Life Inside a Medieval Castle (Cross Section)
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2024
- Medieval Castles needed to be multiple things at once. They needed to be reflections of the leaders they represented - large and stately, suitable for housing the most important people in the world and surrounding them with luxury. But they also needed battlegrounds and strong fortifications that strengthened the defences of a town or city - therefore deterring invasion. The focal point of the towns and cities they defended, the Medieval Castle needed to not only house and support the land it owned, but stand as a signature and representation of the wealth of the crown and its nobles. Sending the message to invaders: 'You will not win here.'
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I used to love finding these cross section books as a kid
Me too
Another cross section episode of Simple History
What were they called?
I would like to find them again.
I know there was one author that did castles and man-of-war warships.
@@kjj26k oh I'm not sure I'm afraid buddy. I can just remember at Christmas I'd go to a friend's house and they would have this huge book case and there were some that I could reach.
I still have a couple of them with plastic parts. A castle and the mummy of Tuthankhamon.
Love those books today as much as I loved them as a child.
Wake up, honey. Simple History posted again.
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Pour some honey on my nipples and let’s make history
Thanks, mum!
Thanks cousin
Hi mom
3:04 Those soldiers are going to be pissed when they realize they've been pushing the mangonel uphill backwards.
Is that not how you’d push it?
@@unifiedhorizons2663 If you want it to throw rocks at your own men.
I mean, can't blame them. More surface to push on the back.
They're just trying to confuse the enemy, of course.
Either that, or it's just those wacky conscripts at it again.
It was the invisible french soldiers trying to steal onager from the englishmen
Rest of the world: Wales, what is your weird obsession?
Wales: uhhhhhhhhhh
A lot of them were actually built by the English to keep the Welsh compliant.
@@brainflash1 many thanks to King Edward I
it's sheep
@@blairscartoonshistory7477 didn’t king Edward 1 also say he will make a Welsh person have the crown of wales. And had an infant son of his who was born in wales and proclaim”I have brought you your heir. A person born in wales and who dosnt speak a bit of English”
Built by the English to control them
I remember when Simple History used to put up a video like every two weeks, and now there’s one every few days. Keep up the good work!
4:25 I know it’s a tiny detail but I love how each soldier has different coat of arms
Its those tiny details that makes SH so good at what they do.
Now, do a video on mr krabs during his days in the navy
I second this, I want to hear about his time during Midway.
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Clown
I suggest the next Cross section to be about Bastion forts
Boring
People have this nifty thing called an opinion.@@GathKingLeppbertI
Please do a cross section of a 18th century naval tall ship
This gives me nostalgia for a castle cross-section book I had as a kid.
That's because some sections, like the intro, are almost a 1:1 copy from that book.
6:03 I love that my local castle is depicted here. I love more that us Welsh people can actually say "my local castle" haha
Castell Caernarfon
This is a seriously gorgeous video! You guys have seriously come such a long way since the King Henry video all those years ago! The sets, the animation smoothness, the character models, all spectacular!
The cross-section concept is amazing!!! I’d love to see more of this.
Now THIS is something that I have been waiting and asking for for a long time. I am a HUGE fan of anything and everything "medieval" and I am so grateful that SH finally decided to make a new history video on this topic. I have rewatched the old ones so many times that I can literally recite them by heart lol. As always, I love to hear Chris in these videos, they just wouldn't be the same (nor as pleasing to the ear) without you. Also, kudos to the creation team.., ty you guys for all your hard work! Together, y'all have developed the absolute best animated history channel on RUclips.
I followed the link to narrator Chris Kane's website. He doesn't look at all like you expect. He's actually a young guy !
I'm so happy that I happen to come across Simple History, every video upload always brings a smile to me because of it's straightforward approach to the topic and simple animation, nothing overly complicated but effective.
Keep it up crew!
Love it, my favorite time period and the narrator has a great voice. Love the information and the animation is simple yet intricate too, keep it up please I subscribed!
You won't be disappointed, I've been subscribed and a member for over 5 yrs. They have come a long way but this is one of the absolute best animated history channels on RUclips.
In my opinion simple history should make video on how a medieval army was made and how it works
depends where. some had a militia like system. others had militaries. mostly it was a militia with a soldier having to buy his own weapons and armor, its why roman military is so special its one of the first militaries that follow our modern style.
@@ashleytaylor7621 no. why would i? Britain was attacked by vikings way before there was a british Empire. Romans had ships too otherwise how would they take cyprus and greek islands. i dont understand if your comment is a genuine question or if you are trying to annoy. The awnser is just to obvious for me to take your question seriously.
Love the video style @simplehistory !
