SOSC 1731 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Portcullis, Antiseptic, Cincture

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Lewis Code

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The desire for privacy marked the beginning of that new alignment of classes which was to usher in the merciless class competition and individual self-assertion at a later day -pg 285. The medieval dwelling was characterized by a general absence of functionally differentiated space (sum up on pg 286-287) This is how it progressed: gardens turned into graveyards, which houses were build on top of, decaying corpses became a sanitary menace, especially in a town that relied upon wells and springs for drinking water. Until overcrowding began, the normal smells of a medieval town were probable no more offensive than those of a farmyard -pg 292. 3: lustration and the five senses: two other manners closely connected with hygiene, 1: the bath (house, 2: supply of drinking water. In the main, the medieval town was not merely a stimulating social complex, it was likewise a more thriving biological environment than one might suspect from looking at its decayed remains.