I can trace my paternal ancestry back to the year 950 (I'm a descendant of a well known Scottish clan) and have ancestors who were quite famous in medieval times so I'm very lucky to know what some of my ancestors got up to during that period. One of my great uncles was a tutor of King James VI. Id love to be able to travel back in time to see exactly how things were in both scotland and England in the medieval period.
Irish Catholic O'Madden, going back hundreds of years. The O was dropped during The Potato Famine, too poor to take a "Coffin Ship to emigrate to America, we we're forced to move to England. Look up NINA.
@loveisaverb9361 I'm very lucky because my family/clan are well known so their history was recorded all through the past thousand years. On my mums side my ancestors were (probably quite poor) fisher people from the very north tip of scotland and I can trace them back to the 1700s. The contrast is crazy to me, on one side I come from nobility, but the other very poor people. You should have a try on the ancestry website if you're interested in your own family tree, you never know what you might find! My great, great grandmother (can't recall how many times, maybe 18?) was the great granddaughter of Robert the Bruce (Isabella Bruce). Definetly try it yourself, I'd love to know if you discover anything cool 😀
To think that I needed an emergency C-section for my baby and me to survive is incredible. Without modern medicine, neither of us would have made it. My paternal grandmother also needed an emergency C-section when she gave birth to my father. Without these advancements, I wouldn’t even exist. I am so deeply thankful for modern medicine and for the doctors who saved both my life and my baby's. I also endured complications during the operation, which makes me even more grateful. If I had lived in the Middle Ages, childbirth would likely have been fatal for me, as it was for so many women.
An emergency c-section saved me and my son as well! I remember my father cried and he said it was sobering because in any other time he would have been told he lost his daughter and grandson instead of the news of the section and mom and baby doing well.
I love watching history programs about the U.K. and I’m in awe that, in order for me to be alive today, my ancestors survived every single war, invasion, colonisation, royal infighting, religious persecution, famine, disease, and plague. Kudos to every one of them. ❤
So crazy to think about isn't it! We're the result of thousands of years of genetic engineering 🤯 Altho TBF, that thought makes me weep sometimes, especially in certain comment sections! 😂 Eyup from Yorkshire, BTW 👋
I'm a homesteader attempting to live life off grid in cold windy winter yet I still only survive with Propane, electricity two trucks and gasoline so I can drive 1hr to Walmart. I barely can make it on my own. My respect to my ancestors who could do it
They had such a wealth of knowledge and skills that we’ve largely lost today which is a shame, though some still practice and use them. I have so much respect for our ancestors.
Most of us wouldn’t have even survived the Victorian or Edwardian eras. My grandmother, born in 1895, was the last of 12 children born to a mother who died at age 36 when grandma was 2. Only 5 of those 12 children made it to adulthood. On my granddad ( her husband’s) side his siblings didn’t fare much better. I visited about 5 graves of my great aunts & uncles on his side in Bardstown, KY. All died before age 20. Things really didn’t turn around until the 1920s and got significantly better with the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s.
That’s an excellent point, it’s easy to think that the current world we live in has been there for a lot longer than it actually has, if you think about it it is not that long (in England) since women were given the vote. Thanks for your comment 😉🙏👍
Not only the antibiotic, but also the doctor who put a stop to other doctors that went from autopsy straight to a birth or operation. They found out the fluids, bacteria from a corps were harmfull for the living, and that washing hands was a very healthy thing to prevent a lot of things. (English is not my first language, so excuse me for any spelling mistakes or lack of explaining)
@@historyslifestories373not even 100 years yet. I wonder what the population of the world would be if contraception for women had been invented earlier than it was? 🤔 Add that to the rise of atheism (and proper sanitation!) the 2 child family in Victorian and/or Edwardian times, as opposed to families in double digits, would have seen a lot of us simply not exist now.
@@historyslifestories373 women getting the vote is often trotted out but men only got the vote 10 years previously in the UK and that was because of their sacrifice during WW1. 1918 - Representation of the People Act extends vote to all men over 21 and most women over 30 1928 - Representation of the People Act extends vote to all women over 21
Fascinating. The world is so different now. I am child #11 from a father who was child # 11. Grandparents born in the 1850s. He was “Hendrikus” number 4. The other ones before him died in childhood but the name was important. We no longer resemble anything close to a natural being, in terms of living and surviving in nature.
Many of them did. Go far enough back and you have the same 30 time great grandfather over and over. we're the descendants of the most bad ass conquerors, kings, queens, etc. The losers bloodlines got wiped out.
No you wouldn't. Belief in witchcraft was considered a heresy in Middle Ages. Official dogma of Catholic church was that only God can do miracles, not Satan. If anyone insisted otherwise, by for example, accusing somebody of witchcraft - would land himself in deep trouble. Witch hunts didn't start until XVI century - well into Renaissance.
Most people alive today would not have survived. But let's not forget that we all come from the most hardy stock on the planet, because our ancestors did survive against all odds.
Ive decided today, January 10 th, 2025, you absolutely be grateful for my life, for everything that I have, my healthy 3 children and a beautiful family , a 3 bedroom home, ( the only pig in my home every morning is my husband) anyhow, the fact we can eat and scrape money to buy gas money every day or every few days, makes me cry.. I just couldn’t imagine this.. your question would I survive? probably not even a day.. Sadly, I have epilepsy , I would either have died from illness or be meant to suffer some horrible death.. so tragic. It’s amazing how far we’ve come and then what we will be in the next 20 years !
Chanel Absolute History has a lot of similar videos like this one, I think you will like it. Also BCC had few series where they gathered modern people and let them indeed live the timeline for example on Edwardian Farm. I enjoyed it a lot. Or some other chanel, similar idea, their videos are called "living like..." For example: living like victorian era worker for 24 hours.
I live with my chickens in my cabin while the pine martens are out on the prowl. I survived on stale bread left out for the birds when all my wages were going to my lawyer. And my ordeal is an enforcement notice from the council for living with no planning permission. And my crops failed this year due to crap weather. I’m still in the Middle Ages!
