The Luttrell Psalter - A Year in a Medieval English Village

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  • Completed over 10 years ago and now remastered, the Luttrell Psalter film brings the famous 14th century illustrations to life and shows a year of working and living in a medieval village.
    Guided by the detailed and often humorous images of everyday life from the Luttrell Psalter, the Luttrell Psalter Film gives a unique glimpse of a year in the life of a medieval English village. Filmed over four seasons, it shows the changing landscape with its fields and flowers, and the daily activities which dominated the lives of our forefathers. This 20-minute film draws on over 35 different images from the margins of the manuscript, allowing the people from the Psalter to walk out from its vellum pages.
    Have a look through the original manuscript on the British Library website and see how many scenes you recognise: www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.a...
    More on the clothing here: h / on-luttrell-55124787
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  • @CrowsEyeProductions
    @CrowsEyeProductions  2 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    A lot of people are asking about the colour choices for the clothing in the film. Here is a free article by costumier Pauline Loven about why the film looks the way it does: www.patreon.com/posts/on-luttrell-55124787

    • @michaeltres
      @michaeltres 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thank you for posting this. I remember the discussion from years ago, and I'm glad to see it here. Thank you, too, for this amazing little film.

    • @Nine-Signs
      @Nine-Signs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Can I give up my modern life and go live with them? it has more purpose, community, joy, and reason to live found in a day in that time than many now find in a lifetime today.

    • @lisakilmer2667
      @lisakilmer2667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Alkanet and mulberries can produce the soft purples shown in the book (Source: Jenny Dean's Wild Colour). Fabric dyed twice with woad and madder (I've forgotten which one is first) produces rich purple. A screaming magenta purple is obtained from the lichen Ochrolechia tartaria. So purples were available, but I suspect the artist used light purples because they were pretty rather than authentic, in the same way no one is tattered or dirty.

    • @selvamthiagarajan8152
      @selvamthiagarajan8152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There were no toilet papers, mind you.

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lisakilmer2667 I’m wondering if peasants would have been breaking the sumptuary lass of the time by wearing purple. That might have been reserved for the upper classes and clergy.

  • @rx500android
    @rx500android 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3480

    Only 1350's kids will remember

    • @chonddak
      @chonddak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      That's funny!

    • @jenimarai1906
      @jenimarai1906 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I guess Still 1850's was still the same..

    • @elishevabatchanah8005
      @elishevabatchanah8005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Your comment made me laugh, thank you!

    • @nick63837
      @nick63837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Long time dead kids

    • @din4803
      @din4803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      hahaha

  • @TheFoxFromSplashMountain
    @TheFoxFromSplashMountain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1673

    It's a nice change to see a medieval film that doesn't focus on brutality and war. It wasn't all about knights and bloodshed, like in all the movies.

    • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
      @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Well, statistically, it was extremely dangerous. There was a great deal of religious tyranny and political strife - always a power struggle going on somewhere. I guess you're lucky if you lived in the remotest parts, I don't know.

    • @ladywisewolf3942
      @ladywisewolf3942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 True, but in those days, wars/ combat only took place between armies and their leaders. The peasantry wasn't as effected. I read where it was a common past time for people to gather on hill tops around a battlefield to "watch the war"!

    • @bullwhite9695
      @bullwhite9695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes it is subaltern history

    • @Sarah_S_7
      @Sarah_S_7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jess McSkimmings agreed!

    • @RoSario-vb8ge
      @RoSario-vb8ge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, somehow very satisfying

  • @igorvoloshin3406
    @igorvoloshin3406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1869

    I showed this video to my old mother... and she laughed: "Why they say it's medieval? That was everyday life of rural Ukrainians up to almost 1950s. Every detail is true, just but the clothes fashion".
    Ah, she also said: "They're just pretending to be peasants. Too white hands, too clean clothes they have!"

    • @KristinkaAranova
      @KristinkaAranova 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Peasants weren’t covered in shit like they are in the movies...

    • @deepalil1085
      @deepalil1085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

      @@KristinkaAranova I think grandmother was talking about mud staining the hem and clothes look new not used.

