How Did Normal Medieval People Survive Winter?
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold prepare for the dark winter ahead. But, not before they celebrate their bountiful harvest with a feast, put on a play, and reflect on how the landscape of Britain and the lives of its people were forever changed by the Dissolution.
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@@allon33 If it's like netflix, it means it has three good shows, 1000 bad ones nobody wants to watch, and then they cancel two of the three good one after one season.
There were no black people in England in Tudor times nor guys in glasses.
Who wants Netflix for history? All the white characters would be "reimagined" as another race, children would be sexualized, and 60% of the characters would be Rainbow Mafia. Piss-poor comparison, mate
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My dad grew up in the USA. But he was on a farm without much machinery. He told me stories about very labor intensive wheat and corn harvests. They pickled eggs in barrels because hens didn’t lay during the winter. They smoked their hams and then put them into a clean flour bag and buried it in the wheat bin.
They tried to use it sparingly so as to make it last. They had one pig that had to last them the whole winter. The fat from that pig was like gold. It was used in breads pastries, to fry potatoes. And every thing that needed fat. And frying out lard is not fun. A layer of grease covers every surface in the kitchen. I watched my mom and grandmother work hours over hot pans of boiling fat. They were afraid of a pan getting spilled and the possibility of severe burns. Children were kept out of the kitchen.
Wonderful that the stories of those ways of living were passed to you. And very generous of you to share them here with all of us.🎶🐦✌🏼
Full size pig makes alot of food if you use it right. Fatty meat is great for flavoring other foods.
I smell big cap 🧢
Real history needs to be taught in school. Life used to be far harder.
@@daryljonesfoster4102 why? I'm only 40 and we've rendered lard here in my adult life. And use lard in cooking .
We have a freezer full of half a cow in the right season, and a neighbor butchers pigs, we've bought 20lb of bacon at a time from her. What is it that you think is cap?
i like how the historians are actually doing the tasks rather than showing actors do it and the historians just talk
@@user-qd3fm8te8oWell said. These historians lack any actual labour skills.
You very intelligent you pick that up very quick 😅🤔 I don't think they realize that waking up in the morning and disputing it and saying well look the data says this🌲🙏🌍😭😂😂😂😂😂
Holy Jesus was this stupid 😂 I will just never understand white people with so much money that they gotta go dress up like people from medieval times.
Exactly!
Kind of a strange preference or if I dare to say fetish, but OK
Ruth: “We had such a great harvest this year!🥳”
Professor: “Let me tell you about one of the worst possible ways to die🙂”
Real buzzkill
Hahahahaha. Fr
Hahahahaha. Fr
The way her face dropped was hilarious
This was really interesting and informative.
Ruth has such a great life and enthusiasm about her whenever she is explaining something. It is a joy to watch.
Hear, hear - wonderfully worded!
now I want to hear her talk about how modern life works
@@nneisler yes!
And do slavery in America
The diversity of skills that the historians and archaeologists on the program have developed is amazing.
What I do miss is any mention on how important wool production and spinning was in every woman's life. On the way to the fields, in the kitchen, herding the sheep - the amount of work that needed to be put into a spindle in order to be able to weave enough cloth for even one garment was immense.
Julia it's not easy being a lady.
Thank you 🙏
Somebody had to make all those monks’ robes.
@@DancingQueenie couldn’t possibly be the monks themselves 🙄
@@NZKiwi87 Oh no no. They had all that praying to do.
I'm 65 and I remember the school children in Aroostic County, Maine having several weeks off in early fall to pick potatoes. That was when harvesting was done by hand instead of machines like it is now.
machines/mexicans... its all the same....
And that wasn't really long ago. It is amazing how quickly things change and how slowly things change.
My 56 year old husband picked potatoes in Slovakia with schoolmates
In 86-87 I lived with my grandparents out in the countryside in the Midwest (after growing up on the coast in suburbs) while my father’s naval ship transitioned from Atlantic to Pacific Fleet. In the fall the worked for cash for a local potato farmer , grandfather on the tractor while grandmother sorted potatoes . I would only see my grand mother in the morning before school because he would already be out on the tractor, and then he would be the first one home at night. After school both my brother and I would ride our bikes out to the field and fills a duffel bag full of potatoes and then carry the duffle bag back on a rope stretched between bikes. My grand parents would make all sorts of things with potatoes including things like candy and pastry pie shells they would baked and then freeze
People in Germany did the same back then. After the war they had to collect potato bugs too.
