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Modern media, especially TV and film often depict the Medievals as a dirty, smelly, uncivilised bunch. There, we usually see them shouting and waving something sharp or torturing some poor soul, often covered in mud, lice and stinking of manure. But is this the real story or merely exaggeration? Let’s travel back to the Middle Ages and take a look at anti-urination graffiti, toxic vanity and palm filth. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
03:15 Cleanliness is next to…
04:42 House Proud
06:25 Making It Personal
08:12 Waste Management
09:26 Street Smarts
11:07 Body & Soul
12:32 Mind Your Manners
14:42 Medieval Myths
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
Thank you for watching!
SOURCES:
Norbert, E. (1978) The Civilising Process, (trans.) Urizen Books, New York.
Medieval Life Hacks: Hygiene and Manners from the 12th Century, (Aug 2024) The Medievalists.Net
Osbourne, J. (May 2026) Filth, dirt and stench: why this is “one of the most unfair stereotypes about the Middle Ages, History Extra Website
Smith, V.S. (2007) Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Whelan, F. et al. (2019) The Book of the Civilised Man: An English Translation of the Urbanus magnus of Daniel of Beccles, Routledge, Abingdon.
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