[post_page_title]European royalty’s ‘bath phobia'[/post_page_title]
When the Crusaders left for the Middle East starting in 1095, they found tons of interesting things there, like Turkish baths, which they brought back with them to Europe. Still, medieval Europeans generally had pretty funny ideas about bathing. Specifically, they believed that submerging yourself in water was literally life-threatening.
The theory was that hot water opens the pores, and that doing that leaves you vulnerable to plagues carried by “bad air.” That air supposedly gets into your bloodstream through said pores, and so many kings and queens alike took no more than two or three baths a year.
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