How Did Normal Medieval People Decorate Their Homes? | Tudor Monastery Farm | Chronicle
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- The team explores the hospitality and housing of Tudor England. With no provision for the poor from the state, the monasteries played a key role in providing charity and housing for those in need.
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Thank you so much for talking more about the average person rather than the rich. I want to know more about the daily lives of people like me and what it was like for them. ❤️
True we have so much history on them not the masses
Quite true. Unfortunately, it seems that little has changed when it comes to social and economic class.
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Yes! I have always been more curious about the regular people in history than the rich and powerful. It's hard finding info on normal life.
If your daughter startled a lords horse during her play as he was riding by, that lord would order that child killed immediately. If you were getting married, the local lord would stop by and rape the wife to "consumate" the marriage, if you refused, you were both killed. This is why lords banned their peasants from owing weapons.
Never heard anyone say “body lice” and “greasy dirty things” with so much love and compassion.
The title said "how did normal medieval people decorate their homes?" None of this video was about home decoration. It was about basic labors and chores.
Thank you!
This is pretty common for Chronicle/Absolute History videos. I like the content but whoever names the youtube uploads clearly doesn't screen them first before titling them. There is generally significant overlap of content across the video posts as well.
So true
It is though lol This was the decorating of a medieval farm lol By decorating they meant installing a new lime floor and decorating it with handmade mats made from foliage... that was their decorating.
Clickbait, once again
This was so lovely. Watching people joke around, tease and compliment each other, and learning new things just made it so much easier to imagine what it would be like living at this time period. "I did not drop the custard castle!" It's rare to see people just enjoying their lives in most medieval depictions.
It's Ruth's world and we're just living in it. Thanks kindly for sharing this incredible education with us. I'm really impressed with all of the experts, and the incredible production value.
Agree 💯👍
Isn't she amazing? More at home 500 years ago. Makes me believe in reincarnation. :-)
I wish I could get my kids to be as interested and find this as exciting as I did and still do. These shows are now almost obsolete. Ruth for what it’s worth you are absolutely not only a lovely human being but just brilliant, absolutely brilliant! I’m sure nobody can do it like Miss Ruth!
When I was growing up our dairy barn was white washed every couple years. First all of the loose was scraped off then the new white wash was applied. I know it combined flaked limestone .....it kept the barn free from bacteria etc. My father had the cleanest barn I ever saw. When the cows were finished going in or out the floors were swept..he taught us all how to sweep without bringing dust into the air,, the sweeping went into the drops and the floor relimed. We all knew how to caste a thin layer lo lime ...maybe it was his Swedish background but I learned to appreciate this after older and saw other farms. I was looking at Amish farms to buy 30 years ago....filthy....
this is the best history docu i have ever seen and I watch a lot. so many facts, so well presented, and beautifully illustrated and explained. thank you so much.
Literally just finished rewatching this series yesterday LOL!!😂
Ruth’s daughter is absolutely lovely!
Who is Ruth's daughter?
@@bluesloverz the bookbinder.
36:37 Ah, so that's the origin of the expression 'out of sorts' !
love seeing how my ancestors lived! hard work an lots of group effort. (they were not the rich ones shown at the end)
Please make a channel like this for the regency era
Wonderful! Only one question, was there not cold water available for washing the butter as my mother always did as the final step before salting to help the butter store longer? I love learning about how things were before the industrial revolution changed our lives so dramatically.
I thought the same, my mother always washed the butter
I wonder if it’s because water wasn’t always safe to drink so they wouldn’t want it to touch food at that stage either. There’s a reason people mostly drank beer and wine at this period in history.
Anyone else get a good laugh watching Ruth go to town on the butter than says "you never know if it's going to be 5 seconds or 5 minutes". Lol
15:15 wow that’s a proper camp fire
Fun etymology lesson this episode "watermark", "out-of-sorts", "(give it a good) threshing" and "spirits (alcohol)" had no idea!
Ugh it's so idyllic. Makes me want to live in this little village.
48:00 Monks are keeping an eye on the kitchen to prevent anyone from stealing food.
Notwithstanding the title mismatch, this video was wonderful!
0:30 this is modern dwarf wheat isn't it? It would be nice to see reenactments with the Medieval wheats that grew as tall as a man.
