yep that is actually weekend plan cause icc is coming soon. but I'm older now and it can't *just* be Doritos, I have to eat a vegetable or two and drink water or tea. but definitely nacho cheese Dorito too
@@Malcriada115 I don’t doubt it might’ve happened here and there, but that couldn’t be the norm right? I’m guessing most nuns didn’t have children and maintained their chastity vows. If it diminishes my chances of having to have sex with a medieval man and having children, I’m already on board.
@@silverco2560 being a mother is literally the only purpose for a woman's life lmao how is that horrible. Did your mother tell you she regrets having you?
Only wealthy families could afford to buy a position for a daughter in a nunnery, also the candidate had to be literate. A way round it would have been for a family to give his son ( or daughter) to a convent at a very young age so literacy would have been part of the course . But even so a money was often expected.
Yeah sure you would, I dont know what is it with feminists why you dislike men, why femimists dont have male authoritiy fogures in their lives?women literally need men but feminists keep being angry and adopting cats to cope.
As someone who is highly sensitive to scents, I would take a single whiff of my new location and fall over, dead. 😅 I can't even change a baby diaper without projectile vomiting.
I am not even trying to be funny, every single time that I imagine myself time traveling to the past, I even question if I would be able to breath that air.
Go to the Middle East if you’d time travel, Dark Ages was only for Europe until they gave up the religion (Christianity) madness and opened to new ideas
I would fucking die or get punished the entire time i have a case of sailors mouth, other thing id imagine just for fun what if you just start using all the brain rot words how would they take that
People who romanticize this time period probably think they'd be part of the nobility and lead some cushy life (and even then your chances wouldn't be great) when it's far more likely that they'd be toiling in the fields trying not to get pillaged or stub their toe and get a debilitating infection.
You can romanticize the medieval period too much, but you can also caricature it as overly bleak and depressing, which frankly is far more common today (e.g. your comment). It was a complex, sophisticated colorful society with a patchwork of different people and classes. It wasn't just a bunch of dirty serfs toiling miserably in a snobby noble's field.
You are both right 😊 Adding my two cents... first the obvious caveat that of course it all depended on where in Europe and at what time we're talking about. England under King John (1199-1216, worst English king ever) would have been a terrible time for most people wheras it would have been relatively more chill to be alive under Henry III (1216-1272). That said and generally speaking, maybe it wouldn't have been that bad to be a peasant. I refer to the three estates: Those who work (the peasants and bourgeoisie) Those who pray (the clergy) Those who fight (the nobility) The nobility fought eachother in constant wars and sieges. The clergy lived a cushy but unbelievably monotonous life. Plus they were denied any contact with women, so the general vibe in any monastery would have been rather... toxic I guess. Through all this, the peasants toiled their fields and enjoyed a sugar-free, low fat diet which was real good for their teeth and general physique. Being overweight was never an issue! The weekly forced propganda session, which was held in the village church in Latin was seen by most as a good get-together to meet friends and neighbours to gossip, talk, and flirt. They worked hard but they played hard too. The occasional hick-up of foreign mercenaries burning down your farm did occur every once in a while but my point is it wasn't all woe and misery.
@@boogiesmell5181 appreciate the feedback. A lot of what you said I think is correct. A few comments I would make in possible revision: To hone in on a time period we can go with the 13th or 14th century. The term peasant is actually pretty broad. Many peasants were simply what we would today call a farmer. They were called husbandmen, yeomen, and franklins and were free landowners or free tenants that lived standard rural lives. They made up the bulk of the "middle or working class". You also had rich peasants who were urban merchants or who had bigger plots of land. I would imagine these peasants were more free than say today, someone working at Amazon toiling in the warehouse. As for their church attendance. I would not call this forced propaganda. It would just a normal custom and habit that people were expected to do, like how we're all expected in society to do certain things. I imagine that every time we watch a tv ad or a news channel today, there is more "forced propaganda" that we experience there than a peasant would ever experience. As for the clergy. I wouldn't call their life monotonous. They were essentially responsible for the preservation of knowledge, particularly classical knowledge. They were the scholars of the day. They also were involved with charity work, hospital building, etc. I don't think they eschewed contact with women unless you were a monk perhaps.
I am not so sure about that. IMHO, many people today feel a sense of loss, because we have explained away the wonder of tales and the solace of religious belief. Feeling good relies not only on having dental care but also on a sense of belonging, being part of a community and believing that your life does matter.
They don't know much about the pyramid with the king on the top, the nobility next and peasants( us) on the bottom. Folks on the bottom were pretty much serfs.
I’ve always found it amazing that women had to endure childbirth at their own home, with no pain relief, no way to stop massive bleeding, no antibiotics, no way of knowing if it would go well or not, etc. and then having to endure that repeatedly due to the lack of contraception 😮
I’m from the US, family has been here hundreds of years, Irish and English ancestry originally. It makes you wonder watching this how many families back then died out and how yours made it to the modern day.
They went through all that and still survived and had kids. In contrast, I probably have the most cushy and relaxed life ever next to what my ancestors went through. Yet, I'm like, "nah I would rather not have kids." It's kind of crazy
You aren't descended from your ancestors. You are 50% of your mother and 50% of your father. You are only 25% of your grand parent and only 12.5% of your great grand parent and 6.25% of a great great grand parent from 100 years ago. Going back ten generations you are only 0.1% of that ancestor That isn't much different than some random person on the street in terms of genetic variability.
Yeah, the childbirth thing is crazy, the only reason women were even able to go through that pain is because they had bigger groins back then, nowadays people's groin are getting smaller and smaller so it's getting alot harder to give birth back then(if they had painkillers, antibiotics ect) so yeah thats the gist of it.😊
No wonder humans have became so obsessive with material stuff, comfort, sanitation, having more than needed. Many people don't realize we inherited these traits from our very ancestors, they are part of us.
1:19 Here's what I've never understood. Women were considered morally weaker because Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit. But she was convinced to do so by a supernatural being. Adam was convinced to do so by Eve. So who is *really* morally weaker: the person tempted by forces beyond her understanding, or the person tempted by just another human?
The Devil is not a "Supernatural being" but quite the opposite. Eve understood perfectly what She were doing because the Supernatural being (God) told her to not eat the fruit
@@erraticonteuse an entity who is above the nature. Correctly the Devil is below and not above so he must use deceit and he has not complete Power over all things like God
@@thepunisherkzsupernatural - being above nature. The devil has incredibly persuasion powers and is hinted to know more than even humans, an entity we cannkt really see but is said to control people to do bad things, in all senses, the devil is very much above nature.
Average life expectancy is misrepresented here. It includes the high child-mortality rates, so does not show how old people would get on average. Living into your 50s or 60s was much more common than this suggests.
@@robg4729 the problem is the average comes from 2 extremes being calculated together, which creates a middle ground. Lots of people died young, and a lot of ppl who lived past that hard period lived into retirement age. The average calculated suggests most people died around the middle ground. The problem is the average being calculated makes people think most ppl back then died at the age of 30. Yes the average is accurate by the definition of what an average is, but people take it to mean smth else, because ppl take it to mean most of the data is in the middle, when it’s not distributed that way.
@@phoebusapollo8365 That's how all averages work. Life expectancy now is worked out the same way. No one else is misunderstanding this except you. People know what an average is.
@@robg4729 not really, you’re going off the cold hard definition of average, most people speaking casually when saying average just mean “most people.” So whenever people hear average life expectancy is 30, they just hear “most people” died at 30. Which isn’t the case, the case is most people either died at 5, or at 60. The average taken is misinterpreted. A bimodal distribution and a bell curve can give the same average, and you can’t know from the average whether or not most of the data actually falls there in the middle or if the “outliers” is actually where most of the data is. That’s kinda what me and the original commenter are saying. Yes, it’s technically sound by the definition of what average is, but what most people mean, and what the video guy was trying to present to us as information is that most people didn’t make it past 30s, which further implies it’s where most people died. Again, if u purely look at what average means, what the guy in the video says isn’t wrong, but what he was trying to imply, and what most people take to mean (using context and colloquial meaning of the word “average”) when they hear that piece of information is not correct.
Shout out to our single celled ancestors born into boiling, acidic sludge that oozed their way onto dry land and evolved into multicelled oxygen breathing slime
A good book related to this is "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England". It gives a good synopsis of life in England as a peasant, nobleman, and king.
Not only that but typical childhood infections like mumps measles chickenpox strep throat and tonsillitis, as a kid back in the fifties my siblings and I suffered through all of these ailments but managed to survive because hygiene and nutrition. In medieval times each one would be a death sentence
Sounds like your parents were just bad parents. I never got any antibiotics or vaccines growing up and I’m 30 now. Your parents were just incompetent in taking care of a child and didn’t know how to keep you safe from diseases.
Even in the 1930s many men, women and children died of infections before discovery of penicillin. Mastoid infections were considered emergencies and surgery to remove the mastoid bone were common. Many of my parents generation had this operation done which could lead to hearing loss in later years.
Half of Europe really decided to enter “hard mode” after the western roman empire fell. Meanwhile eastern Rome was like “guys…we’re still over here. Come on back, things were better back in antiquity right?”
I've said for a while now that we really have no idea how good we have it right now. More people need to see this video and learn to be grateful for what you have now...
Vaccine denial. I've heard it described as being in a submarine built by our forebears, forgetting that fact, then declaring that we should open the windows and let some air in.
Yeah and let’s not forget childbirth 😮 imagine waiting 9 months knowing you’d have to endure that kind of pain, and having god knows how many children because there was no contraception
@@serahloeffelroberts9901opium based medications had also its fair share of side effects : drowsiness, sedation, nausea, vomiting, respiratory depression especially at high dose, skin rash and so on
Growing up in the 70’s I remember romanticizing this time period. But from documentaries and the internet I have educated myself and now marvel that enough people survived to keep the human population in existence. What a horrible time to have lived and died.
I imagine future people will view today as we view medieval times. "Oh my, how did they ever survive the pandemics, political turmoil, tyrannical governments, unpredictable economies, ecological disasters, wars, poverty, hunger, drive-by shootings and the drudgery of every day life?"
Rejoice and think - you are alive today due to an unbroken line of life extending all the way back to the beginning of life on this planet! At least two people survived (long enough anyway) the Middle Ages so you could live!
Why - they wouldn't have to be siblings or close relations - 2 of them did survive, that's why you're here - they helped keep the line going through the middle ages, through all the generations between then and now - the endurance of your mother's and father's family lines.
