September Issue AAG

"Africans that RULED Europe 711 - 1789"
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The stench of medieval
and urine in the
scab caused fatal
you in three weeks.
Europe still echoes
streets, decaying wood
terminations to Popes
The king himself took a
today
and rat dung, spoiled
Clement V and
bath only thrice in a
People normally
associate different
epochs with different
smells. The Middle
Ages smell of sewage
and decaying bodies.
German writer Patrick
Suskind, the author of
coal and animal fat,
moldy dust and
chamber pots.
Stench used to be an
inseparable part of all
human activities,
constructive or
destructive. The Queen
Clement VII
correspondingly. Duke
Norfolk neglected
bathing for religious
reasons. As a result of
such disregard
numerous abscesses
dotted his body.
lifetime, twice
coercively.
Russian ambassadors
at Louis XIV court
wrote that His Majesty
stunk like a wild
animal. Europeans
considered Russians
a well-known novel
of Spain Isabel of
A billet-doux sent by
perverts because it
Perfume: The Story of
Castle (the end of the
the inveterate Don
was a tradition for the
a Murderer wrote in
15th century)
Juan Henry of Navarre
latter to take steam
his book that the
confessed that she had
to his sweetheart
baths once a month.
stench of European
cities in the late Middle
Ages period was
unbearable. His work
conveys the terrible
smell of human feces
taken a bath only twice
in a lifetime â?? when
born and married. A
daughter of one of
French kings died of
lice. Dysentery and
Gabrielle d?EstrÃes
became an anecdote.
Its contents conveyed
the following meaning:
Do not wash yourself,
my sweetheart, visit
European cities were
buried in sewage.
Town residents
splashed the contents
of garbage pails and
washtubs out into the