![]() ![]() One wonders what happened to Roman London, the Romans had toilets that carried the waste away, but that technology got forgotten.Ĭhaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard is a delightful romp back to fourteenth-century England. One that amused me was that the jutting upper stories of wooden houses (which all burned down in the Great Fire of London) were built with a hole to empty the chamber pot onto the street below. Plenty of detail of ordinary people's lives. ![]() This is as interesting as are all of Liza Picard's historical books. By virtue of my constellation that made me so that I could not withdraw my chamber of Venus from a good fellow.'"Īnd if they don't fulfil their part of the bargain, it's on to the next one! She had been born under the zodiac sign of Venus so she, After all, why else had God, that wise Creator, given men their dual-purpose penises, which could both urinate and procreate? ‘Now wherewith should man make his payment, if he didn't use his blessed instrument?' She blamed her rampant libido on her birth sign there was nothing she could do about it. The husband owed his wife an obligation to satisfy her sexually. The wife owed her husband a duty to be cheerful and obedient. The Wife of Bath was married 5 times, the youngest at age 12 (her choice), she says about husbands: ![]()
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