The Art Of Defending A Medieval Castle | Secrets Of The Castle | Timeline
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- Ruth, Peter and Tom look at the ingenious features medieval castle-builders came up with to withstand attack from an ever more formidable array of siege engines.
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netflix is perv channel of lies...
instablaster.
Why is the thumbnail so weirdly inappropriate for the subject matter? Heh.
but this is a fake, regarding construction, it is obvious that castle is already almost finished...is a bit cringe...
I love how much they enjoy themselves, it's really wonderful to see. I have a very high tolerance for "boring" history and I hate when everything is made over-dramatic in an attempt to stop that. This is a really nice medium because you can tell the hosts/historians love what they're doing. The passion is genuine and it breeds genuine interest, imo.
I agree, they're enthusiastic without looking artificially dramatic, and they go into quite interesting topics related to the subjects they're presenting.
Too many times I see the over-dramatic shows just milk a single thing like a trebuchet for half an hour, with loads of cuts and asking the same question in different ways while never really answering it. It's refreshing to have a show that respects it's audience enough to present information in a comprehensive but interesting way.
@@G1NZOU @RosieMe5 Also a show that is willing to admit when we don't/can't know things, but is still willing to discuss why something might be plausible.
It makes me want to spend a couple of weeks in France volunteering at this castle. Too bad they probably don't take unskilled, level 1 craftsmen such as myself ;_;
There is no such thing as boring history.
I like that they can laugh while they try all these experiences. I think that joy is infectious.
This kind of work actually looks quite satisfying. Much better than sitting behind a desk all day.
Go become a carpenter ;)
i totally agree. I actually need to do physical labor to feel satisfied in life. desk jobs make me depressed.
You've never thrown your back out, have you?
As a construction worker, it's pretty much the same stuff we do today, except that we have power tools and heavy equipment. The principals are the same.
Btw I'm a carpenter.....
Plasterer, over 30 yrs in construction. Your desk is climate controlled, trying rolling that chair through a puddle or mud. Then sit in direct sunlight for the next 8 hrs trying to drink your own body weight in water and gatorade hourly... lol And yes it is satisfying, but it is for the young, unless you can work indoors also, especially in the winter.
I love how passionate Ruth is about everything in her life. We need more humans like that in this world. So infectious... So good!
be the difference you want to see.
I find her annoying and over the top.
she's annoying
Ha "so infectious"
Hasn't really aged well, has it?
@@andrewroy6376 me too
I love Ruth. Really, her enthousiasm, her happy personality and how she conveys her knowledge to us viewers.
Thank you Ruth!
She'd be a demon in the sack too.
Cezar's Palace hahahahaha
@@iiiiii8522 gross
@@Daylon91 Seems at least she'd have more energy than a girl who just lies there like a starfish.
@@iiiiii8522 Aww savage...
I love all the historical series that Ruth, Peter and Alex (and Tom) do... I love Ruth's spirit and the fact that Peter tries his hand at everything, he never says no to giving it a go!
Omgoodness, my dears, if only I/we could have had history lessons like this, 40+ years ago, instead of one 'biased' text book, and having to learn only 'years/dates and facts', I would have become a historian!
Now, at almost 63 years old, I am 'really learning about', and appreciating our past!
Many thanks!❤
I too was bored with the history part but I found geography to go along with the history which broadened my perspective of the whole mess.
Indeed, today they would say black people built all these castles!
Might be worth looking into just who owns the textbook companies...
I've been bingeing on everything Ruth, Peter & Alex have done or at least two out of three in a series. I've come to love them all. Their all-in enthusiasm without all the ego is fresh and infectious.
Don't ya love it when adults have fun with life?Too bad most of us are lost in the grind!
Is this the start of the peasant revolt?
@@Erik3E Only if We want to have a little fun before this contract is up!No one signs one to last for all time!
Yeah, cutting stone all day, covered in fleas, food infested with weevils, sleeping with rats, all with no books, TV, rubber soled shoes, antibiotics, internet, clean running water, sushi, cars, microwaves, water heaters, light bulbs, ice cream, soap, toothpaste, or toilet paper. What fun!
