From an essay:
Before encountering the indigenous people Columbus probably had never even seen a naked person. It isn’t surprising he had a shock when he saw them!
7 responses to “Columbus’s Adventures in Nakedness”
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It’s a little known fact Europeans in the fifteenth century had clothes surgically attached to them from birth.
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Yes, that poor Columbus guy never even saw his own naked body. 🙂
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As we all know, Renaissance-era Spaniards closed their eyes whenever they changed their clothes, on penalty of being turned over to the Inquisition and burned at the stake.
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I still haven’t been able to get them to define the Imquisition in a more precise way than “Inquisition is when Ferdinand and Isabel wanted to expel the Jews.”
“It’s when” will be the end of me one day.
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It seems like they are going to cycle nude. Which seems like a very unhygienic idea.
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