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- Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s anarcho-syndicalist peasant scene is one of the funniest parts of the film.
In it, two peasants claim that they’re living in an autonomous collective, a small self-governed society that doesn’t answer to a higher power, such as a lord, a king or a government.
It seems like it’s a crazy idea and just part of the zany humour of the film.
But how accurate is this scene? Could a society like this have existed back in the middle ages, and how would it work?
It was a question recently posed on Reddit, and there were some truly fascinating answers.
Let’s look into it.
Thanks to Redditors Wifi-Knight, Mike Dash, J-Force and Airborne Walrus for their insight.
Here's the original question on reddit:
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"You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
I wonder sometimes if King Charles ponders these words in relation to Ms Mordaunt's theatrical part in his enthronement ceremony? He DOES have a reputation for having an ironic wit!
"Come and see the violence inherent on the system. Help, help, I'm being repressed" might be the greatest line in movie history.
You saw him repressing me, didn't you?!
@@ricstormwolfThe ENTIRE SCENE is MOVIE GOLD!! EVERY line, like most in Holy Grail, is incredibly timely & quotable!
I literally fell under the table after seeing this.
i dont know
"That bastard shot my lunch!" was a pretty good line
Just because some watery tart threw you a sword....😅
I think it still stands that my all time favorite movie line is , “Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”
In all honesty, I think it's my all time favourite movie line too!
@@SammYLightfooD Blasphemy! BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!
I concur
Behold our civilized western world....my god what an idiots we are....
Right after: "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?" And "It is the rabbit!" And "Can't I have just a little peril?" And....oh hell, they're all golden!
Here what I see is often missed in this scene. The two peasants are muckrakers. They are gathering manure to sell as fertilizer. This is called muckraking.
However, in modern times muckraking has anew meaning. Journalists who dig up dirt on politicians, expose corruption, etc, are also called muckrakers.
So, the two peasants are literally muckrakers, in the older definition of the word.
However, they are also muckrakers in the modern definition of the word, in they are exposing the violence inherent in the system.
The collective was called the diggers.
"Yellow Beard ", adorable little girl on the street, " farthing for a lump of shit, Sir?"
@@nospoon4799 YES!
Manure, or just plain old lovely filth? Seeing this movie is still one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Keen observation!
"Suddenly, strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, seems like an increasingly viable basis, as a form of government"
We need watery tarts
@@patriottothecore6215 And moist bints.
Where is this quote from?
@@pyropulseIXXI Online meme
At this point, it’d be just as well.
I still remember an occasion back in the eighties when I was able to ask the late Arthurian Historian Geoffrey Ashe what he thought was the most accurate Arthurian movie ever made? Without hesitation, he answered "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
If only for the line about how we know that Arthur was the king because he was the only one who didn't have sh*t all over him.
Haha, true! I'm always trying to explain to people who don't care about why Holy Grail is so accurate. My favorite example is when Lancelot just starts stabbing wedding guests. He does that in the stories! I mean, not that exactly, but he habitually falls asleep in other people's pavilions and then kills them when the rightful owner comes home and complains. Like more than once. WtF?!? Who would do that?
A biblical scholar I know says a similar thing for the politics of the Holy Land in Life Of Brian.
@@nospam3327no wait what? Lancelot was a slasher?
On second thought, Camelot is a silly place...
"What I object to is that you automatically treat me as an inferior."
Well, I am your king.
I think Dennis is quite sane and logical actually
Based Anarco-pythonism
That's good
Well im an AnSyn so I agree
Anarcho-syndicalism with pond characteristics
Then you're an anarchist. Welcome
Damn, every anarchist I know loves the scene as comedy gold.
Me THREE !
Yup
But no cookbook ?
Monty python , first few times puffin , lmao into coma land . Great memories!
@shawntailor5485 nah, the guy that wrote that wasn't even an anarchist, he was a grumpy trust fund college kid who was mad at the government. Also most if the explosives recipes and plans snf stuff don't work.
If I went around saying I was Emperor just 'cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Shut Up!
Got to watch out for them watery tarts
LOL, love the comments
Have you tried being born in a manger?
6:25 Imagine being a history channel and mistaking the Holy Roman Empire for the Roman Empire
He keeps doing it. I feel like hes doing it on purpose to drive engagement and views
Not only that but he missed the whole point of that scene as being a mockery of modern anarcho socialist groups. Monty Python liked to make fun of that type of stuff.