While I definitely appreciate living in the modern age, generally speaking our food today is highly processed and synthetic (unless you can afford organic or grow your own) and ironically many lack some essential nutrients. Don’t get me wrong, our medieval ancestors had it so much more harder and I really feel for them. I just think it’s an interesting observation that with all our modern advancements we are susceptible to potentially poor nutrition and health issues and then have to rely on medications. I guess every era has its own challenges and producing lower quality food to feed the masses is just one of them. Brilliant video by the way…just discovered your channel and will be subscribing 😊
I believe the US is the only country who feeds it's citizens this way. I mean heck Europe won't even buy our chickens or bread. I have 3 autoimmune diseases which is a modern condition. Same with the prevalence of cancer.
We could imagine it, but that was life, they knew no different, in 200 years from now guess what the same conversation, and clearly my lot made it. I remember asking my mum how they coped during the war, and she said fine, we got what we were given, and you dont miss what you never had, and thinking about it, what has genuinely changed, the landscape yes, but nothing else
Yeah and no. There are groups that still try to replicate medieval weaving, soapmaking, castle building, yarn making, candle making, etc. today, and you can see them on YT. They were tougher, but that was just because life was tougher.
@@emmaonthefarm1085 I don’t have a RUclips channel, but I make medicine from herbs, distilled vodka, honey, etc. grow and preserve my food. It’s a way of life. No cable tv, no ac/ heat in my home. Better toughen up! The elites of today (same families as before) want their serfs back!
@Itried20takennames Yes some of us do those things and teach them to whoever will sit still long enough. Rust and corrosion gets us all despite our efforts.
Crazy that we went from the Roman Empire, with its sewage systems, fresh water and plumming in only a few generations is insane. Of course the Roman Empire was far from perfect, but it seems their living conditions were vastly better than the dark ages
It would be 50/50 chance for me. I can hunt, I've been homless and lived in woods before. I have scavaged and built things to live. The difference for me, is i am an accident prone, being alive in todays time being accident prone is not so bad. Back then though, not sure lol
But back then infectious diseases were rampant, as they were in most every time period until widespread vaccine use. The toll on kids was about 30% lost to infectious illnesses, and it was fairly common to have half your kids die of some communicable. You had to be around people some times, and every visit to town or a crowded hut was a good chance to catch tuberculosis, whooping cough, diphtheria, whatever flu was going around that Winter, etc. in a way we never experience today.
The problem is, your thinking you could do any of those things. As the video stated, hunting or fishing was forbidden to the serfs. And anything tied to the land, such as wild fruits or vegetables were not for you either. You would have to ask for permission to be able to pick them from your lord. Even building something on the land, such as a house, you would have to ask to be able to do that. You can have your own small garden, but the majority of your time would be working in the fields for the local lords. And you would be forbidden from leaving the land you were born on, so living out in the woods was a no go.
I’m not sure you’d be so accident prone had you been born back then. Maybe, but it’s also possible that subconsciously, you’re less careful because you know a simple cut or even a broken arm or leg in all likelihood won’t kill you. But growing up seeing family members die of broken limbs or infected cuts and scrapes would have likely made one think twice before doing many things we take for granted today.
I found this a little extreme in the negative aspects of mediaeval life. One of the main killers of young women - discounting childbirth - was drowning. Folk did not know how to swim. Women did all the washing and water gathering. From rivers. Their clothes were heavy wool & linen. Fall in and it was easy to be pulled under and swept away. I’m sure that women in most families in agricultural communities were valued by their partners for their contributions and skills. Complimentary to their husbands in running a farm or homestead. It’s so hard to understand mediaeval life if we don’t understand mediaeval thinking, we don’t have a base value system centred on the earlier Catholic Church. God was at the centre of everything. Religion was at the core of life, and for peasant women still bound up with superstition and pre Christian beliefs. This especially applied around childbearing. The most dangerous journey of every mediaeval woman’s life. For all of us, we should spare a thought for those hardy folk.
Ironically, having fewer children sometimes conferred a survival advantage. A long line of O- women in my family could have only 1-2 children but all these children survived & became highly successful because the family invested heavily in their care & education. The other side of the family had a lot of kids but most died & none were very successful.
The Viking and Saxon periods weren't technically the Medieval period. Medieval stared after the 1066 Norman Conquest and that's also when feudalism started in Britain.
Since dropping the term 'Darkages' when referring to Migration Period, at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, through to the Battle of Hastings in academia, that era is now known as early Medieval
I barely made through the 1990’s and early 2000’s lol I’d have been toast in the Middle Ages. Really though, I got sick a lot as a baby so I literally probably wouldn’t have survived to adulthood.
I was a pretty strong child that never really got sick, so on that front I’d have probably been fine, but I had a brain haemorrhage at 3 days old. So I wouldn’t have even lived long enough to find out 😅
@ Haha yeah we’d have been fertilizer real fast! I got a lot of ear infections and strep throat, both of which could easily have been fatal back then. I also had/have a penchant for injuring myself to the point of needing modern medicine 😂
@@awaywiththetheories1833 You would be exposed to a lot more illnesses in the Middle Ages, for which there would be no prevention or cure. Glad you survived the brain hemorrhage, undoubtedly with skilled medical attention!
Could I survive it? no. and I am amazed that anyone else did either. It is astonishing when you think that so many people alive today descend from people who lived then.
New subscriber ✋🏻 just found you and thoroughly enjoyed this video. Looking forward to catching up with others you've put out and new ones to come. Thank you.
@@mayceehash8434 yes look around at 00:59 you will see the legs appear.... fade and vanish The guy'e eys around 1:40 and the poor poor horse on the left of the screen around 1:43 are all a sure sign of AI. But used well it's not a terrible thing. Many subjects don't have much stock footage available for them so....
That's true in a way. Certainly there are vast improvements in health care, among many other things. However, the Have Nots are still supporting the Haves. The richest people don't seem to have to pay taxes.
People living in the Middle Ages did not know they were living in the Middle Ages. To them it was the world as the world is. It would change when Christ returns.