Yes, it is an enormous number of people (plus other life forms going all the way back), that's the point. Humans and other primates on our distant family tree didn't spontaneously generate after all. In fact, atomically, we are related to everything in the universe. Yet, if only one of your ancestors didn't have kids, you wouldn't exist - don't go back in time and kill your grandparents before they had kids - no matter how far back you go, you would extinguish your family line from that point on.@@fx7105
Another thing people don’t realize is if you think our justice system TODAY are corrupt/ out of date/ unjust, imagine the Middle Ages 💀 there was no forensic evidence, it was ONLY men in power, who the vast majority of did messed up things to other people to be in a position of power, murder rape thievery all went heavily unchecked, word of mouth and eyewitness testimony, true or not, could have you imprisoned, tortured, even sentenced to death. Communication was obviously not nearly as widely accessible, if your family member/ spouse/ friend/ other loved one would go away somewhere for long periods of time, you could be left worrying about their safety and well-being for god knows how long. Not to mention if you where a woman, if you where a different race, if you where gay or trans or disabled or any other version of a marginalized person your SOL 💀💀💀 modern medicine saves us from shit we don’t even bat an eye at anymore. I would rather stay in my comfy safe 2023 than go back to midevil England for 10 damn minutes
And let's not forget how cities used to be. In movies they are always beautiful and romantic medieval towns. In reality it was filth and shit everywhere and unshowered people, accompanied with terrible stench.
I've learned actually that people didn't smell as bad as a lot think as they would have baths but they were just a lot more difficult to have, sponge baths were pretty common and they would wear linens that would collect their sweat
I guess the paesant lived better then everybody at this point, at least i could have took a nice shit in the fields with grass and rocks as paper toilet
@@khalidohida6592 In the past there wasn't much Hell, this video is extremely misinformation and does not explain context completely. Back then it took months or preparation, tens of thousands of men, millions in their time period's currency to wage a war to only kill a few thousand., now in today's world we need to only push one red button to kill tens of millions.
Maybe it’s because I’m so tired from my full time job as a teacher as well as being a graduate student….but I totally read that as Dr. Phil!! 😂 Oh, my. I now realize you meant Doctor of Philosophy. I need sleep. What a cool degree, by the way!!❤
They may have lived to 50 but with dental problems, therefore nutrition problems and infection due to abscesses, not to mention arthritis, rheumatism, osteoporosis and possibly broken bones as a result. And then there’s starvation; if the winter is harsh, who do you feed? The old one who has no teeth and can’t work, or the man who can till fields and tend cattle, followed by the oldest son (same reason). Wife and girls maybe not so much.
This is why when people ask the would you rather time travel into the past or the future question I'll always say future. Being perpetually cold with a lack of good food and freedom as a woman just sounds like a living nightmare.
@@He2raww Yes, that may be so. However, if given the choice I'd opt for an unknown future simply because I already know how terrible the past was; something to be avoided at all costs.
I can't for the life of me, figure out, how the actual fuck, humanity ACTUALLY SURVIVED the year 1349 AD! It's a damn miracle if there ever was one. Steamin' bloody christ mate xD
I have a book to recommend. Its called "Down the Common" by Ann Baer. Its about the month-to-month life of a medieval woman , what she and her family had to go through. Told an account of the life of a woman named Marion and her family and village. Really quite eye opening and interesting. She lost several of her children . (historical fiction of course)
Oh my goodness. Its probably one of my FAVORITE BOOKS EVER. Re read so many times. Nice to know another person out there who acknowledged this work out there. I've recommended to others many times❤
When people talk about the Good Ole Days, I tell them the invention of indoor plumbing, soap, antibiotics, and access to medicine and food in grocery stores has exponentially expanded our life span and quality of life.
Here in Britain, if you look at graves stones from the early to late 19th Century, you'll see not many people made it to their 70th birthday, and a lot of children died quite young.
@@livhope4317 Those averages are skewed by the high number of infant and child deaths. For those who survived into adulthood, living into their 50s-60s wasn't some rare miracle.
Ikr. The linguistic situation is of least concern I feel. It'll be rocky at first, but you'll understand eventually and can get what you want/need by pointing, especially if you end up in a trade city where they're used to different people coming and going
A couple of years ago on UK tv, a programme featured a man who tried to recreate the smell we would be familiar with in those times. It seemed to be an amalgam of unwashed bodies, sweat,, urine, faeces, halitosis from rotting teeth and gums, and general detritus from walking in the dirty streets filled with animal droppings and the remains of anything thrown into the streets from the shops and rooms above them, including more human waste, with perhaps a little pinch of suppurating sores!. I remember watching this person, clad in medieval garb, lurking in a shopping mall with his little phial of essence of stink de homme clutched tightly in his hand. He would approach people and ask them if they wanted to know what the odours of bygone days smelt like. Most people were rather naive and willingly agreed. With that, he uncorked his bottle, and we watched them reeling away in disgust, disbelief and horror!
Ale was in fact very weak. It was drunk because the water was often polluted, the water was dangerous. The brewing process meant that the water in it was boiled.
Not true. Most people drank water. Beer strength varied widely, from small beer( low ABC) to heavy ales. Certainly instances arrived as you state, but that was not the norm.
When I think of the Middle Ages, I think of... no modern bathrooms, toilet paper, showers, heating and air conditioning, electric blankets or electricity, grocery stores... the list could go on. 😁❤️
I've been putting off a trip to a dentist, but when I finally do go,I'll have the luxury of a pain killer. So that and antibiotics are at the top of my list.
The fact that the majority of the world still can't separate the Victorian and Rococo eras from the middle ages kills me. Every time I read a manga/manhwa and they say they're in medieval Europe I just have to laugh and shake my head. I don't think anyone would appreciate being taken back to the middle ages. The Victorian era would be pretty awful too, though... God I'm so glad we have public restrooms...
The Victorian era and the workhouses…I’ll pass! The convent would be a much better place. I agree with you that manga artists don’t know the medieval period from the Rocco. lol! Hollywood doesn’t either. When I saw Sweeny Todd the wardrobe inconsistencies were disturbing.
@omomo202 I think in Hollywood wardrobe inconsistencies might exist on purpose. The costume artists (or what does one call them) are *obliged* to learn the history of the costume when they study and the training is severe. In my country they literally have to be able to tell an Italian dress in 1610s from an Austrian dress in 1610s. Which is crazy because to me such dresses look totally the same 😳 If Hollywood guys ignore the reality, they probably do it not because they are ignorant, but because they expect the viewer to be ignorant. Or because they want to create some interesting and whimsical wardrobe and too real one would kill the mood of the movie. Or may be sometimes people don't have budget for giving every character in every scene a correct piece, so they borrow somewhere else the ones which fit the actors. Burton for sure had money for great professional costume designers. Sure, they knew their craft. They probably wanted something whimsical, weird and theatrical.
Really? People can’t distinguish between lose and loose and you can’t believe that the majority of the world can’t separate the Victorian and Rococo eras from the Middle Ages?
Too much love is also bad, as is too much individualism. The Industrial Revolution came because people hated each other and fought eachother one in War
There's people who'd help you do that of course, and you'd still end up doing all of that most likely. You'd still strive to survive, but that's just in our nature. We have a hard time dying.
The clothes were not scratchy wool. I’ve been spinning and creating yarn from fibres for 45 yrs, primarily wool. If it’s scratchy, it’s overwashed and all the has been removed. Middle Ages clothing was also created from flax (which becomes linen) and hemp ( the cloth and paper variety, not the recreational) and leather.
Thanks. It bugs me when people assume Old-Fashioned Clothes = Super Itchy Wool. I've seen it even in modern times when people make fun of the Amish and say they wear "itchy" wool clothes (or even burlap ... ???)
Im alergic to wool. Even Cashmere annoys the heck out of me. Granted Im an outlier, but there is a sizable minority that would be super sensitive to wool, coarse or fine. And of course it would depend on what region you are in, which fabric type would be the most prevalent.
Honestly, I think plenty of modern people could survive it. Excluding those who already live in places where life hasn't changed much in thousands of years... people like farmers, hunters, tradespeople, etc. would just have to make some relatively minor adjustments.
Its insane to think that all our ancestors throughout history lived long enough to have children. Your parents, their parents, etc. for millions of years. The odds of you being born is mind bogglingly low.
Look into genealogy sometime (especially if you're able to trace your own family). In my father's line, there are 2 instances where the man's first wife died and he remarried, and a son from the second wife became our ancestor. And that's just one side! Nobody is a mistake!!!
Wow yeah. As a girl I’m so lucky. I’m very grateful that we can chose where we want to go, who to talk to, who to marry, what to do with our lives, whether we want children or not, what our sexuality is, (depending on the country and area unfortunately) what job we want or at all, and so much more. I wouldn’t stand being subordinate to anyone just because of my gender or be forced to have children and chose a husband I don’t want.
I should make a stock answer I get insert with a keystroke shortcut to respond to questions about life expectancy. Life expectancy is and always has been a birth-death model. If one person lives to 80 and another dies while still an infant, the life expectancy is the average, which is 40 in that case. When we are given a life expectancy of 38, this doesn't mean no one grew old. It means that many died very young. Today the lowest life expectancy is in Chad, at just over 52 years. But if you go to Chad you will find many people far older than that. This is because many still die very young. The US had a similar life expectancy in the first decade of the 20th century. But fifty years later life expectancy was 20 years longer. This was because of our near eradication of childhood deaths. The Middle Ages had many people who lived to be very old.
Actuary here. Life expectancy is an expectation of a distribution, by definition. The survival curve is not a normal (Gaussian) distribution. So, yes, lots died young, but there were some who lived a long life. I don't understand why anyone is confused. The biggest challenge was surviving the first 5 years of life. Of course, then many other things could kill you that we don't worry about (much) today.
@@mongo88now88 Right. I made the comment because I routinely see people treat the life expectancy as a upper limit. As if you would go to that time and place and see no one over 40 years old.
2:00 Id take the household chores over mid evil battle. Both sucked for sure, but I couldn't imagine hand to hand combat with a bunch of untrained peasants
A time travel scenario just hit me. If any of us took that trip back to the Middle Ages, we'd probably wipe out the whole population with diseases we carry that didn't yet exist back; and LIKEWISE, we might catch something from them that could kill us before we return to our own time. And then there's the stench you'd probably experience the moment you entered their world! Wow!
