it's from the idea that the pupil was thought to be like an apple (in germany we still say Augapfel [Eyeapple]) and because it's precious because you need it to see, people use it to tell when someone is really important to them.
Maybe worked less for their lord and master but they still had to tend their own gardens especially if they wanted to eat over the winter,cut and bring home wood usually by a self pulled sled or cart. Mandatory archery or military training I wouldn’t call time off.
That's industrialisation. Much more is produced, and this isn't a bad thing. But it also means that people work more. They say that using clocks at works spaces changed everything. Before that, is simply doing what you need to do and see how much the day gives you. Specific work hours don't exist. With a clock however, the lord or rather industry baron at that time can implement deadlines, and work hours.
That's actually inaccurate. They all had to build their own homes, make their own clothes, hand wash their clothes and other fabrics, grow their own food and/hunt their own meat, the list goes on but I'm sure you get the point. So it makes sense that they worked less in terms of a job. But their entire existence was non stop work with little off time.
@@fourfurrypotatoes Canada has far more free time and more money earnt for the buck, depends on province though. I do know a lot of western Canada earns what they need though and can live relatively well.
Honestly, it never occurred to me that Medieval peasants had down time. I just thought they worked in the fields all day and then went to sleep when it got dark.
The thing that stood out to me is that Peasants own their own land. Today 78% of Americans live in apartments especially in the coastal areas because it so damn expansive to buy a house. I wish I was just a measly peasant back then.
You would still have to work farmland. The Amish have more modern farm tools because they used Post 1600-1700s technology. In the Middle Ages all Agriculture knowledge was passed down orally and technology changed slowly.
@@fkgjr - Just don't refi on a whim.... If you refi, all the interest you're paying the bank for all those years is lost. You are starting over, with a new 30 or whatever length years mortgage.
This is true. Yes peasants in the Middle Ages performed backbreaking labor, but their schedule was based on seasonal harvests, and they all had downtime during the winter which accounted for 1/4 of their year. Today’s workers are mostly indoors and lucky to get 2-4 weeks in vacation a year.
@@davidsigalow7349 The lifespans were on average 35 only because of children dying early. The median was higher. If you survived childhood you would likely live until about 50 or 60.
@@mitonaarea5856 I'm not allowed to post links for fear of violating user agreements and getting ban. But yes, SOME did eat better than nobility. Multi grain bread was for the poor. White bread is less healthy do to processing strips it of nutrients, the royalty wanted it because it took longer and more expensive to make. Wheat bread was peasant food, but turns out to be more healthy. Early colony days, the homeless were fed crabs and lobsters because they were so plentiful at the time...the rich would not sink so low to eat such foods. Vikings ate very healthy as well.
In Romania their is cheap land and houses. Away from the stressfull cities. Btw also we recreate folklore and medieval events. Even today, im not joking.
I just recently purchased my first home and it has me wondering how home ownership worked in medieval times. Were peasants allowed to purchase homes or was it a luxury exclusively for Nobles. Is there a different between owning a home in a city vs the country in those times. Did they have to go to a bank and ask for a loan? Did medieval realtors exist?
I'm not an expert on the subject, but it could have been like this: you could either buy someone else's house that they are selling, or you could build your own. I don't think medieval realtor existed, and banks worked very differently back then. Loans were not a thing, and banks were mostly for nobles. peasants Would usually build their own house, and medieval apartments were actually a thing, believe it or not. Apartments go VERY far back.
Keep in mind that when it came to knights jousting it was very expensive. The knight had to pay for their horses, armor, and other parts of their equipment as well as maintaining a crew of squires to get them prepped. For this reason only the upper classes could joust (at least not on the water.)
My family and I created a game we called "crohocker". Instead of kicking a ball, we used crochet sticks to knock a kick ball around. It was so fun! I sure do Miss those days.
Am I the only one who would love to hear an extended version of the little music piece played at the “Archery Was Incredibly Important”? It sounds so relaxing and soothing
You should make a video of how the most popular sports got started...like you did here with golf (colf), ice-skating (on bones), but a little more indepth.😀👍
They did quite a bit of drinking. Beer brewed with ergot contaminated grain was popular. The Dancing Plague was a big thing, People danced in the streets for days on end. Like Free Festivals in the 70's.
