How People Kept Clean in the Middle Ages | Sleep Story

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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.

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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, shirts, rags, and eventually paper.

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