I enjoyed these style of books as a kid, and to see it in video format was amazing 👏
Always enjoy your content, this is a new topic for me and was disappointed to see it was no longer than it was. Still, I’ll take what I can get. Pretty sure we are all grateful for any new post and looking always looking forward to future post. I can’t imagine the work that goes into one of these videos, and thank you for that.
The reason there are so many castles in Wales wasnt to keep the english out, it was to keep the welsh in.
Nice, it is like a video version of my all-time favorite castle cross-section book by Stephen Biesty.
Thank you!
I've been trying to remember who made those books so I could find them again!
@@kjj26k You're welcome! Had the same problem a few months ago when I randomly thought about these books and couldn't remember who it was. Had to search a little bit but Biesty is famous enough, fortunately 😄
Love the content, keep up the awesome work! ❤❤❤
The castles that you have showed you can also see in Balkan peninsula as well, believe it or not. The rumor says that there is one Medieval Caste in Serbia. The location of that castle is near Novi Sad, Serbia.
Besides the castles that were built near sea, and lakes, some of them were built on rivers as well. What I'm about to say is that some fortresses were also built as well. They were built near river Danube. The fortress that were built on river Danube are Kalemegdan in Belgrade, and Petrovaradin in Novi Sad. Petrovaradin fortresses has white clock. The big pointer shows hours, while smaller one shows minutes. They called that clock a drunken clock. And these pointer helped sailors when sailing across river Danube to see what time is it. Although one thing I might add is, that Petrovaradin fortress was built in 1692, by one French architect.
Believe it or not, King Richard The Lion Heart was healing his wounds or illness in sanatorium in Balkan peninsula during the crusades. That sanatorium is near city of Novi Sad, and there is a commemorative plate there.
This was a very interesting cross-section video about castles, well done Simple History. I never knew Wales had THIS many castles before but that sounds very interesting and i also liked your Disney and Star Wars references.
Interesting and very fascinating. I did not know that Wales had so many. Life in those castles, even for the lords and nobility, was not nearly as comfortable as our lives today. They had little knowledge of hygiene, germs, contagions, infections, healthy diets, et al. And so many of them were illiterate. Medieval life in a castle seems so romantic to us, but few of us would trade our modern lives to go back and live in those times.
Such a fire video bro!
I love you so much simple history ❤
Awesome video, loved that a Bailey was one u talked a out at beginning.
When the troops were pushing siege weapon uphill near beginning, while talking about disadvantages of fighting uphill, was it a catapult facing away from castle they were attacking.
Can't wait for more videos❤
well they are at the gate trying to knock it down so i would probably have to say that it was a battering ram???
Hey, I recognize that cross-sectioned castle shown at 1:05 for example, it's from one of Stephen Biesty's cross-sections book, which I've had for 20 years or so. :D
Reminds me of Epic History TV, I like them both videos anyways keep up Simple History
I love your content
I loved the addition of a cross section for this video
Can’t wait for more historical content!!!!
Please correct the description of the front gate. They were L shaped so that no direct access was available. Thank you it was a great presentation.
Great video!
Nice video
Yes! More Medieval videos
Damm the visuals are amazing 🤩
Reminds me of old books I used to buy at the scholastic book fair at school about castles, etc.
i had seen this in books this video is the easy path to understand every area and fiction of the castle
Do a video on medival armor weapons and equipment
That shaking of the image at the end was really vertigo inducing.
Thank you for this! If anyone loves Medieval sieve warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt
Perfectly timed for Manor Lords release.
This is so nostalgic, cant belive they stopped constructing castles
1:30 my man right here literally straight up ate an entire bucket of molten hot piping oil
I approve this statement 1:05
top kek
These are the types of videos I love from this channel.
Cant wait for: Life inside of Earth (Cross Section)
lol 😂
Simple History really grind up nowadays
Another thing I learned is that sometimes the latrine would dump into the moat, further fortifying it from invaders trying to swim across
Listening to this as I play Manor Lords. It’s a good time.
You should do more videos on the Roman Empire!
I like how the one Archer that's closest to being an FPS view, is able to take out two archers on the walls. While the archers up front can't hit anything 😅
Ummm... Neuschwanstein Castel (Sleeping Beauty Castle) was built in the late 1800's. Not a medieval castle.
Your popularity is raising m'lord
Castles are great and all but we're missing an answer to a crucial question;
What. About. DRAGONS?!
Cross section buildings and vehicles are always my favourite especially in dictionary and enclclopedia
My inner child is squealing with joy at this video :)
Perfect lore for new Manor Lords players
If the onion analogy was a "Shrek" reference, WELL DONE. If not, WELL PUT.
They should make a TV show set in a Medieval Castle.
I saw Windsor castle in the UK when I was 18 back in 2004. It was an amazing place to see. Also the old Roman town of Bath in the UK was super amazing. So many of its roads are still in use today. Here in the US it's so boring there is nothing really anything exciting historically wise here. Some battlefields, propaganda monuments and some old houses are all that we have that are historical.
