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Boring History For Sleep | What People Did After Dark in the Middle Ages 🌙🕯️ (You’d Rather Not Know)
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💀🏚️ The Middle Ages had kings, knights, and cathedrals — but also entire neighborhoods that history politely ignored. In the narrow alleys of medieval cities, “houses of pleasure” were crowded, unsanitary, and constantly under the watch of church and crown. For many women and servants, it wasn’t sin or glamour — it was survival.
So close your eyes and drift through the flickering candlelight of a medieval city after dark, where morals were loud, hygiene was optional, and safety was mostly imaginary.
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