What Medieval Cities Actually Smelled Like During the Plague 🐀☠️ : Boring History for Sleep

Описание: What Medieval Cities Actually Smelled Like During the Plague 🐀☠️

Step inside the terrifying world of 1348 and experience the Black Death like never before — through the one sense history books always leave out: smell. In this 12-part deep dive, we journey through the rotting streets, plague pits, abandoned houses, and desperate churches of medieval Europe to uncover the horrifying olfactory reality of the worst pandemic in human history.
   • Boring History for Sleep  
From the moment you open your shutters to the sweet stench of decomposition drifting over plague-ridden Florence, to the plague doctors stuffing their iconic bird-beak masks with cloves, myrrh, and camphor — every segment of this series brings the Black Death to visceral, sensory life in a way you've never experienced before.
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🔴 What You'll Discover:

What the streets of a medieval plague city actually smelled like at dawn
The horrifying science behind mass grave decomposition
Why plague doctors wore those terrifying beak masks — and what was inside them
What happened inside sealed plague houses that nobody dared enter
The real smell of the Flagellants' bloody processions
How medieval physicians' remedies made everything smell even worse
What church incense was desperately trying to hide
How the wealthy tried — and failed — to buy their way out of the plague smell
The unique terror of navigating plague cities by smell alone at night
How the Black Death's stench shaped modern public health and sanitation forever


📖 This series is based on:
Historical accounts from plague survivors, medieval medical texts, contemporary chronicles, and modern archaeological evidence. Every detail — from the plague doctors' aromatic recipes to the mass grave fumigation fires — is historically documented.

🕯️ Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
Segment 1 - The Morning Awakening
Segment 2 - The Streets at Sunrise
Segment 3 - The Plague Doctors' Concoction
Segment 4 - The Mass Graves
Segment 5 - The Abandoned Houses
Segment 6 - The Marketplace Desperation
Segment 7 - The Flagellants' Procession
Segment 8 - The Physicians' Remedies
Segment 9 - The Church's Incense
Segment 10 - The Wealthy's Retreat
Segment 11 - The Night Air
Segment 12 - The Aftermath
Conclusion - Good Night, Traveler

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