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minus-square@PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-27 months ago https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/12/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-throw-excrement-out-windows.html Woodcut from 1489. Most certainly not in the 1800s. There are regions without sewerage who still do that shit (ha) today. As late as the 1940s it was noted that some lower-class Londoners were in the habit of defecating in the corners of rooms.
minus-square@Kusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish7•7 months agoI don’t think a single woodcut depicting it can really be generalized for a wider or comnon practises.
Woodcut from 1489.
There are regions without sewerage who still do that shit (ha) today. As late as the 1940s it was noted that some lower-class Londoners were in the habit of defecating in the corners of rooms.
I don’t think a single woodcut depicting it can really be generalized for a wider or comnon practises.