What Kind of Power Did a Medieval Monarch Actually Have?
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A revival of the fantasy genre in recent years has also brought about a revival of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages. With an endless array of titles, we are sure that you can easily visualise scenes from some Hollywood, TV or streaming service production, in which mounted knights charge at a line of terrified spearmen, tattooed Vikings pillage an unfortunate monastery, or some poor sod gets fried in boiling oil while storming a castle.
Decades ago in popular perception, knights and jesters sported lively colours, a fashionable bob hairstyle, and armour was usually shining. In more recent years, it seems more like Medieval Europe is constantly smothered in grey and mud, and knights are more interested in oppressing peasants than abiding to their alleged code of chivalry, which, accurate. See our video Did Any Medieval Knight Ever Rescue a Damsel in Distress.
But for whatever reason, popular culture is besotted with the Middle Ages.
The King. The Queen. The Emperors. The Monarchs. Whether evil or righteous, they are frequently portrayed as wielders of absolute power, whose will and authority are uncontested.
It only takes their word to bestow incredible fortune on the story’s protagonist or redress some criminal wrong. And it only takes their whim to heavily tax the poor, burn down some village, behead a jester whose jokes are no longer funny. Or more directly, to unleash a war for their own gain.
But how much of any of that representation corresponds to reality? What kind of power did a Medieval monarch actually have?
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Host: Simon Whistler
Author: Arnaldo Teodorani
Editor: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Samuel Avila
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The lack of tangents disturbs me.
Wrong channel. They get edited out of this channel. 😅
Simon as always sounds clear crisp and reading out loud faster than most people can read silently. He is a legend!
Never thought of it that way, he does speak as fast as i think before i can get my mouth to move.. Although all his thinking is, sort of, written in front of him, he is still a brilliant narrator and is still so much better than I. Which is why he has 300 channels and i do not have 1 i suspect.. 🤣🤣
Not sure he always sounds crisp and clear though, you have to see all his channels! This 1 is incredible, like a clean surface. His others however are done in a different way and there are the odd spot, dirty plate and outright grease stain. None of which detract from his excellence, nor does it affect the fun!! 🤣
Other than the mix being wildly off from whatever brain blaze is. Good for sure. The sound is tinny here.
Only realized because I just listened to brain blaze and switched to this after.
Reading out loud is definitely easier done fast than silently reading try for your self
Since I've started doing my own voiceover narration work, I've come to appreciate his abilities as well.
On this channel yes. Ever get sucked into a Simon tangent on the several times he locked his keys in the car on a trip in Romania which also involved his mate losing the rental car keys in the Dead Sea?
This is why we like him. He can get down to business or make a twenty minute script take an hour and a half. Depends on the coffee and Red Bull intake of that day.
ROFL, "Thegns" properly pronounced "Thanes". Sorry, I know you'd have no way to know that without being informed or having a lot of exposure to the use of the word (I like to read :D)
If the Magna Carta basically protects any freeman from random seizure of property, guarantees a speedy trial with witnesses, and guarantees them limited freedom of movement, why do I keep hearing that somehow it was 'just for nobles' or similar? Of course there were a lot of serfs for whom none of this directly mattered, but plenty of effectively random nobodies were freemen.
I think you'd make a great jester Simon.
In all of human history. Be it king, president, or prime minister it all comes down to who has the final "Because I fucking said so!" authority.
They appear to be like mafia godfathers to me.
There’s more truth to that than you’d realize. Mafia emerged from the transition of feudalism to capitalism in unification Italy after the old feudal landlords had their estates broken up and divided among the peasantry. Peasants struggle protecting land thus mafia structures emerged to fulfill a similar function to knights but without all the formalities
King John ruled 1199 to 1216...not 1118 to 1216,
I think who ever type your script up got their dates mixed up.
Why do you think that?
@@7-ten the dates 1418 to 1580 isn't 27 years surely it's 1481 to 1508 possible, I haven't looked it up but something is off there.
Lol
Another fascinating, entertaining and enjoyable video Simon and production team. I’m watching at 2:30am in Blighty.