@@Erik3E Peasants have always been revolting. And sometimes they're rebelling.
Most people are still building castles for their lords!
If I had a role in the construction of that castle, I would have absolutely been willing to give my life to defend it.
The only real way to complete this castle experiment is to raise a medieval army in England and embark on an expedition to sack it.
Antifoul Awl :') deus vult xD
The guys down at the caliphate club are waaaaay ahead of you guys, better put ya pints down and get your arses into gear.
Too late,London has been renamed Londonistan years ago lol .
Combat Meerkat deus vult means God Wills It. It’s not just a phrase meaning “GO TO WAR!!” It was only used in regards to the crusading movement, so it wouldn’t have been said in this situation. Just letting ya know, no hate 😁
Yeah, ever since the Romans left Londinium, the place has gone to the birds.
Such teamwork and reliance on one another. You rely on everyone and everyone relies on you. Everyone builds a strong respect for each other. Truly, this is how society is meant to be
That's exactly why schools and companies want everyone to be an everyman nowadays. So that we can be easily replaced unlike we were ages ago.
lol
This is why diversity is not such a good thing.
thats the problem today, we are so advanced in technology, there are quite alot of jobs which are so abstract that you cant even see the importance in them anymore.
yeah fuedalism has its benefits, a neat and tidy life that the anunaki and reptillians can use to lord overus so much easier
I see he's wearing novice robes of restoration.
hahahaha
this isn't skyrim
So novice. So very novice
RESTORATION IS A PERFECTLY VALID SCHOOL OF MAGIC!
@@EclipseClemens Mysticism or go home.
"food is a weapon of war" now you're talking like a true roman general
Like "Life is a weapon of war"...
Entraya Crosshill - Napoleon made the famous quote "An Army travels on it's stomach", which is why after conquering Moscow, his Army had to abandon it. The supply line was stretched to the breaking point.
Aye!
Larry Belitsky
Without forgetting the terrible Russian winter
Or an Allied general like Patton. Bomb out supply lines, kill off hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and their prisoners all concentrated into camps through disease and starvation...
How can she think she's not strong?!?! With all the manual labor she does in all these shows is amazing.
Ruth Goodman: most lovable historian!! I can't get enough of her I try to find every video I can! She's awesome!
"It's like a game of medieval Tetris." Love it! :D
Ruth fit perfectly into that medieval environnement
Maybe because she looks as old as the castle.
@@mlccrl That's so rude. -.- Do you speak like that to people in their face?? Ruth looks absolutely fine for her age.
Ruth is LOVING this. It's a truly fantastic project and looks like great fun
Would be for it is similar to her favorite the Tudor farm-Her real husband Mark was in it&her daughter Eve&
This is one of the coolest building endeavours of our time. I love their appreciation for using authentic building methods and materials of the time when these castles would have been built. This really is awesomely incredible!
You really notice how much fun they all have and especially "Ruth" is my favorite character. She's a good moderator, it's fun to watch
Interesting stuff to a guy that started out as a laborer on a house framing crew 35 years ago. I added skill in other construction trades to the point where I could work as a general contractor or a superintendent on major projects.
These people worked with the most rudimentary tools yet produced spectacular results, no rubes were they, lol.
“As much as anything, food is a weapon of war.” Great line.
Attackers often laid seige to a castle. The defenders often ate their horses 🐎, before surrendering.
I love all of it, All the episodes and I think Ruth is such a nice and fun lady.
So relieved to know that at the end of that hour my hunch was correct - Paul McGann is the narrator!
Splendid to hear his voice still. Hope he remains an actor in some capacity for many years to come.
Even the way they made the spiral stairway had defence in mind. They had them, so that any attackers, presumbaly coming up the stairs had the walls on their right sides (as the majority of people back them, like now, were right-handed), so that they were hindered in swinging their weapons, whilst the defenders had space to do so!
What a fantastic series! I can't help but be captivated by Ruth and Peter in their absolute devotion and knowledge to their relevant crafts. And now with "Tom", a vast improvement over their previous counterpart who had a name that rhymes with 'Alex Langlands'. I can't imagine that guy picking up a rock or mixing cement. Miss Ruth and Mr. Peter, I have watched all your series' many times over. Wonderful broadcasts. Thanks so very much.