    • @tkbwanfor8098
      @tkbwanfor8098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      @@deepalil1085 As well as wearing whites, purples, and blues. If they could afford tunics, hoods, and hosen in those colours, they'd definitely have enough to buy food rather than farm for it

    • @beefygains3806
      @beefygains3806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      this is my childhood miss those days

    • @TxcaBxbbles
      @TxcaBxbbles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Smart lady (sorry if that’s not what your mother likes to be called or identified as)

  • @michaeltres
    @michaeltres 2 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    I recall from the original discussion of this film that the people involved chose to copy the clothing and other details exactly as they saw them in the Psalter. They were aware that the bright colors were not correct, especially the purple cloth, but they were committed to capturing the look of the original illustrations.

    • @Andrea-xw4xe
      @Andrea-xw4xe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wonder why they did not have purple. The Bible spoke of purple, I think in the book of Esther perhaps.

    • @michaeltres
      @michaeltres 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Andrea-xw4xe : That's a complex question. Production methods of the 3 Biblical colors-red, blue, and purple-were largely abandoned long ago. Kermes dye (derived from insects) produced red; that much is well known. Less understood is the use of Murex snails to produce both purple (dibromoindigo, the "Tyrian purple" of the ancient world) and blue (true indigo, produced when sunlight breaks the bonds between the carbon and bromine atoms in the dibromoindigo solution); the commercial process for those dyes are less understood, but engineer John Edmonds re-constructed one possible solution. In Western Europe, the trade in kermes continued into the Middle Ages, but it was prohibitively expensive; madder was more commonly used, but it was expensive, too. Woad produced indigo, and woad was available and not too expensive. A blend of madder and woad produced purple. There were, of course, many other dyes in Medieval Europe, all of them from plants, and all them accessible to ordinary people. But the high cost of red dyes meant that red and the related purple were largely out of reach for all but the richest in society. Even today, the formal dress of royalty if purple, and the formal dress of the nobility is red.

    • @ElizaDolittle
      @ElizaDolittle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Andrea-xw4xe they had purple and blue - all throughout antiquity, but those were very expensive dyes - only the wealthy and royalty could afford. Peasants never had blue or purple clothing.

    • @d0lph1n63
      @d0lph1n63 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@ElizaDolittle you’re half correct. You could have blue and purple clothes but the shade pretty much depended on both availability, how rich you were, and naturally your social status. The majority of colors peasants wore like yellow, green, brown, grey, and red were easier to acquire than say blue. Indeed the deeper the color of something like a coat or gown the more expensive it was as the more amount of material needed to dye it was required. An acre of woad only produced maybe 1 or 2 lbs of blue pigment (perhaps just enough to dye a 1 meter long scarf).
      Plus as books like this one were all done by hand they were insanely expensive (even without the pictures) to produce as a result such books were commissioned by the wealthy or the church up until the arrival of the printing press; the fact that the peasants shown within are wearing what even back then would’ve been considered their “Sunday best” while going about their daily lives and labors means that the lord who commissioned this book wanted to showcase just how rich and high up in society THEY are/were by having their peasants shown in colors that they’d never be able to afford let alone legally wear in some cases.

    • @direfranchement
      @direfranchement ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't think it was just an issue of being able to afford purple---there were also sumptuary laws that prohibited non-royal or non-aristocratic persons from purchasing certain materials/colors.

  • @dawnvickerstaff9148
    @dawnvickerstaff9148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I said to my husband: When we retire, let's go live in a Medieval Village for a year! His answer: Sounds like a lot of work to me! Smart man.

  • @nyotauhura7412
    @nyotauhura7412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I found the illustrations of the boy stealing fruit, the ploughman, the lady spinning, the sheep pen and women with jars on their head, feeding acorns to the pigs, reaping and tying sheaves. Thank you for acting them out for us!

    • @jeskvell3254
      @jeskvell3254 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      do you remember where u saw that illustration?

  • @Nana-vi4rd
    @Nana-vi4rd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    I would have loved to have done that. In a way I did, when I married my first husband at the age of 16, I went from living across the inter-coastal from Palm Beach Florida to living in a house with no inside plumbing or electricity. Learned to cook on a wood burning stove, learned to make candles and use a Kerosene lamps. I loved it, tended to pigs and chickens, milked one of our two cows, drew water from a hand pump out front of the house. Took a bath in the summer on the back porch in a wooden tub or in the winter in a galvanized tub in front of the wood burning stove. Now though, with my medical problems could not deal with much of the work that has to be done.....lifting and such. But would have loved it just the same.

