Do you just mean Tudor Monastery Farm? For my money Victorian Farm is a bit better. Alex Langlands is a bit more watchable than Tom for my money, and has better rapport with Ruth and Peter. All the British Farm series are amazing, and I basically watch them on repeat constantly lol. But I would even put the very first one, Tales from the Green Valley, above Tudor Farm. Just food for thought friend!
I’ve worked with oxen and horses and one thing with oxen is they tend to forget their training unless worked regularly Probably not a problem back then
What I love about these series is that they either quickly dispel the romance of yesteryear or make you realise we have lost quite a lot of our connections to the land and each other - or both. How many of us would go back and live then permanently? As a woman, I would NOT be putting my hand up. Unless I was to live as a Nun, a nun would be okay. A wealthy nun of course, becoming an abbess. I did enjoy Gwen and Graceful at the plough. I think the sheep watching also enjoyed it. They were very curious. You must have got so much sleep in winter, how lovely. Dusk to dawn. 3pm to 9 am in Scotland! 🌟🌟🌟👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊
Good points. I will soon implement a few small things from yesteryear just to feel a bit more alive. But I would not like to live back then. And I'm a dude! Compared to my life today, being a woman back then seems plain scary.
I remember reading once that people had an extra incentive to get more sleep in the winter time-there wasn't as much food, and it was warmer in bed than out of it, so so the more time you spent sleeping the better.
Yes, a different time. Would not have not done well. I need my showers, clean water and hot. It was gruelling work. Smoky homes. Latrines outside. Not a lot of clothes or shoes, just kept renewing up and fixing them. Be drunk all the time with ale even it was the safest drink.
Ahhhh yes ....these days certainly did have their pluses did they not? It's true....it wasn't all lovely but I guess to me the idea was even back then there was still some good graces given to man... personally....I would like to live in something similar...a marriage of the two.... I'm a dreamer I know 💤💤
I adore how they openly joke back and forth about how horrible it was... and yet, it's all cheery and bright like some shakespearian fairy world. it's plays well! 👏 Ruth is exceptional!!! ❤ that Dr. fellow that show up from time to time isn't half bad himself.
@@ashleelarsen5002: Start imaging! One fine morning most of the entire world will face a similar famine! No one in the western world similarly believed that a COVID could strike us!
I love the fact you call out the newly imported american crops like potatoes, tomatoes, squash, and peppers. I think very few people today understand how much of their diet is relatively new to most of the rest of the world.
True. I grew up in the 80/90s, so before the internet was a thing. I must have been in my twenties before I learnt, that potatoes aren't native to Europe. Being German, they are just such a normal, integral part of my diet and of many traditional German dishes. I would have never suspected, that they come from South America, of all places 👀
@@raraavis7782 I'm Ojibwe Native American and between loving history and loving to cook I always found it interesting where foods actually came from and what really is authentic cooking anyway? Imagining Italy without tomatoes, Ireland without potatoes, Southeast asia and India without chilies, Eastern Europe without Paprika... and it is still happening today. Just a decade ago most people in the US had no idea what quinoa was and thought chia seeds were just for tv gimmick products not food.
@@raraavis7782Same here, grew up before the internet and was shocked that horses weren't in north America until the colonial expansion. I had seen horses and natives so much it didn't make sense having never found the right books to know better.
A DaVinci painting. 😆 Wow Tudor England was a lot of work but like they mentioned an honest day’s work. . What a great series. Thank you from the other side of the pond.
Thank you for this miraculous episode of Tudor England life. Keep up doing this great work to show people, how easy their life nowadays, compared with a mere of couple centuries ago and earlier.
This has been a very informative and entertaining series! The amount of things I've been able to learn is astounding considering that I started watching not long ago. Definitely deserving of a lot more attention!
When I was a kid my family had a large garden. We planted starting in the spring. When the garden started coming in that is what we ate. My mother would take whatever we didn't eat and can or freeze it. Then we ate out of the garden during the fall, winter and early spring. Ruth was right when she said that gap between when your stored food was running out and when the new was coming in was the hungry period. Of course we didn't go hungry but we bought more from the grocery store.