Damn, no wonder Native North Americans American were living with nature for thousands of and simply hunting and gathering. Living in medieval ages Europe sounds like hell
5:30 the average life expectancy was dragged way down by the infant and child mortality rate, unless these estimates are based on data that excludes infant & child mortality. Based on the incredibly high infant and child mortality rate, those who survived past the age of ~7 years may have had a decent chance of living into their 50s or beyond (unless it was a plague period lol)
In that day and age you generally would have known. If someone stole some candlesticks from Ishmael the local cobbler, you'd hear about it. When Billybob Thatcher, an unskilled laborer, came up to you with several bronze candlesticks for sale, that would raise alarm bells. People would buy such things, but those people, called fences, were usually some local corrupt industry like a tanner or a miller, which had the means to send them in bulk to another town on occasion. Removing the fence was therefore a priority, hence the death penalty.
There was a man here in my home parish in Sweden who got 2 years hard labor in a fortress for stealing a bowl of porridge, and that wasn't even in the middle ages but in the later 1600s...
I suppose the life expectancy was as usual counted incl. the child mortality rates, which makes it basically a statistic mockery. If you excluded the child mortality and counted only people who lived over 15 or 18, their life expectancy was probably almost double of what you said.
@@Man.Well93 It's also interesting, though, because women were like 10-15 times per life on the verge of death during child birth. The concept of "harder" life is a bit weird, esp. for poor people, because at least from what I know, they basically worked almost the same way, but during that time, women were often pregnant and still expected to work very hard - or take care about everything if men were gone fighting. Also the levels of domestic violence (and its acceptance as normal) were probably quite crazy - and I mean severe beatings, not just making faces or sarcastic remarks.
There were still infections, diseases, and malnutrition. You and I could mitigate such dangers with even a modern layman's knowledge of sanitation and treatment, but medieval people could die from a small cut or the common flu.
@@panhandlersparadise1733 I don't question that, but if you exclude child mortality, you wouldn't get an average life expectancy of 24 and 33 years, that's nonsense. (And I very much enjoy seeing people who try to match this nonsense with like 12 births per woman and the supposed existence of fairytale grandmothers who took care about these children... and the average age of menarche which was like 17 if not more. Bonus points for presuming nobility child marriages were a common thing also for peasants :D )
@@Man.Well93😂😂😂😂 what an incel you are on everyone's comments Women had it way worse mate... We're not rising to your bait P.s. If a woman won't sleep with you it's your problem not hers
Whenever you hear about the low life expectancy back then, keep in mind that the insanely high infant and child mortality rates highly skew those numbers.
also when a king died early sometimes their young child would become king.. the youngest king was about *9* months old. and those children almost always died before twenty from assassination, battle, or illness
Wars also have a hand in the life expectancy, especially for men. It's likely that all the wars were the reason that a man's life expectancy was so horribly low.
Yep💯I've been studying my family tree since 2008. I've traced a couple lines back to 400ad. Many of my ancestors lived into their 80s and even early 90s. Average is probably 60-70 according to my line.
@@watertonic2406 If you know who your grandparents or greatgrandparents are, then you try to look at a free or paid subscription genealogy sites and trace them back further, by using information alread researched by people who shared you same ancestors.
I'm always skeptical about those time-travel movies. If you travel back to the past and show all the modern knowledge, it wouldn't take more than a week to get the community to decide to burn you alive for being a witch.
Life expectancy numbers are dependent on infant mortality rates, war mortality rates, and epidemic mortality rates, and can be very misleading. A person in their twenties or thirties was not elderly.
6:20 So: One of two children died, food was scarce and A LOT of work had to be done by hand. But still people were immediatly hanged for rather small crimes. ...why would you kill your already small work force?
@@landrypierce9942 not sure where you got that idea...it was rampant all over europe and the mideast as an accusation ,very often so the realtive church et al could take a woman's property, or because she refused someone's advances, especially from the xtain bunch.
@@gwirgalon3758 You will need a source for that. For one thing, men and women were accused of witchcraft about as frequently as the other (use Google, youtube doesn’t like sending links.) It sounds like you just have opinions and want to manipulate history to support them.
Sat here watching this on day 3 of antibiotics for a serious chest infection. Only yesterday I laughingly told my husband ''pre antibiotics I'd be dead by now.'' Watching this reminds me I wasn't wrong...
Anyone taking a single course in medievalism could de-bunk half the stereotypes about the Middle Ages presented in this video. The dark ages isn’t even a term any modern scholars use, as it’s depictions of this time about the people being dirty, and stalled advancement in science and culture is a foundational myth and has been largely debunked. Weaponizing history is common because we like to think of ourselves as more progressive or better than the “dirty” medieval people, when in reality our issues are largely the same. I hate how popular culture spreads these myths when a bit more research into the topic could easily avoid it.
The dark ages were the period just after the Romans got defeated and usually called the early Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages which your documenary focuses on is not the dark ages.
I just wish people were still has competent with their hands as they were back than. People were really good at crafting, sewing, farming and the list goes on. Everything was of REALLY good quality and craft such as any kind of frabric was pass generation through generation. I’m glad we lost most of the bad part of the dark age but that’s a thing I would like to bring back.
The fabric thing was mostly the stitching. Nowadays because of sewing machines, the single stitch is what everything is bound in. Back only 100 years ago nobody would be caught dead with the emergency repair stitch.
Wow! Do you go through life with your eyes closed? The things people are capable of doing these days with their hands, feet and everything else is incredible. There's still great craftsmen in every sort of profession
@@dilbophagginz I am an archeology student in canada. We have lots of records of the thecnic they used, the materials and how long it lasted. (Some people lasted them GENERATION because it was expensive and good quality) And we still have a lot of clothing that survived! Unfortunately a lot of them degrade over time as they were made of 100% cotton most of the time.
If it were not for religion then literacy rates would've fallen even greater. The Orthodox church in one example is responsible for the fact that we can still read and learn from the Ancient Greek and Roman poetry, philosophies and scientific theories.
Well, there is a series that deals with one part of the middle east: The Magnificent Century. A romanticized to some extent version of Suleyman's reign, much is also presented about the social structure. The actors are top top notch, the 2nd batch of writers not so -- great costumes though ; ) And interesting comments as people got hooked on the show -- which lasted for 136 episodes, 1-2 hours each. Verrrry interesting to hear about history in those times from an other than xtain - european viewpoint. Worth viewing.
As difficult as things were, people were still people. Just like now there is so much goodness. People may have tortured and killed criminals but what about all the nice meals and happy days that don’t get remembered. There is evidence medieval people had good sense of humour and no doubt had fun and good times like we do. Things were different but still would have had joyful days. There would have been amazing stars in sky with no light pollution, people didn’t actually work long hours unless a harvest due, they had music, beer and wine. It would suck if you went now, but if you grew up with it be okay if you lucky enough to be healthy
@@nunothedudeMark is spitting truth, people act like the moment you were teleported into the Middle Ages, you'd be assaulted by 50,000 lethal things all at once. There was health and hygiene, just more primitive. Stuff like cleaning with urine and bloodletting was off the mark, but not absurdly. People were resourceful and managed to eek out livings, even if by our cushy standards they would not be enjoyable.
It's good we've come this far as a species to be able to be "soft" as you call it (don't necessarily agree). Tell me you'd rather live your life back then. You don't lol
I appreciate your video and passion for history however I must point something out. When you state the mortality rate for men and and women you should either state that you are including infant mortality or calculate based after infancy. Men and women mortality without infant mortality skewing the data was still pretty bad but it is closer to 60 and 65 during that time line
A time traveller would bring all manner of new diseases with them that they would be personally immune to. Just touching one person could have caused a devastating pandemic and change the course of a country's history.
Its quite sad that newer generations starting with the boomers it seems have gotten to the point whete mental health is such a issue. We life like rpyalty comapred to most of humanity that has existed, in many ways we live even better lives than royalty. But we are all still so miserable and arent having kids. But thats the reality. Our environment and circumstances is just so much different that its hard to understand. Its crazy how those in the past kept it up to me
Ok..I heard you out. NOW let me tell ya why I would survive the Dark Ages. First of all, the obvious, WE ALL, all of us alive today, come from the lines and carry within us the genes of those who DID survive…or we wouldn’t even be here. We all come from the kind of stock equipped with the skills to survive, whether it be through brute strength, or weak but clever, smart enough to finagle, outsmart, outwit. I’m built like an ox, I’m strong, but I have never bought into that whole ‘only the strong survive’ and have been in before, and am surviving now, in the 2 modern day places you would think those rules would apply most today…yet I’ve always found my wits, read people and situations very easily, outmaneuver, even manipulate served me better than my physical strength. I’ve spent time in prison and am currently homeless, living in the streets on NYC. People can adapt, people can handle extreme situations. It’s the people willing to accept change, accept the reality of their new situation and adapt accordingly are the ones who survive. We all have it in us. We just have to dig however deep, years, decades, or even generations of comfort and civility has buried it and find the survivor in you. It’s there.
I wonder if a Medieval person was teleported to today, what would kill / hospitalise them? I don’t mean modern things just being shocking…I mean what would actually be too much? E.g would our food be too rich? Would there be too much noise, would get knocked over by teens on electric scooters or ran over by cars. I know they had horses & carts but they didn’t go 60Mph/100Kph
I think our current diet would be extremely damaging to their unprepared stomachs: sugar & corn syrup everywhere, processed foods, refined carbs, preservatives, GMOs, pesticides, microplastics, trans fats, nitrates, chemical coloring & flavors, artificial sweeteners, toxic additives, empty calories, low fibers, etc.
I participated in the excavation of an Indigenous village in Mitchell, SD, which was populated around the 12th to 14th Centuries C.E. The chief archeologist described to us how the quality of life in the village was vastly superior to anywhere in Europe at the time.
@@gracetruthandlight > it means Common Era. It is the new way of saying AD, but I prefer BC and AD because they mean the same eras and were named by the people who originally did the time frame calculations.
The Middle Ages is such an interesting and beautiful time to be alive being a fan of the outdoors and nature, it must have been gorgeous but just being born female is the only reason I’d need to be happy to be born in this era
It’s a nice thought, however, the truth is very different. SA against women would probably have seen her husband beat her for letting it happen, adding insult to injury.
But I thought it was a patriarchy even today, hm? And if the husband beat the wife, she could still poison him, go to her relatives and have her brothers kill him, make false accusations just like today etc. Really, women were not worse of than today, and they covertly had all the power in the household by controlling sex. Just because there isn't a law doesn't mean the power dynamics of social bias, gossip and accusations were not in order.