Alex used to bother me for the same reason; I thought he always stood by while Peter did all the heavy lifting (and he did). But then I read that in fact, he was seriously injured in his back I think during one of the series, and after that, he had pain and difficulty doing any heavy work. So cut him some slack; the rest of the team does, and they are the ones who have to work with him.
I can hear Shad screaming about how gambeson is an absolutely essential component of chain mail, and not an optional component of it like they sort of imply, here XD.
That and thats the first time I think Ive seen a gambeson be worn in that fashion
45:44
Just casually tries to shank someone.
i make shanks in the woods
Stab stab stab 🔪
@@pyrodude6320 I'd like to acquire a shank my good man
@@mayorgeneralramirez1997 where u live roughly?
@@pyrodude6320 Riverside
Such a great series, so glad i found it! Informative as well as enjoyable to watch. You can really tell everyone involved loves what they're doing/discussing!
Most enjoyable! Love the whole format and time taken to bring it all to life.
It must be such a thrill to live in the area and visit this place! It's lovely to hear the schoolchildren in the distance; it must be a really wonderful experience for them.
Speaking of GIraffes.... I just saw a wild life photo of an almost pure white, full grown Giraffe in the wild....an albino... amazing..
Peter gives me strong Middle Earth vibes. xD He's a cutie too
Beautiful eyes.
0:48 who else thought they were shooting the bird..? xD
Ruth is so damn cheeky! I loved her from the moment I saw her!
@calihartley2010 Do we care?
@calihartley2010 for someone who thinks themselves a critical mind you might do yourself a service by paying proper attention. she was quite happily cooking and eating pork towards the end of the video.
I love British documentaries! Thank You all for this channel!
Ruth is just a wonderful source of history! You can tell she loves teaching and learning. Tom and Peter are awesome too.
I adore these series, they are my depression must watch I’ve seen all of them at least 7 times each, don’t know why it helps me but I does, so thank you so much.
Ever since been taken to see Sandle castle in Wakefield and been told how it was forgotten it was there ,because it was so over grown . My dad used to play there in early fifties I have been fascinated by them. This program is a feast of information
The world must seen this!
Thank you so much to all of you.
Wonderful!
As a bricklayer I would love to get involved in a project like this
Criixus1 You might like this series too then... th-cam.com/video/c-5f7y1xEOs/w-d-xo.html
As an archaeology graduate, I'd love I'd love to get involved too!
We'll have to make our own. All we need is the land and some tools. It seems the rest, i.e. the resources and building materials were sourced from around the build area, not bought!:D
Grodan Gnaskar how close is it?
Toy Works Studios around 2023. That is an estimate though. I’ve also seen 2025.
klskin ok cool, thanks
The "plumb" line, a timeless, simple tool, is named for the lead weight holding it absolutely straight. "Plumb" comes from the Latin for lead--thus our word "plumber" a worker in lead.
One of the best documentaries I have ever seen; a big thumbs up. If I wasn't old and crippled I would be building a castle and sacking my neihbors for their wenches and ale ;)
The music used in this serie is amazing.
Rumours have it that they were going to build something similar in Pontifract England. Shame nothing came of it. What a building project to be involved in. Keep up the good work every one
I am so thoroughly enjoying this. Thank you!
wow you hit the camera with the ball :)
almost killed a bird too... they would have had to put it in the evening stew... :D
Ruth, hands down, is the star of this series.
What is needed on the museum site is a Medieval farm. Just a acer or two, to show as living history what grown for regular grain during that time period.
This channel is one of the very best!
Very informative!!!!! love this
The true measure of the success of a castle is its ability to feed and protect the defenders long enough to be relieved by an outside army.
Dustin Stevens or be used as offensive quick built well planed blockade or FOB to secure logistical supplies or safely train new troops.
