7 Ways YOU Would Have Fit in During Medieval Times...
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- We often think that jobs during the Middle Ages were quite different than those that exist today, but actually many of them are connected. Some even have the same titles now as then.
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Carpenter
2:36 Architect
4:04 Locksmith
5:07 Apothecary
6:55 Baker
8:12 Barrister
9:50 Butcher
🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
Narrated by James Wade
Edited by James Wade & Adam Longster
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Being a mercenary is an ancient job that to this day still exists
so is prostitution. some things never change
We appreciate today that Medieval craftsmen and artisans were quite skilled and were respected. Tradesmen were and are necessary. Thanks for great videos.
Painting and drywalling takes little knowledge, but much skill. RUclips is very detrimental with so many terrible DIY videos. I watched a video where the person violated 4 NEC codes but had comments "I'm a master electrician and this is great!".
I'm surprised stone mason was not a job/profession covered in this video. Still, good info was covered.
I'm a stonecutter. No, wait. I'm a No Homers.
As an Illustrator, Writer, & freelance Graphic Designer, I definitely would've been a monk or priest writing pages upon pages to make fully illuminated manuscripts. Only differences are that it wouldn't include a sketchbook, computer or typewriter, and I would keep constantly looking over my shoulder to make sure a barbarian wasn't coming for me in the distance to pillage my rural residence. Dangerous times for a creative!
In the past I had earned money as a calligrapher using the medieval script font bastarda. There were no sketchbooks, computers, or typewriters to help me, but I did use an Ames lettering guide, store bought ink, and a Platignum fountain pen with a slant nib instead of a quill.
*giggles in being jobless*
NEET
And that isn’t because you’re still on school or university?
Vagabond
They did that in the Middle Ages too!
No jobs? 🤨
I have to be honest, loving the amount of acknowledgement York is getting in this video
I got kind of excited when you mentioned apothecaries, because I knew you'd connect them to modern-day pharmacists. I always thought it'd be cool to be an apothecary, and funnily enough, I'm now in pharmacy school. But it'd still be cool (if it were possible to time travel) to go back and set up an apothecary shop sometime in the medieval period; I'd be making the best laudanum around for all those villagers, lmao.
Open your own practice, call it an Apothecary. Become a legend.
My mother grew up in the BVI and during that time (1950s-60s), pharmacies were actually called apothecaries. ☺️
Did you know the Greek word for Pharmacy is Pharmekia, it means sorcery.
Purveyor of death pills.
With all the problems in the world, I get great relaxation from this channel. Thank you and God bless. EH.
This is such an awesome channel 👍
My mom's dad was a carpenter. He built the 2 story house my mom grew up in. They raised around 50 foster children in that home.
Amongst numerous other trades, my dad's dad was a butcher for a time.
Wow that's incredible!
How many did he molest? 😏
I was hoping to see blacksmith on the list as I'm a welder/fabricator. Maybe next time.
Thank you. These videos are so nice, the art work, and the context are very informative and entertaining. Thank you again!
Medieval craft skills were magnificent, as were ancient ones. They also had abundant materials that are even more of luxuries today, like building/sculpture stone and abundant oak. It wasn’t just that they were more abundant, but the labor required to extract and work them was very cheap.
Great video...as usual!
Keep it up! You’re doing great with the channel !! A+ 👍
Great videos! Very interesting.
Pretty good video! the production value is great, seems like something a multi-million subscriber youtuber would make
However a lot of the information of the video is pretty general, and greatly differs depending on where you were or when you were in the medieval period, so a more indepth/researched videos would be cool
Keep up the good work!
If you're looking for specificity, I recommend finding "Voices of the Past"
Land surveyor and we still use some very similar equipment to what was used in the most ancient past
Hello there .. just wanted to say i not long ago discovered your channel and I FLIPPING LOVE IT ❤️ thank you !! It's awesomely interesting and you tell it all so well ....love love love A+++++++++
As a video game developer, I would not fit in it seems. xD
I guess the closest thing would be somewhere between an artist and a jester/bard/minstrel?
Though the role of a hermetic monk seems cool too. :D
You'd probably be a priest or a monk writing manuscripts. Instead of writing lines of code, you'd be writing lines of the lord's work. Could be considered playing games with the minds of peasants. XD
I love this channel and everything about it
Interestingly, I learned that in the time following the black death, the workforce was reduced so greatly that meat became more economical, practical and available do to lots of fallow farmland that lended itself to raise animals in place of labor intensive farming.
I'm very disappointed to learn that my career in IT wouldn't carry over to the medieval ages.
I love your comments on barristers. No one knows what that is anymore. I could be wrong but I believe barristers often used torture.
😂 they still do.
They're were some truly beautiful things made in the middle ages
Brilliant thanks for making my day medieval madness, great work! Oh! And was prostitution not on the list? 🤣🤣
Prostitution-mankind’s oldest “profession.”