Love Simons writers, they teach me so much about so much 😊❤❤❤
He had power and responsibility. Generally, he was reliant on the cooperation of the people and gross abuse of power, like the famed prima nocta, are only ever mentioned by foreign political opponents.
You were taught to think monarchy was evil, but 200 years of Democracy brought us the 20th Century.
So… The Caliphate was akin to early empire Rome, whilst the feudal system was what Rome evolved/devolved into…. 😮
Bro, the British government pays over 100 million to keep its monarch, which keeps these people billionaires.
Depends on which monarch, in which country, in what year...
I don't know, thanks to inflation that jesters rent should've been raised to 4 farts a year instead of money. But what does a peasant like me know?
I see you mention the popes, what about specifically speaking ecumenical patriarch? I’m curious, especially during the medieval period period. My curiosity is peaked because I know about how the popes during the medieval period changed over overtime and their power throughout the centuries changed, and the eastern orthodoxy is very different, especially during the Byzantine Period, I’m quite interested to see what the answer would be historically especially since they were not the emperors, and I am curious to an extent about the Byzantine emperors.
The middle ages, defined by Squarespace.
Please drop the background music it is unnecessary and for people like me can anchor your info to sad or unhappy situations while we listen to your very interesting info while trying to distract us from traumatic situations… your narration is enough… but earlier videos, chill me to the bone when they were heard around the time of my son’s suicide… it’s like reliving it again… please… drop the music…
Check the volume of the sound output, just got ear fucked.
Could you find out if there's ever been a hoard of gold in a cave? Why is that a thing?
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Get rid of the background noises.
One fart a year for rent. I’ve paid a decade in the time I watched this video
Imagine…you are defeated, only to then be de-feeted 😬
To begin with lets define what we mean by middle ages. This video is brought to you by square space.
Gotta say I learned something new. I didn't expect that square space is the definition of middle ages 😇
Thanks for the presentation, Today I Found Out! Astounding facts about society and power you've discovered!! Keep the videos rollin'; I'm still a huge fan of your channel!
Yall need to stop with that voltaire quote
Almost as much as a modern-day US President ?
Then power increased including owning America
That still applies today to a point.
let us "ask" the king to sign this 🙂
Love your shows - thanks! Have you changed your camera or added a filter? You appear to be glowing and fuzzy. It's not my computer as I checked. Thanks!
Perhaps he's been using products promoted by sponsors of some of his previous videos.
We wuz kangz
What is the name of the song on the back ground? Bin asking this question on 50 dam videos
The church had WAY more power than any monarch!
1118 to 1216 is 27 years? I wasn't aware that numbers had changed that much.
I'm all in on taking out the jester thing. Think modern comedians ain't that funny and deserve as much.
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The middle ages lasted 1000 years, so lets focus on the last 200 years...
Because that's the period most people think about when saying medieval times and we have the most data about. :-) -Daven
I keep looking at the “alcohol is a solution “ top in the shop. I think it’s just going to be heading my way at some point… 😊
Arrrgh… it’s history… not chemistry! 😢
Do I go for a mug… not quite as impactful…
As someone who was with an abuser in Canada, where we have a program for domestic abusers, those programs are nonsense. Unless it’s someone who genuinely cares for people, they don’t do anything. My ex attended that program WHILE he continued to abuse me. He used what he learned to manipulate me more effectively.
Simon sounds and looks completely hammered again.
Have you ever seen hammered person?
@@teemuleppa3347 Every night me pa comes home hammered to do a number on me backyard... so, yeah... I've seen a hammered person before. Simon is a total lush and you can tell by his voice that he's got real shifty intentions. He's a real shifty guy this Simon or whatever he calls him self is.
@teemuleppa3347 yes because I used to have a raging cocaine and alcohol addiction
@@kremepye3613 Used to? Why'd ya quit bro? Never gonna make it to the show with an attitude like that son. I successfully addicted myself to cigarettes and canned air just last year and let me tell ya, I feel great. The backseat of my 2004 Dodge Neon is full of empty cans of dust off and thanks to America's free speech laws johnny law dawg can't do nuthin' about it.
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