You have omitted to mention that so many of the punishments in those times were absolutely sickeningly HORRIFIC by modern standards - and many of these for what we would now consider quite trivial offences: - Blinding and gelding (for example for poaching), or being FLAYED ALIVE - which means what it says; thrashed and flogged until the skin ripped off your body and you would die in AGONY … removal of fingers or hands, of feet, or even of an arm or part of a leg (below the knee): these were very common punishments meted out, say by your Lord of the Manor or even by the King or his agents - if you had in any way incurred their displeasure. These brutal punishments continued in Norman times and well beyond - even up until as recently as the start of the eighteenth century.
@@gingerlee726Strange , most of people in power are now women . In goverment , ministry , public service , journalists .At least in western contries. Most of hard work they are not in majority though.
@@gingerlee726 The entire western world doesn't, women are preferentially treated in these countries. They contribute the least and receive the most benefits. Instead the western world exploits men. There was a recent study and out of 144 countries in 91 of them women faired better than men when it came to societal treatment and government policies.
At a time when a broken leg or cut finger could kill you and child birth often did? When financial/food security was precarious at best? I look back the WW1 trench conditions and think it unlikely that many of us now would survive that, which was only temporary. Most people these days, (including me), wouldn’t last past the first winter.
My ancestors did. At least two born in the late 1880s became nuns as first generation colonisers in NZ. One survived until the late 1960s and outlived all her siblings.
this was an excellent and well made vidieo, i would of also enjoyed more information on there water supply and how often beer was the safest thing to drink...thank you again.
Many thanks for your insightful comment, you are quite right, unless you were lucky with location, fresh (and drinkable) water would be difficult to find. Beer - or ale, would have been far safer and easier to come by. 👍
Well that would be about the only “good” thing about Winters then. Otherwise, it was cold, cramped, the food supplies were lower and mostly preserved foods, the water was often frozen when you went to fetch some, etc.
Those times were terrible. Joining a genealogy site has given me insight and connected me to many ancestors that came across the Big Pond. I have ancestors that fought the English. English ancestors that fought my Celtic ancestors. Several women accused of witchcraft. Peasants and aristocrats and a line connected to the royal family. But I figure not an person in England that is not someway connected to the royal family. It was a harsh existence. And then my native family had to fight the colonist
Being a young child you had two roads to travel down. 1. The road to early death due to disease, poor diet and hard work. 2. The other road to a longer hard painful existence where loss of your children and family members must have been excruciating. My preference #1.
Very well researched and stated. What a trauma to live that life, which I am sure most of us must have lived in one or the other incarnations. What a waste such incarnation would be, with consciousness only geared to survival and evading pitfalls. I send my sympathies to all the countless victims of these circumstances.
We are the legacy of a great and noble people. The testament to their indomitable will and sheer determination to live.. I am so grateful to be here and honored to carry their light forward.. HAAZAAAH!!!
Giving Grattitude to my ancestors who survived these tasks in the harsh Scottish weather. Also, I would have died at birth, because my mother and I were saved by modern medicine.
Ah, you may well be doing yourself a great disservice, it’s something thankfully we will never experience, however, we can’t discount the human will to survive, which inmo is no different today than it was back then 😉🙏👍
A fascinating look at history, but the mere fact I am here to comment means that my ancestors did survive. As to disease and health, even today we are discovering hidden ill effects of food and modern food production. As to living in that period ? People would have thought life was normal, and even now when people look back at our lifestyle six hundred years hence ? They will be shocked by our diet and living conditions.
My son developped a urosepsis when he was 8 weeks old. It is frightening to think about that not only in the middle ages, but even like 70 years ago, he would have died because there was no antibiotics available
Well, they often made it long enough to have kids, and because it was pre-birth control and fairly boring….often quite a few kids. Which was good as it was not unusual for half of your kids to die of infectious illnesses during childhood, But if you had 7 kids and 4 survived, that was enough to keep things going.
I know people that couldn't even survive going back 3 generations. Take away electric appliances like washing machines and fridge freezers, or instant hot water for baths and showers, and people would absolutely collapse
I’ve had seizures so probably would have been either killed, put through trial by ordeal, or something of the like. Honestly don’t wanna think about it 😣
I was talking with my mom about what North America would have been like during Middle age Europe and we both agreed that if we were alive during that time or time traveled we’d would both much rather be in North America before it became America.
Lol indigenous American natives were extremely violent and oppressive towards women. The term 'rape and pillage' comes from them. They also were the last Americans to own slaves and refused to set them free decades after the Civil War. Why do you think it would have been better?
@spunkysparks1779 Didn't we just find 70k bodies of children who had been sacrificed by ripping their hearts out while still alive? But OK they knew best 😂
Why are they made to act like robots. They were much more lively and loquacious. They lived, loved, fought, worked and experienced joys and sorrows, much like we do today. .
You talked about ergotism/St. Anthony's Fire. There is a theory that this is the actual cause of the fits that the accusing girls experienced in Salem Witch Trials. Definitely an interesting thought.
Yes I think if I lived back then I would have experienced a deep, unrelenting yearning for some unfathomable thing.. Little would I have known that I was yearning simply for a nice cup of tea.
Can you imagine how much better life would’ve been for these people if they had some of the basics that was present in the Aztec Empire? They took baths regularly, had separate systems for sewage versus clean water and had fresh water supplies.
@@davideddy2672 You are correct! Not being of Mediterranean origin, I had never heard of the Fava Bean. According to Wikipedia, is s more connected to the European pea and does not have the heart shaped leaves of the bean family, but nevertheless, is indeed called a bean.
@@davideddy2672 I just remembered that we have a wild plant here in the Southeast that looks just like the Fava Bean - both plants are more closely related to the Locust tree species, which is also in the bean and pea family. My Creek ancestors domesticated this New World Fava Bean, but nowadays, the cultivar has gone feral and often pops up on abandoned fields.