If you're forced to practice archery, it's not "free time", it's military training. Choosing to practice archery, uncoerced, is free time. See the difference?
"I can't believe they worked less than us!" Guys, they worked fewer days FOR THEIR WAGES. When they weren't working for wages they spent the majority of their time working without pay--they had to make everything by hand. Their clothes, their food, and they had to care for all their livestock and maintain their house and property. They spent almost every waking moment working in one way or another, and it was only on the occasional feast day and such that they relaxed. They couldn't relax regularly or they'd starve. Do you know how incredibly time-consuming it is to make butter by hand?
They had much more time to do whatever they wanted to. They worked to plant and harvest the crops. Didn’t do much during the winter though, except try to keep warm, and find enough to eat. The problem with all that time is most of the battles and fighting was done during the summer. ( the campaign season) Being a peasant for your lord was a problem during the summer if the king, and/or lord wanted or needed you to go to battle. Your in fairly good shape, but your usually not trained or equipped very well. This is ok if your fighting against other peasants, but not good if your up against a professional army. Or against well trained, or even just trained people. If you survive the battle(s) your doing good. If your maimed you usually get some compensation, but it won’t be a lot. But you don’t “work” as many days.
I was extremely surprised to find out that the peasants had so much free time we always think of the peasants as having to work long hard hours 12 months a year the other surprising fact was that they were required to learn archery I thought maybe only the King's Men could be archers so this really surprised me that the common Man would be a precision Archer
Well, things like the United Nations didn't exist, that means, that if your empire had enough power, you could just invade another (if that one was not allied to a bigger one) Making wars pretty much common, training your citizens for war was not a bad idea, and your enemies were going to struggle in invasions.
Delightful and OMG, Stuff you already knew and stuff you didn't presented in a factual but light-hearted ( some what , tongue in cheek manner 👍obscenely outrageous! I like these Doc's so much.. You learn, you freak out. laugh, cringe.. It's all there!
Talking about games... Back in the late 80s - early 90s, a work night out would be a trip to a pub where they still had a "skittle alley". It was a narrow room towards the back of the bar. Anyway, we'd meet up with a group of players from a different office and have a few pints while playing a very competitive, though usually hilarious, match of skittles. I don't know if there are any left here in the UK, but I do hope so. Depending on the size of the building, some game or other is often on offer. Darts, "bar billiards" - not something I have played but I believe it's a pretty old one. IIRC Tom Scott has an old video or two on his channel about pub games, where he and some friends explain and play them. Pretty sure bar billiards is on it. Pool is pretty common, of course, but if there's enough room, a snooker/"proper" billiards table could be available. It's possible that the medieval game "shove ha'ppeny" (or "halfpenny"), which could be played with tokens or metal disks, but was often played with coins, especially the "ha'ppeny" ( _pron. hay-penny_ which was a physically big enough coin to play with and low enough in value - though not the lowest! That was a farthing or ¼ penny - to not be a disaster if it were lost) is still played if the pub has a table big enough! There's a _very_ long ancient table on which this game was played in Longleat, an Elizabethan aged, well, near enough a palace! [For potential visitors to the UK, Longleat was, I believe, the world's first "safari park" (not the same as an African safari, but of that ilk. You are the interesting view for the wild animals roving the section you're in!) and still has an incredible collection of animals and wonderful scenery. It's genuinely beautiful, especially on the paddle boat that will take you on the huge man-made lake to meet the sea lions. 😄 But if you're on holiday over here and hiring a car, look into the contract before visiting the safari area. They have monkeys that will strip your car down in minutes!] Back to the subject, pub games like skittles were/are (hopefully) great fun. It would be awesome if they could make a comeback.
They did a lot of hard labour, its crazy that they had the energy to play games after all that. I guess some days could have been better than other days or kids didn't have to do as much so they might have gotten time to play from this.
When I visited England on vacation I ended up at a small festival in a small town and played a game of skittles and won a tin of cookies, it was a lot of fun. English folks are alright in my book.
Peasants or serfs could not leave the land aka plantation where they worked. If they ever did leave the plantation, they needed permission from their lord or master. In most cases, the peasants never left and died on the land which they worked.