Saw the medieval 2 total war cutscene in there 😉
*IF THERE WERE ANY DOUBTS*
Selling drugs and pimping would be an all time profession no matter what time or where you are, either one will always work and the dangers are always the same
Prostitution, also
or WHAT you are....
@@DG-iw3yw well that was kindof my point. 😅
Then there’s the Barber/Dentist. Two careers for the price of one! 😂
I would have been a waiter...oh sorry, wrong Medieval Times. 😂
The guild system that trained craftsmen and artisans and guaranteed that those who were members were the best in their field. I like the idea of their not only training new people and guaranteeing that their work was of the highest quality but also helping members who had health challenges and caring for families after a member had died. A labor union doesn’t provide those kinds of services (at least in the US) or guarantee that the work will be done to the highest degree possible. Modern unions also don’t build schools. Too bad. My Danish great-grandfather was chosen along with six other carpenters from the carpenters’ unions outside of Copenhagen and throughout Denmark to construct a very complicated staircase. He won first prize and was awarded a special gold medal by the then king of Denmark. My dad’s family still have it. Because of this award when he came to America he never had to worry about having enough work. In fact, he was given the most important jobs in building homes, churches and places of business and the arts. Some of his work still survives. We are very proud of him.🇩🇰🇺🇸
Thank you.
Then there’s barber/dentist. Two careers in one! 😂
You have a great voice and accent lol
this should be a recurring video, so many jobs such little time
My profession , butcher hasn’t changed to much. Just health and safety plus electricity have improved it. I’m a Master butcher so can size beasts up when alive and can do everything to get them in the pot. I have not been able to slaughter my own since the food safety act of 1990. But I’m trained and qualified to run a slaughter house. Breaking a beast down to cook has not changed much.
I'm a seamstress which wasn't mentioned.
"Advanced skills in maths"....ugh....Maths....the bane of my prior school and college days....💀
I'm grateful for refrigeration
imagine saying "a baker's dozen" instead of just "13"
All the tools needed to play Dungeons and Dragons existed as of 800AD (Or CE if you prefer), including a wide variety of bestiaries compiled into codexes. So I could still enjoy my primary activity as long as we can avoid being burned for witchcraft. Or hanged for gambling.
Kale yeah!
When people complain of modern life, I think of medieval, or even Victorian, times. I love the daily hot showers, electric light, fresh, safe food and water, and the painless dentistry of today. I think the everyday luxury we live with now is well worth the minor annoyances of daily modern life. I wouldn’t want to cut the wood, and carry it and the water, just for a little warm water to wash in. I lived that life, on an off-grid homestead as a teenager, it’s not fun after the first week. Every item of clothing I wore, I had to haul the wood and water for and do it by hand, it made me realize what a luxury really clean clothes are.
I can read and do basic math. I'd do well.
But you probably wouldn't be able to speak or read their language. English has changed drastically over the centuries.
Thought you'd have put in the masons or possibly an armorer/blacksmith?
I was expecting to have hotel/inn/housekeeping on the list
@@ScentedOil They actually didn't have hotels back then. If you were a rich traveler merchant you'd find another merchant in town and ask to stay with him. If you were nobility you stopped at the nearest castle/palace. Most stayed at monasteries, even nobility would, but expected better accommodations than you can sleep in that corner.
I watched one episode where the only disinfectant was urine , and people washed their clothes in it and cleaned surfaces with it , is that true ?
4:57 Me watching this in my front patio because I locked myself out: 😒
I would have been a poet
Wait carpenters had a Union? Awesome
Barman!
I would've though the most obvious - The Pope
What about a ferrier?
I think pharmacist is the wrong answer to the medieval herbalist and apothecary -we have highly trained Western Medicine Herbalists and Naturopaths who are the recipients of that ongoing knowledge today.
I'm a beggar, just ask for florens instead of euros.
Butcher?✅ Baker?✅ Candlestick-Maker?⬛🤔
When i heard that some architects were executed if their structures fell to the enemy is easily the dumbest and most medieval thing I've ever heard.
Build a strong lineage that learns from mistakes and creates many individuals with a wealth of wisdom?
Nope!
Kill them and start over with another poor sucker who has to hope he doesn't make the same mistakes. Sorry, can't ask the original guy his thoughts on what to different because his head is on a pike out in the front lawn..
Summoneth thy meme admin
"7 Ways YOU Have Fit in During Medieval Times"
I think that's poorly worded or not correct.
Took me multiple re-reads to understand what the title was talking about.
I read the thumbnail but then the title is different lol I. Think it should be called the same
7 jobs that are still the same as today.
@@abie.e.3386 The quoted title I gave was (originally) the title name they went with (which was incorrectly worded). They've since fixed it, but I agree that the thumbnail and video title are indeed poorly matched.