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They actually got more time off than most Americans, IDK about Europeans. Every church holiday or feast day is off. You can only work while the sun is up. The winters are off except tending livestock (which often lived in the same house as the surfs). Even during the warm months, planting and harvesting are really the big work times. The rest of the time is dedicated to things like home improvement, basic chores, and food prep, which isn't much different from now. They had a physically harder life than most of us, but total hours worked were generally much less.
@@Magdalenasfearsthis is exactly how I feel - I wake up BEFORE sunrise, go to work AND WIRK not until sunset ( ha, ha, that would be 4:30 pm in winter) but far longer AFTER sunset
Medieval times - physical exhaustion. Modern times - mental exhaustion
Both
No... I think the mental stress in medieval times was as extreme as modern days
@@eleanorcolt4361 I'd say even more extreme. But yes, life was generally far harsher.
That’s for sure 👍
Physical exhaustion causes mental exhaustion.
I can’t even survive Mondays. Our ancestors deserve a lot of respect and gratitude ❤
100% you took the words right out my mouth lol
Every one of us watching this video is descended from someone in Medieval Times who survived at minimum long enough to have children!
I can trace my paternal ancestry back to the year 950 (I'm a descendant of a well known Scottish clan) and have ancestors who were quite famous in medieval times so I'm very lucky to know what some of my ancestors got up to during that period. One of my great uncles was a tutor of King James VI. Id love to be able to travel back in time to see exactly how things were in both scotland and England in the medieval period.
@@Glesga_lassie My Mother is a Munro, & the other side of the family was Campbells!
Irish Catholic O'Madden, going back hundreds of years. The O was dropped during The Potato Famine, too poor to take a "Coffin Ship to emigrate to America, we we're forced to move to England. Look up NINA.
@@Glesga_lassieamazing to have traced your ancestors back that far 🎉
@loveisaverb9361 I'm very lucky because my family/clan are well known so their history was recorded all through the past thousand years. On my mums side my ancestors were (probably quite poor) fisher people from the very north tip of scotland and I can trace them back to the 1700s. The contrast is crazy to me, on one side I come from nobility, but the other very poor people. You should have a try on the ancestry website if you're interested in your own family tree, you never know what you might find! My great, great grandmother (can't recall how many times, maybe 18?) was the great granddaughter of Robert the Bruce (Isabella Bruce). Definetly try it yourself, I'd love to know if you discover anything cool 😀
To think that I needed an emergency C-section for my baby and me to survive is incredible. Without modern medicine, neither of us would have made it. My paternal grandmother also needed an emergency C-section when she gave birth to my father. Without these advancements, I wouldn’t even exist. I am so deeply thankful for modern medicine and for the doctors who saved both my life and my baby's. I also endured complications during the operation, which makes me even more grateful. If I had lived in the Middle Ages, childbirth would likely have been fatal for me, as it was for so many women.
An emergency c-section saved me and my son as well! I remember my father cried and he said it was sobering because in any other time he would have been told he lost his daughter and grandson instead of the news of the section and mom and baby doing well.
I love watching history programs about the U.K. and I’m in awe that, in order for me to be alive today, my ancestors survived every single war, invasion, colonisation, royal infighting, religious persecution, famine, disease, and plague. Kudos to every one of them. ❤
So crazy to think about isn't it! We're the result of thousands of years of genetic engineering 🤯
Altho TBF, that thought makes me weep sometimes, especially in certain comment sections! 😂
Eyup from Yorkshire, BTW 👋
I'm a homesteader attempting to live life off grid in cold windy winter yet I still only survive with Propane, electricity two trucks and gasoline so I can drive 1hr to Walmart. I barely can make it on my own. My respect to my ancestors who could do it
They had such a wealth of knowledge and skills that we’ve largely lost today which is a shame, though some still practice and use them. I have so much respect for our ancestors.
I hate to break it to you but nothing an hour away from Walmart is "off the grid."
I would guess that the key to success for most who succeeded is, that they weren't on their own.
You're on RUclips while off the grid lol
@@hbombstatic I thought off the grid just meant no electric lines or gas lines. As in not plugged into the grid.
Isn't a miracle that any of us survived at all. An easy breakdown of daily struggles. God bless you.
We almost didn't. Plague took out a good portion of us!
Most of us wouldn’t have even survived the Victorian or Edwardian eras. My grandmother, born in 1895, was the last of 12 children born to a mother who died at age 36 when grandma was 2. Only 5 of those 12 children made it to adulthood. On my granddad ( her husband’s) side his siblings didn’t fare much better. I visited about 5 graves of my great aunts & uncles on his side in Bardstown, KY. All died before age 20. Things really didn’t turn around until the 1920s and got significantly better with the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s.
That’s an excellent point, it’s easy to think that the current world we live in has been there for a lot longer than it actually has, if you think about it it is not that long (in England) since women were given the vote. Thanks for your comment 😉🙏👍
Not only the antibiotic, but also the doctor who put a stop to other doctors that went from autopsy straight to a birth or operation. They found out the fluids, bacteria from a corps were harmfull for the living, and that washing hands was a very healthy thing to prevent a lot of things.
(English is not my first language, so excuse me for any spelling mistakes or lack of explaining)
@@historyslifestories373not even 100 years yet.
I wonder what the population of the world would be if contraception for women had been invented earlier than it was? 🤔 Add that to the rise of atheism (and proper sanitation!) the 2 child family in Victorian and/or Edwardian times, as opposed to families in double digits, would have seen a lot of us simply not exist now.
@@historyslifestories373 women getting the vote is often trotted out but men only got the vote 10 years previously in the UK and that was because of their sacrifice during WW1.
1918 - Representation of the People Act extends vote to all men over 21 and most women over 30
1928 - Representation of the People Act extends vote to all women over 21
Fascinating. The world is so different now.
I am child #11 from a father who was child # 11. Grandparents born in the 1850s.
He was “Hendrikus” number 4. The other ones before him died in childhood but the name was important.
We no longer resemble anything close to a natural being, in terms of living and surviving in nature.
Well someone in my family did it, otherwise i would not be here.
Lucky you.