When I was a kid we'd buy raw milk and store it in the basement fridge in big glass jars. We'd skim off most of the cream, put it in a jar, and shake it while watching TV to make butter.
i L💖VE RUTH!!! She is an inspiration & a true role model for women. Thank You Ruth! God Bless all & God's Will Be Done!!!
Anything with Ruth is an automatic 5 stars! ❤
This was so interesting!
Absolutely fascinating.
Fascinating insights
A simpler time I guess it has its pros and cons but I think I would of been happier in the middle ages
I want to try the shell chimes in my garden! XD
A nightmare of ads.
How in the world did they figure out how to make those floors?
Very interesting and well done. I love this series.....but it's not really about decorating, is it?
Looks like fun!
Think about all of the events over time that had to take place over time to figure out that curdled milk will make your floor stronger.
My God, they worked hard. To those complaining that actual decorating tips aren't in this video...really? :-)
you are supposed to shake the glass with methanol and when bubbles start appearing its alcohol, thought that was common knowledge you should never "just guess". (discard everything in the original glass before collecting more)
They basically made a concrete floor. Pretty interesting.
Wasn't really a whole lot about decorating their homes, more like household chores...
What an amazing documentary! ✨ And the pretty young blonde monk at 46:42 would have been an issue for me at the monastery! 😂😂 He looks like my man 😂
Isn't that Gloucester Cathedral?
not a cellphone in sight
so, it was a smart move to become a monk back then to have a lusher life than just being a peasant.
Right? Educated, literate, free room & board, free food, live with friends in a gigantic stone palace, all at the cost of... praying 8 times a day... 😒
@@Alizudo I mean, yeah, and some of them still went full ham on sinning too...like yeah, I'd be making honey mead personally lol
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Oh, 100%, honey mead sounds fantastic (haven't had the opportunity to try any yet). I would be on top of that.
@@Alizudo: Parasites!!!
No. Monasteries were not a means of upward social mobility. Peasants couldn't just decide to be monks. Otherwise, all the peasants would have become monks, and there would be no one to do the physical labor.
Is this like a permanent renfair?
I got extremely confused at 2:32 thinking I'd accidentally switched to Great British Bake Off
So, monks took in homeless people. Nice. We need monks in the cities with all the homeless.
i may never eat butter again
Love these videos but they need better titles to draw in more views
As someone pointed out, this one is already clickbait.
Your Videos are great I love watching them but please put the correct title on them. Most of the video is NOT about how people decorated their homes. Really annoying when I want to watch a specific topic, but then get other stuff I dont wanna watch thrown at me.
You ripped up the floor? WHY? It was amazing!
Why is nobody talkin' about milk churning 😂😂😂
What was the relationship
Would really like to see a video based on the title of this presentation. I would love to see how their homes were decorated. Love your programs, but you missed the mark on this one. Thank you.
Still waiting on how to decorate my Tudor home......
Ads every three minutes? Thanks but no thanks.
Misleading title, nothing about home decoration :(
I realizing that in Tudor times there was a lot of thrashing of a lot of stuff. It was like you got up in the morning and you knew you were going to thrash something.
I thought the same thing lol
no need for a gym membership!
In Tudor times?? What about now?? You don't get out of bed and thrash stuff now in 2022?? My day cannot start without a good thrashing. I thought everyone started their day this way.
Brings a whole new understanding of ‘getting a good thrashing’ as a threat
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I enjoyed this video, thank you for sharing it. However, besides the braided rugs, this really wasn't about how they decorated. Oh well, still a fascinating inside look at Tudor life.
Especially when it’s calls itself Tudor Monastery Farms…a much better fitting tittle.
Don’t forget the floor they made and polished with milk.
Renaming the same documentaries I already watched is really annoyong . At least have the title not be a complete lie .
"you're hired! we find you well beyond the temptations of the flesh"
"um...thanks?" 🙂
"You're not sexy. You got the job." Lmao
That struck me right away, too 😅
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seems to be nothing at all in this video about how medieval people decorated their homes !
rated 100% clickbait!
Did you actually watch the video? They talk about things that go inside of the homes more than once.
@@isayahsnow2767 They talk about basic hygene/comfort strategies for a total of like two minutes between other tasks, but the title implied we would find out about optional things done for fun and show. Seasonal decorations, or the organization of things in small homes. As much as I ended up liking the video, I came here wondering what regular, poor people with access to more nature but less money than me, did to make their homes more homey. Having finished the video, I'd still like to know. 100% clickbait.