Why is Ruth’s delivery always so perfect?????
The ultimate Queen 👑
She is a really lovely and knowledgable presenter, but I cannot go over how much she looks like a witch. :D
Because her teeth are so yellow
@@keithquinn5624 - lol and I bet you’re quite the looker.
LMFAO.
Mom says her mother used lard to preserve meat. You half cooked the meat, then laid it in a ceramic jar with lard between the pieces of meat. This kept oxygen from getting to the meat. Keep in a cool place. No salt necessary.
Potted meat
I eat it like that every winter and even at spring if some is left, it s delicious
I live in Eastern Europe and we keep pigs and still use the lard to preserve the meat over winter as you describe. Kept cool, it can last a year and a half, the fat is still good too. We also make smoked sausages and smoked ribs from the slaughtered pigs.
@@nickbarton3191 Mom said they slaughtered their pig every fall. There are lots of uses for pig.
Just amazing. Medieval people were ingenious working the land.Everything had to be done from the ground up. A lot of work.
What do you mean? They didn't start farming
Let's not forget about the outstanding work of the re-enactment and camera team. Bravo and great iob everyone!
Yeah, how did these Medieval people polish such complicated camera lenses? And who baked the digital chips inside their Medieval video camera's? The data flow inside such camera's is bazurkah! How did they do that? Was it the Alchemist, did he invent the Vellum Video Tape?
yay everyone is special!
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Partly work of saints and gods too.
I agree.
Nobody cares
This was a really good documentary. I especially appreciated the participants enthusiasm while performing their respective duties. This was a good one and it was very informative. Well done folks!
I love these guys! This whole series is awesome!
There is a whole „Farm Series“.
"Oh crap. I am having a party and forgot to get drinks for everyone. "
Ruth - "Thats okay. Go outside and get me a bucket of bullous fruit, some salt, a cup of water, two horses eyelashes, and 14 termites. I can make beer for everyone."
LOL - That woman knows some stuff man.
I absolutely LOVE this series. Ruth and the boys are great guides, and I feel like I learnt so much the first time I watched this series. Watching a second time, my biggest criticism is how mildly the narration puts things like enclosure. When they describe the fields as being “open,” they’re not clearly expressing the idea that the fields were owned by lords or entities like the monasteries, but they were essentially public - families had their own sections of land that they could farm for subsistence, of which the monastery or landowner would take a payment in the form of a portion of that harvest. However, because the land was openly available for use by all members of the community, they could also forage and hunt on it, key to survival in this era. When enclosure began, that land that had previously been available for use by the entire community was divided up into smaller sections that were owned by wealthy individuals who no longer allowed others to use it as subsistence farmland or hunting/gathering grounds. Where before, the majority of your time might be spent farming and gathering your own food directly, enclosure meant the only way you could eat was by earning wages to buy food someone else had grown. The new landowners also prosecuted people who hunted or foraged on their land, making what was an essential element of survival illegal. It was a forced beginning of capitalism, and it was a huge cultural upheaval.
Your comment is fascinating but difficult to believe--like how would this work, foraging being allowed but not outright theft of cultivated produce? And unless I am woefully ignorant, this WAS capitalism--both economies you mention--which is the natural state of mankind, there was no "development" of it. With such strong claims, you'd think you'd present some evidence?
Nah, that's not capitalism.
Telling people they can only do certain things as work, live certain places, and have certain things to survive, is NOT capitalism, but socialism....where only certain amounts of food, firewood, etc, is meted out to the lower classes.
Come on man....Don't you know the difference between capitalism and socialism?
The lords were affiliated with the government and awarded their lands by the ruler of the day. That’s communism. Government is an insatiable beast and the fact it was allowed to go unchecked is why they decided to more tightly control land use.
@@debras3806 capitalism is not the natural state of mankind what are you talking about? It’s just another economic system. How is it any more or less “natural” than any other?
