The 400 Mile Medieval Pilgrimage To Canterbury | Pilgrimage With Simon Reeve | Chronicle
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- For centuries pilgrimage was one of the greatest adventures on earth, involving epic journeys across the country and around the world. In the Middle Ages, the Church encouraged people to journey to shrines across the country. The most popular was the shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral, a journey brought to life in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Simon embarks on a 400 mile journey to Canterbury from the north of England, beginning at the mystical Holy Island, just off the coast of Northumberland. To reach the island, one of the earliest sites of Christian pilgrimage in Britain, Simon follows a line of posts marking out a crossing that emerges from the North Sea at low tide.
Welcome to Chronicle; your home for all things medieval history! With documentaries covering everything from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance, from Hastings to Charlemagne, we'll be exploring everything the Middle Ages have to offer.
Subscribe now so you don't miss out!
Chronicle is part of the History Hit Network. To get in touch please email owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com.
It's like Netflix for history... 📺 Sign up to History Hit, the world's best history documentary service and get 50% off using the code 'CHRONICLE' 👉 bit.ly/3iVCZNl
Ugh, this is a great show, but the best parts had no music thank goodness. It was too loud and distracting.
Yet another series where the soundtrack overpowers the commentary. Disappointing.
Lincoln Cathedral...amazing building. Questions asked at 16-17min are perceptive & so relevant particularly now in May 2024.
My guess on the audio: they are mistakenly using the Left front and Right front channels from a 5.1 surround mix, which sounds like garbage without the center channel. They should provide a two channel stereo mix.
A pretty common problem on TH-cam, for content of this time period and provenance.
I don’t know about these technical details, but I agree, the sound is really terrible. I can’t hear the speakers and the music is just too loud overall, even when no one is speaking.
It's really a shame they ruined this documentary with that ridiculously loud music ... yes .
Good grief!
The music is TOO LOUD!
Another documentary ruined by loud background music.
WHAT?!?
Yes if you scroll through here you'll see how many threads are people complaining about the loud music and I agree .
Someone here said it has to do with whomever uploaded it to TH-cam and not the way it was produced
Lindsey Hammond, wonderful man👏👏
Okay okay GONNA look at it later !! See ya all !!!
What’s The Music At 44:19?
Thats probably the silliest thing ive heard in my life ... "Im not a religious person but i wish i was" Why ?!? Nobody wishes they had Mental Illness .. well maybe the odd weirdo does but seriously .... Why would you want to dissgard all we have learned through the thousands of years about how things Really are and work, to then say "God did it" Thats Mental dude . You should have an Open Mind, Not a closed one . Your mind should be Open to Evidence of some deity etc etc .... Not stop at what you "Believe" to be true ... But get stuck one WHAT IS TRUE, By the Evidence, Not assertions . Science and the Scientific Method will show you whats demonstrable.
"To Believe something is to be Convinced of something without Evidence"
Well said.
Great documentary but the sound mixing makes parts of the voice over almost unlistenable.
Background music too loud..a good documentary doesn't need any music.
That's what i thought . . The music is too loud
Yes, when he was talking about where he was going I could barely hear him.
Hear, hear (actually didn’t hear)
Gabriella , yes , I agree and it seems this documentary is ruined in some parts from ridiculously loud music drowning out the speaker .
Can’t hear a thing. Music too loud.
I would love to hear the narrator’s voice, but whomever edited this really messed up the music levels. Way too loud. Ruins an otherwise excellent video.
Yes I agree with you it just ruins it when the music is so ridiculously loud that you cannot hear the person speaking .
It says if when they go into post-production they don't bother listening to how it's going to sound to the public ... why bother going through all the work to make a decent documentary only to ruin it with loud music ?
It's like making a wonderful stew and then deciding to add nail polish to it
I love this content but pleaseeeee turn down the banjos! The series is brilliant but ruined by the insane music.
I agree with you and if you scroll through all the threads you will see how many of them complain about the ridiculously loud music ... they pretty much ruined this documentary ... why bother putting so much work into it only to ruin it
The music is too loud. I lose the commentary.
The music is way to loud compared to the voice from the off.