Serfs didn't have beds or pillows. They slept on straw mats. Only the manor lords could afford beds and pillows! Also bobbing for apples is definitely not medieval. I remember reading somewhere that "apple bobbing" was a Victorian passtime. The unwanted "free time" the serfs had was consumed by daily chores (like chopping wood and doing laundry) and tending to their personal plots so they wouldn't starve. Now the problem was (and this comes up in English Parliamentary records) that there were too many religious holidays where work was forbidden. One of the prime drivers of the Protestant Revolution was getting rid of unwanted mandatory religious holidays so the serfs could do extra work to earn enough money for manumission from their village manor. It was the first real step towards the liberation of the serfs.
"Injuries and death were routine... so naturally, the game was popular." My response to that part of the story was a surprising peal of laughter followed by a series of hearty chortles and unladylike guffaws I felt deep down in my belly. 'Twas a reminder of why laughter can act like medicine for the human body and I thank you for it.
Nooo please keep the normal content, timelines are much more boring. Nothing on the channel, just more boring content we have easy access to in timelines.
Referring to the bobbing for apples...you know there was a mischievous teenage dude in the village who wrote some female names on some apples he got, and threw them in when nobody was looking...😂🤣 Emily went to bop for an apple and pulled out a Samantha instead of a Bryan...😲🤣😂
"Hey, want to buy a lottery ticket? The winner gets to be sacrificed to the dragon." "No thanks. I'm waiting for someone to invent the Irish Sweepstakes."
"Injuries and death were routine. So, naturally, it was extremely popular" if that doesn't sum up our species I don't know what does
Right!
Yeah, we are such a strange species!
Peasants would spend their free time thinking, "Boy, I am sure glad I'm not a serf, as my life would really suck."
Among Polish peasants nearly all of them were serfs! Imagine that.
I wonder if that is where the saying," He/She is the apple of my eye." 🤔
Dana I believe you are on to something.
Maybe lol
it's from the idea that the pupil was thought to be like an apple (in germany we still say Augapfel [Eyeapple]) and because it's precious because you need it to see, people use it to tell when someone is really important to them.
@@jcherry875 his theory is better shut up
🤔
Pretty crazy that peasants worked less than we do now. Big corpo sure does love to raise us thinking that being workaholics is the only way to go.
What is the solution
Maybe worked less for their lord and master but they still had to tend their own gardens especially if they wanted to eat over the winter,cut and bring home wood usually by a self pulled sled or cart. Mandatory archery or military training I wouldn’t call time off.
That's industrialisation. Much more is produced, and this isn't a bad thing. But it also means that people work more. They say that using clocks at works spaces changed everything. Before that, is simply doing what you need to do and see how much the day gives you. Specific work hours don't exist. With a clock however, the lord or rather industry baron at that time can implement deadlines, and work hours.
That's actually inaccurate. They all had to build their own homes, make their own clothes, hand wash their clothes and other fabrics, grow their own food and/hunt their own meat, the list goes on but I'm sure you get the point. So it makes sense that they worked less in terms of a job. But their entire existence was non stop work with little off time.
Welcome to capitalism baby!!!
Like my high school history teacher always told us.. "Names, dates, and places change, but the concept always stays the same" 🤷🏼♂️
Very true
@@jasonwilder6871 ? Im not sure I recognize you. I heard it from my teacher Mr. Mac at Fairfield High
My fav quote now!
Nothing new under the sun
2:08
"You see that ludicrous display last night?"
"The thing with Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in!"
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
They're having a laugh today!
Obviously talking about soccer. Try a mans sport for once
@@2ndCovey It’s an IT crowd reference not a football reference. Assuming you’re American? Barging in with no clue what’s actually being talked about
@@videoaddict961 Big facts from my guy right here
Not gonna lie…I’d pay good money to watch a game of mob soccer
fknay
Watch literally any children's soccer game
Still exists! Played in one English or Scottish town still. Look it up on youtube. Its wild.
@@extragoogleaccount6061 The Atherstone Ball Game. Fights, blood and smashed up shops every year.
The Atherstone Ball Game. TH-cam it.