@@generatoralignmentdevalue They actually mention rushes being used for rugs, mattresses, pillows, etc. They also discuss flooring, basic items kept for daily life, books, usage of herbs and flowers, even "wooden hands". In big likelihood, poor people of the time wouldn't be able to just have a bunch of "stuff" sitting around like we do in modern times as well. It was a time of function over appearance for lower class to poor folk. It's likely some personal items were kept for sure, but it would vary between people and if you need extra cash, you are probably going to sell the item that has no "purpose". Most peasant houses wouldn't even have glass windows due to how expensive glass was. Further, I don't think there is even an abundance of information regarding the personal items of peasants because well....who cared about the personal lives of peasants? Probably not the educated folk recording the history of people in such times. To say the video is 100% clickbait isn't true at all. You DID learn some things that would decorate an internal space, just not as much or as personal as you wanted.
You're right, its very interesting and the whole series great, but nothing about decorating the house outside of floor Matt's, etc, and I wouldnt count that as decoration. I thought maybe they'd hang crosses or flowers or something, but I think actual decorating was done more on clothing and linens , possibly furniture
Yeah, I think their Christmas stuff has the most about decorating.
i always find older systems of life to be fascinating because of our inherent knowledge of chemistry and the relationships of all the organisms and resources in an ecosystem. It’s so cool and really makes you wonder,
WHEN/HOW did they discover how to make actual lye a cleaning agent from ash, a waste byproduct?
WHEN/HOW did they know that the milk had a protein to make the flooring waterproof?
WHEN/HOW did they discover drying out rushes increased their tensile strength and flexibility - making it a wonderful material for lots of different things?
Always wondered this as well. I always assumed it was a mixture of observing accidents/the world around us, as well as drawing conclusions based on what we observed about the natural world. We are good at problem solving cognitively, drawn to assumptions and pattern recognition as creatures, which would've helped us out a lot I think
Agreed. It's like knowing which berries are edible - the amount of trial, error, and unknown science that went into how everything was done is incredible.
I’m not 100% on this, but much of this technology and knowledge was born and passed on through the Ancient Roman civilizations, and some civilizations after that. Much of our western ways of living and thinking stem from as early as they.
I am so surprised that the lady churning butter wasn't wearing a full apron to protect her outer dress from milk splatters. Her outer garment looks like wool, and that wouldn't have been laundered very often if at all. Surely a wool dress smelling like spoiled milk is not on!
Ruth, Pete, and Tom really know their stuff! I learned a lot watching them. I do wonder at the cost of salt if poor farmers could afford to have enough to use in a multipurpose fashion.
Yeah I've also heard that salt was an expensive thing, wonder if it's a myth.
@@voloshanca Depends on where you were. Anyone on the English coast could make salt just by letting some sea water dry up, so it wasn't having to be shipped too far to get to your home. If you were land-locked and had no salt mines, your country was going to pay a lot more for it.
@K C oh makes sense, thank you.
Salt being some super expensive substance beyond the reach of all but the aristocracy is largely myth.
Miller (1991) discusses the variation in English salt prices in the 13th to 15th centuries. For most of this time, salt was cheaper than wheat, per bushel, varying from 58% of the price of wheat (~6d) to exceeding the price of wheat in the most expensive two decades (the 1380s and 1440s). The highest prices were in the regions furthest from salt-producing areas; the highest prices were almost double the lowest prices. Scottish prices for salt were approximately the same as the price of wheat, for the 13th and 14th centuries (Gemmill and Mayhew, 1995).
Where salt was expensive - where it had to be imported and transport costs were high, it could be much more expensive. For example, in Sweden, salt was about 10 times the price of grain in the late 13th century, dropping to about double the price of grain by the early 16th century due to dropping transport costs (Söderberg, 2007). Salt could also be heavily taxed such as the French Gabelle. Taxes could more than double the price in a region. Taxes like this sometimes led to great variation in prices in adjacent regions, which drove a sometimes thriving smuggling trade, in turn sometimes leading to strong attempts to suppress smuggling.
Where it was cheap, it was easily affordable for a variety of purposes. Where it was expensive, it would still have been readily affordable for regular use in cooking - what might have been too expensive was the large amounts needed for salting fish or meat for preservation.
