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If you read translations of early medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe, they were almost all universally appalled by the state of hygiene and
by walrus01 4y ago
If you read translations of early medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe, they were almost all universally appalled by the state of hygiene and sewage/waste in major cities in general.
Not saying people didn't bathe at all but it clearly didn't meet societally acceptable standards of an educated person from Cairo or Baghdad.
- rendall 4y ago> medieval Arabic language travelers that visited Europe There was only one IIRC, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, who wrote disparagingly only of the habits of the Vikings of the upper Volga river.
- drops 4y agoCould you recommend some of the mentioned translations?
- selimthegrim 4y agoKath and Gurganj were not exactly up to their standards either.