Did the Middle Ages Really Smell That Bad?

A helen russell on facebook asks one ar her question is, did it really smell that bad? Did anypinknow, if they were stinky. O ka, wel answer some pretty big questions. What's there was to take on them? Well, i'd say it probably wasn't notably more smelly than most others historical periods until very modern times. That could partly be because of the prominence of the orvic viking centre. If you go there, you can experience t hand reconstructed a anglo saxon viking smells. And they even have on display ta the so called lloyd's bank coprolite,. which shows its maker was full of intestinal worms