Re: bathing (O/T)
Posted by Kenzi on February 04, 2000 at 00:09:52:
In Reply to: Re: bathing (O/T) posted by Natasha Papousek on February 03, 2000 at 20:15:37:
: I wonder if one of the reasons Europe stopped bathing in the Middle
: Ages was to show a concious difference from the Muslim population
: (that they were trying to either convert or eliminate) -- at least
: evidence in medieval Spain suggests that.
Definitely! Everything I have read of that time or from that time
show that Europeans looked down on people who were "obsessive" about
bathing and were proud of their freedom from that obsession!