Many of them did. Go far enough back and you have the same 30 time great grandfather over and over. we're the descendants of the most bad ass conquerors, kings, queens, etc. The losers bloodlines got wiped out.
GREAT point!!!
I would have been the old hag in the woods with a cat, and probably be accused of witchcraft.
24 cats would have clinched that for sure.
Same here
No you wouldn't. Belief in witchcraft was considered a heresy in Middle Ages. Official dogma of Catholic church was that only God can do miracles, not Satan. If anyone insisted otherwise, by for example, accusing somebody of witchcraft - would land himself in deep trouble.
Witch hunts didn't start until XVI century - well into Renaissance.
Me too
Do you weigh the same as a duck? 🧐
Most people alive today would not have survived. But let's not forget that we all come from the most hardy stock on the planet, because our ancestors did survive against all odds.
Absolutely sure I would not have survived.
You wouldn't know any difference, so you would find a way to survive
@@veraaddoyobo8482 That's true, to a point, but if you're afflicted by one of those horrible diseases, you're toast.
At least our ancestors were able to survive long enough to reproduce, or we wouldn't be here now!
I would make it either😅
Lots of people did!
Ive decided today, January 10 th, 2025, you absolutely be grateful for my life, for everything that I have, my healthy 3 children and a beautiful family , a 3 bedroom home, ( the only pig in my home every morning is my husband) anyhow, the fact we can eat and scrape money to buy gas money every day or every few days, makes me cry.. I just couldn’t imagine this..
your question would I survive? probably not even a day.. Sadly, I have epilepsy , I would either have died from illness or be meant to suffer some horrible death.. so tragic.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come and then what we will be in the next 20 years !
I’ve been searching for a video like this for YEARS!!!!!
Excellent, if you can think of any other subjects you’d like me to cover please let me know 😉🙏👍
Chanel Absolute History has a lot of similar videos like this one, I think you will like it. Also BCC had few series where they gathered modern people and let them indeed live the timeline for example on Edwardian Farm. I enjoyed it a lot. Or some other chanel, similar idea, their videos are called "living like..." For example: living like victorian era worker for 24 hours.
Doesn’t your school teach you? Shameful.
Thank you for giving us this video. It was so interesting. I thank you for putting so much effort into people learning this.
Many thanks for your kind words 😉🙏👍
I live with my chickens in my cabin while the pine martens are out on the prowl. I survived on stale bread left out for the birds when all my wages were going to my lawyer. And my ordeal is an enforcement notice from the council for living with no planning permission. And my crops failed this year due to crap weather. I’m still in the Middle Ages!
You should write a country and western album 😅
@ how did you know I’m a songwriter? But o can’t stand c+w I kinda have an urban vibe.
:( there are now more resources available. Your lawyer should be aware of them; but you'll probably have to tell him what you need & ask for help.
@@phoenixkali so did Beyonce buy she still made one 🙂
@ yeah but she’s Beyoncé she’s not me. And someone else did the heavy lifting so she wouldn’t chip her nail polish.
While I definitely appreciate living in the modern age, generally speaking our food today is highly processed and synthetic (unless you can afford organic or grow your own) and ironically many lack some essential nutrients. Don’t get me wrong, our medieval ancestors had it so much more harder and I really feel for them. I just think it’s an interesting observation that with all our modern advancements we are susceptible to potentially poor nutrition and health issues and then have to rely on medications. I guess every era has its own challenges and producing lower quality food to feed the masses is just one of them.
Brilliant video by the way…just discovered your channel and will be subscribing 😊
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉🙏👍
I believe the US is the only country who feeds it's citizens this way. I mean heck Europe won't even buy our chickens or bread. I have 3 autoimmune diseases which is a modern condition. Same with the prevalence of cancer.
Bet processed food would be better than starving to death!
@ absolutely would!
Makes me appreciate living in our times
I wouldn’t have survived child birth. I had to have a classical c-section. Automatic death sentence back then.
We all are descendants of these Dark Age ( very strong ) people.
Survival of the fittest.
Not the peasants though. Most European citizens alive nowadays come from the nobility since those were more likely to have surviving descendants.
@@TheBayzent Yes. Most of us do not descend from serfs.
Many also descend from other parts of the world.
Darwinian evolution then and now.
Not me… none of my ancestors are from there. Lol!
We could imagine it, but that was life, they knew no different, in 200 years from now guess what the same conversation, and clearly my lot made it. I remember asking my mum how they coped during the war, and she said fine, we got what we were given, and you dont miss what you never had, and thinking about it, what has genuinely changed, the landscape yes, but nothing else
They had skills lost to us, nowadays.
Yeah and no. There are groups that still try to replicate medieval weaving, soapmaking, castle building, yarn making, candle making, etc. today, and you can see them on YT.
They were tougher, but that was just because life was tougher.
@Itried20takennamesI don’t think op meant hobbies 🤣
Today's world is vastly superior to what it used to be but the charm of medieval times is down to it's simplicity
@@emmaonthefarm1085 I don’t have a RUclips channel, but I make medicine from herbs, distilled vodka, honey, etc. grow and preserve my food. It’s a way of life. No cable tv, no ac/ heat in my home. Better toughen up! The elites of today (same families as before) want their serfs back!
@Itried20takennames Yes some of us do those things and teach them to whoever will sit still long enough. Rust and corrosion gets us all despite our efforts.
Crazy that we went from the Roman Empire, with its sewage systems, fresh water and plumming in only a few generations is insane. Of course the Roman Empire was far from perfect, but it seems their living conditions were vastly better than the dark ages
This is the first time I've gotten a severe backache from just watching youtube.
Why?
@jrmckim just the hard labor the women did.
@jrmckim just the hard labor the women did.
@jrmckim just the hard labor the women did.
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It would be 50/50 chance for me. I can hunt, I've been homless and lived in woods before. I have scavaged and built things to live. The difference for me, is i am an accident prone, being alive in todays time being accident prone is not so bad. Back then though, not sure lol
But back then infectious diseases were rampant, as they were in most every time period until widespread vaccine use. The toll on kids was about 30% lost to infectious illnesses, and it was fairly common to have half your kids die of some communicable.