I love this series! Ruth is so wonderful
Everyone should realise how important good quality history programs are. As an audio creative in broadcasting I’m always conscious of the importance of good production values. Especially good narration/voiceovers. Sadly I’m seeing more “homemade history programs creeping in to platforms like TH-cam and that frankly many of them don’t cut the mustard. So Dan Snow and all those amazing Brit history documentary makers, Thankyou and keep the tradition of great content front and centre.
The US SUCKS in this regards. You have PBS and that is about it. and PBS was great.. but UK does so much better.
@@caelidhg6261that’s thanks to the slashing of publicly funded programs and services 🙄 and the current rise of rampant misinformation is the result of
Sausages/Ham's
Pots and pans
Herbs hanging out from the sealing.
This is great decoration to this Day.
aaw you beat me to this answer by 4 days ! but my answer is funnier
Ruth is the best. She absolutely makes the show!
Ruth is the worst. Endless blathering.
I agreed! Love her passion.
@@hammondOT now why would you say that?
Where does she know all that stuff?
She is great!
Agreed! she *is* the absolute best, i adore her enthusiasm and i'm always thrilled to see her in a documentary
Search for Tudor Monastery Farm, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and you can find the entire series. These were produced in the UK and (in the USA) broadcast on PBS in the 00s.
There is also a French Castle and Victorian Pharmacy.
And “Tales from the Green Valley” is set in Wales in 17th Century
It is also already sorted into playlists on this channel.
I just hope I find something that excites me in life as much as that woman was excited about churning butter.
these three and their shows are frigging wonderful. Interesting as hell, full of learning being presented coherently. if we didn't have books but only a screen then this is how it should be done. I am so glad for Chronicle it absolutely makes my day to escape somewhere else with them and learn again how we lived and how we got here.
btw, how's the castle coming? did it have it's house-warming feast?
They can even teach you how to become articulate!
I feel like that little terrier needs more air time. What was the relationship people had with these loyal creatures in that time? So sweet. The goodest boy.
👍💯❤️🐶 I agree!
In the Netherlands, many carpet producers are in the regions where their ancesters used to weave mats. Just like the mats we see in this video.
39:39 "The key to Tudor laundry was brute force..." No wonder they wrote more about milkmaids instead of laundry ladies. XD
Omg, my mom has a set of those “wooden hands” I never knew they were for butter!
It's incredible isn't it when you find something and you don't know what it is for. My grandmother had the butter wooden machine piece complete with the wooden hands. and a large terracotta mortar and pedel. Later after her passing, it was passed down to my mum. Once I found the pieces and asked out them. I was in awe. It's because of my grandmum's stories that I wanted to learn more about the traditional way of cooking and serving (pre-industrialization). I'm so glad you have a piece of pre-modern history too!
I love this series!! Ruth is a joy to learn from! Tudor working women must have had great big mighty arms.
What these people are doing to recreate life in these time periods is incredible.
I’m so glad this channel was recommended to my page, many frames just look like the vivid copies of medieval illustrations and the earthy paintings of common living scenes, and it gives back the normality and mundaneness to those people and their lives, it’s so comfortably intimate.
This isn’t medieval though it’s tudor
Love learning about the more "mundane" aspects of history, it's so fascinating to me
So fascinating to really learn how ordinary people lived, & the actual "how-to's" of what they did. This is an amazingly educational series.
Okay she knew what she was doing looking at the camera like that. You know what I'm talking about. The butter.
Cool video, loved the cast, may watch more, still don't know how normal midieval people decorated their homes.
Haha, right? I wanted to see medieval live, laugh, love signs. 🤣
All of the Farm series docs were amazing!
If I was young, this would be my dream experience, hard work and all. I grew up on a small farm with few modern conveniences and ran it for quite a few years as an adult, I would have loved to have the opportunity to learn the old ways.
That lazy dog on the rush boat was my favorite part of this video.
This was so interesting...but what's with the title lol
I really liked the “out of sorts” bit
Incredibly interesting!
It baffles me how much physical labor was necessary for doing just anything.
No wonder people these days are suffering from lots of diseases caused by a sitting, immobile lifestyle.
