[MR] medieval underware

[Bach Watson Associates]

In some countries there were many activities that a girl/woman could
not participate in during her menses. One that comes immediately to
mind is sausage making in Spain. It was believed that having a woman
participate while she was bleeding would ruin the whole batch.

I'd have to dig into my library - part of which is still at the house - 
to give
more examples. I'll try to stop by in the next couple of days to pick them
up.

Berengaria of Leighton Buzzard

On 7/17/2012 8:30 PM, Jean Lewis-Antcliff wrote:
> In response to the found undies and I am sorry  to be crude but every month starting with puberty a woman would need some method of catching their menses, so they had to have some form of underware.I can not believe they hid in their room for a week. It would be hard to get their work done.  Dierdre
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