I confess, having my home's walls made out of horse poop is NOT something I think I'd want, but I understand the reasoning behind it. Wonder if it smells when it rains!
as an avid history buff and someone who does blacksmithing i find it very hard to believe apprentice woodworkers would have smithed their own tools. not saying he didnt but to do that back in the day would have been taking a job away from a blacksmith and would not have been appreciated by them. i dont remember when guilds specifically came into practice but during those days it would have been even worse. if you werent a part of the blacksmithing guild you didnt blacksmith, not that you couldnt but you didnt. the only way i could picture apprentice woodworkers smithing their own tools would be if a blacksmith shop had a prior arrangement with a master woodworker, i just dont see that happening though since its a loss of a job unless they somehow recouped it later. the notion of anyone other than a blacksmith making tools is hard to grasp since where else are you going to find a forge? a woodworking shop is not going to have a forge just for making tools, its a waste of resources and available space. far easier to simply request a set of tools from a nearby blacksmith.
Not to mention, when they speak of "ale" in the show, they're talking about the stuff made in the 15th century - horrible, awful stuff. You wouldn't recognize it as ale today. It was just something you knew you could drink and not die because the microorganisms within it had been killed by the boil process and kept suppressed by the alcohol. But it would have tasted grotesque to our modern palates.
It's very hard for me to believe there's only "one" professional dish maker in the entire country, because there are literally hundreds and hundreds of people in the US who make every kind of plate, bowl, cup, dish, and platter out of wood using lathes. And there are quite a few who do it with a foot powered lathe as shown in the video. I have an entire collection of such woodenware that I've collected over the years from many different fairs and artisans. Unless in England you have to get some government license to make wooden tableware with a lathe?
I forgot to ask surely women were constantly pregnant due to high infant mortality! How was the division of labor sometimes hard assigned to women carried on during morning sickness, etc.?
Yeah. For those not being able to afford any hired help, it must have been really hard 😬. Of course, women would have nursed babies much longer than the 6 month common today - and nursing hormones considerably lower the chance of a new pregnancy. Thus helping space out the pregnancies. And kiddies were expected to help out from a very young age. It's one of the reasons, why young people were strongly discouraged not just from premarital relations, but also from marrying too early. There were religious reasons as well, obviously, but it was also a practical question. A man was expected to establish himself (within his options) before proposing to a young woman, so he could adequately support his family. Which often meant, that men were already in their late twenties or so, before they could choose a wife. Women, obviously, would marry as soon as someone suitable proposed. And I'm guessing, only the most desperate young woman would marry a man, who couldn't afford farm hands and the female equivalents for the household. Like a kitchen maid or washer woman. Remember, that not even teenaged boys and girls were considered old enough for paid work back then. So cheap labor in form orphaned or dirt poor children/teens was available even to simple folks. Some might even have worked just for a place to sleep and food.
She said a "truckel" when talking about the pull out bed underneath the other....I thought it was called a "trundle"....is that a period correct name she said or just what they call it in that part of the world?
Ehhh.. I don't think I'd give up being a "Peasant" today, for being a King way back then. Everyone smells, you dunno what may give you some-sort of cancer 12yrs down the road, you can only eat what's in season in your area, SO MUCH WORK, Boring as all Hell, cold, dark.. Even as King, you had a box in a room that you shat in..
They certainly never starved nor lacked for shelter or clothing. Some clergy lived better than others, and largely that depended upon the monastic order they were part of. Some worked their asses off.
Again... another video Little Dot Studios / The History Hit Network has shown several times already, but with a new thumbnail and new title to deceive people into believing it's a new video.