Just to be pedantic, The Holy Roman Empire was the Roman Empire, according to their line of succession.
@@Jamie_Case No, it was not! It was an explicit reformation. The HRE was founded on Christmas Day 800AD when the Pope crowned Charlemagne. There was no direct and contiguous line from either the Western or Eastern Roman Empire to Charlemagne. They attempted to frame themselves as the inheritors of the Western RE's mandate from God but they never claimed direct and contiguous lineage.
The king attacking Dennis is not crazy at all. Quite realistic of how governments react to those that don't follow the line.
when someone says: "give me liberty or give me death" the state is very happy to respond with the latter.
America is going through that now.
Smash the woke
Yes. Because people behave as if they are unaware of the consent derives from the people. They fight for it yet they quiver and succumb when the other side undermines them
And I'm sure if by some miracle they formed their republic, the newly made 'representatives' won't go chopping peoples heads like its a matter of k/d ratios
A reminder everyone. 'Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist" is now Sir Michael Edward Palin. I guess he got tired of all that lovely filth
I think it was Abbie Hoffman who said ..." Do YOUR Thing until you get Rich, Then do Their Thing !
I bet he misses that lovely filth...
Satire
I read his diaries in prison. Cleese was right, they were bloody boring.
Naturally. 'Twas but a silly, passing fetish.
This video is sooooo important because Monty Python was making a historical drama.
Just like Netflix
@@ralfdunkel6266 or the History Channel
Came here for Monty Python trivia, learned about some history of my own region. 😮
I'm from Hamburg and my grandparents lived in Hennstedt and later in Sankt Michaelisdonn which are both in Dithmarschen. 😅
Gotta love a scholarly dissection of the funniest scene in cinema.
Lol I was just looking for the scene. Now I'm watching it picked apart.😂
At least one major theoretician of anarchism, Petr Kropotkin, used medieval cities and guilds as models of autonomous or semi-autonomous rule. Runaway serfs typically fled to cities, regarding them as free places. See his "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution," published 1902.
Anarcho -syndicalism worked and thrived in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil war. It was hindered and suppressed by the Barcelona communists who were suspicious of anything that smacked of "deviationism".
as an anarchist i absolutely adore this scene
Even though it's kind of making fun of you + yours?
@@SiiriCressey: I can't speak for OP, but most anarchists that I know have a sense of humour. It helps that the jokes are on point, not the usual ways people try to make fun of anarchists, but addressing the things that we actually do: the convoluted forms of governance to try to avoid letting any one person or group take power; debates over the primacy of class, race, etc as a form of oppression; whether to get on with the work or focus on talking and debating. And anyway, Dennis may be high-strung, but he's right.
@@tobybartels8426 Hmm, let me guess: Dennis = talk talk talk, woman (is she named? I don't remember) = get on with the work?
@@SiiriCressey : Yes, the woman only argues with Arthur when he's trying to interfere with their work, while Dennis goes on arguing even after Arthur starts leaving, provoking him into physically attacking him so that he can show everyone ‘the violence inherent in the system’. (I don't know how much of that was deliberate on the part of the Pythons, but that's how I see it. There's a more explicit satire of talk-talk-talk in _Life of Brian,_ although that's patterned more on Maoist parties than anarcho-syndicalist communes.)
@@SiiriCressey as an anarchist, it's an amazing scene. Dude is spitting straight fire while stacking literal dirt, it's absolutely amazing.
"Wahr di Garr, de Bur kumt!"
It's interesting, that you brought up Dithmarschen, because they were indeed the prime example of it I thought about as well. about 20 years ago I held a presentation about in our history lessons, using Age of Empires II screenshots to illustrate everything. There is much more to this peasant republic than you could do in your short video. How they fought for they land against King Johann I. in the battle of Hemmingstedt in the year 1500. They warned the peasants to obey the king, but as they refused, the king attacked with a massive army, including the infamous "Black Guard" mercenary force. "Wahr di Bur, de Garr kumt!" - "Beware peasant, the guard is coming!"
But the military expedition failed miserably, and the black guard wasn't equipped to fight in the swamps, and of about 2000 guard fighters, 800 died and drowned within three hours in heavy armor.