    • @suzieq2288
      @suzieq2288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Beautiful details! ❤️🌹

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      It's good to have a choice but I would hate to have to live in a time without antibiotics or modern medicine. Dying in childbirth was a huge risk too. Not to mention our limitations socially and financially as women.

    • @MsGcentral
      @MsGcentral 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The medieval version was not the nice clean idyllic reproduction shown here. More like: no antibiotics, no painkillers, no birth control, no medicine of any kind; repeated famine; life expectancy of 30 years old or so; pregnancies every year for your entire fertile period; no refrigeration (hope you like maggots and blowflies and roaches); entertainment consisting of bear-baiting and extreme violence. Sounds lovely.

    • @FirstLast-po8oz
      @FirstLast-po8oz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@MsGcentral it's not true they had no medicine, why would you think that? We have evidence of physicians and medicinal chemistry dated hundreds of years before this time period. I'm not saying they were comparable to our tools now, but there wasn't "no medicine of any kind". Someone knew abortive, sterilizing compounds, fever reducers, they understood abstinence and fertility cycles, and had a great understanding of food preservation. You can't farm without understanding how to preserve food, humans have not been eating maggot filled food up until we invented refrigeration.
      As far as entertainment when the work was done, there was music, dancing, story telling, singing and socializing, like what we do now. Creative activities like working with clay, felting, woodworking, or simple games(think like checkers). I can tell you from experience that while this work is hard and maybe your years are shorter, they work is 100 times more meaningful and gratifying when it's done in service of your family and community like in an agricultural town. Singing with friends while working is a borderline spiritual experience.

    • @MsGcentral
      @MsGcentral 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@FirstLast-po8oz: work in service of your family and community? Uh, more like work in service of the lord on whose land you work.
      They understood abstinence and fertility cycles well enough for women to be burdened with pregnancies every year.
      People did eat rotten and maggot-filled food before preservation. Canning was not practical, and clay crocks sealed with beeswax are not the same as modern canning methods. Kings and nobles died of dysentery in those times.
      And you're right that "no medicine of any kind" is a bit misleading. But nearly any injury or illness was untreatable. Get a cut? No knowledge of cleaning the wound to prevent infection. Break a bone? Maybe it healed; maybe it killed you. Again, even kings and queens died of ordinary, preventable things.
      There is no purpose to glorifying a return to the days when pregnancy meant a very high risk of death; when women had few legal rights and women peasants had fewer; when Jews were routinely rounded up and murdered.
      Oh, and I have a degree in history; took classes in medieval and early modern Europe; read a lot of books about the medieval period; listen to medieval history podcasts; subscribe to magazines about the medieval period.

  • @medmurton
    @medmurton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I saw my grandparents doing all these things just 20 years ago. My grandma's using a distaff and a spindle or milking the goats and cows... my grandpa's plowing the field with a pair of oxen or taking care of the horses... Those images are still vivid in my mind. Unfortunately they both passed away and we have no one to visit in my parents' hometown now, except for my uncle who has recently moved back to the village but he lives a modern life with his wife. So yeah the rural life in Kurdistan was pretty much similar just 20 years ago :)

    • @rebeccanater
      @rebeccanater ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Most of humanity lived similarly to this until about 100-150 years ago. My father told me his grandmother would set traps around her yard to kill crows for soup. This was in new jersey in the 1950s.

    • @medmurton
      @medmurton ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rebeccanater wow crow soup sounds very exotic even for someone who lives in south-east asia like me :)

    • @shespeakssoftly
      @shespeakssoftly 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s very cool - thank you for sharing. Blessings to your family.

  • @realmsunreal
    @realmsunreal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +732

    I wish people just randomly broke out into song like this still, my grandma still remembers so many songs from growing up, when families used to just sing together for entertainment

    • @elgostine
      @elgostine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      they kinda do, its usually smash mouth and stuff..or instrumental beats being hummed

    • @Nyckname
      @Nyckname 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      More people would if they were doing tedious, manual work without the benefit of radios/mp3 players/etc.

    • @mirandamom1346
      @mirandamom1346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      My sisters and I used to sing rounds together. The carding/spinning scene made me think of those days.