@@Man.Well93 Interesting that you believe the history of women as written by males. The history (recent - back 150yrs) of the women, just in my family are the OPPOSITE of your claims. You CAN'T control sex when your husband can legally r*pe you (& beat you). It's ridiculous for a woman to make false claims when LEGITIMATE claims were (& are) called FALSE & your life destroyed for even trying to make such a claim - only exceptions being clear evidence or witness of a stranger attack or accusing a minority-past (& false one's of those also being seen as 'all good'). Divorce was NOT an option & survival w/o a husband was also impossible as women couldn't ever earn enough to survive alone let alone support children to any reasonable standard. So women HAD to find a man (& live with abuse) because MEN made it that way. WOMEN COULDN'T OWN LAND OR GET A BANK LOAN OR CREDIT CARD IN US until relatively recent (different date for each, obviously). ....are you trolling or just that oblivious? As a life long woman I can assure that I was NOT treated equally for equal education, experience & job performance as the males in my jobs. Legit claims of assault & harassment/stalking have resulted in ME being treated like a criminal & evidence refused to be accepted. Probably all because of men like you who misunderstand the difference between using power & leveraging what you have to survive against the powers that be. Sociology, psychology, anthropology...LOGIC - know what you're talking about before you vomit words out of your mouth.
I think that the opposite would also be true. Medieval peasants wouldn't survived our times either. It reminds me of that one post in Tumblr(?) where it says that if we came in contact with a medieval peasant they would probably die in an instant due to our bodies immunities and acquired abilities to resist olden day diseases. It's like a reverse infection or something.
@@AgrestisAnima I was remember watching a documenter on RUclips about a tribe in Amazon. A father who got infected by deadly disease after met outsiders (modern people), he need to teach his kid hunting before he died :'(
Let’s just take some solace that our ancestors had to endure the dark ages, just so we can play World of Warcraft and eat Doritos.
yep that is actually weekend plan cause icc is coming soon. but I'm older now and it can't *just* be Doritos, I have to eat a vegetable or two and drink water or tea. but definitely nacho cheese Dorito too
Diablo is what I am running now. Stopped WoW once it dropped.
😂😂😂
Vanilla wow Gnome Mage coming thru
Today we're all snowflakes.
As someone who is devoting my life to the study of the medieval period, I wake up everyday grateful for plumbing, electricity, and modern medicine
Think of what the future could hold, on that note. Should you have descendants, they'll likely find mundane what you consider miraculous.
@@AnswerisB the miraculous part of that entire situation would be me having descendants lol
Exctactly
And air conditioning and heating and showers! (All because of the things you mentioned).
Up until antibiotics became available in the 1940s, people died of things we now barely take notice of.
I am always genuinely astonished that the human race ever survived.
Did it?
@@cht2162 Yes. As your response demonstrates.
@@MichaelLevine-n6y😂😂😂
I could not agree more
Life is very tenacious, as well as very fragile. Still, I too have had the same thought as the original post suggests.
If I were a woman in the medieval ages I’d run to become a nun right away
Do you think the nuns had it easy?
@@Malcriada115 I actually don’t know but sounds like a less horrible option than having to marry and give birth
@@silverco2560 The nuns didn't marry, but did get pregnant and did give birth. Don't ask what happened to the babies.
@@Malcriada115 I don’t doubt it might’ve happened here and there, but that couldn’t be the norm right? I’m guessing most nuns didn’t have children and maintained their chastity vows. If it diminishes my chances of having to have sex with a medieval man and having children, I’m already on board.
@@silverco2560 being a mother is literally the only purpose for a woman's life lmao how is that horrible. Did your mother tell you she regrets having you?
I'd go for the nunnery. Heck with it. Safe, secluded, prayers and gardening, no risk of dying in childbirth. I'm in!
It might just be the safest place for a female. 👍🏻
Only wealthy families could afford to buy a position for a daughter in a nunnery, also the candidate had to be literate.
A way round it would have been for a family to give his son ( or daughter) to a convent at a very young age so literacy would have been part of the course . But even so a money was often expected.
@@franglais-riders Holy crap. Well I guess I'd have to stow away on a privateer ship or something 😂
@@colormetakenabackwats wrong wi making sammiches and stewing the brew
Yeah sure you would, I dont know what is it with feminists why you dislike men, why femimists dont have male authoritiy fogures in their lives?women literally need men but feminists keep being angry and adopting cats to cope.
It's a wonder we've made it this far as a species.
We actually became the dominant species despite all this, and today many complain...
Whites
@@tifapanties25ok white savior
Lol. The middle East had all of the first great cities and societies. They were literally thriving while Europe was in the dark.
According to some new information we almost didn't make it as a species. There were only about 1500 individuals at one time.
I'm flattered you think I'd last even 24 hours.
Yeah, I'd be gone in 15 minutes!
Many of the medieval rules would still be needed today.
As someone who is highly sensitive to scents, I would take a single whiff of my new location and fall over, dead. 😅 I can't even change a baby diaper without projectile vomiting.
I’ll be Gone by 2 minutes lol
I wouldn't last for 50 seconds
I am not even trying to be funny, every single time that I imagine myself time traveling to the past, I even question if I would be able to breath that air.
Go to the Middle East if you’d time travel, Dark Ages was only for Europe until they gave up the religion (Christianity) madness and opened to new ideas
Literally- first 10 seconds in that mug we prolly die to the air toxins
I would fucking die or get punished the entire time i have a case of sailors mouth, other thing id imagine just for fun what if you just start using all the brain rot words how would they take that
Ii wouldn't last 2 hrs.. all that 🐴 💩 on my Stacy Adam's shoes.. to the gallows sire😮
@@hntrip Air toxins today are far worse than the middle ages.
RUclips video in the year 2523: "Why you wouldn't last 24 hours in the 21st century..."
Great !
In 2553, they'll think we were totaly lost, morally.
@@dickyboyrywI think it now in 2024. Fubar
3001 here we come
Presume of course humans still exist in 2523.
People who romanticize this time period probably think they'd be part of the nobility and lead some cushy life (and even then your chances wouldn't be great) when it's far more likely that they'd be toiling in the fields trying not to get pillaged or stub their toe and get a debilitating infection.
You can romanticize the medieval period too much, but you can also caricature it as overly bleak and depressing, which frankly is far more common today (e.g. your comment). It was a complex, sophisticated colorful society with a patchwork of different people and classes. It wasn't just a bunch of dirty serfs toiling miserably in a snobby noble's field.
You are both right 😊
Adding my two cents... first the obvious caveat that of course it all depended on where in Europe and at what time we're talking about. England under King John (1199-1216, worst English king ever) would have been a terrible time for most people wheras it would have been relatively more chill to be alive under Henry III (1216-1272).
That said and generally speaking, maybe it wouldn't have been that bad to be a peasant. I refer to the three estates:
Those who work (the peasants and bourgeoisie)
Those who pray (the clergy)
Those who fight (the nobility)
The nobility fought eachother in constant wars and sieges.
The clergy lived a cushy but unbelievably monotonous life. Plus they were denied any contact with women, so the general vibe in any monastery would have been rather... toxic I guess.
Through all this, the peasants toiled their fields and enjoyed a sugar-free, low fat diet which was real good for their teeth and general physique. Being overweight was never an issue! The weekly forced propganda session, which was held in the village church in Latin was seen by most as a good get-together to meet friends and neighbours to gossip, talk, and flirt. They worked hard but they played hard too. The occasional hick-up of foreign mercenaries burning down your farm did occur every once in a while but my point is it wasn't all woe and misery.
@@boogiesmell5181 appreciate the feedback. A lot of what you said I think is correct. A few comments I would make in possible revision:
To hone in on a time period we can go with the 13th or 14th century. The term peasant is actually pretty broad. Many peasants were simply what we would today call a farmer. They were called husbandmen, yeomen, and franklins and were free landowners or free tenants that lived standard rural lives. They made up the bulk of the "middle or working class". You also had rich peasants who were urban merchants or who had bigger plots of land. I would imagine these peasants were more free than say today, someone working at Amazon toiling in the warehouse. As for their church attendance. I would not call this forced propaganda. It would just a normal custom and habit that people were expected to do, like how we're all expected in society to do certain things. I imagine that every time we watch a tv ad or a news channel today, there is more "forced propaganda" that we experience there than a peasant would ever experience.
As for the clergy. I wouldn't call their life monotonous. They were essentially responsible for the preservation of knowledge, particularly classical knowledge. They were the scholars of the day. They also were involved with charity work, hospital building, etc. I don't think they eschewed contact with women unless you were a monk perhaps.
I am not so sure about that. IMHO, many people today feel a sense of loss, because we have explained away the wonder of tales and the solace of religious belief. Feeling good relies not only on having dental care but also on a sense of belonging, being part of a community and believing that your life does matter.
They don't know much about the pyramid with the king on the top, the nobility next and peasants( us) on the bottom. Folks on the bottom were pretty much serfs.
I’ve always found it amazing that women had to endure childbirth at their own home, with no pain relief, no way to stop massive bleeding, no antibiotics, no way of knowing if it would go well or not, etc. and then having to endure that repeatedly due to the lack of contraception 😮
And they had multiple kids at that!
Yes, blood loss is not joke
Also the blood loss of every period if you had endometriosis
And then most of your children would die before ever making it out of childhood
Praise for the sufferinf
I’m from the US, family has been here hundreds of years, Irish and English ancestry originally. It makes you wonder watching this how many families back then died out and how yours made it to the modern day.
Yes, thought about that, as well.
Survival of the fittest is a thing.
My family did a lot of fu**ing. Strength in numbers.
They went through all that and still survived and had kids. In contrast, I probably have the most cushy and relaxed life ever next to what my ancestors went through. Yet, I'm like, "nah I would rather not have kids." It's kind of crazy
You aren't descended from your ancestors.
You are 50% of your mother and 50% of your father.
You are only 25% of your grand parent
and only 12.5% of your great grand parent and 6.25% of a great great grand parent from 100 years ago.
Going back ten generations you are only 0.1% of that ancestor
That isn't much different than some random person on the street in terms of genetic variability.
The childbirth thing is insane. Like getting pregnant must have been terrifying
Just think what it would of been like in the Stone Age ect
Yeah, the childbirth thing is crazy, the only reason women were even able to go through that pain is because they had bigger groins back then, nowadays people's groin are getting smaller and smaller so it's getting alot harder to give birth back then(if they had painkillers, antibiotics ect) so yeah thats the gist of it.😊
It was normal for 99% of human history. nobody complained, that's how things always used to be
@@starfox300 many women complained. and went on to fight for birth control and abortion.