It ended in chaos and slaughter and the army of the King crumbled to nothing as the survivors fled in panic. The leaders of the "Black Guard" were killed and the organization was dissolved.
The aristocratic cavalry forces tried to win the battle by them selves, but the farmers attacked the horses in the marshy lands and the noble knights died and drowned in large numbers as well, including many members of higher nobility of that region.
The king had to withdraw, and the peasants flipped their battle slogan around: "Wahr di Garr, de Bur kumt!" - "Beware guard, the peasant is coming!"
The Danish kingdom was so weakened, that as a consequence, the Swedish Kingdom could gain independence afterwards.
Yes, peasant republics where a thing in mediaval Europe, but Dithmarschen was not the only one. Iceland and the swiss Eidgenossenschaft come to mind, in Germany East-Frisia. All of these free peasants where subdued by territorial rulers sooner or later, though (the Swiss by local townspeople), except Dithmarschen's little known neighbour to the south. The Land Hadeln maintained it's selfadministration well into modern times, up to 1884!
"All the other kings said I was DAFT to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em!"
Runaway, runaway!!
Very interesting
@@MrFusselig *WOW!* That is fantastic.
Be quiet. I order you to be quiet.
Ordering? Who does he think he is.
Things never change in Britain.
Wait that actually happened? A lord saying ''This shit is too much for me'' and abandoning his lands and titles to go live in a larger town as a commoner, or would he still be considered a landless noble?
Landless noble
Yes. He would have the problem that he couldn't do a lot of jobs as a noble.
уклоняющийся от своих обязанностей дворянин раньше лишался дворянства,
если дворянин не платил королю дань деньгами и воинами то он лишался земель и титула,
а без земель и титула человек мог быть безнаказанно убит и ограблен любым представителем закона.
@@unokarpa4405 а если просто без земли, он пака считается аристократ?
@@alexanderfridayeagle9146
когда начинался институт аристократии то звание аристократа не предполагало безземельность,
за заслуги перед королём давалась земля и титул, титул был неотъемлемой частью земли, граф таких-то земель, маркиз таких-то земель, принц таких-то земель.. титул был как как звание управляющего - управляющий такого-то отеля, управляющий такого-то завода, управляющий такого-то магазина..
когда аристократы теряли земли они шли на военную службу королю, где их либо убивали в походе/в бою, либо они получали новые завоёванные земли.
Dennis was just ahead of his time , and unafraid of articulating his principles .
1:35 "Monty Python is set in AD 932, in England" - Proceeds to cut to B-roll of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Frenchiest castle ever.
Are you sure it isn't St Michael's Mount, in Cornwall?
Nah nah nah coz the police had to arrest that knight for killing the historian 🤗
True today, but wasn't ruled by lords who owed their loyalty to the English king for quite a long time?
2:11 well, i didn't vote for you.(love the scene)
One of my college professors played us this scene and we discussed it for the exact reasons mentioned in this video.
Dennis is the sane one , the king is living in fantasy land ... I want a sword now .
How can it be a 'fantasy land' if that type of thing actually happened? Plenty of examples of leaders believing in divine right. History is full of it. It's still around. It's reality. That's what is being ridiculed.
@@David_Span How many of those leaders even believed in divine right and how many of them used general ignorance to their advantage?
@@aevum6667 (1) Belief of leaders in divine will/right, and (2) the power of religious belief to control the masses, are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Reminds me of the autonomous villages in medieval Japan, despite living in the realm of a Shugo Daimyo, they are almost entirely self-governing with a number of headmen deciding everyday affairs, the lords were only in charge when there was a border dispute, such as villages competing for streams or farmlands, which the lord would be responsible for declaring war to resolve the dispute, and these autonomous villages would provide footmen and supplies in exchange.
That sounds just like early feudalism
Sounds like an AA business meeting. It actually works until a "King Arthur" type arrives. But, they usually then get drunk and the problem goes away until they return with the appropriate amount of humility.
@@farwynd2925I mean it's basically the medieval equivalent of small socialist communities today, integrating communal elements into a feudalist or capitalist world
Seeing that most of the troupe were Cambridge educated why is this surprising? To say Terry Jone had studied up on Medieval history is a bit of an understatement, as he was one of the foremost experts on Chaucer and Her Royal Majesty's Expert on ancient documents.