@@tinygrim stop boinking problem solved- this problem still exists today in innumerable places - i am dirt poor yet lamenting i don't hv a son. - finally when i DO hv a son after risking the mother's life Turns out he's a further burden due to some type of birth defect or disability yet then it's all on the mother as if she boinked herself and married herself. If she does not hv a son then of course it's the woman who is barren 🙄 etc etc etc rubbish
@@tinygrim u r totally right in ur facts - but i am talking about global situations - my nation has this shining attitude to societal problems - Simple examples: 1) i am a dirt poor day laborer can't feed my existing parents & kids family my wife died so instead i marry again & hv more kids - my kids in utero are being deprived of essential nutrients and are born with defects - so i keep adding to the problem. 2) now this is a specific event a grandfather murdered this city born city bred granddaughter of teenage yrs because she in his opinion she dressed unlike village women. Mental case 🙄🙄
I think it largely would have depended on the family's wealth and whether they could afford to keep a child who could not work and would most likely never be able to. Even more so if the child was severely disabled as to require a carer around the clock.
Sadly, this is why there are superstitious old stories of babes abandoned in the woods because they are believed to be products of dark misfortune. Concocting a story around such barbarism was the only way to make it palatable. In some tales the children’s spirits went to live with the faeries of the forest.
At 15:15, I wonder what the reaction would be if you were to tell a Muslim in a Muslim country that, one day, their faith is going to be nothing more than a relic to be "reenacted" for tourists in a museum.
Probably something akin to probably horror or disgust. I'm sure if you went back to anyone 500+ years ago, and told them in the future, people from the future time were going to pretend to be them to get a "feel" for the life, they'd probably think you're crazy.
Theyd get offended but theres nothing they can do about it. Every religion will gradually fade into obscurity. Christianity did so first because of the enlightenment, followed by Japanese shinto buddhism because of Westernization in the Meiji Restoration, followed by Chinese confucianism because of communism. Islam is no different
It’s beyond comprehension that almost all people in those times and before including intelligent ones would believe in this bullshit, rituals and all! The very few smart ones who didn’t believe shut their mouths, became part of the clergy and didn’t have a hard life. Their stomachs were generally always full! They could do nothing for the empty-headed masses except give them worthless words, etc.
As far as I know there are different divisions of historical periods. Some historians say that the Modern Era starts with the Protestant Reform (1510s-1530s), some say it ends with the fall of the Bizantine Empire (1453). So that period in between could be seen as a "late medieval/early modern" period depending on which part of it is analysed. Thats just a thought of mine as Im not a historian (yet) 😅
4:50 - there was not cathedrals everywhere. At that time period, there was maybe 3 in England, w/ Canterbury being the main one. They were typically located in large city hubs.
Each Bishop had a cathedral..more than three Bishops in England then, or now..only difference, Catholic then, and unfortunately, Church of England, now.
What? These people didn't know that if you boiled the water, it would be later safe to drink? That had to know this, especially if they were sophisticated to sterilize the water with alcohol.
The beer was actually very low alcohol, so even kids drank it and the people weren’t all alcoholics. The beer also provided a lot of valuable vitamins, minerals and calories. There were really not many alternatives, milk could only be drunk fresh, water was often contaminated tea, coffee and cocoa not available. Beer was best.
As an atheist and anti monarchist, I'm tempted to agree with you. But back then, the clergy also provided the intellegentsia of society, while the monarchy coordinated the defence of the realm. Noblemen had to personally fight in wars, they couldn't just enjoy their luxuries like they can today.
@@Tom_Quixote: Intelligensia? To propagate their irrational agenda! With it to keep people in line though that was necessary. Some very few probably advanced for that time rudimentary science!
@@roberttelarket4934 Actually, that is far from true, as much of later "science" had it's roots in medieval botany, alchemy and "husbandry". Genetics research began with a monk/brother who raised peas, for example. There were also the discoveries made in medicine and even in the brewing/fermenting/distilling of alcoholic drinks. They may not have understood it was ghiardia(sp?) that was causing the gastrointestinal illness, but drinking at least boiled water (the root of 'tea-drinking' can be traced thusly), but preferably ale, would guard against it. Lack of knowledge was a relic of the so-called Dark Age; when common people were generally illiterate the monks and monasteries kept such knowledge from the past as had proved useful (and not just to have power over others, either!) and efficacious, even writing down and preserving ancient tales, custom and tradition. Furthermore; and possibly of even greater import; was the "clock o' the day" and the setting of certain monthly and annual feasts and saint's days. This structure helped to give people a general sense of their place in the day/week/month/year. Not just for purposes of population control but for people to control their own lives and activities. Et al.