You had to be around people some times, and every visit to town or a crowded hut was a good chance to catch tuberculosis, whooping cough, diphtheria, whatever flu was going around that Winter, etc. in a way we never experience today.
The problem is, your thinking you could do any of those things. As the video stated, hunting or fishing was forbidden to the serfs. And anything tied to the land, such as wild fruits or vegetables were not for you either. You would have to ask for permission to be able to pick them from your lord. Even building something on the land, such as a house, you would have to ask to be able to do that. You can have your own small garden, but the majority of your time would be working in the fields for the local lords. And you would be forbidden from leaving the land you were born on, so living out in the woods was a no go.
I’m not sure you’d be so accident prone had you been born back then. Maybe, but it’s also possible that subconsciously, you’re less careful because you know a simple cut or even a broken arm or leg in all likelihood won’t kill you.
But growing up seeing family members die of broken limbs or infected cuts and scrapes would have likely made one think twice before doing many things we take for granted today.
I found this a little extreme in the negative aspects of mediaeval life. One of the main killers of young women - discounting childbirth - was drowning. Folk did not know how to swim. Women did all the washing and water gathering. From rivers. Their clothes were heavy wool & linen. Fall in and it was easy to be pulled under and swept away. I’m sure that women in most families in agricultural communities were valued by their partners for their contributions and skills. Complimentary to their husbands in running a farm or homestead. It’s so hard to understand mediaeval life if we don’t understand mediaeval thinking, we don’t have a base value system centred on the earlier Catholic Church. God was at the centre of everything. Religion was at the core of life, and for peasant women still bound up with superstition and pre Christian beliefs. This especially applied around childbearing. The most dangerous journey of every mediaeval woman’s life. For all of us, we should spare a thought for those hardy folk.
Many thanks for a very interesting comment Amanda. I believe fishing is one of the most dangerous pastimes today due to drowning.
Ironically, having fewer children sometimes conferred a survival advantage. A long line of O- women in my family could have only 1-2 children but all these children survived & became highly successful because the family invested heavily in their care & education. The other side of the family had a lot of kids but most died & none were very successful.
The Viking and Saxon periods weren't technically the Medieval period. Medieval stared after the 1066 Norman Conquest and that's also when feudalism started in Britain.
Since dropping the term 'Darkages' when referring to Migration Period, at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, through to the Battle of Hastings in academia, that era is now known as early Medieval
The amount of lice, fleas, and intestinal parasites is difficult for modern people to understand.
I barely made through the 1990’s and early 2000’s lol I’d have been toast in the Middle Ages. Really though, I got sick a lot as a baby so I literally probably wouldn’t have survived to adulthood.
I was a pretty strong child that never really got sick, so on that front I’d have probably been fine, but I had a brain haemorrhage at 3 days old. So I wouldn’t have even lived long enough to find out 😅
@ Haha yeah we’d have been fertilizer real fast! I got a lot of ear infections and strep throat, both of which could easily have been fatal back then. I also had/have a penchant for injuring myself to the point of needing modern medicine 😂
@@awaywiththetheories1833 You would be exposed to a lot more illnesses in the Middle Ages, for which there would be no prevention or cure. Glad you survived the brain hemorrhage, undoubtedly with skilled medical attention!
I definitely wouldn’t have made it to adulthood either! Way too sickly as a kid to survive back then 😅
@@myrandapistokache6653 Thank goodness for modern science and medicine lol
Could I survive it? no. and I am amazed that anyone else did either. It is astonishing when you think that so many people alive today descend from people who lived then.
New subscriber ✋🏻 just found you and thoroughly enjoyed this video. Looking forward to catching up with others you've put out and new ones to come.
Thank you.
Many thanks Jay, glad to have you with us, looking forward to hearing from you again 😉🙏👍
Another great video Mark!
Definitely my favourite RUclips channel.
Happy new year to you too.
Hi Paul, and happy New Year to you too, glad you enjoyed the video 😉🙏👍
I really like your use of A I. to educate and not just to entertain.
Subscribed. 👍
is that where all the super relevant footage came from?
Thanks and welcome😉🙏👍
@@mayceehash8434 yes look around at 00:59 you will see the legs appear.... fade and vanish The guy'e eys around 1:40 and the poor poor horse on the left of the screen around 1:43 are all a sure sign of AI. But used well it's not a terrible thing. Many subjects don't have much stock footage available for them so....
This is exactly the type of content i enjoy watching ❤
Many thanks Emma, so glad you enjoyed it 😉🙏👍
I find a sense of pride in knowing I come from people who lived thru and survived England's Dark Ages.
Same but worse: the mountains of Tyrol ⛰️🏔🍻🍺
Well those times draw near again.We shall see.
You sound hopeful
We are living in dark ages now!!
That's true in a way. Certainly there are vast improvements in health care, among many other things. However, the Have Nots are still supporting the Haves. The richest people don't seem to have to pay taxes.
They pay taxes unless the name is Pelosi, or Biden, etc.
We're paddling backwards like our lives depended on it. Islam will be the full stop.
Awwwww your so soft it's cute
@@jasonreimer4742 😅😅 👍👍
I’d have been stoned for being a witch in like a half a second
You either have tattoos/percings, are a ginger or both.
But witches burn well so you would keep everyone else nice and toasty warm ;)
I can confidently say that if I existed during the dark ages, I would not be alive today.
People living in the Middle Ages did not know they were living in the Middle Ages. To them it was the world as the world is. It would change when Christ returns.
Absolutely this .. Afterall every single generation feels (and are) living at the pinnacle of their times..
When do you think Christianity arrived in England?
They arrived in the dark ages preceding it.
What a load of crap…keep your god shit to yourself
Absolutely fascinating and very well done video. Keep them coming! Love them.
Thanks for your kind words, I will do more definitely.