@@sjdess they didn't fight for it at all. Men made those things eventually and gave to them for free
No wonder humans have became so obsessive with material stuff, comfort, sanitation, having more than needed. Many people don't realize we inherited these traits from our very ancestors, they are part of us.
I didnt inhert that. I descended from slaves & anarchists.😁. Satisfied with what I have.
@@willc5512I was about to say- we could talk about that inherited racism though ☝🏿
Idk about that I think it's the innate trait to want to survive. Pain and suffering is not comfortable, humans seek comfort.
@@Fireraidz how do you mean? inheriting racism by being brought up that way, or through your genes?
Assuming you are African the same thing happens in Africa.@@willc5512
1:19 Here's what I've never understood. Women were considered morally weaker because Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit. But she was convinced to do so by a supernatural being. Adam was convinced to do so by Eve. So who is *really* morally weaker: the person tempted by forces beyond her understanding, or the person tempted by just another human?
The Devil is not a "Supernatural being" but quite the opposite. Eve understood perfectly what She were doing because the Supernatural being (God) told her to not eat the fruit
@@thepunisherkz How are you defining "supernatural" that the Devil doesn't qualify?
@@erraticonteuse an entity who is above the nature. Correctly the Devil is below and not above so he must use deceit and he has not complete Power over all things like God
@@thepunisherkz He is beyond the natural, though.
@@thepunisherkzsupernatural - being above nature. The devil has incredibly persuasion powers and is hinted to know more than even humans, an entity we cannkt really see but is said to control people to do bad things, in all senses, the devil is very much above nature.
Average life expectancy is misrepresented here. It includes the high child-mortality rates, so does not show how old people would get on average. Living into your 50s or 60s was much more common than this suggests.
i had to scroll way too far down to see this
Well it wasn't more common if far more people died as children. That's how averages work. There's zero misrepresentation.
@@robg4729 the problem is the average comes from 2 extremes being calculated together, which creates a middle ground. Lots of people died young, and a lot of ppl who lived past that hard period lived into retirement age. The average calculated suggests most people died around the middle ground. The problem is the average being calculated makes people think most ppl back then died at the age of 30. Yes the average is accurate by the definition of what an average is, but people take it to mean smth else, because ppl take it to mean most of the data is in the middle, when it’s not distributed that way.
@@phoebusapollo8365 That's how all averages work. Life expectancy now is worked out the same way. No one else is misunderstanding this except you. People know what an average is.
@@robg4729 not really, you’re going off the cold hard definition of average, most people speaking casually when saying average just mean “most people.” So whenever people hear average life expectancy is 30, they just hear “most people” died at 30. Which isn’t the case, the case is most people either died at 5, or at 60. The average taken is misinterpreted.
A bimodal distribution and a bell curve can give the same average, and you can’t know from the average whether or not most of the data actually falls there in the middle or if the “outliers” is actually where most of the data is.
That’s kinda what me and the original commenter are saying. Yes, it’s technically sound by the definition of what average is, but what most people mean, and what the video guy was trying to present to us as information is that most people didn’t make it past 30s, which further implies it’s where most people died. Again, if u purely look at what average means, what the guy in the video says isn’t wrong, but what he was trying to imply, and what most people take to mean (using context and colloquial meaning of the word “average”) when they hear that piece of information is not correct.
We’re here because our ancestors survived so really we should be proud and confident in our strength and abilities
Are we really lucky or cursed? To live today
facts the best genes
It wasn’t this hard to survive back then but I agree
Shout out to our single celled ancestors born into boiling, acidic sludge that oozed their way onto dry land and evolved into multicelled oxygen breathing slime
Let’s hope far away descindents form us feel the same way..proud
A good book related to this is "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England". It gives a good synopsis of life in England as a peasant, nobleman, and king.
There is a Renaissance version, too. And be sure to read, "The Worst Jobs in History."
Yes, that's a pretty good series.
Great book, I’ve read it twice.
@@peterlawson777 "Timeline" is another good time travel story, though I have watched the movie, I have not read the book.
Ian Mortimer is great! I love his books on some of the medieval kings in particular, they’re very interesting
Antibiotics. My parents were both adults when antibiotics were invented. They pointed how many things I’d had that could have killed me back then.
Not only that but typical childhood infections like mumps measles chickenpox strep throat and tonsillitis, as a kid back in the fifties my siblings and I suffered through all of these ailments but managed to survive because hygiene and nutrition. In medieval times each one would be a death sentence
Sounds like your parents were just bad parents. I never got any antibiotics or vaccines growing up and I’m 30 now. Your parents were just incompetent in taking care of a child and didn’t know how to keep you safe from diseases.
@@Hugatree1 medieval times or modern Republican party. Lol. I guess they are the same.
Even in the 1930s many men, women and children died of infections before discovery of penicillin. Mastoid infections were considered emergencies and surgery to remove the mastoid bone were common. Many of my parents generation had this operation done which could lead to hearing loss in later years.
@@elujinpkwhat does that even mean
Half of Europe really decided to enter “hard mode” after the western roman empire fell. Meanwhile eastern Rome was like “guys…we’re still over here. Come on back, things were better back in antiquity right?”
I've said for a while now that we really have no idea how good we have it right now. More people need to see this video and learn to be grateful for what you have now...
You can be grateful and still push for progress (:
@@CherBaby13found the snowflake.
Vaccine denial. I've heard it described as being in a submarine built by our forebears, forgetting that fact, then declaring that we should open the windows and let some air in.
Stupid ass logic lmao show this to a homeless man/woman
So Middle Ages people should be thankful they’re not cavemen? Then we wouldn’t be in the modern age.
Imagine toothache, dying from the likes of cancer or other serious illnesses with no pain relief. If must have been horrific.
Yeah and let’s not forget childbirth 😮 imagine waiting 9 months knowing you’d have to endure that kind of pain, and having god knows how many children because there was no contraception
Medieval monks were aware of the pain relieving properties of milk of the poppy and used it regularly.
Exactly what i thought a second before reading your comment ! The absolute nightmare 🫠🫠
@@serahloeffelroberts9901opium based medications had also its fair share of side effects : drowsiness, sedation, nausea, vomiting, respiratory depression especially at high dose, skin rash and so on
@@catalinapazhasbunzegpi1065you forgot the whole dying during childbirth from even just one part lol
Growing up in the 70’s I remember romanticizing this time period. But from documentaries and the internet I have educated myself and now marvel that enough people survived to keep the human population in existence. What a horrible time to have lived and died.
And now people romanticize the 80s lmao.
People romanticize things they know nothing about, because they always ASSUME it must have been "so beautiful" what a misconception....
@@jgnogueira whats the good and bad things about the 80s? ik there was a massive cigarette problem but what else?
@@kakyoin7248racism, drugs, gangs, murderers getting away easily
@@kakyoin7248AIDS, crack
I imagine future people will view today as we view medieval times. "Oh my, how did they ever survive the pandemics, political turmoil, tyrannical governments, unpredictable economies, ecological disasters, wars, poverty, hunger, drive-by shootings and the drudgery of every day life?"
Of course, if we survive climate change, which I doubt.
(In America) school shootings..
@@briannalloyd3502theres only school shootings in America?
I mean if our ancestors got it hard so we have it easy, then we must have it hard so descendent have it easier and so on
Praying things get better..not worse
Rejoice and think - you are alive today due to an unbroken line of life extending all the way back to the beginning of life on this planet! At least two people survived (long enough anyway) the Middle Ages so you could live!
If only 2 of my ancestors survived the Middle Ages, I'd be very inbred indeed 😉
Why - they wouldn't have to be siblings or close relations - 2 of them did survive, that's why you're here - they helped keep the line going through the middle ages, through all the generations between then and now - the endurance of your mother's and father's family lines.
@@dan13ljks0n like have you actually ever thought about what an enormous amount of people that really is lol
Yes, it is an enormous number of people (plus other life forms going all the way back), that's the point. Humans and other primates on our distant family tree didn't spontaneously generate after all. In fact, atomically, we are related to everything in the universe. Yet, if only one of your ancestors didn't have kids, you wouldn't exist - don't go back in time and kill your grandparents before they had kids - no matter how far back you go, you would extinguish your family line from that point on.@@fx7105
@@mickimickiThe fact that your comment has that many likes tells me people literally do not use their brains...
33 years of that life would be enough
😅😂 😂
Jesus Christ,your right
I don't think many romanticise the Dark Ages 😅 Even those who aren't particularly educated on the period know just how brutal it was.
I know I don't romanticize that time period!
Brave Heart. Lol.
what about the "hard times create strong men" people 😂😂
Yeah, now you mention it 😅...
Another thing people don’t realize is if you think our justice system TODAY are corrupt/ out of date/ unjust, imagine the Middle Ages 💀 there was no forensic evidence, it was ONLY men in power, who the vast majority of did messed up things to other people to be in a position of power, murder rape thievery all went heavily unchecked, word of mouth and eyewitness testimony, true or not, could have you imprisoned, tortured, even sentenced to death. Communication was obviously not nearly as widely accessible, if your family member/ spouse/ friend/ other loved one would go away somewhere for long periods of time, you could be left worrying about their safety and well-being for god knows how long. Not to mention if you where a woman, if you where a different race, if you where gay or trans or disabled or any other version of a marginalized person your SOL 💀💀💀 modern medicine saves us from shit we don’t even bat an eye at anymore. I would rather stay in my comfy safe 2023 than go back to midevil England for 10 damn minutes
And let's not forget how cities used to be. In movies they are always beautiful and romantic medieval towns. In reality it was filth and shit everywhere and unshowered people, accompanied with terrible stench.
I've learned actually that people didn't smell as bad as a lot think as they would have baths but they were just a lot more difficult to have, sponge baths were pretty common and they would wear linens that would collect their sweat
🤢
I guess the paesant lived better then everybody at this point, at least i could have took a nice shit in the fields with grass and rocks as paper toilet
The ale and beer they drank was not potent. Rather, it was a safe way to consume water.
To drank water 💧
I wonder if people 500 years from now will wonder how we survived without some new technology or medicine that we dont even know exists yet.
The people from the future are possibly studying the psychology behind this comment 💪
@@khalidohida6592 Or smashing rocks against sticks.
