amanda, bakery malcontent
One of my favorite facts for introducing people to "everything you think you know about the Middle Ages is a lie" is that at one point in medieval Wales, a woman could divorce her husband for having bad breath
This tells us a couple of important things:
1. Divorce existed
2. Women could initiate it
3. Bad breath wasn't just accepted as a fact of filthy medieval life
amanda, bakery malcontent
@sigaard I learned about it from a docuseries called Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Martin Sigaard
@alpine_thistle hey Amanda, I would love a source, do you have it?
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