WI: Returning Crusaders popularize Islamic hygiene in Europe

What do you mean? So it means it fell off by accident?
No, I just mean that in this type of writing characters acting weird or in bizarre ways is not uncommon. I think it comes from exageration of stories and hearsay, as a lot authors of this period never went to the places they talk about and just write things they hear from other sources.
 
Medieval Europeans bathed. This stereotype that they didn't, like many other dumb Medievals stereotypes, actually belongs to the Modern Age when bathing was condemned due to a mix of religious zealotry, STDs and the emerging perfume industry.
 
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