I've never lived in medieval England, but I think Terry Jones got the visual appearance of that era 100% correct. He worked on all the Python team's movies such as The Jabberwocky and The Time Bandits.
Very interesting. But one thing: The name, Dithmarschen, of a region near Hamburg, is not pronounced with the "th" sound but with a simple "t". And to this day, the Dithmarschen people are renowned for their stubbornness and their independent spirit.
Yes, same rule as in "Beethoven."
You learn something everyday.... thank you.
Propably because all the independent blood wasent executed out of the genepool.
So are the Spanish. Their history is rich in anarchism.
And their Red Necks ?!
Why wouldnt it be accurate? Or informed enough to be satire? Terry Jones and Michael Palin both had history degrees from Oxford.
Do Tell !!
@@jollyjoker888 Wikipedia would probably tell you everything you want to know.
Did kings also roam the lands with a squire who mimicked the sounds of horse hooves?
@@answerman9933 Everything is possible in the multiverse ...
@@answerman9933 - The coconut shells are satire ... BUT ... yes, especially Henry II were well known as travelers, running tours up and down the country-side keeping his barons in line ... the movie was set in the times the legend was written, political spin for the French Invaders ... "Of course Author was Occitanian, just like Richard the Lionheart" ...
One thing that everyone misses is that Dennis knows what Excalibur is.
5:18 - "The peasants are revolting!"
"You said it! They stink on ice!" - Mel Brooks, "History of the World Part I"
Those fearsome knights are actually saying "NEIT" which the Netherlanders would exclaim if their shrubberies were being trampled.
Royalty us just code for gangster family.
You also have the republics in northern Italy as an example. And they were very prosperous. They also beat emperor Barbarossa at the battle of Legnano and forced him to recognize their autonomy.
Dude, you're incredibly underrated. Keep up the great work!
Dithmarsh lasted longer than America has existed so far. Imagine the culture of Dithmarsh, even as a smaller society, imagine if it simply grew bigger.
What these anarchists don't seem to understand is that this system is destined to collapse as centralization becomes easier, Dithmarshen was able to exist for so long because of its Marshy terrain, which was useful in keeping outsiders away
Not really. They were conquered by the nearby bishopric a few decades later
@@gabrielethier2046 "What these democratic republicans don't seem to understand is that this system is destined to collapse as centralization becomes easier, the USA was able to exist for so long because of its spread out population, which was useful in making more centralized authority impractical"
@@aevum6667 that comparison is ridiculous because they each have a proper functioning state to effectively defend their interest, but even if I granted you that, which I'm fine with doing considering the fact the US does in reality trend towards more centralized control, what of it?
There's nothing to imagine. Just look at what happened in northern Italy. The italian part of the HRE was de-facto independent from the imperial authority due to geographical distance, wich allowed cities like Milan and Bologna to become extremely prosperous, far prosperous than any other cities in the german parts of the empire, wich led emperor Barbarossa to directly impose his authority on them, these cities however banded together and crushed Barbarossa's army at Legnano, forcing him to officially recognise their autonomy. This is what made the italian Reanaissance possible.
How do you know he's a king?
He's the only one not covered in shit.
What a clever video. It manages to be informative and funny at the same time. Well worth 10 minutes of my life. 👍
I think given the poor communications and travel that existed centuries ago. It would have been far from impossible for isolated communities to live for decades as subjects of governments they have no idea even existed!
Right now in these modern times, with jet aircraft overhead and satellites having mapped basically every square meter of the Earth's surface, there exist a people called the "North Sentinelese", it's just that they don't know they are called that because they haven't had a conversation with the outside world in maybe tens of thousands of years. Very, VERY loosely speaking they are under the laws of the Indian government, but they don't know that, or that an Indian government exists, or a place called "India", either.
The whole world is the island they live on, and everything from outside is unknown, not wanted and pretty violently resisted.
They are very truly an Autonomous Collective!
So Dithmarschen was also the inspiration for swamp castle. All the other lords thought I was daft building a castle in a swamp and it sank into the swamp so I built another and it sank into the swamp so I built a third and it burned down then sank into the swamp, but the fourth, the fourth one stood!
I had forgotten that scene😂Thank you,kind stranger I've had an awful day!
@@hughgabin8068 I hope today is better my friend!
But to do that you need Huge "tracts of land".
And it still stands to this day! .....at least the parts that haven't sank into the swamp.
