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bunnyjadwiga) wrote2007-06-26 05:10 pm
bunnyjadwiga) wrote2007-06-26 05:10 pm
A rather good kid's book
On, of course, privies etc.:
Loos through the Ages, Richard Wood. (Hove, England: Wayland, 1997)
This is a great book, even though it is targetted at younger readers. I should probably try and get a copy through ABE books. Among other things, it has excellent clear pictures of the roman latrines at Hadrian's Baths & at Housteads, as well as a pciture of the loo seat from Yorvik (and the 1000-year-old scat), an extant piss-pot, and the close stool from Hampton court palace. A good quote:
Loos through the Ages, Richard Wood. (Hove, England: Wayland, 1997)
This is a great book, even though it is targetted at younger readers. I should probably try and get a copy through ABE books. Among other things, it has excellent clear pictures of the roman latrines at Hadrian's Baths & at Housteads, as well as a pciture of the loo seat from Yorvik (and the 1000-year-old scat), an extant piss-pot, and the close stool from Hampton court palace. A good quote:
Castle cesspits could be dangerous places. In 1184, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany met with his nobles at Erfurt Castle. So many of them followed him when he went into the garderobe to use the loo that the floor gave way. The Emperor grabbed the iron window bars and saved himself, but many others fell to an unpleasant death. When King Edward II of England lost the crown in 1327, he is said to have been tortured in the stinking garderobe pit of Berkeley Castle. (p. 15)