@@debras3806 I’m not entirely sure what you mean, but you don’t need to “steal” from someone else’s farming plot when you have your own, or the forests and fields to forage from. Anyway, some “stealing” did happen…it was a practice called gleaning, where folks from the community with less took the last bits from a harvest. I imagine there was also a lot of bartering and trading, e.g. Mrs F grows carrots and Mrs S grows potatoes, so they trade with one another so they can each have both. I’m not asking you to take my word for it on any of this. Try Googling “enclosure” and “primitive accumulation,” see what you think of what you read, come to your own conclusions. You might also look into what feudalism is - the social hierarchy that existed in this region before mercantilism and capitalism.
Being of English heritage and having a love of Britain, fed my interest in this series. I didn't know I would enjoy it so much. In the 1950's I worked the family farm in north-eastern New Mexico for our food; both livestock and plants. No buying food from the stores.
I bet that food tasted amazing, too!
@@Budrica yeah, back then pretty much all beef was grass today's grass fed free range organic beef.
I was born in '57 and grew up on a small farm. We grew all of our meat, beef, pork, and lamb. We also grew most of our vegetables. My parents worked outside the home so many of the chores were left to us kids. It was hard work but it was a good life. I raised my children on the same farm for most of their childhoods when I moved back to take care of my mother. It was good for them too and much less common in the '80s & '90s. It was good for them.
Ruth a such a G in the history world and LOVES demonstrating
I love how organically they're showing how important socialization was. Much easier to keep your spirits up when you've got someone else to talk to. Imagine hating the people you're working with constantly and living with basically? Imagine LOVING them. Lol it's a beautiful, ugly, tender, rough world we live in.
Ppl work daily with ppl they hate
Hopefully there are LOVED ones at home
I often wonder tho- the kind of service one gets the last couple decades…not just clerks but in a Drs office or at a museum…
@@YeshuaKingMessiah It's true, society was once very much 'service oriented'. Good service, good manners, a strong follow-up and a guarantee your product would perform as promised - these were all assumed when you went out to spend your money. Now you feel like you should apologize for showing up and wasting the clerks time, and when your asian-manufactured item breaks, too bad, no one stands behind it, no Brand Company taking you seriously.
@@YeshuaKingMessiahI've worked a majority of my life in service and have found that there are way more good people out there than bad😊❤. And sometimes we just need a little reminder, we're only human all of us😂. You get what you give. It's always been true. But I try hard to be extra kind. I have seen it make a difference. If we all did it...more people would be happy ❤😊
I just think its so amazing that theres people out there still committed to keeping the knowledge, physically, of our amcestors as our technology makes them obsolete....we never know when we sre going to need that knowledge again
Stuff like this is what comes to mind whenever I see people on social media use the "medieval peasants only worked 20 hrs per week" talking point. Their lives were not better just because they had more down time. I don't think most people grasp how much harder life was before electricity, refrigeration, insulation, plumbing, agricultural machinery, modern medicine, etc.
I think certain parts of their lives were “better” in the sense that although they did have to do more laborious tasks, they were able to socialize while doing so. Mothers could spend more time with their daughters and fathers with their sons, or the entire family working together, even along side extended family or other members of the community. Nowadays, children are put into day care, the hands of strangers, while both of their parents work, alongside people who they only socialize w on a professional/impersonal basis. And for others like myself, I work alone, and while I do socialize w other people at work, it’s not the same. I think people connect better when they have a shared social circle. I think in modern society we have higher rates of depression/anxiety bc we have lost our sense of community/family ties. I think this is probably one of the most important things missing in our modern lives although this isn’t to say it was always perfect relations back then… there were definitely enemies/people u didn’t like but still had to be around. Oh well!
But I do agree, it’s easy for people to romanticize life back then but it was absolutely tough. I think I rather be more relatively socially isolated and work from home on a computer rather than be a medieval peasant!
It's not about romanticizing their lives, it's about recognizing that they had time to attend to their own lives instead of our extra, unnecessary hours of prolonged labor
They will one day. 😆 History is nothing if not cyclical
@@LilBrownieD it helped that A LOT of labor was done right at home, with family and neighbors working together. Imagine if modern people had to go back to that? It'd be bedlam. We are so disjointed and sold on the Cosmopolis that we've neglected maintaining neighbors we trust and enjoy having. To say nothing of everyone's degenerating personalities....
