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Art review: Bathing scene from the Hausbuch von Schloss Wolfegg (c. 1480)

Game review: Sniper Elite Resistance (2025)

Film review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of destiny (2023)

John Gabriël Stedman and his misunderstood distaste for bathing

Art review: ‘Der lästige Kavalier’ by Berthold Woltze (1874)

Art review: ‘The Saint Nicolas Feast’, by Jan Steen (1660s)

Game review: Kingdom Come Deliverance II (2025)

Book review: ‘Gross facts about the Middle Ages’ (2017)

Film review: ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)

Book review: ‘I wonder why, Book of knowledge’. by various authors (2006)

Art review: Dutch bathhouse scene, unknown artist (1500s)

Film review: A Knights Tale (2001)

Articles, links & videos about Medieval hygiene

Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”

Art review: ‘Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters’ by Hendrick Avercamp (c. 1608)

Film review: ‘The King’ (2019)

Book review: ‘Life in Medieval Europe, fact and fiction’ by Danièle Cybulskie (2021)

Film review: Dû bist mîn ich bin dîn (2025)

Art review: Hunters in the Snow, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

Film review: The Northman (2022)

Film review: ‘The VVitch: A New-England Folktale’ (2015)

Book review: ‘Von der Badstube zum Badekabinett’ by Daniela Rösing (2014)

Game review: ‘Manor Lords’ (2024)

Film review: Nosferatu (2024)

Game review: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (2020)

Book review: ‘The Luttrell village’, by Sheila Sancha (1982)

Film review: ‘Napoleon’ (2023)

When did people start using a chopping block for firewood?

Did medieval people share their homes with cattle?

When did we start hanging laundry across streets and using clothes pegs?

TV review: ‘Robin Hood’, episode 1 (2025)

TV review: ‘King & Conqueror’, episode 1 (2025)

Youtube review: ‘How Did Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Actually End? by The Infographics Show

Film review: ‘Black Death’ (2010)

TV review: Time Bandits (2024)

Book review: ‘Clean, a history of personal hygiene and purity’ by Virginia Smith (2008)

Analysing the ‘Praxis rerum criminalium’ by Joos de Damhouder, 1554

Analysing the Narrenschiff window scene

Book review: ‘Water technology in the Middle Ages’, by Roberta J. Magnusson

Book review: ‘Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries’ by Janna Coomans

Beethoven was not black

List of medieval towns, villages & cities with bathhouses

Book review: ‘Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries’ by Andrea Bardyn, Chanelle Delameillieure, Jelle Haemers

Youtube review: “What Hygiene Was Like During the Black Plague” by ‘Weird history’

Not a photo of a Native American with a wolf

Article review: Why Medieval Castles Were Filthy Places You’d Never Want to Live In