“7 Ways You Would Have…”
@@ankhpom9296 Please read my above comment before you post on a year old post..
“Bakers were forced to sell at below market price so ppl wouldn’t starve “ if only our govt still did things like that. Food, medicine and housing prices should be regulated by the govt so ppl don’t starve
Regulations are anti-capitalist.
I'm a woman, so I wouldn't have much of a choice
I would be a midwife. I’m a woman so my options are limited if I was a man, I would be a merchant since my ancestors were merchants.
With no need for nurses, teachers, or secretaries, women must have had a hard time getting work, heh heh.
Could women have jobs
Even kids had jobs, women were required to have them too.
I know that women worked in bathhouses, and as cooks, seamstresses, or maidservants who helped run royal households. I think some were farmers as well.
Back then you couldn't afford the luxury of being jobless. Unless you were an aristocrat.
Women have always worked but it was not considered as worthy as men's jobs and often it was unpaid
@@zakazany1945 women weren't paid in half their jobs
Cheers captain obvious.
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And the most demanding 24/7 job paying nothing at all, it goes without saying, is wife, mother, and homemaker. I guess that one can never change, despite all advances.
bullshit who kill architect>???????????????????
Apothecary indeed used to be a profession that was highly respected as the apothecaries had to know how to prepare medicines and cosmetics. They still had to know this until a few decades ago. But nowadays? Comparing a modernday pharmacist or "chemist" as they call themselves now to an apothecary is an insult to all apothecaries and herbalists: all they do is dish out the antidepressants and painkillers that the doctors prescribe. A trained monkey could do it, but most of the time the pharmacists of today don't even manage that. I've encountered some shocking stupidity among pharmacists. It seems to be only an occupation for the intellectually challenged now.
Come on, pharmacists today can in no way, shape or form know every single thing about every single product they sell, they are only required to know what's indicated for your prescription or by word of mouth know what you might be needing for your healing, medieval herbalists or apothecaries knew how to make every single thing they sold at their shop, still, the them medicine can in no way be compared to todays in complexity of fabrication and ingredients.
This statement isn't accurate. While it's unfortunate that you've had a bad experience with certain pharmacists, the role of pharmacist is still very important. Physicians are humans, and humans make mistakes. Pharmacists are there to be the drug experts who make sure that the medications prescribed by a physician are appropriate for the patient, and especially that they do not produce a negative reaction in the patient. Lots of things go on behind the scenes before you're handed that bag of medications. Additionally, pharmacists are still the primary medical professional that are accessible for the poor to visit. Getting medical advice at a pharmacy is quick and free, and most common ailments can be treated with OTC medications. And if the patient's symptomology warrants a referral to a physician, pharmacists can point the patient in the right direction, again, free of charge.
@@DG-iw3yw I know more about monkeys than you ever will, you can be sure of that. Weirdo!
No offense, but all of these jobs have existed for thousands of years. Just sayin...
"An aptitude for math(s) was required." Lol, that's a good one. If you're using math at all in your woodworking, something has gone wrong.
@treeghettox Every time you do a measurement or a calculation, you're introducing a possibility for errors to creep in. Those errors multiply across a whole workpiece.
Say you are building a table and need to make a rectangular skirt between the legs and the top. If you're off by 1/16 of an inch in your cuts on each board -- which is hardly enough to notice -- then by the time you've worked around the table to make the eighth cut your margin of error is half an inch and the joint will never fit.
Instead, woodworkers measure "to the piece." I will do my best with a length of board or a cut, and if I'm very careful it will be nearly perfect. That will become my "reference piece." Every other piece I add will be fitted to that piece by eye and by touch. If I wind up with perfectly plumb sides that are 5.667 inches wide rather than 6 exactly, that's usually fine. As long as it all fits together and looks good. The pieces only have to be proportional to each other, not to your ruler or protractor.
Example: Last month I was cutting mitered edges for a picture frame, and I got the angle off a little. Instead of a perfect 45 degrees for every cut, I wound up with 46 for a couple. I didn't grab for the angle gauge. Instead I hit the long joints on a shooting board to take a little off the tips and just eyeballed the other pieces to make them meet up flush. If you really screw the job up you can cut a sprung joint, which uses trickery to force the inside and outside edges together.
Tl;dr: Woodworking pieces have to fit each other, but it doesn't matter how long or short they are, exactly.
@@RJStockton No math in woodworking? Yeah. Right. 🤨
You show a handsome guy hacking away at bark as if it were some sort of luxury to do so... VERY obnoxious. Collect your youtube ad revenue.
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Odd that everyone forgot that mercenaries were a thing and STILL are
Great list!
I know my profession, a geologist didn’t exist, but I could have been a mining specialist, if I were male.