Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 1570 Everyone's face has five layers of skin

The first type is an extremely luxurious bath, where entry requires permission from either the Yellow Church or the Cardinal.

Those who are not sincere enough to the church and to the Lord are not allowed to enter the ablution.

How can this sincerity be proven?

Of course, it depends on which monastery or church has made the greatest "contribution" to the church this year.

Those with higher status not only get the opportunity to bathe here, but also receive other honorary rewards.

With this comparison, when the church tries to rectify those monasteries and churches that rank lower, no one can say anything against it.

The most famous of these baths is the Bibiyena Cardinal Bath in the Vatican, which features Raphael's frescoes and was built by the Pope and the Cardinals.

In 1417, a church meeting was held in the bathhouse.

It is said that he was accompanied by more than 1,400 beautiful women at the time.

Of these people, there were only seven hundred maids; the rest were members of the royal family and the families of nobles of all ranks.

The second type of bathhouse is the public bathhouse built in the name of the church.

Because it was a sacred bath built by the church, the priests and nuns became frequent visitors.

This also attracted local nobles to visit and show their support from time to time, even those who had their own bathhouses.

As to whether these nobles went there to demonstrate their piety or for other reasons, that... is not important.

As for ordinary people, under the guidance of the king, nobles, and the church, they also participated in this practice of bathing together as women and men.

This has led to many people having their clothes stolen while they are taking a shower.

However, influenced by this bathhouse custom, neither men nor women felt any shame about their naked bodies.

Therefore, the residents of the ancient city of Mule and Horse took precautions to prevent their clothes from being stolen while bathing in the bathhouse.

Many people take off their clothes at home and walk naked down the street to the bathhouse.

This situation eventually led to many young people choosing to hold their weddings in bathhouses.

The newlyweds entered the bathhouse surrounded by numerous guests in a rather eccentric and daring manner.

Who is the protagonist?

Need I even say anything about the main character?

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Because of this situation, many oil paintings of women in that era depicted them bathing or completely naked.

This is true for royalty, nobility, and ordinary people alike.

The only difference is that the scenes of nobles bathing are mostly set off by flower petals.

Edgar de Edgar is one of the painters who produced the most works in this area.

His most famous works are "Bathing", "Emerging from the Bath", and "After the Bath". Those of you who are interested can search for and evaluate them on your own.

Furthermore, a widely circulated manuscript illustration from 1470 depicts a scene from France at that time.

Some women were bathing in the bathhouse, musicians were playing in the corridor, a bishop was collecting money at the door, and the king was peeping through the window.

A scene of a male customer embracing and chatting with a female customer during a bath...

Kennan Spencer talked for a long time, and even though he was a chatterbox, he was still a little thirsty. He took a sip of coffee before continuing.

The reason why the ancient custom of bathing disappeared from Western Europe was due to the plague and leishmaniasis.

It is said that it took away one-third of the population of Western Europe at that time.

However, at the time, those people couldn't find a specific reason, so they attributed the situation to taking a bath.

People at the time believed that bathing not only allowed infectious diseases to enter their bodies, but also caused the loss of bodily fluids and vital energy.

It can also cause the loss of bodily fluids and vital energy, leading to a decrease in the body's resistance.

Under this doctor's argument, the entire Western European continent began a more than two-hundred-year-long ban on bathing.

Moreover, this argument spread more and more widely, eventually becoming a deeply ingrained memory and taboo subject.

The most famous example is that King Louis XIII of France was only baptized by a priest before the age of 7.

Louis XIV was wounded, and after bleeding eight times, the wound was completely covered by scabs and pus.

Louis XIV's physician had to gently wipe the area around the king's wound with water in order to facilitate better treatment.

However, the imperial physician's actions were immediately stopped by those around him.

The doctor's colleague stood by and kept mocking him, saying that he was using water to torture a poor patient.

People at that time generally believed that dirt could prevent disease infection, and many people would not even wash their hands for fear of contracting some kind of disease.

Men believe that body odor is the best magnet for attracting women, and some of them even deliberately mingle with people who have a strong body odor.

Women used powder, perfume, wigs, cosmetics, and layers of clothing to hide and cover up dirt and odor from their bodies.

Perfume is more about masking unpleasant body odor than about seduction.

If someone has a particularly strong odor, many people will choose snuff to control their nostrils, aiming to make sure they can't smell it.

In that era, people in Western Europe did not distinguish between men and women. They had no idea that the body needed to be cleaned, or that going naked was barbaric...

They always talk about the sins of bathing.

Even the day before their wedding, women, under everyone's strong persuasion, would only dip their toes in the water as if they were taking a bath.

That's why, during that period, on this continent of Western Europe.

From kings, royalty, and nobles to commoners and slaves, they were always surrounded by all sorts of strange smells.

Those poor people and slaves smelled of all sorts of sour and foul odors, like excrement and urine.

Those upper-class people had their bodies and clothes covered in various powders and perfumes.

The combination of fragrance and the stench of sourness, feces, and urine is comparable to a biological weapon.

However, those in the upper class have become accustomed to this smell, and anyone who doesn't have it will be ostracized by them.

During that period, they were surrounded by all sorts of smells.

Because there is no concept of personal and public hygiene, the situation on the streets and at home is even worse.

The royal families and nobles could not stand this situation, so they built manors and castles in the wild.

Among these upper-class individuals, those of higher status built more manors and castles.

Because these people host the most banquets, the hosts will move to a different place after each banquet.

Because the manor and castle used for hosting banquets are no longer habitable.

It will take a long time for the smell of guests urinating and defecating indiscriminately to dissipate naturally...

Han Li already knew about the sanitary conditions in Western Europe from books when he was studying in England, based on what Kennan Spencer said.

However, reading a book is one thing, but hearing someone else say it is another.

Therefore, Han Li felt disgusted by what Keenan Spencer said.

He thought to himself that if he were to travel back to Western Europe during that period, he wouldn't even give the Queen a second glance...

(End of this chapter)