What a toilet looked like in the Middle Ages

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What a toilet looked like in the Middle Ages. The builders of medieval fortresses came up with the idea of ​​installing latrines in bay windows, taking them outside the fortress wall. The waste thus fell into the fortress moat.     What a toilet looked like in the Middle Ages, in the Middle Ages, What a toilet looked like, The builders of medieval fortresses,  the idea of ​​installing latrines,  in bay windows,  outside the fortress wall,  The waste thus fell,  into the fortress moat,

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00:00What a toilet would look like in the Middle Ages, the builders of medieval fortresses

00:07came up with the idea of installing latrines above the windows, taking them outside the

00:14fortress wall, the walls thus fell into the fortress mode.

00:19If you look at the paintings of Peter Bruegel or Hieronymus Bosch, you will see that toilets

00:28were similarly equipped in many rich houses of that time.

00:34The latrines were taken outside the wall of the building, and they seemed to hang over

00:40the canals and moats.

00:43The construction principle made it possible not to worry about creating and cleaning a

00:50cesspool on the territory of a fortress or castle.

00:55Lattices were often placed near the chimney so that visitors to the establishment would

01:03be warners and trespassers.

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