_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell
The term "Dark Ages" refers to the lack of records available in the 19th century about the 200 years between the sack of Rome and the Carolingian dynasty. Since then, historians have found records of the various happening in that time in Europe, but the term "Dark Age" stuck around because its a Hollywood trope
Yawn. I wonder if people will ever tire of posting such cliche virtue signaling. We all know, this, John. And I wonder if you think that, say, the Chinese encompass all the world in their histories? The Japanese? Iranians? Stop with the self hate. It’s stupid, not enlightened.
Pretty much any occupation a peasant may have chosen (or have thrust upon him by birth or dictate) was grueling, disgusting, horrifyingly dangerous and destructive to your long term survival. Sucked to be a peasant. Was far better to be a clergy, noble or mercantile class. Of course, easier said than done and all that.
Maybe life was so hard because there was no birth control (so like 20 kids), no antibiotics, no clean drinking water and sanitation and no vaccines? Just a guess
No it's simply a lack of Automation and Technology,, your assumption about 20 kids would have been far more than the statistical average and children surviving the first year wasn't as common as it is today
There was also much less food back then. Lack of chemical fertilizer and modern irrigation caused much less yields in harvests, and lack of industrial pesticide meant that alot of crops were lost to rodents and bugs. Then there was the problem of blight caused by fungus and the lack of weather stations to forecast rain.
We are only listening to the point of view of teh people who could read in write how many of those taking care of the land for the monks who controled the food supply education and technology and were the only one who knew how to read and write so how accurate is this version of english history..
most underrated series of all time. nothing ever comes close to this. really marvellous work, please bring more! 🙏
Do you just mean Tudor Monastery Farm? For my money Victorian Farm is a bit better. Alex Langlands is a bit more watchable than Tom for my money, and has better rapport with Ruth and Peter. All the British Farm series are amazing, and I basically watch them on repeat constantly lol. But I would even put the very first one, Tales from the Green Valley, above Tudor Farm. Just food for thought friend!
I’ve worked with oxen and horses and one thing with oxen is they tend to forget their training unless worked regularly
Probably not a problem back then
What I love about these series is that they either quickly dispel the romance of yesteryear or make you realise we have lost quite a lot of our connections to the land and each other - or both. How many of us would go back and live then permanently? As a woman, I would NOT be putting my hand up. Unless I was to live as a Nun, a nun would be okay. A wealthy nun of course, becoming an abbess.
I did enjoy Gwen and Graceful at the plough. I think the sheep watching also enjoyed it. They were very curious.
You must have got so much sleep in winter, how lovely. Dusk to dawn. 3pm to 9 am in Scotland! 🌟🌟🌟👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊
Good points. I will soon implement a few small things from yesteryear just to feel a bit more alive. But I would not like to live back then. And I'm a dude! Compared to my life today, being a woman back then seems plain scary.
I remember reading once that people had an extra incentive to get more sleep in the winter time-there wasn't as much food, and it was warmer in bed than out of it, so so the more time you spent sleeping the better.
There's some evidence that during the longer nights, people broke their sleep up into 2. So would wake up for a bit in the night.
Yes, a different time. Would not have not done well. I need my showers, clean water and hot. It was gruelling work. Smoky homes. Latrines outside. Not a lot of clothes or shoes, just kept renewing up and fixing them. Be drunk all the time with ale even it was the safest drink.
Ahhhh yes ....these days certainly did have their pluses did they not?
It's true....it wasn't all lovely but I guess to me the idea was even back then there was still some good graces given to man... personally....I would like to live in something similar...a marriage of the two.... I'm a dreamer I know
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Oh I love Jethro Tull's seed drill! One of their best albums
I have watched
All of their series. I love Ruth. All of the archeologists are excellent! I love Fonzie!
And, I have it on good word they adore you!
I adore how they openly joke back and forth about how horrible it was... and yet, it's all cheery and bright like some shakespearian fairy world. it's plays well! 👏
Ruth is exceptional!!! ❤ that Dr. fellow that show up from time to time isn't half bad himself.
