What was plumbing in Medieval Europe like?

I read a few things about medieval water supply and this is what I found so far. The important thing to remember is that Europe is a large place and the Middle Ages is a long time so it differed quite a bit. read more

The History of Medieval Toilets and Plumbing (Guest Post) Modern indoor plumbing was invented in the 1800s and wasn’t widely used until the 1920s. It was commonly believed that before then, people washed their hair in the river, bathed in bathtubs filled with buckets of water from the creek, and used outhouse-style toilets with no plumbing whatsoever. read more

Medieval public toilets is one of the topics raised by Carole Rawcliffe in her book Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities. Rawcliffe looks at the records from London, York, and other English urban areas to see how people dealt with various health, hygiene and environmental issues that they would encounter in their daily lives. read more