I don't know how I ended up watching this video from beginning to end but it brought back a memory of a friend and I (we were both 16) were on a day trip to Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland when we missed the last ferry back across to Largs and the train back to Glasgow where we both lived.
It had been raining off and on all day and we ended up sitting in a Café chatting with a couple of girls when was saw the last bus to the last ferry pass the window.
Our clothes were slightly wet and no doubt we could have tried to get some sleep in one of the beach shelters but it was rather cold to be sleeping rough especially when we weren't prepared to do so.
One of the girls suggested that we go up to the Cathedral of the Isles and ask is they had any where that they could put us up for the night as we were stranded on the island for the night.... we were welcomed in and shown to little basic rooms with a single bed with no other furniture in the rooms or cells.
Above each room was a plaque with "Faith" "Hope" "Charity" etc etc along this long corridor of small room.
We were given an old army blanket which was clean but scratchy as the blankets were rough but they were warm.
I slept off and on as the rain was heavy at times and was hitting the window but other than that it was very quiet there, didnt hear anyone during the night.
We got up around 7am and decided we better head back to Glasgow to where we worked as apprentice Gardeners.
I emigrated to Canada when I was 21 and it wasnt until my 2 sons were in their mid teens that i took them to Millport and to the Cathedral and a tour of the Cathedral and its grounds to get a feel for its history and its ancient tombstones.
I am not a religious person but I always has a connected feeling to the Cathedral and Millport the town it's self.
For some reason the thought of going on a pilgrimage appealed to me but now in my mid 60s Osteoarthritis is causing me a lot of pain, both knees replaced and my right shoulder and now i have difficulty walking long distances and unfortunately the cold and damp of the west of Scotland would make things more painful for me....
Sorry for blethering too much... but thanks for sharing the video.
What a wonderful memory to have and share 💝. Thank you for sharing your story with all of us. I can't imagine your pain but I hope you do rest and have some days where your knees are not as bad. Love from Texas.
@@lymarie1974 thank you so much for your kind and unexpected comment....
Memories are all you have in old age. A life well lived equals good memories.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories.
Thanks for sharing such a lovely story! Very well told 😊
Hope you get to do some more travelling, even if not as intense as depicted here!
Love the video. Please sort out the music levels though, it drowns out the narration.
Certainly, Simons voice is swamped in places. Sound people, pls don’t get so overenthusiastic. Other wise a good docco.
Like trying to talk in the middle of a concert.
Where can we watch your videos and docuseries. I am sure there will be no need to critique or complain about them when we watch them for free.
Yes it is SO FRUSTRATING when the music drowns out the speaker .
I think the music has been added loudly to avoid TH-cam picking up on copyright issues.
23:41. I'm neither catholic nor protestant...and I find this kind of of protest absolutely bizarre. Why not let people worship in the way they want to worship? They're not doing any harm, why bother them with signs and protests? Seeking to control how others worship God is absolutely antithetical to what the Saviour taught.
This secular attitude was only invented around the time of the "Age of Enlightenment" (17th-18th Century or thereabouts). For millennia, the thought of any society allowing for freedom of thought, speech, religion etc, was anathema, and usually punished severely. And to talk to one of the ancients (if we could) about the" separation of church and state" , he/she would have thought you were insane. It took centuries and a lot of blood and death for the people of the modern Western world to be able to agree with your principles about freedom, etc. They are not shared globally (Ref: The Taliban).
BTW Jesus was not a "freethinking modern liberal" since he said: "NO ONE comes to the Father but through ME" . (you can look it up)
People felt differently about this in the past.
@@Frank-mm2yp and that was exactly why the Jewish leaders had him crucified
You can control all aspects of life if people follow a single religion that is based on terror of hell
I still have a pilgrims badge from Canterbury that I received from the archbishop 1993. Greetings from Germany.
Loud music so annoying sucks
I love his honesty with Lindsay the cross bearer. God bless both of them
As the English say: Definitely a Nutter.
I've done both the Compostela de Santiago (started in Paris), and the Via Francigena, even created my own pilgrimage across Southern Turkey, to Istanbul, through Greece, boated over to Italy, eventually ending in Paris; in all of that, I have met some of the most beautiful people, such as Lindsay and the gentleman who asked if they needed anything for their journey...the journeys are worth it.