    • @realmsunreal
      @realmsunreal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      elgostine but like gathering around a piano to sing songs from a songbook

    • @spacewolfcub
      @spacewolfcub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sarah : Ok, but gathering around a piano is not the same as randomly bursting into song, which was the original query.
      My family tends to gather and sing around a guitar player. On the other hand nobody but me wants to play board games. My bff’s family is the opposite.
      I think gathering around to sing relies on all participants being confident of their own musical skill. Liking board games needs something different from people.
      Every family is and has been different throughout history. Your grandma sounds like she had one of the singing families, that’s all. Doesn’t mean that families in general right now do not sing.

  • @sueyee8747
    @sueyee8747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +937

    First Medieval not only beautifully filmed, acted, edited, and costumes all done without blood, stabbings, or unbearable violence! Thank you!!!

    • @theKATofficial2
      @theKATofficial2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      *unbearable violence, you're so cute :)

    • @mr.tophat4643
      @mr.tophat4643 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      katt ???

    • @jaspalmer1730
      @jaspalmer1730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Oh my goodness right? I didn't even realize it but this was so relaxing and peaceful to watch.

    • @rospendragon1466
      @rospendragon1466 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You showed peace & togetherness in medieval era

    • @samcarter2371
      @samcarter2371 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Accept in Medieval Europe it was fashionable where as Islam it's forced; even if you're not Muslim, and just visiting.

  • @hinachansansensei
    @hinachansansensei 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Y'all talking about how most people depicted here wouldn't have been able to afford purple clothing and I see you, but a quick Google search is enough to tell that the film makers were working with an institution to recreate the feel of the Psalter and not to reinterpret it. Found a blog post talking and referring specifically to the clothing in this film and it's clear that they made a deliberate choice to achieve the colors of clothing as they were shown in the source material, and also not to age the clothing as that would be a modern reinterpretation of the original work and not the purpose of this project. If you Google image search for the Psalter more than one person is wearing the softer yellows and, yes, the "purple" that many of you are commenting on here, so I'd say they were successful in that respect.
    Actually I'm more surprised more of you commenting on the clothing aren't interested by the spinner in the film as she's a recreation of a spinner in the source who is clothed with some means-- the deep color (which in the text is colored purple), the tailored fit and pooling hem are all details taken and recreated from the Psalter.

    • @biguattipoptropica
      @biguattipoptropica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Something people don't seem to understand is there is actually more than one way to get a natural purple dye color. It's just not as vibrant as the color from those snails.

    • @livvybrown6560
      @livvybrown6560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@biguattipoptropica Exactly! If you use woad and madder to dye your fabric (the cheep plant dyes for blue and red respectively that were widely available at the time) you can get a range of pinkish-purple shades. Naturally they weren't nearly as vibrant or luxurious as Tyrian purple, but it could be vaguely achieved without snails.
      It was Tyrian purple specifically that was expensive and reserved for nobility, not all purple full-stop.
      People seem to just pick up the snail-dye knowledge and decide that for some reason it was the only way to get any shade of purple ever. Which just isn't true. Tyrian Purple was the only purple dye available at the time, sure, but it wasn't the only way to achieve the colour purple as an end result. (As aforementioned - using red and blue to make the fabric purple).
      Naturally the fabrics shown here are probably dyed with modern chemical dyes rather than naturally hand dyed as they would have been at the time, so it's not representative of the actual shades that could and would have been achieved, but that doesn't mean they're entirely incorrect of the use of the colour purple in the first place.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@biguattipoptropicaExactly. And different plants can produce different colours. Woad doesn't just create one shade of blue. It can also be used to create indigo colours. Although that requires a lot of woad.

  • @elxaime
    @elxaime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    "What makes you think she is a witch?”
    “She turned me into a newt.”
    “A newt?”
    “Well, I got better.”

    • @danielleawad4199
      @danielleawad4199 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The black knight always wins ❤️

    • @Rhaenarys
      @Rhaenarys 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao literally just watched that last night.

    • @halftime.7502
      @halftime.7502 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Burn her anyway."

  • @ME-rr5jq
    @ME-rr5jq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1318

    I know being a medieval peasant had serious downsides, but I can't help but think that this looks awful nice.

    • @floraposteschild4184
      @floraposteschild4184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Fifty percent less teeth, for one thing. Also, not being able to keep what you painfully produced, most of which went to the lord and/or the church.

