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What would the effect be on europe when the Roman church embrace, personel hygiene. Some influencial monastry order (lets say the Dominicans) have the dogma that the human body is made by the excample of the Lord and there for need to be cleaned and washed regulary. Also it is an insult to God to enter a church without beiing washed.
The bath houses of the monastries are next to the church the most important building of the manastry complex.
This bath houses are coppied in emerging cities and by wealthy nobels.
In OTl the Roman church disproved the bathing of humans, a verry common habbit in the middle ages but due to the church propaganda complete out of use/fashion by the late 15th century. Later even regarded as dangerous for the body.