Yep. My great gramma ran beef cows in her 70s. My former landlord did also. In his 70s. I cut wood, ride my bike for miles, haul my own groceries, dig holes for fence posts. I'm 63. Old biddies peck my tail feathers, so to speak. Young girls say the biddies are jealous. My only health issues are asthma and central apnea. My bike helps with both.
This is delightful and all the presenters even those shown briefly were wonderful. Although I do love Ruth going “gotta get the boys” in reference to Tom and Pete and every time they’re referenced together in my brain I was like “oh shit, THE BOYS”
What a lovely series, so interesting. I've been a fool for the Middle Ages since I was a teenager; beautifully produced and researched.
I always had the worst impression of the Middle Ages as a time of ignorance, foolishness, injustice and misogyny. First the video game Kingdome come Deliverance made me realize what a beautiful and idyllic world it was at least back then.
@@Celisar1 Me too, for so long we've been educated that we needed to be entertained always and rich to be happy, and thinking the people in the Middle Ages were bored af and living under the power of the Church. I have a theory that the ego of the current culture likes to think it is the pinnacle of civilization, mostly the modern civilization with all our science and technology. People back in the day lived life, instead we that we live the lives of others through social media. People then was not rich, was wealthy (for wealth is not only measured on money)
to put enough salt in the butter to preserve it for a year and to clean things with it, was that expensive? or did even peasants have the means to buy a lot of salt? though i guess if salt was expensive, that would make salted preserved meats expensive too? but sometimes it seems like salt was a luxury thing like having the salt container on the table next to the important diners... did it become cheaper over the centuries from ancient times? well, certainly nowadays it seems inexpensive enough...
Probably a difference between rough salt and fine table salt as well.
Price largely depended on how close you were to the ocean or other salt source (dry lakebed).
I imagine food, including salt, made up 4 5ths of the common man's expense. The rest of his earning was spent on rent to his lord, tithe to the Church, and goods from the local shops and peddlar's stall. By the end of one's life, there weren't much personal items but there was land, tools, and animals or in other words assets
My mom grew up drinking milk from her family's cows. She would occasionally bite into cream clods in her cereal. That's why she doesn't like milk very much to this day. That cleaning routine for the dairy tools is pretty good. I would feel comfortable using it today if I didn't have soap.
I didn't know about the woven mats for the floors. There is that in common with the Japanese tatami.
The bowing lessons were amusing.
The amount of food eaten surprising? If they were to come to an American Thanksgiving dinner, it would be comparable. XD It is weird not seeing foods from the Columbian Exchange.
I'd never have made it lol I would'a been a single, lonely lady living with my cats in a hut in the woods... bc I'm way too lazy to do allllll that work, spend a week killing myself to wash a load of laundry to only wear it to do the hard work in & for the husband to run a farm in & the kids to play in the creek in lol Them clothes would have been at best rinsed out haha
I sure do enjoy Ruth and company’s videos. I really would love to see them get back together and work on some other time periods. Or maybe just different scenarios from the ones already established in video.
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Agreed!
Sorry. It is great. But Ruth gives me the willies
I always wonder how people knew about stuff like the right temperature for the limestones or that sour milk will bind it - how did they find out as early as roman times?
They learned by doing
@@djmanley27 I mean yeah, but how do you come up with the idea to try and do very specific things. Using berries as a dye for example, is one thing - easy and kind of obvious, but what is shown in the documentary is often quite specific.
@@Sammy200655294 We can only speculate. I often feel my way through a process and often find unique ways to the end goal.
@@Sammy200655294 I feel like someone probably accidently let the milk curdle, and instead of pouring it down the drain they just tried mixing it with something. When you don't waste things, you have to find uses for them. Otherwise you're just a hoarder lol
Its a mix of trial and error over thousands of years by millions of people as well as experiments by the elite in the monasteries and the universities
I thoroughly enjoyed this and learned quite a bit, As I always do when watching your shows.
I absolutely love this program! No better way to learn than doing things / practising.
😆😂 still fallin for their obvious bs? 😂
This channel is a gold mine.
the monk looks like you've seen him in your dreams
That was a very interesting documentary. I've always had a strong interest in Medieval Europe.
I've been binge-watching this morning. Entirely fascinating. And with the world's economy so shaky, I've gleaned several good tips for making do. Candle dipping I've known how to do since a child. I also learned how to make butter. The lye from ash I've learned in the past 2 or 3 years.