    • @muhammadalifaqsha9014
      @muhammadalifaqsha9014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +383

      Flora Posteschild Actually, medieval folks had relatively healthy teeth since sugar hadn't been widely available then.

    • @MiMiLaXMiMi
      @MiMiLaXMiMi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      They had great waistlines after starving through the winter

    • @menchualcarazmoreno1743
      @menchualcarazmoreno1743 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@muhammadalifaqsha9014 they have honey. Same effects.

    • @muhammadalifaqsha9014
      @muhammadalifaqsha9014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      Menchu Alcaraz Moreno And yet they did not consume it regularly. Medieval food overall was significantly less sweet than early modern (16th-18th century) food.

  • @iaroslaus
    @iaroslaus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    Although this might be an embellished version of how people lived in those days, I do believe their life was way more interesting and many-sided than that of a 19-century factory worker.

    • @Tina06019
      @Tina06019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      Yaroslav Levchenko No joke. The 19th century factory working had all of the miseries of the past and basically none of the nice stuff. (Of course, this video is the “imagined past,” yet some of it was true.)

    • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
      @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yes, without question and much safer too, because factory workers had incredibly high death and injury rates in that century.

    • @zahidnazar978
      @zahidnazar978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree

    • @shazikhan3026
      @shazikhan3026 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/bbR7GbGbVq4/w-d-xo.html
      thanx

    • @kezkezooie8595
      @kezkezooie8595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'd have to agree. The sheer drudgery and poor living conditions for factory workers must have been extremely disheartening, especiall if they had, like many did, come from the country originally.

  • @WaterNai
    @WaterNai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    It seems that a lot of people are missing the fact that all the people are wearing various hoods, scarves, and hats, not just the women.

    • @galland3496
      @galland3496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      You have to wear such things , it's that damned cold .

    • @WaterNai
      @WaterNai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Galland 34 Agreed! 😄 I had noticed a lot of comments about how “modest” the women were back in the day with their scarves on their heads. I wanted to point out that all the people, men and women, had various scarves and hoods for their heads for fashion and to protect themselves from the cold.

    • @lunarcalendar368
      @lunarcalendar368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@WaterNai it's was not only a fashion statement. fathers and even sisters in churches wear scarves, for religious reasons.
      It's not surprising to see the public follow it.
      Especially nuns even wear veils to cover their faces. I remember seeing a conversation with an Australian nun who wore a veil.
      After all they had influence from middle East. It's not like Jesus pbuh was a blond blue eyed man from London.

    • @lunarcalendar368
      @lunarcalendar368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@galland3496 I wonder whether the kids and others who didn't wear it wasn't feeling the cold

    • @WaterNai
      @WaterNai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      lunar calendar Kids often like to run off without their scarves and mittens, or they misplace them. 😄

  • @geegnosis8888
    @geegnosis8888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Brilliant. So much history is based on battles and monarchy of the time. The real history is just as much in everyday lives. The Lutrell Psalter captures that last year of medieval village rural life at it's fullest natural growth from 1066 to then... the Black Death changing the balance forever.

  • @PaynesPrairie
    @PaynesPrairie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    just watched this film a second time, and I can't help commenting again. The visual artistry is stunning. The music is also worth notice. This was Chaucer's period. The words of the women's song seem somehow familiar yet alien at the same time. The closeup shots of nature are exquisite. We see how the villagers' lives are entwined with the natural cycle. This is history as I wish I'd learned it, the ordinary lives of regular people. Thanks to the unsung artist of the Luttrell Psalter and the makers of this film.

  • @vanessa4587
    @vanessa4587 6 ปีที่แล้ว +853

    I really like the song the two women were singing during the spinning wheel scene

    • @CrowsEyeProductions
      @CrowsEyeProductions  6 ปีที่แล้ว +195

      It's called Miri It Is, and is the oldest recorded song in Middle English. We have lyrics and two versions to download as mp3s on our Patreon site: www.patreon.com/crowseye

    • @christy___mc1078
      @christy___mc1078 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It sounded like it could've been our English but not quite

    • @abbymills7416
      @abbymills7416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      CrowsEyeProductions what is Middle English?

    • @laurabowden5
      @laurabowden5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Abby Mills it’s the phase of which the English language went through. I can’t remember all of them but Middle English is what they’re speaking. We can understand some of what they’re saying but it hasn’t completely evolved into the English language we know today.

