Cleaning Up After Naughty Knaves

Cleaning Up After Naughty Knaves

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 450

  • Apr 28, 2020 6:00 am
  • 50:35
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Naughty Knaves Guest: Ruth Goodman, historian and author, "How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts" and "The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything" Ruth Goodman, gets down in the dirt with historic reenactments of ordinary farm life in Victorian and Tudor times. She's also written the book on bad (and good!) behavior in Renaissance times.  The Middle Ages: Cleaner Than We Thought Guest: Katherine Harvey, Medieval Historian, Birkbeck, University of London Even without indoor plumbing, people in the Middle Ages were aware of—and attentive to—cleanliness much more than we've given them credit for.