“More free time them most Americans” never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with
Here, here.
I think America, Japan and Korea work the hardest and longest hours. I’m not sure about Canada.
@@fourfurrypotatoes China/Bengali in Dubai got them all beat.
@@fourfurrypotatoes Canada has far more free time and more money earnt for the buck, depends on province though. I do know a lot of western Canada earns what they need though and can live relatively well.
BS , ignorant remark. They didn't have free time apart from Sundays and some religious holidays. Those '150 days' were unpaid.
The old version of football would still be pretty fun. Imagine a bunch of kids from different streets competing to get it back to their street
Honestly, it never occurred to me that Medieval peasants had down time. I just thought they worked in the fields all day and then went to sleep when it got dark.
Do one on the mini ice age. Fascinating information on that subject.
Agree
I love how so many of these include numerous people dying, and yet they still continued, many of them to modern times.
The thing that stood out to me is that Peasants own their own land. Today 78% of Americans live in apartments especially in the coastal areas because it so damn expansive to buy a house. I wish I was just a measly peasant back then.
You would still have to work farmland.
The Amish have more modern farm tools because they used Post 1600-1700s technology.
In the Middle Ages all Agriculture knowledge was passed down orally and technology changed slowly.
That is absolutely not a true number or statement. Lmao 78% apartments. What is this soviet Russia?
Sorry guy. 65% of people in the US own their homes in 2020.
@@fkgjr - Just don't refi on a whim.... If you refi, all the interest you're paying the bank for all those years is lost. You are starting over, with a new 30 or whatever length years mortgage.
@@fkgjr own? Or pay a mortgage? Big difference without even looking into the statistics, which are simply that, statistics.
I heard from the late Terry Jones from his "Medieval Lives" Series that Medieval Peasants had more days off than the workers of today.
This is true. Yes peasants in the Middle Ages performed backbreaking labor, but their schedule was based on seasonal harvests, and they all had downtime during the winter which accounted for 1/4 of their year. Today’s workers are mostly indoors and lucky to get 2-4 weeks in vacation a year.
Thats only in the US.Over here in Europe most people get 4 to 6 weeks vacation plus some 15 to 20 "holydays".
And most work 5 days a week.
Well, considering that their lifespans were about 35 years, I hope they enjoyed all that free time.
@@davidsigalow7349 The lifespans were on average 35 only because of children dying early. The median was higher. If you survived childhood you would likely live until about 50 or 60.
@@CloroxBleachCompany I work outdoors all year 50 to 70 hrs a week and get 1 week off.
It would also kinda be cool to see a video on what some Asian countries did for fun around the same time period! Maybe Japan or Korea?
what people around the world were doing in the year ______
Nah European history is far more interesting
@@donHooligan I just picked a random area but I like your idea better!
@@Kitty666EmoGoth
your comment inspired the idea.
as far as i know...it didn't exist before reading your comment.
@@specter1549 depends on who you ask
Fun fact:
Peasants actually lived a healthier life than nobility.
Really!?? Do you have any sources?
@@mitonaarea5856 Nobles ate meat. Peasants ate bread and vegetables. You make up your mind.
@@mitonaarea5856
I'm not allowed to post links for fear of violating user agreements and getting ban.
But yes, SOME did eat better than nobility.
Multi grain bread was for the poor.
White bread is less healthy do to processing strips it of nutrients, the royalty wanted it because it took longer and more expensive to make.
Wheat bread was peasant food, but turns out to be more healthy.
Early colony days, the homeless were fed crabs and lobsters because they were so plentiful at the time...the rich would not sink so low to eat such foods.
Vikings ate very healthy as well.
In Romania their is cheap land and houses. Away from the stressfull cities. Btw also we recreate folklore and medieval events. Even today, im not joking.
All of this is true
Suggestion: The Life Of Lee Harvey Oswald
Factoid 7 will blow your mind! Literally.
you wanna know the habits of your future killer eh
thought they did that already?
He was a commie.
