia Commons.

Manuscript of Eboli Stone. Balneum Tripergulae - from the Angelic Code of De Balneis Puteolanis by Pietro da Eboli.

A Bathhouse in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et Dicta Memorabilia (fol. 244) by Master of Anthony of Burgundy Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium by Valerio Massimo (1470).

Silver-gilt basin and ewer (hallmarked 1617-1618). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

Pomander said to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots (1500-1600). Held by the Royal Collection Trust.

Tudor cleansing tools (1525-1530). By family tradition, Henry VIII’s first gift to Anne Boleyn. Held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.