"medieval people bathed regularly. … In fact soap is a motherfucking medieval invention. Yes. It is. The Romans – whomst I don’t see a bunch of basics going around accusing of being filthy – did not, in fact have soap, in contrast." https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/ …
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"feels like"? That's a terrible way to evaluate an article. This one denies one particular often-made negative claim about the period, not all possible such claims. And it is right about this one.
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Like I said - I'm down with the soap. But even in what you quoted it says "perpetuating harmful myths", and in the essay it links to a dark ages denialism article, so I interpreted an additional theme in the authors viewpoint that made me want to tack on dark age support.
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