What an absolutely,, wonderfully absurdist conception! Just remembering the first time viewing it with hysterical laughter.
@@stuartnorman8713 You think autonomous egalitarian communities are absurd?
I have never doubted that Monty Python and the Holy Grail - along with all other Monty Python films - are anything other than absolutely representative of the times they portray!
Its.."...farcical aquatic ceremony."
Little did I realise this back in the day, as I howled in laughter as a teenager. Still, we live and learn 😊.
One day, students will have this to watch and to learn how several layers of the comedy goes together in the same time.
I want to know who told Dennis that Excalibur was a sword..?
Merlin, you berk.
The script ...
@@paulohagan3309 Dingo from Castle Anthrax.
He MIGHT have been able to guess from the word itself; Excalibur, or Ex Caliburn, means "from Caliburn" (as Ex Libris, from the library, automatically indicates "book") so he could tell somebody made it and Caliburn was a nickname for Blacksmiths in general, so Blacksmith - metal - guy in armour - weapon - he's obviously got a sword with him - Excalibur is a sword, QED.
Whatever else he was, Dennis wasn't stupid or unobservant!
Or am I overthinking this and stretching too much..?
Looks like Ditmarschen (sic) is where Swamp Castle is.
I've hoped for my entire adult life that I might find Castle Anthrax.
Despite the peril.
@@FredScuttle456 No; it’s too perilous.
@@FredScuttle456 Someone in Las Vegas really needs to put up a grail-shaped beacon... 🏆
@@nicksterj YES YES YES!
Great fun to consider this! The best humor has more than a kernel of truth
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Sounds like a modern-day Body Corporate, you have a seven-person Committee to represent the owners for smaller day-to-day matters, and once every year for major votes you need a minimum amount of owners to vote (quorum), and finally, a new committee is voted in.
Christ imagine going to this film for the first time with the narrator
I cackled!
“Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!. 😂😂
The sleights "Your mother was a hamster" and "Your father smells of Elderberries" could have been accurate too.
Apparently the insult that 'she breeds like a hamster' was common. Also peasants, who could not but wine from grapes, used to make bramble and elderberry wines. Smelling like elderberries was indicative of the peasant trade.
Or of being a drunk.
This is just a fancy excuse to go watch the movie again. Which I shall.
Many of the peasants outside of the castle influence were likely only assaulted by tax-collectors (or highwaymen posing as such) as their only regal interaction for their whole lives.
The edited word in Dennis' retort was "aquatic". Don't know why anyone would edit "farcical aquatic ceremony", but there you go.
ever lobbed a scimitar? flung a falchion? hucked a bastard?
"how accurate is monty python" ?
Very, very, all the way to being accurately silly 😜😂 every single time!
Don't get me started on the Great Pre-War Joke
A moose once bit my sister
I was immediately thinking about Dithmarschen. It's such a weird place in history.
It has no cities of meaningful size and no special resources. It's really just farmers. And lots of powerful duchies and kingdoms tried to subjugate them and they somehow managed to keep them out for centuries.
I dare say he's the wittiest muckraker ever. Has got a way with words he has.
I remember the thread on r/AskHistorians. Brilliant video!
6:21 "Holy Roman Empire" isn't the ancient Romans from Italy.
Yes, the "Holy Roman Empire" was not the "Roman Empire". It probably wasn't particularly Holy or even much of an Empire either. Use of "Holy Roman Empire" would be a bit like modern Britain deciding to call itself "The Devine Indian Empire" on the basis of having conquered it a few centuries ago. I was puzzled by reference to Romans, with footage of marching Roman soldiers (presumably modern people re-enacting Roman soldiers rather than 2000 year old film footage).
My God! They're Soveriegn Citizens!
Freemen on the land!
I agree in your general direction, sir!
1:35 I like how you say it's set in England while showing the scene of a French castle 😂😂
Peasants.
Bloody troublemakers. The whole lot o' them.
“I am your king!”
“Well I didn’t vote for you.”
One of my favorite lines. 😂
You don't vote for kings!
Anyone else notice the distinct face in the Tree at 1:40?
When i first saw this, it made me think that there's always been people who had it all figured out and just had to find a way to survive the insane world they were born into. We may still be in the dark ages. It may not even be an age. 🤷♀️
The intelligence of pythons humor is often overlooked !
0:24 Is that the aptly named Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film?!