Actually, no... Most castles are not really built for siege... They are built to defend against thieves, pillagers and marauders. Castles are built to defend against your own population during a revolt, or to make your population fear against rising up. if you are a king loved or respected by his subjects as the true ruler, you don't really have to fear invasions by foreign parties. It would simply be too costly for all the needed supply wagons for the invader all the way from the home country and too easy to cut those supply chains and starve the invaders by just basically civilian saboteurs if the invaders had absolutely no help from the inside. Most invading armies before 1700 would have the support of at least a couple native nobles or large cities, providing the army with supplies as needed.
@Bart Bols - "if you are a king loved or respected by his subjects as the true ruler, you don't really have to fear invasions by foreign parties. It would simply be too costly for all the needed supply wagons for the invader all the way from the home country..."
Umm, what? Foreign parties invaded each other all the time. It was costly but they did it anyways, and they wouldn't rely on supply chains as much as they would the countryside they moved through. They would take what they needed from the local populace as they went, like a hoard of well-armed locusts.
Castles could provide an immediate and defensible refuge for the lord, nobles, army, and valuable citizens while a larger defensive force or counter-offensive was prepared.
Edit: Also, castles weren't developed to deal with siege, siege was developed to deal with castles.
>Edit: Also, castles weren't developed to deal with siege, siege was developed to deal with castles.
Exactly, castles usually werent designed for long term sieges in mind, and when they were it was to delay. They dont need to, they dknt sdknt serve that function, an army can just go around it and defeat the standing army and starve the king out.
Absolutely. A huge part of castle’s defense was the promise of a friendly army to attack the attackers. With enough time any castle can be conquered. Even Margat and Krak de Cheval, & Acre were taken. Those were the best castles ever built and very well garrisoned.
It can be said that a castle gives you time, but time can also kill a castle.
It saddens me that this hasn’t reached millions of people yet 😢
What a great series! I hope these will be on DVD!
42:22 Lol. I thought this was Ruth laughing. Then, I realized it was a chicken! Hahahaha
Hahaha
as i read this a chicken made a noise and i thought it was her laugh lol
I love her enthousiasm though!
She is charming
I'm just finding these. I started with the building of the castle, and now I'm hooked!
id love to live in that village honestly
You know what this is missing? MACHICULATIONS!
yea it is Nice that you think about machiculations but what about dragons?
@@YgramNolles NO ONE CAN STAND AGAINST THE *inhale*...
ATOMIC POMMEL!!!!! AHHHHH
I see some fellow Shad watchers xD
This castle in the 1200’s is a bit early for them, none of its walls are finished and if you look at Harlech and Carnavon both much more prestigious than this they don’t have machiculations either.
Lmao that’s the first thing I thought of. Shad has taught me well
I love these living history series with Ruth Goodman. I wish I could find the DVD's for the US region. I'd buy them all! :)
I've looked hi and low for all these on dvd. In US format, I've been told that the new dvd players can be changed for different regions. Have not checked on this yet.
She's such a fascinating and captivating historian.
My rainy sundays are sorted sweet thanks 🤘
I really like this channel and this series but I want to recommend another channel for those interested in medieval history. It's "Modern History TV", he did for example a little series of what people ate in medieval times. :)
Outstanding! Ruth is a trooper!!
The lady is freakishly enthusiastic. I wish I could get that excited about something. 😂
I love Ruth ! This is a great education for me ,life was tough back then .
The videos are fantastic. Love this crew.
excellent presentations. lovely.
I am really enjoying these documentary videos!
How brilliant I loved every bit of this
The bolt-making part really spoke to me.
"Defense, for me, really is the raison d'être for a Castle..."
"They are defensive structures..."
Gee, what gave it away, guys?
Whenever I try to build a castle, the water just washes it away.
May it Rest In Peace.
I made I kick-proof sand castle one time
It was a big rock covered in sand with sharp rocks and seashells with a dead jellyfish on top
@@thisisachannel7654 Warcrimes...
I think it was Seal Team Six that washed it away, dude.
something they didn't mention about the siege engine was the hook that holds and releases the rope for the sling pouch, the angle of the bend on that hook means everything for the aiming of the projectile
Yes, when they tried building a giant trebuchet like the War Wolf on - was it Mysteries of Lost Empires, Channel 4? - the rope sling can make difference, and being wheel mounted will give a flatter trajectory.