    • @abbymills7416
      @abbymills7416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Laura Bowden Ohhhhhh, Thank you!

  • @Life_is_Awesome_Civil
    @Life_is_Awesome_Civil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    How peaceful life here

    • @vtdemocracy7520
      @vtdemocracy7520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Until the Golden Horde shows up.

    • @remilenoir1271
      @remilenoir1271 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@vtdemocracy7520 In England ?

  • @darushinya7295
    @darushinya7295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Does anyone know what the song the women spinning and carding wool is? It’s so beautiful and makes me feel a sense of longing.
    EDIT: I FOUND IT!!!
    It’s called Miri it is when sumer ilast
    “Merry it is while summer lasts”

  • @1337fraggzb00N
    @1337fraggzb00N 4 ปีที่แล้ว +435

    Who is still watching this in 1665?

    • @ozgurgunes1303
      @ozgurgunes1303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      1666 ;)

    • @ProjectCreativityGuy96
      @ProjectCreativityGuy96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How did you manage to get in touch from that era, did God give you a supernatural futuristic power from the sky?

    • @ozgurgunes1303
      @ozgurgunes1303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ProjectCreativityGuy96 we have the power of God and anime

    • @kevin-cx3ro
      @kevin-cx3ro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      im watching this from the year 42656
      world war cxiii just happened and it was a disaster, luckily we killed hitler xxiii by a meteor.

    • @KittyGrey13
      @KittyGrey13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I lost touch with it for awhile as I had a fire in 1666 in which my house burnt down and took the telly with it.

  • @laurelanne5071
    @laurelanne5071 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    I don't know which part was better, the one sheep poking the other sheep, or the little brat stealing the cherries

    • @macman6107
      @macman6107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hahaha I laughed too hard at the sheep. They reminded me of our two cats. One will just walk up behind the other and for no reason hit her. She would then runaway to then return and fight. Thankfully that doesn't happen often.

    • @allisonjames2923
      @allisonjames2923 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The sheep for sure lol. Wonder what he was saying to the other

    • @ah5721
      @ah5721 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      interesting as the man said you theaf ! Somethings never change

  • @mattgpdx1123
    @mattgpdx1123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Imagine how clean the air was. The biodiversity was so lush and diverse. The times before fossil fuels and technology. Wish we could bring our planet back to this level of richness. :(

    • @aliasgharkhoyee9501
      @aliasgharkhoyee9501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Was the air clean? I would've thought burning wood for energy (cooking, heating, lighting, etc) would mean smoke everywhere.

    • @mattgpdx1123
      @mattgpdx1123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aliasgharkhoyee9501 No? Just step away from populated areas making fires.

    • @philipmcniel4908
      @philipmcniel4908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@aliasgharkhoyee9501 I've heard that London had recorded pollution problems as early as the 14th century, around the time this was set.

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@philipmcniel4908 this is a village tho, the houses were more spread out

    • @philipmcniel4908
      @philipmcniel4908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ajrwilde14 That's definitely true, but it's also true in rural areas to this day. I live in a small town, and I can vouch that the surroundings are every bit as clean and lush as depicted in that video. There are a few cars here and there on the road, but if you go out in the forest you won't notice them.

  • @jackcutler9096
    @jackcutler9096 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The British countryside must have been so untouched and beautiful

    • @cibojules
      @cibojules 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Quite the opposite. It was fully maintained, including the forests.

  • @emilyjewelle3301
    @emilyjewelle3301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +305

    3:51 Yo, Jerry! Get a load of that guy playing music over there. He's playing *two* flutes, Jerry! Two flutes, at the *same! time!

    • @Devin3Anthologie
      @Devin3Anthologie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My mind went into a different direction. All I could think of was how would Tony baker do the voiceover.😆

    • @googleuser7454
      @googleuser7454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Devin3Anthologie Someone needs to send him a clip of that

    • @PardeepKumar-ik6cm
      @PardeepKumar-ik6cm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Iss you mam

    • @louise-yo7kz
      @louise-yo7kz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Clever

    • @rudolfvalacegerna9184
      @rudolfvalacegerna9184 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello emily

  • @amieepattison4367
    @amieepattison4367 6 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    I love the sense of time and humanity you managed to get into this - there were little elements that I think everyone can relate to somewhat in there in the gestures and actions of the people here, and I love how you managed that

    • @kindasorta123
      @kindasorta123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The guy yelling at the kid to essentially get off his lawn was my favorite

  • @SUAMISEJATI
    @SUAMISEJATI 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    ah,, memories of those days just before the plague...