I love the way Ruth looks like a Vermeer painting when she is very still
Always love watching the shows involving the trio of hosts.
Great series. It should be much more popular
We take for granted today food which wasn’t plentiful in the Middle Ages!
🤣🤣🤣 I'm not going to feel sorry for it, either!
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I couldn't imagine life w.o. hot Cheetos
@@ashleelarsen5002: Start imaging! One fine morning most of the entire world will face a similar famine! No one in the western world similarly believed that a COVID could strike us!
@@roberttelarket4934 wow bro, I should get more 🤟🏻
I love the fact you call out the newly imported american crops like potatoes, tomatoes, squash, and peppers. I think very few people today understand how much of their diet is relatively new to most of the rest of the world.
True. I grew up in the 80/90s, so before the internet was a thing. I must have been in my twenties before I learnt, that potatoes aren't native to Europe.
Being German, they are just such a normal, integral part of my diet and of many traditional German dishes.
I would have never suspected, that they come from South America, of all places 👀
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@@raraavis7782 I'm Ojibwe Native American and between loving history and loving to cook I always found it interesting where foods actually came from and what really is authentic cooking anyway? Imagining Italy without tomatoes, Ireland without potatoes, Southeast asia and India without chilies, Eastern Europe without Paprika... and it is still happening today. Just a decade ago most people in the US had no idea what quinoa was and thought chia seeds were just for tv gimmick products not food.
@@raraavis7782Same here, grew up before the internet and was shocked that horses weren't in north America until the colonial expansion. I had seen horses and natives so much it didn't make sense having never found the right books to know better.
Yes, I am so great full for my potatoes and winter squashes. Some of the great foods for the hungry times.
A DaVinci painting. 😆 Wow Tudor England was a lot of work but like they mentioned an honest day’s work. . What a great series. Thank you from the other side of the pond.
Thank you for this miraculous episode of Tudor England life. Keep up doing this great work to show people, how easy their life nowadays, compared with a mere of couple centuries ago and earlier.
Folk were kept busy from dawn to dusk and appreciated everything nothing was taken for granted. Goodvalue system.
Thank you for sharing an amazing experience our ancestors went through.
Everything about this is amazing. The dedication, the coordination.
This has been a very informative and entertaining series! The amount of things I've been able to learn is astounding considering that I started watching not long ago. Definitely deserving of a lot more attention!
34:20 This is Ruth's husband, Mark Goodman. :-)
Sometimes I think, “I wish I had a time machine and living in the 13-1400s” then I see these docs about their way of life…
And I’m like nah…
Towards the end, you can definitely see how the dress and lighting conditions of those days would have inspired the painting masters of the day.
The precision plowing must have been very difficult!
Yeah and in anglo saxon times all plowing, from what I've heard, was done by ppl. The plow, that is, was pulled by a person
I love this series: I’ve watched these episodes for years:
This is fantastic!! I love this series
Jethro Tull, inventor of farm machinery and musician XD
Brilliant, as always. Heading towards the next episode...
When I was a kid my family had a large garden. We planted starting in the spring. When the garden started coming in that is what we ate. My mother would take whatever we didn't eat and can or freeze it. Then we ate out of the garden during the fall, winter and early spring. Ruth was right when she said that gap between when your stored food was running out and when the new was coming in was the hungry period. Of course we didn't go hungry but we bought more from the grocery store.
The giant hampster wheel seems really fun to do
Interesting how they only sat at one side of the dinner tables rather than both sides as we generally do now.
I confess, having my home's walls made out of horse poop is NOT something I think I'd want, but I understand the reasoning behind it. Wonder if it smells when it rains!
as an avid history buff and someone who does blacksmithing i find it very hard to believe apprentice woodworkers would have smithed their own tools. not saying he didnt but to do that back in the day would have been taking a job away from a blacksmith and would not have been appreciated by them. i dont remember when guilds specifically came into practice but during those days it would have been even worse. if you werent a part of the blacksmithing guild you didnt blacksmith, not that you couldnt but you didnt. the only way i could picture apprentice woodworkers smithing their own tools would be if a blacksmith shop had a prior arrangement with a master woodworker, i just dont see that happening though since its a loss of a job unless they somehow recouped it later. the notion of anyone other than a blacksmith making tools is hard to grasp since where else are you going to find a forge? a woodworking shop is not going to have a forge just for making tools, its a waste of resources and available space. far easier to simply request a set of tools from a nearby blacksmith.