Fascinating stuff.
they always leave out a critical factor when discussing the production or deployment of any sort of weapon on tv. Same thing with military movies, they always leave out or flat out get wrong certain aspects about soldiers, and usually very obvious ones. This is done to prevent impersonations.
Yeah the shape is really important, I see too many movies have people cut ropes with swords to release siege engines but Lindybeige did a video on why that would be wasteful, considering rope was quite an effort to make in medieval times compared to the synthetic strand rope you see nowadays churned out at incredible speed from automated machines, you wouldn't want to cut rope for no good reason when you have a hook release mechanism.
Getalong castle sounds like such a friendly place.
Good video, thank you!
This is great in every aspect. Hosted by three very likeable people.
We had a barn that was built in 1880 along with the house we lived in unfortunately the barn burned down because of a accident afterwards we only found 4 huge nail that had held the main posts of the barn. 2 of them were the finish nails and were ceremonial the other 2 were for the wooden pins to keep them in place the whole barn was built with wooden dowels except for the 2 inside doors that had iron hinges they had forged nails in them . even in the 19th century iron was precious on the farm it all had to be forged.
That pottage with some bread looks like a pretty good meal tbh.
I have come so many of the plates he was striking the head on farms in the past, and I just thought they were joining plates for beams etc, but I have just learnt what they are really for, learnt something today, and it now makes sense to me because joint plates of that era had turned up ends and held either end with a staple and nail intermediates.
These 3 really make the "every day" fascinating.
Fascinating series.
Too bad he didn't finish putting on the chain mail properly. In order to balance out the weight, you want it to hang over the belt a bit, so the waight is on your hips instead of on your shoulders.
i didn't thought about that on the moment, your right
What does it say about the current system when you can get a better education in History on youtube than at a modern university?
Because the school system in America and England, etc is very flawed.
I’ve learnt more about the medieval times on TH-cam in three months then a year in school, so...
Yes, and you don't have to pay some astronomical tuition fee to listen to some absent minded professor babble incoherently about a subject they long ago tired of. University is still good for someone requiring credentials in something like accounting or engineering, but subjects like history its better to just go to the library or google it.
Universities are business, not learning institutions.
Universities stopped being places to ask questions, challenge ingrained doctrines and test innovation.
Is it any surprise that the Age of Enlightenment was spearheaded by Gentleman Scholars who were self funded in their research? There is no modern equivalent. The result? Stagnation.
I love this series so much
I would love to see a series on midievel dynastys. Not the kings but the lords who kept their castles for yrs. How & who they had to fight to keep them. I would learn so much! Anybody? Dan Snow series perhaps???
Bruce Dickinson would do nicely. He’s been doing World of Warplanes more recently, but he’d be way better scripting his own dialog or going off the cuff like Tony Robinson can.
I was waiting for this! Yeah
Ysabel G lplpplppllpp
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My favorite part of this was watching that stone ball clunk harmlessly against the hillside lol
51:20 This moment feels like it's transplanted straight from the middle ages - because I have absolutely zero doubt that at some point a pair of medieval bros went "Hey, you know what..."
My God looking at that pork I wish I was there!!! You all make an amazing effort and putting your time sweat and possible blood into all of this thank you all for creating a wonderful masterpiece!
The fellow doffing that hauberk was brilliant.
Excellent
“Good enough” is not something you want to hear the armor guy say
wow.... that was awesome.... love this Doc.....
I'd give just about anything to be a part of something like this... 😍😍😍
amazing
It is interesting to see how actual weapons had its influence on how castles were being constructed... For example, the use of a trebuchet has a complete different outcome than using a canon, on a wall which as result changed how walls were being build
damn that was the perfect crew for this doco. you could see they were having fun making this
I would love to get to know Peter "quite well". Love his good natured personality and his wonderful looks.
It's amazing how they could have missed the castle at such close range. But still managed to hit the camera. ;) 12:45
Awesome thing to be doing✌️😷