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Chamber Pot Out The Window. But was there ever really any point in midieval history. Answer by tim o’neill, atheist, medievalist, skeptic, and amateur historian: Like the cesspits, chamber pots also needed to be emptied once they were filled up. Emptying a chamber pot from an urban window onto the street would have been illegal and led to fines. The idea that people emptied chamberpots out windows into. I've heard this so often growing up, and i'm fairly certain that i was even taught it in school. The belief that medieval europeans frequently disposed of chamber pots through windows has its origins in popular. People living on the bottom floor of dwellings could walk outside and empty the contents onto the close, but for those ten, eleven, twelve floors up, opening the window and emptying chamber. Both in london and edinburgh chamber pots were emptied at 10pm every day by simply pouring its content out of the window, before a call ‘gardez l’eau!’ warned pedestrians that a chamber pot was just about to be emptied. Meanwhile, householders would dump their chamber pots on either side of their doors, resulting in sloping piles of waste bracketing the door, trailing out into the street. This was done, for instance, by the tenants of high rise buildings in medieval edinburgh. In some cases, the contents of the chamber pots would simply be thrown out from the window into the streets.

The idea that people emptied chamberpots out windows into. Meanwhile, householders would dump their chamber pots on either side of their doors, resulting in sloping piles of waste bracketing the door, trailing out into the street. But was there ever really any point in midieval history. This was done, for instance, by the tenants of high rise buildings in medieval edinburgh. Like the cesspits, chamber pots also needed to be emptied once they were filled up. The belief that medieval europeans frequently disposed of chamber pots through windows has its origins in popular. In some cases, the contents of the chamber pots would simply be thrown out from the window into the streets. Answer by tim o’neill, atheist, medievalist, skeptic, and amateur historian: Both in london and edinburgh chamber pots were emptied at 10pm every day by simply pouring its content out of the window, before a call ‘gardez l’eau!’ warned pedestrians that a chamber pot was just about to be emptied. People living on the bottom floor of dwellings could walk outside and empty the contents onto the close, but for those ten, eleven, twelve floors up, opening the window and emptying chamber.

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Chamber Pot Out The Window Both in london and edinburgh chamber pots were emptied at 10pm every day by simply pouring its content out of the window, before a call ‘gardez l’eau!’ warned pedestrians that a chamber pot was just about to be emptied. The idea that people emptied chamberpots out windows into. Emptying a chamber pot from an urban window onto the street would have been illegal and led to fines. Answer by tim o’neill, atheist, medievalist, skeptic, and amateur historian: In some cases, the contents of the chamber pots would simply be thrown out from the window into the streets. Like the cesspits, chamber pots also needed to be emptied once they were filled up. This was done, for instance, by the tenants of high rise buildings in medieval edinburgh. But was there ever really any point in midieval history. Meanwhile, householders would dump their chamber pots on either side of their doors, resulting in sloping piles of waste bracketing the door, trailing out into the street. Both in london and edinburgh chamber pots were emptied at 10pm every day by simply pouring its content out of the window, before a call ‘gardez l’eau!’ warned pedestrians that a chamber pot was just about to be emptied. People living on the bottom floor of dwellings could walk outside and empty the contents onto the close, but for those ten, eleven, twelve floors up, opening the window and emptying chamber. I've heard this so often growing up, and i'm fairly certain that i was even taught it in school. The belief that medieval europeans frequently disposed of chamber pots through windows has its origins in popular.