@@kalvurk6660 you are right 2000 years from now, we'll have created either heaven on earth or devolve back to absolute HELL
@@khalidohida6592 In the past there wasn't much Hell, this video is extremely misinformation and does not explain context completely. Back then it took months or preparation, tens of thousands of men, millions in their time period's currency to wage a war to only kill a few thousand., now in today's world we need to only push one red button to kill tens of millions.
We also might stop existing.
I have a DPhil in medieval studies. The dark ages are called that because we have so few records from that time, not because it was terrible.
Maybe it’s because I’m so tired from my full time job as a teacher as well as being a graduate student….but I totally read that as Dr. Phil!! 😂 Oh, my. I now realize you meant Doctor of Philosophy. I need sleep. What a cool degree, by the way!!❤
Uh, but it was still terrible..... (Compared to now.)
@@ihavegymnastics it wasn’t terrible.
@@ariesleorising9421i absolutely thought I read the same exact thing😂
@@ariesleorising9421omg i read it as Dr Phil too
Obviously a couple of my ancestors survived it or I wouldn't be here. I always appreciate them and think of them while enjoying a hot shower.
An average age of 24 when 50% die as infants means that most adults live to be at least 50.
Good point!
NO IT DOESN'T !!
@@JoanMurray-j5y Good point!
They may have lived to 50 but with dental problems, therefore nutrition problems and infection due to abscesses, not to mention arthritis, rheumatism, osteoporosis and possibly broken bones as a result. And then there’s starvation; if the winter is harsh, who do you feed? The old one who has no teeth and can’t work, or the man who can till fields and tend cattle, followed by the oldest son (same reason). Wife and girls maybe not so much.
I sure like those medieval paintings of violent acts and blankly content expressions 00:27
I think it was the "farmer's wedding" by Pieter Brueghel (don't remember the Elder or the Younger).
This is why when people ask the would you rather time travel into the past or the future question I'll always say future. Being perpetually cold with a lack of good food and freedom as a woman just sounds like a living nightmare.
Yuh and I'm a black woman who knows what will happen to us there
Always a victim isnt it
But you don’t know what the future holds. What if it’s even worse than the dark ages?
@gerrardlee8879 well we are? What do you want us to say
@@He2raww Yes, that may be so. However, if given the choice I'd opt for an unknown future simply because I already know how terrible the past was; something to be avoided at all costs.
I can't for the life of me, figure out, how the actual fuck, humanity ACTUALLY SURVIVED the year 1349 AD!
It's a damn miracle if there ever was one. Steamin' bloody christ mate xD
I have a book to recommend. Its called "Down the Common" by Ann Baer. Its about the month-to-month life of a medieval woman , what she and her family had to go through. Told an account of the life of a woman named Marion and her family and village. Really quite eye opening and interesting. She lost several of her children . (historical fiction of course)
So all that to say it isn't real😂
@@juliadwiggins-jo3fo Yes. Yep, True. That's right. Correct. Right-o! Yeah. Correcta-mundo. Sure. Spot on. Damn right! Affirmative. Fo Sho. right on! Positively. Hell yeah! Right?
That book sounds very interesting.
I am fascinated with ith medieval times,
especially in England.
Oh my goodness. Its probably one of my FAVORITE BOOKS EVER. Re read so many times. Nice to know another person out there who acknowledged this work out there. I've recommended to others many times❤
I read this book too....when Dick died from.a splinter....really hit home.
When people talk about the Good Ole Days, I tell them the invention of indoor plumbing, soap, antibiotics, and access to medicine and food in grocery stores has exponentially expanded our life span and quality of life.
But at a cost.
The good old days to me is the 1980’s 😂
@@stevendavis2122 Damn worth it.
Now we live long empty materialistic lives devoid of meaning. Yay progress.
@@Luke-zz2zz Nigga atleast we get to eat and sleep peacefully (most of the time)
Here in Britain, if you look at graves stones from the early to late 19th Century, you'll see not many people made it to their 70th birthday, and a lot of children died quite young.
Yes, that’s. Very true
Not many? The average life expectancy was around 30, so 70 would have been a phenomenon
@@livhope4317 Those averages are skewed by the high number of infant and child deaths. For those who survived into adulthood, living into their 50s-60s wasn't some rare miracle.
I’ve traced my paternal ancestors back to the mid 1300s in England. Most died in their 50s.
Longer life spans is a fairly recent phenomenon.
This short account of life in the Middle Ages certainly puts things into perspective. Most of us are living in absolutely the best times for humanity!
Bro the smell alone would've knocked me out alone 🤣
You know that 🐱 stank
@@unknownprofiler5792not as much the the 🍆
@@unknownprofiler5792and balls guys act like their trunk doesn’t stink 😂
As a Catholic deacon capable of speaking Church Latin I’m feeling quietly confident about my chances 😂
Say "She sells sea shells on the seashore" in Latin....
Not if you were brutally stabbed to death by a mad monk.
Ikr. The linguistic situation is of least concern I feel. It'll be rocky at first, but you'll understand eventually and can get what you want/need by pointing, especially if you end up in a trade city where they're used to different people coming and going
You wouldn't survive the religious strife and wars. Or witch hunts
@@FBI.Open.Up. I would. I'm built different frfr
I used to romanticize this period ogf history. As I studied more about it, I'd have to say the first thing you'd notice was the SMELL.
Like a gaming convention but with more horses
Why smell
@@otgbaby4615no plumbing, people don’t shower, bodies everywhere, diseases, etc
The smell of dirty fish
A couple of years ago on UK tv, a programme featured a man who tried to recreate the smell we would be familiar with in those times. It seemed to be an amalgam of unwashed bodies, sweat,, urine, faeces, halitosis from rotting teeth and gums, and general detritus from walking in the dirty streets filled with animal droppings and the remains of anything thrown into the streets from the shops and rooms above them, including more human waste, with perhaps a little pinch of suppurating sores!. I remember watching this person, clad in medieval garb, lurking in a shopping mall with his little phial of essence of stink de homme clutched tightly in his hand. He would approach people and ask them if they wanted to know what the odours of bygone days smelt like. Most people were rather naive and willingly agreed. With that, he uncorked his bottle, and we watched them reeling away in disgust, disbelief and horror!
Ale was in fact very weak. It was drunk because the water was often polluted, the water was dangerous. The brewing process meant that the water in it was boiled.
Not true. Most people drank water. Beer strength varied widely, from small beer( low ABC) to heavy ales. Certainly instances arrived as you state, but that was not the norm.
Also, the alcohol helped kill the bad bacteria and introduced good bacteria
When I think of the Middle Ages, I think of... no modern bathrooms, toilet paper, showers, heating and air conditioning, electric blankets or electricity, grocery stores... the list could go on. 😁❤️
I've been putting off a trip to a dentist, but when I finally do go,I'll have the luxury of a pain killer. So that and antibiotics are at the top of my list.
I'm pretty sure that ancient Romans, Greek and Egyptian also didn't have that. Never understood why people only blame Middle Ages though.
Exactly. The hygiene situation (lack of) is enough for me to say no thanks. Nobody washing their hands or their ass? And then preparing food. Hell no!
I'm just sad I wasn't around back then to invent those things. Make the best out of the worst.
@@krisaaron8180 What? The pain is the best part, it doesn't even hurt that bad.
The fact that the majority of the world still can't separate the Victorian and Rococo eras from the middle ages kills me. Every time I read a manga/manhwa and they say they're in medieval Europe I just have to laugh and shake my head. I don't think anyone would appreciate being taken back to the middle ages. The Victorian era would be pretty awful too, though... God I'm so glad we have public restrooms...
George Michael would agree.
The Victorian era and the workhouses…I’ll pass! The convent would be a much better place.
I agree with you that manga artists don’t know the medieval period from the Rocco. lol!
Hollywood doesn’t either. When I saw Sweeny Todd the wardrobe inconsistencies were disturbing.
Good thing that there are manga like Vinland saga or Vagabond that are historically accurate.
@omomo202
I think in Hollywood wardrobe inconsistencies might exist on purpose. The costume artists (or what does one call them) are *obliged* to learn the history of the costume when they study and the training is severe. In my country they literally have to be able to tell an Italian dress in 1610s from an Austrian dress in 1610s. Which is crazy because to me such dresses look totally the same 😳
If Hollywood guys ignore the reality, they probably do it not because they are ignorant, but because they expect the viewer to be ignorant. Or because they want to create some interesting and whimsical wardrobe and too real one would kill the mood of the movie. Or may be sometimes people don't have budget for giving every character in every scene a correct piece, so they borrow somewhere else the ones which fit the actors.
Burton for sure had money for great professional costume designers. Sure, they knew their craft. They probably wanted something whimsical, weird and theatrical.
Really? People can’t distinguish between lose and loose and you can’t believe that the majority of the world can’t separate the Victorian and Rococo eras from the Middle Ages?
I’m way too lazy and not tough to have been alive in the Middle Ages. People were actually hard working and had to endure stuff. I def wouldn’t last
Pretty much everyone from the younger generation these days😂
@@rain_M4V7 yep. I’m doing my part to become less lazy tho. But still, we wouldn’t last in medieval times
@@rain_M4V7 everyone from the last 4 generations probably couldn't
It’s because of love. If humans didn’t love each other none of us would’ve survived. Love everyone people.
lmao sure, maybe i'd love you if you weren't such a wuss
@iamleftover lol
Too much love is also bad, as is too much individualism. The Industrial Revolution came because people hated each other and fought eachother one in War
Yes to all the comments. . I live for love , but reading %70 of people do not wish me well. Hard to take but explains a lot.
nobody loved eachother its just basic Instinct to survive
I wouldn’t last 24 hours in pioneer times. Pump my own water, wash clothes in the creek, chop wood ? Forget it !
I detest camping.
Don't discount the people who did that without choice so that you could sit and refuse the same.
There's people who'd help you do that of course, and you'd still end up doing all of that most likely. You'd still strive to survive, but that's just in our nature. We have a hard time dying.
@@jenniferlloyd9574 no one’s discounting anything except your ability to comprehend a simple comment
It sounds rough but that's how my parents grew up. They are in their 50s and 60s
The sort of video that really makes you appreciate the most basic of modern comforts!
The clothes were not scratchy wool. I’ve been spinning and creating yarn from fibres for 45 yrs, primarily wool. If it’s scratchy, it’s overwashed and all the has been removed. Middle Ages clothing was also created from flax (which becomes linen) and hemp ( the cloth and paper variety, not the recreational) and leather.
Thanks. It bugs me when people assume Old-Fashioned Clothes = Super Itchy Wool. I've seen it even in modern times when people make fun of the Amish and say they wear "itchy" wool clothes (or even burlap ... ???)