@Do you turn it off and on again? Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, John Wilkes Boothe killed Lincoln
Reason #431 why history is important to study. We have no idea how good we have it in 2021
Football in the medages: yeah you get hurt you might die
Football now: lemme fall over cause I got a pat on the back
I just recently purchased my first home and it has me wondering how home ownership worked in medieval times. Were peasants allowed to purchase homes or was it a luxury exclusively for Nobles. Is there a different between owning a home in a city vs the country in those times. Did they have to go to a bank and ask for a loan? Did medieval realtors exist?
I'm not an expert on the subject, but it could have been like this: you could either buy someone else's house that they are selling, or you could build your own. I don't think medieval realtor existed, and banks worked very differently back then. Loans were not a thing, and banks were mostly for nobles. peasants Would usually build their own house, and medieval apartments were actually a thing, believe it or not. Apartments go VERY far back.
@@NachoDaMan i imagine they would need appporval from the local lord. But how does one prove ownership?
@@urielsanchez767 Deeds did exist in medieval times.
Keep in mind that when it came to knights jousting it was very expensive. The knight had to pay for their horses, armor, and other parts of their equipment as well as maintaining a crew of squires to get them prepped. For this reason only the upper classes could joust (at least not on the water.)
You can joust without any of that equipment, running at each other would do. Or maybe on a donkey or a some other animal
Could you cover - Witches and healthcare in the middle ages. Gotta love the plague doctors :)
My family and I created a game we called "crohocker". Instead of kicking a ball, we used crochet sticks to knock a kick ball around.
It was so fun! I sure do Miss those days.
I know my fellow deathlings (Ask a Mortician fans) have sung “The Middle Ages were magic” at least once in this video.
Yeesss, Lol..😁
Lol yep
Love you.
Yup 😆😆
Oh yes!
I'd love a video on medieval travel and in particular the use of taverns.
Am I the only one who would love to hear an extended version of the little music piece played at the “Archery Was Incredibly Important”? It sounds so relaxing and soothing
Yes! (As in I would like to hear it too)
One of the best voices on TH-cam
Perfect, now I know what to do when I'm bored today
You should make a video of how the most popular sports got started...like you did here with golf (colf), ice-skating (on bones), but a little more indepth.😀👍
Skittles are still popular in the UK today. Young teenagers can get a job before 16 as a “sticker-up” picking up skittles for local clubs.
"What medieval pastimes sound fun to you?"
All of them
The 'Football' game, as you describe was, in fact called 'Camping' , in England.
look up the origins of Lacrosse
Love the IT Crowd reference ! "Did you see that ludicrous display last night ?" 😁
😂😂
A whole town kicking around a blown up pigs bladder with no rules or aim sounds AMAAAZZZIIIINNNGGGGGGG
I never knew Yahtzee sold so much per year
Man i love this channel. And this narrator is awesome😁
Please could you do a video on the Medici Family😊
I think we should build a statue of the first human to call another human a peasant
What did it mean for the relationship if she's able to eat the entire apple underwater?
Makes me think of Aaron from the office "I did it I ate two whole apples"
A long relationship, with few children
The dude probably has to eat her peach entirely under water 😂
@@noahnuccioguitarworks7552 😂😂😂
They did quite a bit of drinking. Beer brewed with ergot contaminated grain was popular. The Dancing Plague was a big thing, People danced in the streets for days on end. Like Free Festivals in the 70's.
Weird history will always be your Future's mystery.
2:08 _IT Crowd_ reference! Hells yeah!
Loved that "ludicrous display" IT crowd reference 👌👌
"Did you see that ludacris display last night?" IT Crowd reference. love. it.
Wow this is definitely one of my favourite channels
Nice production as usual !
"Skater's Waltz" playing in the background. Nice touch.
Amazing how and when some of the sport games got there start long ago and have changed into what they are today.
I love your channel! Can you do one about mid evil make up?
If you're forced to practice archery, it's not "free time", it's military training. Choosing to practice archery, uncoerced, is free time. See the difference?
It’s fun, and you’re a beta male who wouldn’t enjoy shooting bows
Water jousting sounds like a riot! Someone should bring that back.