*sips beer at 16 “just a normal day”
Remind these books we had when we were kids. With the drawings and all
awesome!
Only downfall with a big castle is if the attacking force is big enough and has the time, can just use starvation siege method.
A siege was horrible for both parties and many failed
@@mordekaishekelbergiv.4211 💯 medieval times were horrible full stop!
Simple history can you do DDAY on the Brits or Canadian perspective
Do the siege of zhongdu or medieval battering rams and 80ft tall siege towers next or how mongol troops couldn’t adapt to the monsoon environments of Southeast Asia
Visited some castles in Italy
One of the many reasons medieval europa is my favourite time period
I guess with the early release of the game Manor Lords, this video is fitting for it.
“Look! Henry has come to see us!”
Make something about Byzantine or Varagian guard.
This is just like Steven Beisty’s cross section books as a kid!
I could've lived the rest of my life not knowing how toilets in castles worked.
why is the catapult moved with the back facing the enemy ? @3:14 xD
This guy has less than 5 million subscribers that’s so unfair for him he’s such a good historian
This channel is probably in the top 0.1% in terms of subscriber numbers.
Do a video about King Baldwin IV
Kingdom Come Deliverance gonna be hitting different with this one.
Hats off to not making a high ground joke
Anyone should get the kids book on a cross section of conway castle in wales. It was so amazing to go there as a kid after reading that book so much and to spend the night in that town. 😂
0:35 Caernarfon Castle!
Yes
That's far better than living in a normal house.
I already learned about Medieval Castle cross Sections from Where's Waldo books, but thanks for trying.
Can you do Cross section of the HMS Liverpool pls🥺
Ah yes whales “the land of castles” beautiful country side and one charming little line
Whales?
So, it's intriguing would it be another myth complination, or good video.
UPD: it's actually pretty good.
Nice
The first one sank into the swamp, so I built a second one. That sank into the swamp, so I built a third one. That one burned down, fell over then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one stayed up.😂
Fantastic dudes!!🏅🥇🏅⭐⭐⭐⭐🇺🇸
0:30 For a fact: For people in the medieval ages, there was no real difference between castles and cities. That's why many german cities have the ending "-burg" (castle), like Regensburg, and why people back then sometimes called their city-gates "Burgtore" f.e. It's also where the german word Bürger (citizen) derived from (Burgherr; eng.: castle lord/inhabitant).
do you know why this was? you haven't explained the fact that when a castle was being built you would have camp followers that needed to build houses do continuously work on the castle and create a tiny village in order to create the castle or motte an bailey for instance the motte and bailey even though simple history doesn't understand what a motte and bailey is ( a trench and a hill) the village is what is created first then they dug out the motte and then with that dirt they built the bailey and then when that was done they then started to make the keep and the fortifications that's why its called burg in German. you are very welcome for doing your job for you.
Thank you for answering a question that I had for so long. What did they wipe their butts with.
In this video, you mention how hygiene was important to control diseases. Very true, but during the middle ages, people were unaware of the connection between hygiene and disease.
yes they absolutely did
@@ashleytaylor7621 Taken from Wikipedia: "Basic forms of germ theory were proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546, and expanded upon by Marcus von Plenciz in 1762. However, such views were held in disdain in Europe, where Galen's miasma theory remained dominant among scientists and doctors"
Sick,
Puss
Medieval castles when I get a siege engine with the capability to launch a 300 kilogram projectile over 300 meters:
Are there any battles in keep (last defender) that successfuly won by deffenders? Any known battles?
it depends on whether its a castle or a motte and bailey, if it was a motte and bailey no, if it was a castle no..... they would just give up there may be a couple cases in a castle siege that the defenders held out for so long that reinforcements arrive maybe but generally if the attackers have got to the keep you are fucked because all of your food all of your arrows everything you need to survive a siege is outside soooo if the attackers are smart all they have to do is wait a week and you will be so dehydrated and hungry you will just have no fight to carry on so no obviusly in history theres always cases that show the 1 in a million but if you have the entire fort you can then start re building everything that was destroyed and wait out the last defenders what would be the point in wasting men in trying to take a handful of dead men and lords or ladies?? i would also like to point out that hand to hand combat inside a keep was hardly ever done because its so hard to defend a keep you need to defend the stairs problem with that unlike a rampart the attackers have a clear shot at your feet and you cant defend your feet so if youre an attacker its literally like shooting fish in a barrel.
short version: if you had been chained to a wall and been starved but at any time you can just say stop and it all stops you just have to pay for them to give you everything back, why when the guard asks if you want this to stop, would you spit in his face?
One day, our way of life will be “medieval”