I should NOT have laughed as hard as I did at the comment of "lining up to sell the Virgin Mary's breast milk" LOL!!!!
Sound engineer: zero points.
Tbh. I can't image walking 400miles. I'm lazy. I'll admit it. That's a long walk. Maybe 15miles. That's a hard hard maybe too. So realistically. Probably 6.
I walked just over a mile once. Never again
Interesting documentary, but somethings gone wrong with the sound mixing. The Background music is louder than the voice.
That medieval pilgrim meal looked delicious! 👌
Right!
@@ChronicleMedieval please do tell us why the music is overwhelmingly loud in some parts .
As somebody else said in an earlier thread the best parts of this have no music .
The music is so loud, it drowns out the speaker’s voice.
I was really looking forward to this because I love Simon Reeve and I'm fascinated by pilgrimages...but the music drowned out the audio so often that it became unwatchable. Can this be fixed?
Just because someone believes strongly in their religion and or church does not mean they are in some way evil. It doesn't make them fanatics or terrorist. Terrorism is a political movement cloaked in religion. It isn't the religion itself. It is politics.
This would be an excellent documentary except for the music! Please remix the soundtrack
Any student of middle English knows the "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer that uses the Canterbury pilgrimage as the framework for this masterpiece of medieval English literature.
Yes indeed!
First the music to loud. It distracts from the information. Plus it is simply lousy music.
I appreciate the interpretation of the cathedral by the Verger, very interesting.
Very genuine in tone and it’s great to see so many unique and amazing places on which so many people focused their faith.
Whoever did the audio: “Fck Simon”
Make sure to watch with the remote on hand. You’ll constantly be rewinding a lot.
I love all things medieval!!
I like the medieval 🏰
But I am grateful for Tylenol, penicillin, c sections that don't mean death for mum, or babies pulled out in pieces with "the hook". There's more.. but you get my jist.
God forbid we, or any generation after ever go back so far!
Pax
Life is a pilgrimage.
Finally not banned in this fucking country
Very good documentary mates !
Glad you think so!
@@ChronicleMedieval is there no way you could upload this again and this time make sure the music is turned down ?
Someone explained that it has more to do with whomever uploaded the documentary to TH-cam rather than the music being loud when the documentary was being created .
I'm wondering if you could look into that and re-upload it .
A breath taker awayer ... that's a new one
This ain't bad but it just can't compete with docs from the 90s and 2000s. We want a narrator not a tv presenter that we're forced to look at every 2 mins
Why did they make such an elementary mistake as to have the voiceover so often completely drowned out by the music?
And the sound levels -- even when there wasn't much music -- was at times almost inaudible. (Haven't the production team heard of radio mics?)
Otherwise well done.
At least, what one could hear...
It has nothing to do with the production company and an awful lot to do with the way it has been downloaded to YT. People fiddle about with things to avoid copyright and often end up wrecking the thing altogether . Do you Really believe that professional production companies and National ;broadcasters make and show programmes in the state they often end up in on YT? Bless! I bet you believe Boris too! .
Well whatever the reason it's a shame because the documentary is pretty much ruined by the music being too loud
Yet again, a documentary spoiled by invasive music which, on occasion,drowns out the narrative.
Great presentation by Simon, but shame about the atrocious audio mixing. Looking forward to more of this series.
23:44 this intolerance is still going on on Modern England?
Very surprised …
These are all/mostly repeats of series already on TH-cam. Sorry.
The intro reminds me of that Bill Hader SNL sketch
I have to say that the man with white hair at about 24:20 is a bigot and should be ashamed of himself plus he obviously doesn’t have a clue as to what he’s talking about. Catholic’s do not worship saints at all. They also don’t worship Mary and definitely do not worship the dead. In Catholicism Saints are venerated not worshipped there’s a huge difference. If you know someone who has lost a loved one or maybe its you who have lost someone close to you, then you have probably seen that person maybe go to the cemetery and while standing or kneeling next to the grave of the person they have lost speak “to” the person they lost. Also, you may have seen someone who while looking at a photograph of the person they lost speak to them. Now in both cases it’s not a 2 way conversation, they don’t expect the dead person to answer them lol. This is actually more common than you would think, it’s just that it’s usually done when they are alone. It occurs most often by certain categories of people such as: widows (older ladies) especially if they had been married for a long time like 40-50 years, widows (young ladies) especially those whose husband died in combat, widower (men) especially those who lost their wife due to an illness, people who lose a parent especially if they were either extremely close or had a strained relationship that wasn’t fixed before the parent died.