Im alergic to wool. Even Cashmere annoys the heck out of me. Granted Im an outlier, but there is a sizable minority that would be super sensitive to wool, coarse or fine. And of course it would depend on what region you are in, which fabric type would be the most prevalent.
Honestly, I think plenty of modern people could survive it. Excluding those who already live in places where life hasn't changed much in thousands of years... people like farmers, hunters, tradespeople, etc. would just have to make some relatively minor adjustments.
Its insane to think that all our ancestors throughout history lived long enough to have children. Your parents, their parents, etc. for millions of years. The odds of you being born is mind bogglingly low.
Look into genealogy sometime (especially if you're able to trace your own family). In my father's line, there are 2 instances where the man's first wife died and he remarried, and a son from the second wife became our ancestor. And that's just one side!
Nobody is a mistake!!!
If my mom didn’t have miscarriage I wouldn’t be here rn.
The Earth is 10,000-years-old.
@@DarkScorpionPete98earth is about 4 billion years old
This is why they had kids early and a lot of them too.
As a woman I can say I'm happy I live in the modern day
Somebody gets it
Wow yeah. As a girl I’m so lucky. I’m very grateful that we can chose where we want to go, who to talk to, who to marry, what to do with our lives, whether we want children or not, what our sexuality is, (depending on the country and area unfortunately) what job we want or at all, and so much more. I wouldn’t stand being subordinate to anyone just because of my gender or be forced to have children and chose a husband I don’t want.
It's still horrible to be a woman some countries today too
As a man I can also say I'm happy I live in the modern day.
@@birdyghostly But you've been successfully brainwashed to become L. Are you happy about that?
I should make a stock answer I get insert with a keystroke shortcut to respond to questions about life expectancy. Life expectancy is and always has been a birth-death model. If one person lives to 80 and another dies while still an infant, the life expectancy is the average, which is 40 in that case.
When we are given a life expectancy of 38, this doesn't mean no one grew old. It means that many died very young.
Today the lowest life expectancy is in Chad, at just over 52 years. But if you go to Chad you will find many people far older than that. This is because many still die very young.
The US had a similar life expectancy in the first decade of the 20th century. But fifty years later life expectancy was 20 years longer. This was because of our near eradication of childhood deaths.
The Middle Ages had many people who lived to be very old.
Actuary here. Life expectancy is an expectation of a distribution, by definition. The survival curve is not a normal (Gaussian) distribution. So, yes, lots died young, but there were some who lived a long life. I don't understand why anyone is confused. The biggest challenge was surviving the first 5 years of life. Of course, then many other things could kill you that we don't worry about (much) today.
@@mongo88now88 Right. I made the comment because I routinely see people treat the life expectancy as a upper limit. As if you would go to that time and place and see no one over 40 years old.
2:00 Id take the household chores over mid evil battle. Both sucked for sure, but I couldn't imagine hand to hand combat with a bunch of untrained peasants
Well then get ready for some “hand-to-hand combat” with your husband who legally owns you
A time travel scenario just hit me. If any of us took that trip back to the Middle Ages, we'd probably wipe out the whole population with diseases we carry that didn't yet exist back; and LIKEWISE, we might catch something from them that could kill us before we return to our own time. And then there's the stench you'd probably experience the moment you entered their world! Wow!
Damn, no wonder Native North Americans American were living with nature for thousands of and simply hunting and gathering. Living in medieval ages Europe sounds like hell
It was. Life was better there during the classical age.
I was born two months early, a preemie. I probably would've died shortly afer being born; or within a few hours if I'd been born back then.
Same. I was born early for the same amount of time.
Partial facts are dangerous. This is so simplistic that it’s laughable.
5:30 the average life expectancy was dragged way down by the infant and child mortality rate, unless these estimates are based on data that excludes infant & child mortality.
Based on the incredibly high infant and child mortality rate, those who survived past the age of ~7 years may have had a decent chance of living into their 50s or beyond (unless it was a plague period lol)
"Receiving stolen goods = death penalty". Man, it wasn't ME who stole it and how could I have known?! That is absolutely crazy...
In the US receipt of stolen goods is a crime. Not a capital crime, but prosecutable.
Medieval court: doesn't care. Off to the gallow you go
No playing futbol mate . Kill me now
In that day and age you generally would have known. If someone stole some candlesticks from Ishmael the local cobbler, you'd hear about it. When Billybob Thatcher, an unskilled laborer, came up to you with several bronze candlesticks for sale, that would raise alarm bells. People would buy such things, but those people, called fences, were usually some local corrupt industry like a tanner or a miller, which had the means to send them in bulk to another town on occasion. Removing the fence was therefore a priority, hence the death penalty.
There was a man here in my home parish in Sweden who got 2 years hard labor in a fortress for stealing a bowl of porridge, and that wasn't even in the middle ages but in the later 1600s...
I suppose the life expectancy was as usual counted incl. the child mortality rates, which makes it basically a statistic mockery. If you excluded the child mortality and counted only people who lived over 15 or 18, their life expectancy was probably almost double of what you said.
Which would put it at 50 for males who had a harder life than females, which is still pitiful.
@@Man.Well93 It's also interesting, though, because women were like 10-15 times per life on the verge of death during child birth.
The concept of "harder" life is a bit weird, esp. for poor people, because at least from what I know, they basically worked almost the same way, but during that time, women were often pregnant and still expected to work very hard - or take care about everything if men were gone fighting. Also the levels of domestic violence (and its acceptance as normal) were probably quite crazy - and I mean severe beatings, not just making faces or sarcastic remarks.
There were still infections, diseases, and malnutrition. You and I could mitigate such dangers with even a modern layman's knowledge of sanitation and treatment, but medieval people could die from a small cut or the common flu.
@@panhandlersparadise1733 I don't question that, but if you exclude child mortality, you wouldn't get an average life expectancy of 24 and 33 years, that's nonsense.
(And I very much enjoy seeing people who try to match this nonsense with like 12 births per woman and the supposed existence of fairytale grandmothers who took care about these children... and the average age of menarche which was like 17 if not more. Bonus points for presuming nobility child marriages were a common thing also for peasants :D )
@@Man.Well93😂😂😂😂 what an incel you are on everyone's comments
Women had it way worse mate... We're not rising to your bait
P.s. If a woman won't sleep with you it's your problem not hers
Videos like this one really help to put things in perspective. I'm so grateful to be alive now--despite all the problems we have.
Whenever you hear about the low life expectancy back then, keep in mind that the insanely high infant and child mortality rates highly skew those numbers.
And thus, the median was born
also when a king died early sometimes their young child would become king.. the youngest king was about *9* months old. and those children almost always died before twenty from assassination, battle, or illness
Wars also have a hand in the life expectancy, especially for men. It's likely that all the wars were the reason that a man's life expectancy was so horribly low.
And the Quality of Life ???
To quote LindyBeige, "Filth has never been fashionable."
The age average was also including child mortality. If you actually do your genealogy, many of our ancestors lived very long lives
The average was still in the 50s at best. The "fact" presented in this video is misleading, but they didn't live long lives by our standards either.
Unless you were descended nobility, you are unable to trace your lines back to the middle ages.
Yep💯I've been studying my family tree since 2008. I've traced a couple lines back to 400ad. Many of my ancestors lived into their 80s and even early 90s. Average is probably 60-70 according to my line.
How are you tracing your family tree?
@@watertonic2406 If you know who your grandparents or greatgrandparents are, then you try to look at a free or paid subscription genealogy sites and trace them back further, by using information alread researched by people who shared you same ancestors.
I'm always skeptical about those time-travel movies.
If you travel back to the past and show all the modern knowledge, it wouldn't take more than a week to get the community to decide to burn you alive for being a witch.
Life expectancy numbers are dependent on infant mortality rates, war mortality rates, and epidemic mortality rates, and can be very misleading. A person in their twenties or thirties was not elderly.
Good point
I’m very grateful for my rights as a woman to an education, work, build and toilet paper, pads/tampons/comdoms etc
Another “Dung ages” cliche video. Basically, all bad stereotypes about the Middle ages is combined in that video. 100% dislike.
Bad stereotypes that are largely true if a bit exaggerated, but which a bunch of people on RUclips don't like because they read Tolkien as kids
@@SkSu242 the stereotypes about the Middle ages aren't true at all. It's a 19th-century fantasy when history wasn't a science.
agreed. this channel likes to exaggerate and misrepresent for more views
@@brianbaker5555 "People liked colors and had feasts, so all the very legit problems are just propaganda" huh?
Anyone who knows anything about this period finds everything in this video utterly, totally absurd.
We are required to celebrate our 'modern' life as the best possible. If you do not, no mate for you.
6:20 So: One of two children died, food was scarce and A LOT of work had to be done by hand. But still people were immediatly hanged for rather small crimes. ...why would you kill your already small work force?
Control. Fear keeps them in check and the smaller their numbers, the less likely they are to try to overthrow you if you do something they don't like
@@largedarkrooster6371plus they have to feed that force it would cost more to keep them then their worth
@@danielleburke87 Precisely why you shouldn't get a job today, bosses are not worth your time.
@@danielleburke87 and who makes the food? something seems very wrong here. I'd wager the middle ages didn't exist, actually.
As a woman, I would be way too outspoken and intelligent to them, probably would have been killed for being a witch 💀
Or beaten for just saying something against your husband or generally annoying
@@steampunklichbut mostly for being intelligent and just having common sense 😂those poor women
This is pretty thoroughly a myth. Outside of the famous instances, accusations of witchcraft were fairly uncommon.
@@landrypierce9942 not sure where you got that idea...it was rampant all over europe and the mideast as an accusation ,very often so the realtive church et al could take a woman's property, or because she refused someone's advances, especially from the xtain bunch.
@@gwirgalon3758 You will need a source for that. For one thing, men and women were accused of witchcraft about as frequently as the other (use Google, youtube doesn’t like sending links.) It sounds like you just have opinions and want to manipulate history to support them.
Sat here watching this on day 3 of antibiotics for a serious chest infection. Only yesterday I laughingly told my husband ''pre antibiotics I'd be dead by now.'' Watching this reminds me I wasn't wrong...
Me too, Scarlet Fever in the first grade.
Me too, serious tonsillitis which could have spread to my blood.
