Most people think that there was no technology until about 200 to 300 years ago, not true.

During the middle ages, there was lots of innovations, even before then.

The Romans had running water, and a sewer system in the early centuries.
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A man who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

Is it my imagination, or do the guys in the second picture have weird metal crosses sticking up their asses?!

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PooperGal
"Searching for the Origin of the Feces"

PooperGal - You made me snort coffee out my nose! I believe those 'iron ass crosses' are actually their sword hilts.

I read somewhere that toilets in castles were little rooms that sort of protruded from the wall, and had benches like in the first picture. People went into these and shit down into the moat. They hung their clothes either in or near them, the rationale being that the smell would keep moths from eating woolen garments. The term wardrobe comes from this practice. In french garderobe (?sp) meaning to protect clothes.

Hmm, which is worse: wearing clothes that smell like mothballs, or wearing clothes that smell like shit?

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Number One . . . I order you to take a number two.

Sometimes in monestaries and convents, the privy chamber was in the highest tower. This was to bring the "basest of actions" closest to God.
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You have the right to remain Silent but Deadly....

So, let me get this straight. According to the illustrations above, in the Middle Ages everyone did the twist while using the toilet? Or is that the ancient art of the macarana (sp)?

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Well, you don't actually blow on it. That's just an expression.

It's quite certain that people were more open about pooping in medieval times than now. There are references to it in literature, including 'The Canterbury Tales' and anonymous plays such as 'Mankind,' in which one finds a rhyme that begins, 'It is writen with a cole, He that shitteth with his hole . . .' It goes on from there, but I can't remember it now. In another morality play a character remarks on a bad smell and is told, 'One of the Seven Sisters / Hath trod in a turd.' My guess is that many times people pooped outdoors, wherever they were when the need arose. There was no toilet paper, so they wiped with whatever was handy. I would also guess that, when using the "above the moat" facilities, in some cases the user's bottom was quite visible to passersby, as well as what issued therefrom. If the movement was liquid, the viewer would do well to get out of the way.