This show was great but didn't show how they survived over the winter; it only showed the preparation up to a certain point up towards winter. I would really like to see what their lives were like over the winter period.
I wanted to see how they stayed warm.
@@shodospring Me too. And also how they kept themselves and the animals fed and watered.
True, quite a misleading title.
So how did the Tudor age peasant survive the winter ?????
Nobody wants to actually spend a winter that way... Just to be filmed😂
Good to know. I don't have to watch the rest.
We just went through an unprecedented storm here in Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
I found these videos on the days we actually had Wi-Fi and power, which was dicey!
These videos calmed me down big time.
Not in the manner that the videos caused me to appreciate our modern era more.
But to calibrate me.
Thank you for these very important productions!!
This is mistitled. It's all about how they worked and lived in the autumn, and then ends before they get to winter.
Because winter hits than its over they die
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Aku sangat suka konten sejarah ini... Hiburan yang edukatif.
I wonder why they aren't using long handled scythes which are more efficient and easier on the back. I'm talking about the kind the Grim Reaper carries. My grandfather harvested wheat and crops with them at the turn of the century (1908) when he homesteaded. One man could do a surprising amount of work and the women could follow behind and bind the sheathes.
That is a good question. My L4 was weeping the whole time I watched them bending over with those tiny scythes.
Consider how much more tools you can make from the same amount of metal that a full sized scythe requires, and how much more complicated of a design it is. Where these tools are easier to make and maintain, also they can be used for many more tasks than a scythe
I used a heavy straight scythe as a teenager, and perhaps because of that training could not adapt to the fancier curved scythe with a longer handle. Or I may have been shorter than the intended user.
The straight scythe could cut saplings up to 1" as well as grass and brush.
A real grim reaper sized scythe usually had a cradle to catch the grain. You could get a sheave of wheat with 2 swipes of the scythe.
I love this way of life. It is so beautiful, so laborious, and in touch with the land and the people.
I wish we could reclaim some of these older traditions throughout the centuries. I certainly believe it would bring more respect to the world around us.
I agree, industrial farming is harming our health and planet at levels that may not be reversible.
Please for give me for not doing my research but whats the deal w these three? i see they built a castle and do videos abt medieval life. all awesome but do really they live like this?
Watch carefully and take notes. The way our world is going it will be useful.
How often does the “bloody flux” occur in our supposed horrible and miserable developed world? Nature is only beautiful when you don’t have to be directly subjected to it. Those people did not live a beautiful life. Hobbs described it already. Brutal and short.
Yes, the filth, odors, vermin, diseases, ceaseless grueling labor, feudalism, illiteracy, endless and brutal warring, the real good old days for sure!
I am grateful every day that I was not born even 100 years ago. Romanticizing the middle ages is definitely a first-world problem.
Peter's thanks to the livestock was my favorite part of an amazing show. Best thing to pop up on my feed in ages - going to look for more Ruth and Peter series. Props to the BBC from grateful Yank.
One of the huge upsides to loving history, is to really appreciate how good some of us have it in the modern age. I know there's people in 3rd world countries having to struggle just as hard as medieval peasants and i feel for them.
But i just wanna say how thankfull i am to have a nice appartment a fridge full of food and extra time to spend on hobbies, life has never been more convenient.
Convenience is a disease, a sickness. The evidence is abundant, the "easier" our lives become the more we get fat and depressed and bitter and angry. The world is hell now because of "convenience" and it will only get worse as our "technology" grows.
@@boobalooba5786 Sounds like a fight club quote bruh
@@boobalooba5786 True you gotta maintain control but i rather have this than be a medieval peasant ant get fcked over and over.
Some of us don’t have all the abundance of items/time you do. But I wish all people would be more appreciative of just having electricity. That is a huge difference in the level we live at now compared to then.
I think I follow them in preparation for the collapse of civilization. We're way overdue.
As someone who’s writing a mystery musical, it was very fascinating to learn what mystery plays were like in Tudor England! I love the teamwork and community effort that was put in back then! Bravo to them!