Thank you for very interesting video 😊 I would like to hear about medieval medicine
Imagine living during these times.
where is 1998 & 1999 on weird history timeline
jeff anderson
"I can't believe they worked less than us!" Guys, they worked fewer days FOR THEIR WAGES. When they weren't working for wages they spent the majority of their time working without pay--they had to make everything by hand. Their clothes, their food, and they had to care for all their livestock and maintain their house and property. They spent almost every waking moment working in one way or another, and it was only on the occasional feast day and such that they relaxed. They couldn't relax regularly or they'd starve. Do you know how incredibly time-consuming it is to make butter by hand?
they definitely didn’t go on vacation to the islands
All of these were fascinating. But bear bating absolutely killed me.
They had much more time to do whatever they wanted to. They worked to plant and harvest the crops. Didn’t do much during the winter though, except try to keep warm, and find enough to eat. The problem with all that time is most of the battles and fighting was done during the summer. ( the campaign season) Being a peasant for your lord was a problem during the summer if the king, and/or lord wanted or needed you to go to battle. Your in fairly good shape, but your usually not trained or equipped very well. This is ok if your fighting against other peasants, but not good if your up against a professional army. Or against well trained, or even just trained people. If you survive the battle(s) your doing good. If your maimed you usually get some compensation, but it won’t be a lot. But you don’t “work” as many days.
Look up Atherstone.. they still play Middle Ages football… with punching, showing and everything
I was extremely surprised to find out that the peasants had so much free time we always think of the peasants as having to work long hard hours 12 months a year the other surprising fact was that they were required to learn archery I thought maybe only the King's Men could be archers so this really surprised me that the common Man would be a precision Archer
Well, things like the United Nations didn't exist, that means, that if your empire had enough power, you could just invade another (if that one was not allied to a bigger one)
Making wars pretty much common, training your citizens for war was not a bad idea, and your enemies were going to struggle in invasions.
Delightful and OMG, Stuff you already knew and stuff you didn't presented in a factual but light-hearted ( some what , tongue in cheek manner 👍obscenely outrageous! I like these Doc's so much.. You learn, you freak out. laugh, cringe.. It's all there!
I would enjoy grooming the horses. What century did stilts walking become the method for lighting street lamps?
18th or 19th century, medieval is much earlier. Something like 10th to 15th centuries
Talking about games...
Back in the late 80s - early 90s, a work night out would be a trip to a pub where they still had a "skittle alley". It was a narrow room towards the back of the bar. Anyway, we'd meet up with a group of players from a different office and have a few pints while playing a very competitive, though usually hilarious, match of skittles.
I don't know if there are any left here in the UK, but I do hope so. Depending on the size of the building, some game or other is often on offer. Darts, "bar billiards" - not something I have played but I believe it's a pretty old one. IIRC Tom Scott has an old video or two on his channel about pub games, where he and some friends explain and play them. Pretty sure bar billiards is on it. Pool is pretty common, of course, but if there's enough room, a snooker/"proper" billiards table could be available. It's possible that the medieval game "shove ha'ppeny" (or "halfpenny"), which could be played with tokens or metal disks, but was often played with coins, especially the "ha'ppeny" ( _pron. hay-penny_ which was a physically big enough coin to play with and low enough in value - though not the lowest! That was a farthing or ¼ penny - to not be a disaster if it were lost) is still played if the pub has a table big enough! There's a _very_ long ancient table on which this game was played in Longleat, an Elizabethan aged, well, near enough a palace!
[For potential visitors to the UK, Longleat was, I believe, the world's first "safari park" (not the same as an African safari, but of that ilk. You are the interesting view for the wild animals roving the section you're in!) and still has an incredible collection of animals and wonderful scenery. It's genuinely beautiful, especially on the paddle boat that will take you on the huge man-made lake to meet the sea lions. 😄 But if you're on holiday over here and hiring a car, look into the contract before visiting the safari area. They have monkeys that will strip your car down in minutes!]
Back to the subject, pub games like skittles were/are (hopefully) great fun. It would be awesome if they could make a comeback.
awesome video
Blown up pigs bladder.....I wonder how many kicks it took to pop it?
basically leather, so...
this is the best channel for history
Surprisingly violent pastimes. Good thing dynamite hadn't been invented yet. Tennis and badminton could have been an explosive and fatal sport.