You have omitted to mention that so many of the punishments in those times were absolutely sickeningly HORRIFIC by modern standards - and many of these for what we would now consider quite trivial offences: -
Blinding and gelding (for example for poaching), or being FLAYED ALIVE - which means what it says; thrashed and flogged until the skin ripped off your body and you would die in AGONY … removal of fingers or hands, of feet, or even of an arm or part of a leg (below the knee): these were very common punishments meted out, say by your Lord of the Manor or even by the King or his agents - if you had in any way incurred their displeasure. These brutal punishments continued in Norman times and well beyond - even up until as recently as the start of the eighteenth century.
I think the 4 Yorkshire in Monty Python fashion would agree with you
Great video again! Looking forward to the next one already!
Many thanks Son, I will have to get you doing one 👍
Oppressing women? Certain cultures and religions do that.
Which ones don't opress women?
@@gingerlee726Strange , most of people in power are now women . In goverment , ministry , public service , journalists .At least in western contries.
Most of hard work they are not in majority though.
@@gingerlee726 The entire western world doesn't, women are preferentially treated in these countries. They contribute the least and receive the most benefits. Instead the western world exploits men. There was a recent study and out of 144 countries in 91 of them women faired better than men when it came to societal treatment and government policies.
Yip some dont want to come out the darks ages !!! But we must never speak ill of them,but what i will say is they still really do love there cousins 😂
Yep, just ask any pregnant women in America's conservative states...
At a time when a broken leg or cut finger could kill you and child birth often did? When financial/food security was precarious at best? I look back the WW1 trench conditions and think it unlikely that many of us now would survive that, which was only temporary. Most people these days, (including me), wouldn’t last past the first winter.
This is why so many people flocked to monasteries and convents. That's what I would do too.
My ancestors did. At least two born in the late 1880s became nuns as first generation colonisers in NZ. One survived until the late 1960s and outlived all her siblings.
@Behind_the_Wall_of_Sleep hell, with all that's going on in the world these days, I'm tempted to do the same.
Loved this a lot, thank you 😊
Many thanks Nancy, glad you enjoyed it 😉🙏👍
That's one of the reasons why I'm so fascinated by this era...to see how these poor people survived!😧
Throughout the entirety of human evolution, disease, famine and catastrophy, we are the survivors.
Yep.
I am and the people that I know would never think of the dark and middle ages as the good old days.
this was an excellent and well made vidieo, i would of also enjoyed more information on there water supply and how often beer was the safest thing to drink...thank you again.
Many thanks for your insightful comment, you are quite right, unless you were lucky with location, fresh (and drinkable) water would be difficult to find. Beer - or ale, would have been far safer and easier to come by. 👍
Working from Dawn to dusk means only from 7:30 am till about 4:30 pm in winter time
Well that would be about the only “good” thing about Winters then. Otherwise, it was cold, cramped, the food supplies were lower and mostly preserved foods, the water was often frozen when you went to fetch some, etc.
@@andratoma9834 where I live dawn starts at 9 and ends at 3.30 in winter.
Then staying in pitch dark in a hoval all night.
Lazy serfs. Living was too good for em. But then they died. So all was well.
"freezing one room" not far from what I suffered until April.. but I had rain pouring in by my bed.
Those times were terrible. Joining a genealogy site has given me insight and connected me to many ancestors that came across the Big Pond. I have ancestors that fought the English. English ancestors that fought my Celtic ancestors. Several women accused of witchcraft. Peasants and aristocrats and a line connected to the royal family. But I figure not an person in England that is not someway connected to the royal family. It was a harsh existence. And then my native family had to fight the colonist
Being a young child you had two roads to travel down. 1. The road to early death due to disease, poor diet and hard work. 2. The other road to a longer hard painful existence where loss of your children and family members must have been excruciating. My preference #1.
I really enjoyed this video that popped up in my feed! Going to binge watch the others that u created, love ur story telling abilities
Many thanks for your very kind words, I hope you enjoy them 😉🙏👍
An amazing depiction of life in the UK 2030 onwards.
Except you will probably be under Islamic law. 😫
No away could I live like this EVER!
What an awesome documentary, THANK YOU!!!
Many thanks John, that’s much appreciated 😉🙏👍
Excellent, really interesting.
Many thanks Deborah, much appreciated 😉🙏👍
Very well researched and stated.
What a trauma to live that life, which I am sure most of us must have lived in one or the other incarnations.
What a waste such incarnation would be, with consciousness only geared to survival and evading pitfalls.
I send my sympathies to all the countless victims of these circumstances.
Many thanks, much appreciated 😉🙏👍
How about just getting clean water. That in itself was a huge problem.
Most likely not, otherwise why beer , etc was so prevalent.
We are the legacy of a great and noble people. The testament to their indomitable will and sheer determination to live.. I am so grateful to be here and honored to carry their light forward.. HAAZAAAH!!!
Giving Grattitude to my ancestors who survived these tasks in the harsh Scottish weather.
Also, I would have died at birth, because my mother and I were saved by modern medicine.
Enjoyable watch, thanks. Can't decide if I would've survived so...probably not... LoL
Ah, you may well be doing yourself a great disservice, it’s something thankfully we will never experience, however, we can’t discount the human will to survive, which inmo is no different today than it was back then 😉🙏👍
I've lived through some pretty dire situations, but I don't think I'd survive this!🙄
A fascinating look at history, but the mere fact I am here to comment means that my ancestors did survive. As to disease and health, even today we are discovering hidden ill effects of food and modern food production. As to living in that period ? People would have thought life was normal, and even now when people look back at our lifestyle six
hundred years hence ? They will be shocked by our diet and living conditions.
If I couldn't have my coffee...I would die!
It didn't exist until it was imported in 17th century into Britain as was also tea then.
IT means you are addicted
No tea, no coffee, no chocolate and no potatoes! At least they had beer 😂
Monster energy drinks for me.
Well, my ancestors did. My grandparents came from Yorkshire, Guiseborough, I think? 1900 yr.
I reckon it’s harder now. They wouldn’t know any different and therefore would enjoy even the most stalest of bread.
Ergot poisoning may have played a role in the rise of a dance called the Tarantella.