There’s much to be learned from the old ways. Sadly, in the USA, even recent history is not taught. Not properly.
Very nice 👌 hope to see next part
Wasn't Tom named Alex in previous documentaries and Peter. was called Fonz?
I would love to do this. I think my kids would love it to. Except I could not drink ale all day. Alcohol makes me just as sick as dirty water would.
Not to mention, when they speak of "ale" in the show, they're talking about the stuff made in the 15th century - horrible, awful stuff. You wouldn't recognize it as ale today. It was just something you knew you could drink and not die because the microorganisms within it had been killed by the boil process and kept suppressed by the alcohol. But it would have tasted grotesque to our modern palates.
@@chuckschillingvideos lol true. I would of died of dehydration or water born illness. Haha.🤢
It's very hard for me to believe there's only "one" professional dish maker in the entire country, because there are literally hundreds and hundreds of people in the US who make every kind of plate, bowl, cup, dish, and platter out of wood using lathes. And there are quite a few who do it with a foot powered lathe as shown in the video. I have an entire collection of such woodenware that I've collected over the years from many different fairs and artisans. Unless in England you have to get some government license to make wooden tableware with a lathe?
I think they mean who uses the traditional method and materials
I'm going to say low productivity was to blame. Did they even have the scythe? I know they didn't have the seed drill.
I forgot to ask surely women were constantly pregnant due to high infant mortality! How was the division of labor sometimes hard assigned to women carried on during morning sickness, etc.?
Yeah. For those not being able to afford any hired help, it must have been really hard 😬.
Of course, women would have nursed babies much longer than the 6 month common today - and nursing hormones considerably lower the chance of a new pregnancy. Thus helping space out the pregnancies. And kiddies were expected to help out from a very young age.
It's one of the reasons, why young people were strongly discouraged not just from premarital relations, but also from marrying too early. There were religious reasons as well, obviously, but it was also a practical question. A man was expected to establish himself (within his options) before proposing to a young woman, so he could adequately support his family. Which often meant, that men were already in their late twenties or so, before they could choose a wife. Women, obviously, would marry as soon as someone suitable proposed.
And I'm guessing, only the most desperate young woman would marry a man, who couldn't afford farm hands and the female equivalents for the household. Like a kitchen maid or washer woman. Remember, that not even teenaged boys and girls were considered old enough for paid work back then. So cheap labor in form orphaned or dirt poor children/teens was available even to simple folks. Some might even have worked just for a place to sleep and food.
Benedictine and Brandy..... I saw J C ! HALLELUJAH!
She said a "truckel" when talking about the pull out bed underneath the other....I thought it was called a "trundle"....is that a period correct name she said or just what they call it in that part of the world?
Tudor time, the world was being explored on little tiny boats going across the Atlantic to North and South America.
We need both religion and science. Religion for the mind and soul, science for the body. So important to balance them
The only thing this channel needs is a look at medieval crime and punishment.
What song is playing at the beggining of video
Never a question of what to do with your time.
The clergy lived well
Ehhh.. I don't think I'd give up being a "Peasant" today, for being a King way back then. Everyone smells, you dunno what may give you some-sort of cancer 12yrs down the road, you can only eat what's in season in your area, SO MUCH WORK, Boring as all Hell, cold, dark.. Even as King, you had a box in a room that you shat in..
They certainly never starved nor lacked for shelter or clothing. Some clergy lived better than others, and largely that depended upon the monastic order they were part of. Some worked their asses off.
Again... another video Little Dot Studios / The History Hit Network has shown several times already, but with a new thumbnail and new title to deceive people into believing it's a new video.
People definitely drank water. It was risky, but done.
I wonder if they figured out you could boil it…
So what happened when a family member became chronically I’ll or a child was born disabled?!