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im straight, white and unvaccinated 🤍
@@lapoose325 Ok, no one asked.
@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 Congratulate me before I start feeling offended. Hurry up bigot.
@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 🙂
Heaven help them in those times if there was a harvest failure, livestock devastation, salt shortages!
soylent green
@@songofseikilos8659sad that Edward G Robinson died 12 days after completion of the movie from bladder cancer.
@@WVgrl59 My favourite movie of all time.Gonna watch it again right now.
Indeed. That's why it was urgent "no f'ing around business". People were far more powerless to forces of nature compared to us. It's crazy to imagine working so hard only to die anyways. That's why they valued the afterlife so much. It was a certainty for them.
Nevermind when your tummy ached from bacteria you went to see the barber surgeon who'd tell you that there is a demon or your balance was off and needed a blood letting. A entire large bowl was drained from you for no reason at all. Scary shit dude
Just loved this series, hope there’s more to come!
Unfortunately the series is almost 10 years old, unless they release those, I doubt there will be :(
Victorian Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, 4 episodes (2010)
Secrets of the Castle at Guédelon Castle, 5 episodes (2014)
Victorian Bakers at Blists Hill Victorian Town, 4 episodes (2016)
Full Steam Ahead courtesy of British Rail, 6 episodes (2016)
That's the end of the line. Can't even find any interviews where they talked about another series.
I hope this group does another series. They’re so passionate
I love this channel - thank you for the great documentaries/chronicles
How is no one talking about the fireworks guy?? His demeanor, the GLASSES? My favorite character yet!
I always thought Bloody Flux was a type of dysentery! I've heard it referred to with well poisoning cases as well in the 1600's. So cool to see how our ancestors live! Thanks for continuing to post amazing and educational content :)
I had to do research myself after hearing him so...enthusiastically talk about the bloody Flux being starvation so severe your intestines bleed out and...I can't find anything of the sort. The bloody Flux is dysentery and it is caused by bacterial or parasitic infections. I can't find a single reference to bloody Flux as extreme starvation resulting in one's guts falling out. Did you see the look on Ruth's face as that fellow was gushing about intestines falling out?? Unless there is some research I am missing, that expert is incorrect.
@@raindegrey9429I found that you can get bloody dysentery because of starvation. And that it was the main cause of bloody diarrhea in one study in East Africa. So this was probably what he was referring to.
@@raindegrey9429yeah
I would need some evidence of that guts bleeding out claim
Yea I couldn't find anything like flux being a starvation symptom in my searches.
I've heard of this starvation symptom occuring in third world countries from several sources. Can't remember what it's called, but not bloody flux. Maybe prolapse from immaciation.
I never knew masonry was seasonal, that stone could be so different. I wonder what they did when they weren’t carving?
craftsmen often built and maintained all their own tools, and in medieval time it wasnt unusual for even middle class people to do all their own construction work like mainting their house, making their own brooms, harvesting their own fuel, etc.
Once I put 4 raw hens eggs up my arse without breaking them
Like lawncare becoming snowplowing up North in the US, I would be interested to know what their occupation transitioned into during the cold months.
Maybe they actually made enough during the season to not work in the off mos? Ppl do that too, once they make enough (my son did this once he got into commercial contracts, he did go into commercial plowing tho as he got bored in winters lol)
This woman really shows you how important the tasks they did in the old days. Hard all around. That is a keeper!
When you're that tired you get into less trouble.
As a child I used to take part in harvesting the barley. The method was the same, but we used the scythes. I am a bit surprised that nothing was said about the awns... :)
I wondered the same thing, maybe it’s just to make work to seems more “back egging”.
what are awns?
@@mikev4621 The parts of barley ears. The awns grow from the barley ear. They look like silky hair, but they are sharp, like small fish bones or bristle. They tend to get into your clothes and skin and it takes hours to remove them.
@@annazukowska8170 thank-you : )
@@annazukowska8170 Perhaps you can answer another question: Why do they cut the barley at ground level when the only bit they need is at the top of the stalk?