Furthermore Catholicism is not a cult and it’s not part of the occult lol
Now that gentleman shouldn’t be there bothering people who are participating in a religious ceremony or event. I didn’t hear him talk about how often he stands outside the local mosque and harasses muslims. Also, he seems to forget that 500 years ago everyone in England was Catholic and the reason Henry left the Catholic Church was because he wanted an annulment of his marriage to a woman who used to be his brother’s wife. He also probably forgets that the Bible he reads was put together by the bishops of the Catholic Church back in the late 4th century or that Martin Luther removed 7 books from the Old Testament because they didn’t line up with his version of theology.
The bottom line is he shouldn’t be there bothering those people and should be arrested for a hate crime which under current British law he is committing. As I mentioned he should go try that nonsense in front of a mosque. Or maybe the Catholics should have just beat him down or stone him or better yet get him stoned maybe then he would lighten up.
Interest stores, and probably mostly untrue.
I dont believe them for some reason. 😆
Wow three months walk with the cross wow 🤩
The cathedral appears to be a distant memory of a temple with its 3 degrees of glory mentioned in Corinthians culminating in the celestial room. Unfortunately the right to perform ordinances has not been given
Okay okay GONNA look at it later !! See ya all !!!
400 miles ? Zzzzz Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Well.done
I think it’s the same thing as many churches saying that they have an actual piece of the cross that Jesus died on!
This is wonderful.... Simply great
Glad you like it!
Coffee almost came out of my nose when he attempted to cross the highway with a cross. Theres a joke in there somewhere
The concept of this is amazing.
Wonderful channel! I love these documentaries
39:38 gives new meaning to "jesus take the wheel"
Wonderful
That guy who stated, "It is a cult, it is a cult, they really worship the devil..."
Life without Faith is like Faith without Life
nonsense
@@prufrok no it makes perfect sense. Nachos without salsa is like salsa without nachos. A person who doesn't subscribe to abrahamic beliefs isn't really ALIVE, man, they don't have that sadomasochistic edge. PUNISH ME DADDY
@@sarahb1862 You forgot the other part, where they are so self obsessed and selfish that they Really belive Daddy did it all for Them and is watching just Them all day, every day! How about the bit where 'Daddy gives them this incredible place to live in and 'dominion' over all the other species, and they promptly trash it and wipe out and abuse the things they are supposed to b elooking after? That is one seriously mixed up teenager. No wonder the world is screwed.
Non of us are worthy. That’s what makes people fall in love with the Lord and do things like that man is doing. He came for the ungodly and gave us a way to the Father when there was no way. Thru that sacrifice on the cross.
You're wife and son may give you meaning but they won't get you to heaven. This man failed to understand faith and mocked it
Not once did he mock faith. He was trying to understand it.
Just shows the stupidity of these people to give these churches all their money. The creator of the universe does not need a building. His creation is the real church. The rest is just idolatry!
Your wrong. The creator of the universe loves good production values.
“When miracles started to occur”?
I though this was a history channel, not one devoted to superstitious tripe.
Why do they have so many sculptures in places of worship?looks like idols to me
At 22:22... Can't hear that song without thinking of one of my gd-father, a witty pagan (ex altar boy). He taught me : "Les saints et les anges et le petit Jésus, quand ça les démange, se grattent le c.., avé, avé, avé le petit doigt"... My gran was furious...
Translation please?
@@nursecathy123cat "Saints and Angels and the little Jésus, when it itches, scratch their a.., with their little fingers"... I know, that might be rude.
I can almost hear a bunch of boys singing that!
@@nursecathy123cat that is why that still makes me smile, 40 odd years later...
Haha =D =D And thank you for the translation. =D.