Probably something really unpleasant 👀
@@tinygrim stop boinking problem solved- this problem still exists today in innumerable places - i am dirt poor yet lamenting i don't hv a son. - finally when i DO hv a son after risking the mother's life
Turns out he's a further burden due to some type of birth defect or disability yet then it's all on the mother as if she boinked herself and married herself. If she does not hv a son then of course it's the woman who is barren 🙄 etc etc etc rubbish
@@tinygrim u r totally right in ur facts - but i am talking about global situations - my nation has this shining attitude to societal problems - Simple examples: 1) i am a dirt poor day laborer can't feed my existing parents & kids family my wife died so instead i marry again & hv more kids - my kids in utero are being deprived of essential nutrients and are born with defects - so i keep adding to the problem. 2) now this is a specific event a grandfather murdered this city born city bred granddaughter of teenage yrs because she in his opinion she dressed unlike village women. Mental case 🙄🙄
I think it largely would have depended on the family's wealth and whether they could afford to keep a child who could not work and would most likely never be able to. Even more so if the child was severely disabled as to require a carer around the clock.
Sadly, this is why there are superstitious old stories of babes abandoned in the woods because they are believed to be products of dark misfortune. Concocting a story around such barbarism was the only way to make it palatable. In some tales the children’s spirits went to live with the faeries of the forest.
What is life, if not to have fun!??!!
At 15:15, I wonder what the reaction would be if you were to tell a Muslim in a Muslim country that, one day, their faith is going to be nothing more than a relic to be "reenacted" for tourists in a museum.
It is bizarre beyond belief to see people pretending religious ceremonies. Sad.
They'd probably detonate a tolerance vest
Probably something akin to probably horror or disgust. I'm sure if you went back to anyone 500+ years ago, and told them in the future, people from the future time were going to pretend to be them to get a "feel" for the life, they'd probably think you're crazy.
Theyd get offended but theres nothing they can do about it. Every religion will gradually fade into obscurity. Christianity did so first because of the enlightenment, followed by Japanese shinto buddhism because of Westernization in the Meiji Restoration, followed by Chinese confucianism because of communism. Islam is no different
It’s beyond comprehension that almost all people in those times and before including intelligent ones would believe in this bullshit, rituals and all! The very few smart ones who didn’t believe shut their mouths, became part of the clergy and didn’t have a hard life. Their stomachs were generally always full! They could do nothing for the empty-headed masses except give them worthless words, etc.
43:13 ...and that's how we got the term 'sh*thouse'.
why was life so 'grueling?' ....because they had no electricity and no petroleum engines
1500 is not the medieval period. Its early modern. Why are you confusing people Chronicle?!
As far as I know there are different divisions of historical periods. Some historians say that the Modern Era starts with the Protestant Reform (1510s-1530s), some say it ends with the fall of the Bizantine Empire (1453). So that period in between could be seen as a "late medieval/early modern" period depending on which part of it is analysed. Thats just a thought of mine as Im not a historian (yet) 😅
And you wonder why people only lived to be 45 years old, lol hard manual labor.
4:50 - there was not cathedrals everywhere. At that time period, there was maybe 3 in England, w/ Canterbury being the main one. They were typically located in large city hubs.
Each Bishop had a cathedral..more than three Bishops in England then, or now..only difference, Catholic then, and unfortunately, Church of England, now.
You don't have to kill a young calf in order to have cheese! Bible says do not kill!
In some ways this lifestyle is presented as idelict BUT honestly I would not want to have lived back then.
A lot of work mostly for food.
Ppl would probably think me ignorant and stupid, but, I would like to live back then
@@davidniedjaco9869 I’d like to give it a try myself.
What? These people didn't know that if you boiled the water, it would be later safe to drink? That had to know this, especially if they were sophisticated to sterilize the water with alcohol.
The beer was actually very low alcohol, so even kids drank it and the people weren’t all alcoholics. The beer also provided a lot of valuable vitamins, minerals and calories. There were really not many alternatives, milk could only be drunk fresh, water was often contaminated tea, coffee and cocoa not available. Beer was best.
A very very very difficult life except for the parasitic clergy and monarchy!