Very nice, enjoyed the production and the insights. I live off grid in 🇺🇸 and folks have no idea what people did just to survive in the pre industrial days.👍❤
My great uncle grew up on a farm in Mississippi. They had one horse named Jim. He was the most valuable animal and asset they had. It was a treat when the caught an opossum because that meant they got to eat meat for dinner, but after 3 days of keeping it trapped. They had to help it purge it's body by feeding it fruit and lotsn of water. Everyone in the community was poor but they had an education, enough food, and a house. It was hard work and all members of the family had to work!
Wonderful series! Thoroughly enjoyed it!
1 hour video, I don’t have time for that………. Uh, watched the whole thing. Thank you for something fascinating!
They were an incredibly well organised and skilled people. Far more than what we have now.
Archaeologists have the most cool job in the the world. Especially when you can practice experimental archaeology like this. They have defied time and space and transported themselves back to living in a totally different age. Time Travelers.
Thank you so much ❤
Great documentary! Did anyone else wonder how these people survived eating "brine water" salt boiled to the heavens in a giant lead pan? How did they not keel over from lead poisoning? How fantastic is the housewife? She is some of the best casting I have ever seen in any doc production and I know she's more of an historian than a documentary performer. Lazy people need not apply. Good grief they toiled.
I was wondering the same!
What pulls the lead out is acidity, for example in tomatoes. They used lead for tons of dishware. And when people died from eating tomatoes served on lead, they assumed it was the tomatoes, because nothing else had killed them like that up until then.
Methinks perhaps lead isn’t quite as bad as we ve been told either…
I was thinking the same, however, maybe a thick lead oxide layer combined with mineral deposits prevented any significant lead contamination. Also, the brine could have been alkaline. Lead poisoning was more likely due to wine making (acidic)and lead cups.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah …or maybe the symptoms are considered a normal part of life when everyone has them.
hearing that intro always gets me excited for the banger of a vid I'm about to watch. Don't ever change it!
nice documentary, but what about how to survive winter? I'm seeing what they're doing when it's not winter.I was expecting to see what they do during the winter. 1)I see mead like drink, 2) gunpowder 3) Tile making, 4) Masonry... This is Fall Havest... not winter.
Work hard or it's the bloody flux. Either way you're fluxed.
Yeah, i noticed this too. Not one single sbowflake! 😂
They did not want to show them sleeping with their animals and dealing with flies and fleas all night
@@larryzigler6812 Thank you for the insight. I'm such a curious cat I'm going to go down the wrong rabbit hole!
@@joyhanson8654 Might be a bit warmer in a rabbit hole
Truly amazing show. You really feel like you are there in those times. I'm very impressed with the production. Well done.
OK but let’s be honest those were some thin slices of goose…
I'm a Brazilian guy. I loved it. It's a brilliant work and a smart idea. The history classes should be like it. Congratulations.
I would love to see a crossover of these guys with John Townsends
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Another thought I just had, when did they start using dogs on the farm and for what purposes?
this is the third time ive watched this series, and ive watched the series of the other eras as well at least once. i utterly engage with this old world. i am grateful for modern convenience of course, but from my experience you appreciate the little things more when you are deeply involved in the process and dependant on the results.
why does it feel like 2020 was the start of the new medieval age.. oh right.. because it is. the land barons have risen again, the digital serfs are clueless and the new church overlord is the church of science. taking notes, thanks ruth and co, some of this might become useful this decade coming.
Mite?
Decade?
The time is now, the possibility is etched in stone. It’s 2 *seconds* to midnite.
U are aware, as unlucky as I. We won’t be caught unawares (& mentally will be able while others crumble) but we have started grieving several yrs before the masses. And that steals our remaining time of normalcy.
Cyclops truly was cursed.
I would be really interested to learn about the Reformation, how it translated concretely in the lives of the peasants, with the Enclosures, Imperialism, the rise of Capitalism, the peasants revolts, etc.
The Reformation started wars. Religious differences always start wars. It's fighting at the side of God against the unclean unbelievers. Began when one tribe painted its bellies blue and another did not.
Preservation of meat is vital for anyone to do thru winter
Vegans would probably not have made it through the winter.
Vegans would be an additional meat source
..."Botany was the science of the day" (30:20) and so it should be today. Amazing stuff.