My ex-girlfriend's family was from Dithmarschen. She certainly was very argumentative, no doubt.
No she wasn't.
I was arguing in my spare time
Churlish knave, how dast thee question Sir Monty of Python. Begone, I say. Begone!
Yagata listen to the interviewins of Ralph Ellis, who closely studied the more detailed and relevant Vulgate Cycle. However he has stayed ignorant of the fact that 2 Jesi were.
Swamps, you say? So you could say that Dithmarschen had some lovely filth?
I’m curious, did Royals just sprout up from the ground? With the magic fairy children? Or were they just the toughest largest group of people who made everyone else do what they said and declared themselves better through time. The Victor writes the history in the Victor always is the hero in the history.Oh Mr. Pendragon the stories you could tell.
There's a great song by Screeching Weasel called:
Come See the Violence Inherent in the System.
I saw this movie decades before the song came out, but I haven't got an idydic memory, so I had a eureka moment when I realized
who put you in charge, to question Monty Python's validity?!
I know I'm not the only one who has this scene memorized.
It's every Libertarian Party meeting ever 😂😂😂 ...and, instead of the king ordering the currently-speaking yammerhead to shut up, it's new attendees (the peasants) who do so. 😂😂😂
Leave it tto Monty Python to get into a political rant in a movie about King Arthur.
One line about the “king” is undoubtably true. The comment “I didn’t vote for you” is true for any king
Though some kings are elected
not true. kings were often elected granted not by peasants but by other lords.
@@jebise1126so 99% of the population could still say I didn't vote for you
Okay, this shit is cool. This is what I live for. Weird diverse history that defies fantasy fiction and stereotypes that people just see on Game of Thrones.
1:36 "set in 932 ad england" as they show mt st michel in france
Known as a tribe or clan. The smartest often becomes a leader, as humans need leaders to take charge and conduct negotiations, so becoming collectives. No matter whether people say there are no leaders one will naturally come forward.
I remember reading an article in the New Yorker about how, in the British Isles, the people living in and around bogs were the most independent and unruly. While bogs aren't great for agriculture, they are great for hunting and gathering, and hunting and gathering give people a lot of freedom compared to agriculture.
I then interpreted the work that Dennis and his companion were doing as similar to peat harvesting--it's a pretty damp location, and it sure doesn't look like they are farming. I have discussed this with some people and they laughed at me--surely the Monty Python gang didn't have any serious history in mind when they wrote the scene! But I always thought there was more to this scene--it is nice to see that some others are considering the more serious background of this scene.
Can you do a video explicating "there's some lovely filth down here"?
6:26 XD I think you missed the holy part. It is called the Holy Roman empire
Yup absolutely a different thing. HRE wasn't holy, wasn't Roman and it wasn't an Empire!
I loved this video!!
I have to admit losing it completely watching that silly movie "The Last Legion" when they had a watery tart with a scimitar helping the kid emperor,... (Aishwarya Rai as Mira)
Local government was common in Scandinavia. However they paid taxes so you can not say they were autonomous.
Most of history supports the concept of taxes not as subscribing to Being Ruled but as various manners of tribute or protection money. It’s not a stretch to look at much historical tax paying as outsourcing of armed defence. “We’ll agree to pay this much for protection from your soldiers and from the foreign soldiers. “
@@manzion7591 Most of? How do you make a quantification?
One warrior chief and his mates fought all the others until therewas no one left to beat,then called himself king and claimed to own everything
Ooh look, a King!
How d'ya know it's a king?
'Cos he hasn't got shit all over him.
And I have been listening to a podcast on the history of science in the Middle Ages.... Not as dark or as dumb as we've been led to believe! Great and funny examination.
I can't really take this serious after you showed footage of the Romans of old XD
Wow man! Merry Christmas!!
Farcical aquatic ceremony. lol I heard the missing word immediately I know this film way too well.
Idk if anyone has already mentioned the Diggers but they were pretty communal
I have just a few problems with this video. It seems the maker confuses the Holy Roman Empire with the actual Roman Empire. He has added footage of ancient first century Romans and ancient first century Germanic tribes. This is not at all what people looked like in the 13th century. The maker would have done better by adding footage of proper Medieval reenactment groups.
You're right but maybe that was all the footage they could find
Marvelous. GREAT VIDEO. Thank you!!!!