If not for Christianity, it would still be a bunch of pagan worshipping warring factions.
The reason why they were there.
As an atheist and anti monarchist, I'm tempted to agree with you. But back then, the clergy also provided the intellegentsia of society, while the monarchy coordinated the defence of the realm. Noblemen had to personally fight in wars, they couldn't just enjoy their luxuries like they can today.
@@Tom_Quixote: Intelligensia? To propagate their irrational agenda! With it to keep people in line though that was necessary. Some very few probably advanced for that time rudimentary science!
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Actually, that is far from true, as much of later "science" had it's roots in medieval botany, alchemy and "husbandry". Genetics research began with a monk/brother who raised peas, for example. There were also the discoveries made in medicine and even in the brewing/fermenting/distilling of alcoholic drinks. They may not have understood it was ghiardia(sp?) that was causing the gastrointestinal illness, but drinking at least boiled water (the root of 'tea-drinking' can be traced thusly), but preferably ale, would guard against it.
Lack of knowledge was a relic of the so-called Dark Age; when common people were generally illiterate the monks and monasteries kept such knowledge from the past as had proved useful (and not just to have power over others, either!) and efficacious, even writing down and preserving ancient tales, custom and tradition.
Furthermore; and possibly of even greater import; was the "clock o' the day" and the setting of certain monthly and annual feasts and saint's days. This structure helped to give people a general sense of their place in the day/week/month/year. Not just for purposes of population control but for people to control their own lives and activities.
Et al.
After watching this bunch all the normal documentaries seem boring!
saint of the day... GOD HELP US!
_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_
- Bertrand Russell
It's a documentary about western European history made by westerners, for westerners. What the hell else would they talk about?
The term "Dark Ages" refers to the lack of records available in the 19th century about the 200 years between the sack of Rome and the Carolingian dynasty. Since then, historians have found records of the various happening in that time in Europe, but the term "Dark Age" stuck around because its a Hollywood trope
Yawn. I wonder if people will ever tire of posting such cliche virtue signaling. We all know, this, John. And I wonder if you think that, say, the Chinese encompass all the world in their histories? The Japanese? Iranians? Stop with the self hate. It’s stupid, not enlightened.
Never knew they had saws 500 years ago.
What did you think they used??
@@compellingbutforgettable903: I have no idea and am too lazy now to look it up in wiki.
@@roberttelarket4934 hahaha
Does it work???
Me smiling as I think about how the LORD delivered me from alcoholism!
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Monasteries owned most land.
Need folks today to adopt this lifestyle....cut down on obesity!!!
@4:30 LOL epic 60IQ dichotomy between science and religion. Typical parroting of the modernist empty headed rhetoric
Also had to pen the pigs because they would eat peoples babies :')
We haven't really moved on that much. Today, it's dogs eating people's babies.
Sucks about the catholic church being a false gospel church.
1 word.. Labor.
Pretty much any occupation a peasant may have chosen (or have thrust upon him by birth or dictate) was grueling, disgusting, horrifyingly dangerous and destructive to your long term survival. Sucked to be a peasant. Was far better to be a clergy, noble or mercantile class. Of course, easier said than done and all that.
What is... because they were idiots? Alex
talking about fats what about bee wax?
Maybe life was so hard because there was no birth control (so like 20 kids), no antibiotics, no clean drinking water and sanitation and no vaccines? Just a guess
No it's simply a lack of Automation and Technology,, your assumption about 20 kids would have been far more than the statistical average and children surviving the first year wasn't as common as it is today
There was also much less food back then. Lack of chemical fertilizer and modern irrigation caused much less yields in harvests, and lack of industrial pesticide meant that alot of crops were lost to rodents and bugs. Then there was the problem of blight caused by fungus and the lack of weather stations to forecast rain.
We are only listening to the point of view of teh people who could read in write how many of those taking care of the land for the monks who controled the food supply education and technology and were the only one who knew how to read and write so how accurate is this version of english history..
I don't think I saw one person of color
Dude...what? There were like 350 black people in Tudor times through Stewart times in England.
Give it a rest.
Disappointed. Same OLD show but under new title, that's all. I saw this a year ago.