They did a lot of hard labour, its crazy that they had the energy to play games after all that. I guess some days could have been better than other days or kids didn't have to do as much so they might have gotten time to play from this.
Nowadays, too, working the land can be a very variable amount of work, depending on the season.
@2:08 THE THING ABOUT ARSENAL IS THEY ALWAYS TRY TO WALK IT IN
I love that sarcastic narrator :D
"ludicrous display" - IT crowd reference. Nice
Peasant are very grateful we should proud of them being a Indian I know how peasant do hardwork I think my neighbour countries also known
Peasants are very grateful? For what? They were lowest of the low, almost no rights couldnt even leave the village they were born in
@@jamiecullum5567 hello I am agreeing with you thanks but we should respect our peasant who gave daily food 😔
@@jacksparrow-ig4ug peasants do not give me daily food
@@jamiecullum5567 ok my dear friend
@@jamiecullum5567 are you India
Hands down another great educational video from weird history🎥📜😁 -Mercy(sorry for the name confusion i am on my dad's phone at the moment)
When I visited England on vacation I ended up at a small festival in a small town and played a game of skittles and won a tin of cookies, it was a lot of fun. English folks are alright in my book.
In bobbing for apples part, missed an opportunity to slip in the old "apple of her eye"
Wow. That last one!! To even gain enough skill to skate on animal bones is just next level types of diffulty!! And than to add jousting? Props
Water jousting is still very popular in some French cities, Sete (Hérault) being one of them celebrated on the Saint Louis day
that ludicrous display joke is really gonna fly under the radar for 99.9% of viewers in the usa
oh, so they didn't just die at the ripe old age of 35?
Peasants or serfs could not leave the land aka plantation where they worked. If they ever did leave the plantation, they needed permission from their lord or master. In most cases, the peasants never left and died on the land which they worked.
Serfs didn't have beds or pillows. They slept on straw mats. Only the manor lords could afford beds and pillows! Also bobbing for apples is definitely not medieval. I remember reading somewhere that "apple bobbing" was a Victorian passtime. The unwanted "free time" the serfs had was consumed by daily chores (like chopping wood and doing laundry) and tending to their personal plots so they wouldn't starve. Now the problem was (and this comes up in English Parliamentary records) that there were too many religious holidays where work was forbidden. One of the prime drivers of the Protestant Revolution was getting rid of unwanted mandatory religious holidays so the serfs could do extra work to earn enough money for manumission from their village manor. It was the first real step towards the liberation of the serfs.
Nice!! I loved the ludicrous display line.
That was fun! Thank you.
3:26
just a time stamp so i can here this guy say butts over and over
Not us in the Netherlands playing colf
They may have worked less but the time they do spend working is much more brutal
"Injuries and death were routine... so naturally, the game was popular." My response to that part of the story was a surprising peal of laughter followed by a series of hearty chortles and unladylike guffaws I felt deep down in my belly. 'Twas a reminder of why laughter can act like medicine for the human body and I thank you for it.
Water jousting: Why can’t we do that now? It could be a way more exciting athletic competition in the Summer Olympics than baseball.
We have Waterpolo
When I was growing up we played bobbing for apples.
TIMELINEEEEEEE PLZ
Nooo please keep the normal content, timelines are much more boring. Nothing on the channel, just more boring content we have easy access to in timelines.
#normalcontentgang
isnt it strange how every culture had archers in their army at some point
Skittles is still played in the U.K. Plenty of local leagues here in the Westcountry at least.
Referring to the bobbing for apples...you know there was a mischievous teenage dude in the village who wrote some female names on some apples he got, and threw them in when nobody was looking...😂🤣
Emily went to bop for an apple and pulled out a Samantha instead of a Bryan...😲🤣😂
Not a fan of ice hockey, but I'd be front row center for ice joisting!
No safety then
Get a
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Lance in the face
REally good video. Above average.
Yeah they even the Medieval Peasant Have more free time than me when guarding the Death Star
"Hey, want to buy a lottery ticket? The winner gets to be sacrificed to the dragon."
"No thanks. I'm waiting for someone to invent the Irish Sweepstakes."
There is an old bear pit in the woods near my house. Its pretty cool to look at
I love Colf too.
Looking for inspiration in my current time.