People In The “Dirty” Middle Ages Actually Liked To Get Clean

There was a really interesting piece on J-STOR recently that washes away the widespread idea that the Middle Ages in Europe was just unbelievably filthy. Why is it that we think the Middle Ages WAS so dirty? Plus: for Computer Science Education Week, a look at a deliberately difficult coding language called Malbolge.  Scrub-a-Dub in a Medieval Tub (JSTOR) The Middle Ages Were Cleaner Than We Think (Wall Street Journal) Introduction to Malbolge (LScheffer) Help make history as a backer on Patreon