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This is a good starting point with some good sources linked: https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html https://leslefts.blogspot.
by cardanome 3y ago
This is a good starting point with some good sources linked: https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-water-myth.html https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-wat...
By the way, this is the mainstream position among historians, it is only pop culture that hung up on the water myth.
- sophacles 3y agoA significant portion of the examples in that link follow the form: This person is so holy that they drink water. The very fact that it was a sign of unusual holiness to drink water seems to undermine the point. It's like saying "in the 2020s people mostly didn't use cell phones. Look at this passage about a group called the Amish, see what I mean?".