"Damn medieval plumbing!" But an exhibition in Paris sets out to show that toilet facilities in the Middle Ages may not have been as primitive as previously thought. To prove their case, the curators ...

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From outhouses to water closets — even former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain’s $35,000 “commode on legs” (technically a table, not a toilet) — humans have been devising creative ways to go ...

He cites a handful of modern writers who have specifically examined water in Medieval Europe, including Paolo Squatriti, author of Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000, and ...

The medieval castle of Quermanco in Catalonia. Its wealthy inhabitants probably drank wine because they could afford it, but water was the most common drink in medieval Europe.

Medieval friars had access to fresher food and cleaner bathroom facilities than peasants. And yet they were almost twice as likely to have intestinal worms.