Anyone taking a single course in medievalism could de-bunk half the stereotypes about the Middle Ages presented in this video. The dark ages isn’t even a term any modern scholars use, as it’s depictions of this time about the people being dirty, and stalled advancement in science and culture is a foundational myth and has been largely debunked. Weaponizing history is common because we like to think of ourselves as more progressive or better than the “dirty” medieval people, when in reality our issues are largely the same. I hate how popular culture spreads these myths when a bit more research into the topic could easily avoid it.
The dark ages were the period just after the Romans got defeated and usually called the early Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages which your documenary focuses on is not the dark ages.
i definitely don’t need a video telling me why i wouldn’t survive in the dark ages, but here i am.
I just wish people were still has competent with their hands as they were back than. People were really good at crafting, sewing, farming and the list goes on. Everything was of REALLY good quality and craft such as any kind of frabric was pass generation through generation. I’m glad we lost most of the bad part of the dark age but that’s a thing I would like to bring back.
The fabric thing was mostly the stitching. Nowadays because of sewing machines, the single stitch is what everything is bound in. Back only 100 years ago nobody would be caught dead with the emergency repair stitch.
How do you know everything was really good quality? You only see the stuff that survived.
Good quality? 😂 Where can I find these surviving artifacts?
Wow! Do you go through life with your eyes closed? The things people are capable of doing these days with their hands, feet and everything else is incredible. There's still great craftsmen in every sort of profession
@@dilbophagginz I am an archeology student in canada. We have lots of records of the thecnic they used, the materials and how long it lasted. (Some people lasted them GENERATION because it was expensive and good quality) And we still have a lot of clothing that survived! Unfortunately a lot of them degrade over time as they were made of 100% cotton most of the time.
Just more proof of how much of a blight religion is on the human race.
If it were not for religion then literacy rates would've fallen even greater. The Orthodox church in one example is responsible for the fact that we can still read and learn from the Ancient Greek and Roman poetry, philosophies and scientific theories.
I would have died very young, my children had to come via cesareans. 😳 I’m forever grateful for advances in medicine.
Out of all eras to travel back to- Medieval Europe (the dark ages) is the worst place to be. I'd rather fist fight a group of Raptors.
Man that is hardcore.
Another interesting video could be about what was going on in S. America or N. America or Asia during Europe's middle age. To compare it all.
Well, there is a series that deals with one part of the middle east: The Magnificent Century. A romanticized to some extent version of Suleyman's reign, much is also presented about the social structure. The actors are top top notch, the 2nd batch of writers not so -- great costumes though ; ) And interesting comments as people got hooked on the show -- which lasted for 136 episodes, 1-2 hours each. Verrrry interesting to hear about history in those times from an other than xtain - european viewpoint. Worth viewing.
Its crazy that all of our ancestors had to survive to a certain point for any of us to be born.... 😳
I think about that sometimes and it’s truly mind blowing.
anyone with a surname like Fletcher [Arrow Maker] Baker ect has a direct ancestor to that time and before.
I had the same thought watching this. It makes me feel special. 😂
As an African i really think about this
I love how this guy feels it necessary to tell me why even though I don’t even have to know why to know for certain that I’d be dead by sundown.
As difficult as things were, people were still people. Just like now there is so much goodness.
People may have tortured and killed criminals but what about all the nice meals and happy days that don’t get remembered. There is evidence medieval people had good sense of humour and no doubt had fun and good times like we do. Things were different but still would have had joyful days.
There would have been amazing stars in sky with no light pollution, people didn’t actually work long hours unless a harvest due, they had music, beer and wine. It would suck if you went now, but if you grew up with it be okay if you lucky enough to be healthy
Tell me don't know shit abt medieval times Withouth telling me
@@nunothedudeMark is spitting truth, people act like the moment you were teleported into the Middle Ages, you'd be assaulted by 50,000 lethal things all at once. There was health and hygiene, just more primitive. Stuff like cleaning with urine and bloodletting was off the mark, but not absurdly. People were resourceful and managed to eek out livings, even if by our cushy standards they would not be enjoyable.
@@henrymartinvo urine is sterile
We are all descendants of survivors but are now soft as snow
Lazy, entitled, and take everything for granted.
Weak and lazy@@stormysyndrome7043
@@stormysyndrome7043 like you are doing now
It's good we've come this far as a species to be able to be "soft" as you call it (don't necessarily agree). Tell me you'd rather live your life back then. You don't lol
I appreciate your video and passion for history however I must point something out. When you state the mortality rate for men and and women you should either state that you are including infant mortality or calculate based after infancy.
Men and women mortality without infant mortality skewing the data was still pretty bad but it is closer to 60 and 65 during that time line
A time traveller would bring all manner of new diseases with them that they would be personally immune to. Just touching one person could have caused a devastating pandemic and change the course of a country's history.
They would've been fine in the middle East lol
@@talibanairport1544no. The Middle East was also ravaged by the Black Death.
What about tooth ache?
Nah id live
Nah I’d win
Well, that put an end to my fantasy of being a Medieval knight and all!
Its quite sad that newer generations starting with the boomers it seems have gotten to the point whete mental health is such a issue. We life like rpyalty comapred to most of humanity that has existed, in many ways we live even better lives than royalty. But we are all still so miserable and arent having kids. But thats the reality. Our environment and circumstances is just so much different that its hard to understand. Its crazy how those in the past kept it up to me
Ok..I heard you out. NOW let me tell ya why I would survive the Dark Ages. First of all, the obvious, WE ALL, all of us alive today, come from the lines and carry within us the genes of those who DID survive…or we wouldn’t even be here. We all come from the kind of stock equipped with the skills to survive, whether it be through brute strength, or weak but clever, smart enough to finagle, outsmart, outwit.
I’m built like an ox, I’m strong, but I have never bought into that whole ‘only the strong survive’ and have been in before, and am surviving now, in the 2 modern day places you would think those rules would apply most today…yet I’ve always found my wits, read people and situations very easily, outmaneuver, even manipulate served me better than my physical strength.
I’ve spent time in prison and am currently homeless, living in the streets on NYC.
People can adapt, people can handle extreme situations. It’s the people willing to accept change, accept the reality of their new situation and adapt accordingly are the ones who survive.
We all have it in us. We just have to dig however deep, years, decades, or even generations of comfort and civility has buried it and find the survivor in you. It’s there.
Hope you find your way out of homelessness. New york city is rough even with housing.. i am from there. Thanks for sharing..
I wonder if a Medieval person was teleported to today, what would kill / hospitalise them? I don’t mean modern things just being shocking…I mean what would actually be too much? E.g would our food be too rich? Would there be too much noise, would get knocked over by teens on electric scooters or ran over by cars. I know they had horses & carts but they didn’t go 60Mph/100Kph
I think our current diet would be extremely damaging to their unprepared stomachs: sugar & corn syrup everywhere, processed foods, refined carbs, preservatives, GMOs, pesticides, microplastics, trans fats, nitrates, chemical coloring & flavors, artificial sweeteners, toxic additives, empty calories, low fibers, etc.
MacDonalds
I participated in the excavation of an Indigenous village in Mitchell, SD, which was populated around the 12th to 14th Centuries C.E. The chief archeologist described to us how the quality of life in the village was vastly superior to anywhere in Europe at the time.
Yup
That sounds amazing.
Thanks for sharing this.
C.E.?
@@gracetruthandlight > it means Common Era. It is the new way of saying AD, but I prefer BC and AD because they mean the same eras and were named by the people who originally did the time frame calculations.
The Middle Ages is such an interesting and beautiful time to be alive being a fan of the outdoors and nature, it must have been gorgeous but just being born female is the only reason I’d need to be happy to be born in this era
It’s a nice thought, however, the truth is very different. SA against women would probably have seen her husband beat her for letting it happen, adding insult to injury.
The nature also wasn't much better then. It was a wasteland in most areas.
Yeah except anywhere with open wilderness would be populated with bandits ready to rape and murder at a moments notice
But I thought it was a patriarchy even today, hm? And if the husband beat the wife, she could still poison him, go to her relatives and have her brothers kill him, make false accusations just like today etc. Really, women were not worse of than today, and they covertly had all the power in the household by controlling sex. Just because there isn't a law doesn't mean the power dynamics of social bias, gossip and accusations were not in order.
@@Man.Well93 Interesting that you believe the history of women as written by males. The history (recent - back 150yrs) of the women, just in my family are the OPPOSITE of your claims. You CAN'T control sex when your husband can legally r*pe you (& beat you). It's ridiculous for a woman to make false claims when LEGITIMATE claims were (& are) called FALSE & your life destroyed for even trying to make such a claim - only exceptions being clear evidence or witness of a stranger attack or accusing a minority-past (& false one's of those also being seen as 'all good'). Divorce was NOT an option & survival w/o a husband was also impossible as women couldn't ever earn enough to survive alone let alone support children to any reasonable standard. So women HAD to find a man (& live with abuse) because MEN made it that way. WOMEN COULDN'T OWN LAND OR GET A BANK LOAN OR CREDIT CARD IN US until relatively recent (different date for each, obviously). ....are you trolling or just that oblivious?
As a life long woman I can assure that I was NOT treated equally for equal education, experience & job performance as the males in my jobs. Legit claims of assault & harassment/stalking have resulted in ME being treated like a criminal & evidence refused to be accepted. Probably all because of men like you who misunderstand the difference between using power & leveraging what you have to survive against the powers that be. Sociology, psychology, anthropology...LOGIC - know what you're talking about before you vomit words out of your mouth.
I once heard a historian on TV say that life during the Middle Ages was short, brutish and nasty.
I thought that summed it up well.
The order of words is "nasty, brutish, and short." It is an abbreviated quotation from Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes.
@@DieFlabbergastAnd it's s not about the Middle Ages. It's about life in a society without laws
Wow. How grim. Thank you for the research and gathering the cool medieval paintings.
I think that the opposite would also be true. Medieval peasants wouldn't survived our times either. It reminds me of that one post in Tumblr(?) where it says that if we came in contact with a medieval peasant they would probably die in an instant due to our bodies immunities and acquired abilities to resist olden day diseases. It's like a reverse infection or something.
It's also the reason we can't get in touch with the few remaining "wild" tribes. The moment we step into their community they fall sick and die.
Wow that’s interesting. But actually in an instant? Wouldn’t the infection take time to spread?
@@AgrestisAnima I was remember watching a documenter on RUclips about a tribe in Amazon. A father who got infected by deadly disease after met outsiders (modern people), he need to teach his kid hunting before he died :'(
@@monirupapurkayastha2005Did you ever learn about Christopher Columbus? 🤦🏻♀️
Even people back in 1920 would experience this. Think deeper...there's more to think about besides this...