Appears that my ancestors did it. 😊
I can barely survive now
My son developped a urosepsis when he was 8 weeks old. It is frightening to think about that not only in the middle ages, but even like 70 years ago, he would have died because there was no antibiotics available
Teen to 20s me would have survived. Me in my 50s wouldn't.
This was excellent and I'm left feeling very fortunate!
Nobody made it out alive.
Oh, they must have otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.❤
This is fact.
@Wolfietherrat Nobody from early medieval England or any other period lived longer than their lifespan.
Well, they often made it long enough to have kids, and because it was pre-birth control and fairly boring….often quite a few kids. Which was good as it was not unusual for half of your kids to die of infectious illnesses during childhood, But if you had 7 kids and 4 survived, that was enough to keep things going.
True lol
I know people that couldn't even survive going back 3 generations.
Take away electric appliances like washing machines and fridge freezers, or instant hot water for baths and showers, and people would absolutely collapse
Had my DNA analysis done and i am celt/viking/English/Jewish/Spanish/Italian. So a true Brit then! 😂
I'm from Asia and I also study history but I'm asking who are the real English people, have their DNA been mixed?
Stone chimneys in peasant houses? Cobbled street in small village? I don't think so.
Yes, they made the peasants use wood chimneys from what I recall.
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@@dflatt1783peasants didn’t have chimneys in the dark ages. Open fire with a hole in the roof if you were lucky!
Some urban areas in England had dirt roads even to the 1940's
The images are made with AI
I’ve had seizures so probably would have been either killed, put through trial by ordeal, or something of the like. Honestly don’t wanna think about it 😣
It would have been an incredibly difficult way of life. Not sure I'd survive.
These videos are fabulous, the closest we can get to time travel. Thank you so much! ❤
Many thanks, so glad you like them 😉🙏👍
I was talking with my mom about what North America would have been like during Middle age Europe and we both agreed that if we were alive during that time or time traveled we’d would both much rather be in North America before it became America.
Indigenous ppl knew best!
Lol indigenous American natives were extremely violent and oppressive towards women. The term 'rape and pillage' comes from them. They also were the last Americans to own slaves and refused to set them free decades after the Civil War. Why do you think it would have been better?
@spunkysparks1779 Didn't we just find 70k bodies of children who had been sacrificed by ripping their hearts out while still alive? But OK they knew best 😂
Sounds like what we’re moving back to. History repeats.
Why are they made to act like robots. They were much more lively and loquacious. They lived, loved, fought, worked and experienced joys and sorrows, much like we do today. .
You are quite right, I did mention all this right at the end 😉🙏👍
Really enlightening! How did they wake up early in winter, before the sun rose?
They didn't have to. Man worked to the sun.
@ ohhhh. I wonder when the change was when he needed a ‘Knocker-upper’?
Thank You youtube for recommending this channel.. the use of A.i along with very good narration bringing factual information is fantastic.
Subbed 😊
Many thanks for subscribing Penny, you are very welcome 😉🙏👍
Well…. I have to say as always… I’m so grateful to be in the here and now
You talked about ergotism/St. Anthony's Fire. There is a theory that this is the actual cause of the fits that the accusing girls experienced in Salem Witch Trials. Definitely an interesting thought.
I think Monty Python covered that witch stuff very well.
Looking forward to more episodes!
Many thanks for your kind words 😉🙏👍
No antibiotics, no vaccines, no glass windows to let the light in and cold wind out - but worst of all - no cups of Yorkshire tea!
There would have been wooden shutters on windows, they didn't leave them open and would have had far fewer window apertures than we have now.
Yes I think if I lived back then I would have experienced a deep, unrelenting yearning for some unfathomable thing..
Little would I have known that I was yearning simply for a nice cup of tea.
Can you imagine how much better life would’ve been for these people if they had some of the basics that was present in the Aztec Empire? They took baths regularly, had separate systems for sewage versus clean water and had fresh water supplies.
Medieval peasants might have eaten peas, but they didn't eat beans. The bean family, including green beans, is from the Americas.
Horse Beans …
@@davideddy2672 You are correct! Not being of Mediterranean origin, I had never heard of the Fava Bean. According to Wikipedia, is s more connected to the European pea and does not have the heart shaped leaves of the bean family, but nevertheless, is indeed called a bean.
@@davideddy2672 I just remembered that we have a wild plant here in the Southeast that looks just like the Fava Bean - both plants are more closely related to the Locust tree species, which is also in the bean and pea family. My Creek ancestors domesticated this New World Fava Bean, but nowadays, the cultivar has gone feral and often pops up on abandoned fields.
You're wrong. They ate broad beans and field beans/ haricots. The Romans too were great eaters of beans.
In my twenties I think I would have survived, but now in my fifties, no way, I’d be dead in two weeks.
That was great. Glad I found you! Thank you.
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉🙏👍
Fascinating. Tough times. Makes one appreciate existing in the year 2025 in a modern first world.
Amazingly, lots of people survived or we’d not be here.
For how long? To have 4 kids before you were 20? As slaves of the Lords?
Do your family tree. We mainly descend from royalty/nobility because of the higher mortality rates.
I h🎉Thank you for your well presented educational information history video!
Really enjoyed it!
Makes you appreciate what we have un this modern free Society
Have subscribed to your Channel ❤
Medieval peasants got more time off than people now.
No your wrong.
How did you come to that conclusion? Plus they worked on empty stomachs in all weather 🙄
Where on earth did you get that idea from? Or are you just joking?
They actually got more time off than most Americans, IDK about Europeans. Every church holiday or feast day is off. You can only work while the sun is up. The winters are off except tending livestock (which often lived in the same house as the surfs). Even during the warm months, planting and harvesting are really the big work times.
The rest of the time is dedicated to things like home improvement, basic chores, and food prep, which isn't much different from now.
They had a physically harder life than most of us, but total hours worked were generally much less.
@@Magdalenasfearsthis is exactly how I feel - I wake up BEFORE sunrise, go to work AND WIRK not until sunset ( ha, ha, that would be 4:30 pm in winter) but far longer AFTER sunset