Unfortunately, it is IT.
Yet here I sit, conversing with you; if not for IT, it would never happen.
I still think it was better off before IT when botany wasn’t twisted but furthering humanity.
It is always wonderful to see how English-speaking films pack scientific facts into beautiful stories and scenes. Unfortunately, this is hardly done in German-speaking countries. What a beautiful program, what an interesting video!
in the future they will make documentaries on how Europeans survive this coming winter
And the northern United States
Ah, my daily russian troll. ❤️ off to the conscription Office with you, to the front a let some Ukranians show you, how superior russians really are.
Currently watching this without power, it's 14 degrees outside, -3 with the windchill lol
@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 still here, ruSSian troll? Go and fight for Mother russia, coward!
@Marcus you win haha damn. Yall must be tough as hell against the cold
If the world goes to shit in the midst of another WW or in the event of an apocalypse I need to have Ruth on my team! She is one heck of a woman!
Survival guide for winter 2023
At first I thought... where did they get these elaborate sets? Oh.. that's just England LOL
You had me at lead salt boiler.
Wouldn't the lead contaminate the salt?And F the poxy gentry .
I am so worried about the lead salt. And they said it sucked as a heating pan, so why use it?
Michaelmas seems quite similar to Canadian Thanksgiving, our thanksgiving isn't related to the American thanksgiving (even though it has a lot of similarities), ours is a celebration of the harvest, held on the 2nd Monday of October every year, we do eat turkey instead of a goose, but I think we do need to slim down goose numbers so maybe we should change that tradition.
Believe it or not, the big main park in San Francisco is overrun with geese! Poop everywhere. They are happy.
As an Anglo Saxon, and farmer I feel very connected to my fellow Saxons watching this excellent video. A heartfelt thanks for posting this video.....
@fspg3207 Indeed, as a man who is also of Welsh, Scottish descent, I understand your sentiment.
History is however history...I celebrate all my ancestral roots...appreciate the comment.
History is so fascinating
wait a moment, is it safe to boil stuff inside lead containers? doesn't lead leech into food/salt? how is it not toxic? :o
Probably contributed to most of them being dead by 40 🤔
it's complicated. I'm not an expert so I won't comment on exactly when it's safe to use lead. generally speaking, as a matter of practicality, I would say, "don't use something for cooking unless you're 100% sure it's safe."
but there's also wisdom in remembering that whether something is bad for you can depend on the "dose." there's arsenic in apple seeds, but you'd need to eat a metric fuckton of apple seeds for it to make you sick. so it's possible there are times when using lead isn't particularly risky, but again, I'm not an expert and I wouldn't recommend making it part of your daily life regardless.
This video was awesome. Thank you! It was suggested randomly and not something I would typically find myself watching, but one of the best things I’ve watched on RUclips lately 🤘 thnxthnx
Ruth is phenomenal
Since honey never ferments, it must have been something in the water that made honey into mead? I have a jar of honey from my sister's bees that is 20 years old, and although it's now a darker color it has never gone bad (fermented). This is why honey was used (and still can be) to cover flesh wounds to prevent infection as they heal.
Honey indeed ferments
Ferment is not bad. Ferment doesn’t mean get rotten.
Ferment is an action of beneficial organisms.
Honey doesn’t just seal off the wound but actively work at killing bad bacteria.
I ferment garlic and honey that black liquid is black gold! I eat the garlic/onion/ginger/turmeric too!
@@YeshuaKingMessiahI'm still learning about fermentation but so far I don't understand the difference between rotting/molding and fermenting. I have mold illness and fermented foods would help me heal but I don't know enough about what foods yet and how to do it myself etc. I'd love to be able to try what you said you make, black liquid gold! Thanks for the information you included in your comment!
So how do you know the honey has fermented (changed)? What properties does it have now that it didn't have before? @@YeshuaKingMessiah
@@dottiebaker6623 as it sits, the honey changes in color
It gets a little thinner too
Give it 2 weeks n then start eating it
I wait 2 mos if I can
Blacker the better!
Eat the garlic too
My friends Veterinarian packed her dogs wound with honey and wrapped it. No antibiotics needed; healed right up.
