Sewers in Medieval Europe

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"Sewers and Waste Disposal in Medieval Europe


This paper will examine the sewers and waste disposal systems employed in Medieval European cities. Although all major towns and cities had provisions for drainage and waste disposal, the paper will focus primarily on London and Paris, two of the largest and most modern cities in Europe at that time. In particular, the paper will address each system separately and then discuss how the two systems became intertwined.


Sewers and the disposal of human waste were originally two separate systems. Sewers were originally intended to drain rain and flood water from towns and cities. In fact, some of the sewers in cities such as Paris and London may have originally been constructed by the Romans for just such a purpose, copying a system used in Rome itself. These sewers were nothing more than..."

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