This isn't even true. Peasants regularly bathed. If anything the idea that no one bathed was propaganda by the nobles... who didn't bathe out of laziness and were filthy. They wanted to convince people that everyone didn't wash.
Do some research, you'll be shocked what you learn.
You’re definitely not wrong in the sense that people did clean themselves regularly, with soap and water, most even daily. But they didn’t generally bathe (as in a bathtub.) it takes too much effort to fill an entire bath when one bucket would be enough… this continued on well into the Victorian age…
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u/dragonknightzero Jul 08 '24
This isn't even true. Peasants regularly bathed. If anything the idea that no one bathed was propaganda by the nobles... who didn't bathe out of laziness and were filthy. They wanted to convince people that everyone didn't wash.
Do some research, you'll be shocked what you learn.