Farming is like concrete work. You're keeping your eye on the weather and you work your arse off in burts like planting, harvesting, pouring and finishing.
How would anyone figure out to mix protein in the brine for cleaner salt. Amazing.
How did they survive? They prepared... something people willfully refuse to do nowadays.
Henry the 8th destroyed all the monasteries and took all valuables and killed all the monks. He died clutching a rosary.
Imagine the hellfires jumped by 1000 feet when he passed.
Who was the first person to say, "I'm gonna toss some ox-blood into my brine to clean my salt." ?!?!?!
Easy, it doesn’t get very cold in England 🤣
My grandfather grew up in Siberia where temps fall to -70 .. that’s survival
A wonderful endeavor, no doubt, but a bit of a clickbait title. So if you clicked because you're wondering how normal people survived winter in medieval times, well, the answer you'll find here is... wait for it... they prepared for it. Just imagine all the books you would have had to read to acquire that knowledge.
No one's gonna say anything about the lead salt?
cooking salt on lead great idea
This is just absolutely fascinating. I am loving the bit about making salt!
These are the people of the British isles I’m interested in. These are the families that matter
What's a British ísle?
Gleening is still done here in California on private farms after harvest by some farmers ( usually by poorer immigrants I have a friend whose dad funded his way through college this way).
Very well made programme and very interesting.
This is SO interesting to me. Ruth Goodman is a favorite author of mine. Read her work and you’ll see why.
Let’s talk about the church and the way it functions and how it changed over the course of time.
We can obviously see what the purpose of the church was back in these days, but lacking purpose in today’s venues .
Pretty Much Planning a Ministry and even a Religious School and college that goes back to the Intellectual History of the Church. The Vatican has its own Observatory.
Need to Produce the next Batch of Men to Join Father Gregor Mendel and Father Georges Lemaître (Big Bang Theory)
Too many of the Anti Intellectual have dominated the Church
Peter: It's tough Tom. We don't even have a dog this time.
Tom: I've got you Peter. I've got you.
11:28
Masterpiece
Where are the children? I love these living history productions and just wish that children were there too.
Working in the mines
FBI open up
@11:53, must have been the origin of the image of the witch over the boiling cauldron, women making salt. That steam looks dramatic and mysterious.
We need this history. We have no idea what our future will be. Imagine losing our cell phones, banking our regular daily life changed by just a few things and we will be in a worldwide 'dark ages' again only a lot of young people have no idea, passed a supermarkets, fast food places, where food actually comes from!!😳 We should all be growing a garden of basic essentials now!!a
wouldn't work nowadays .. the only pollution they had back then was human and animal waste in their drinking water and those darn volcanos!
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i replied to myself for fun
Correct, some young people I see here and there in my village seem to walk around with cellphone as if a junior spock. I see some that sniff around watching me harvest mulch from behind Muffler shop. Is as if they never saw a spade, a pick or a garden hoe before in their lives. I love wild bees and take wild plants and roots for them. Am growing rye, teff, some basic grains, edible greens, onions, potatoes, many berries and hardwoods. Hardwood brush and branches are amazing roots. Staghorn sumac, switch grass, plantains, all are useful plants. These plants have amazing qualities and I learn more about them as I grow them.
@@dancostello6465 It's possible that the young ones you refer to actually have never used a spade or a hoe and never seen food coaxed from the earth.
Even the most hard won and vital knowledge can slip away when it is not regularly employed in daily life.
It's good to know you're keeping it alive in your corner of the world. Wishing you the best!🎶🐦✌🏼🎶🌎
Scythes are known since preroman times--why are they hand-picking/cutting barley?
46:06 "So what is Saltpeter"
Pyromancer laconically, "it's salt..."
lol
This was excellent! Thank you!!
Yummy! Lead laced salt.
Wonderfully well made documentary. Great "actors" and overall content. Thanks for making this knowledge available for the world to see.
i miss this show so much
I have to wonder why the brine was not strained to get the dirt out as it was poured into the pan?
This is fascinating!!!!! ☮️
As i watch this in a cozy bed, with the central heating on 🛌🏿
21:08 from a very in depth description of bloody flux to a delightful medieval tune😂😂😂