    • @janeysgala
      @janeysgala 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i remember as well, it was definitely a different time,, now we’re once again in times of sickness which definitely brings back unpleasant memories

    • @marcellotenarta5233
      @marcellotenarta5233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remembered that too! I was in lockdown in Venice during that plague. It was devastating indeed..

  • @tonyoliver2167
    @tonyoliver2167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It is through great masterpieces of historical life such as the Luttrell Psalter, that we can see a colourful glimpse into the past; how people lived humbly and relied on seasons and their ebbe and flow.

  • @TheLostLemurian
    @TheLostLemurian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    That one sheep that kicks the other sheep, lol.
    Loved this video too - videos with voiceover are great but this was amazing, to just watch and observe the people without further information. Very peaceful.

    • @spacewolfcub
      @spacewolfcub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Lost Lemurian : Pokes before facebook - sheep invention!

    • @coop5329
      @coop5329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's a ram, asking a ewe politely if she is in heat and wants to fool around!

    • @googlethis313
      @googlethis313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I loved that aspect of it! There’s no need for a voice over when the video is magical and speaks for itself.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @The Lost Lemurian - I love the scene where the little dog chases the hiker away.

    • @zaingamer4060
      @zaingamer4060 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      👍👍

  • @katka2258
    @katka2258 6 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    This was so lovely, I felt like I was there.

  • @galland3496
    @galland3496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Beautifully done with a quiet peace , I don't suppose it was as peaceful as that rendered in the film, but nonetheless a nicer and more meaningful life than today's cities. Many years ago I bought the book the Lutteral village whilst on holiday and this video had a nodding acquaintance with it. Thankyou to all involved in it.

  • @BitchItsJules
    @BitchItsJules 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    3:50 Sheep: we're supposed to be acting medieval look let me kick you

  • @squilly9978
    @squilly9978 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    lovely to watch and also very calming. So peaceful. No planes, automobiles, mobile phones, earphone leakage, television, radio...just the sounds of nature

    • @nadiai9974
      @nadiai9974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And bubonic plague coming soon(?

    • @wriskd
      @wriskd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nadiai9974just like the one happening today, corona virus? 🙂

    • @nadiai9974
      @nadiai9974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@wriskd not exactly, cause there's not medicine at that time. Hahaha

  • @OnlyMusic16
    @OnlyMusic16 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    The subtle combination of nature and humanity is beautiful, and oh so calming to watch

  • @greenbean1169
    @greenbean1169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The double flute thing sounds like a high quality meme

    • @dyhiaa7563
      @dyhiaa7563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is the best thing I've read in so long

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Green bean hmm

  • @idolwrecker
    @idolwrecker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Scarf is symbol of Elegance..

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      idolwrecker uP

    • @WorthToBuyy
      @WorthToBuyy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      If they are muslim:
      Scarf is symbol of oppressing what a hypocrite

    • @fifi28597
      @fifi28597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@WorthToBuyy exactly today's society baffles me..
      But we don't know @idolwrecker could support us Muslims or be a Muslim himself

    • @paterfamiliasgeminusiv4623
      @paterfamiliasgeminusiv4623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      fuck off man I like my idols.

    • @AyeshaKhan-uy2io
      @AyeshaKhan-uy2io 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Yes it is..no wonder muslim women look like precious gems...dignified and modestly covered.

  • @mnossy11
    @mnossy11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Wow! What a beautiful film! I especially love the focus on nature with the spider’s webs and dew on the grass. So peaceful. The daily life portrayed, though hard, has a calm feeling with everyone doing their own work in its proper season.

  • @PaynesPrairie
    @PaynesPrairie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    This was amazing. A video that showed the alien-ness of medieval life (compared to us) and also brought out the common humanity of medieval life (compared to us).
    Fantastic video. Also, have to say how grateful I am that I don't have to work SO HARD just to get a loaf of bread.

  • @clashncruz
    @clashncruz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Absolutely beautiful! Thank you to the creators of this and thank you to our ancestors who preserved this knowledge for posterity.

  • @topologyrob
    @topologyrob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Just love it - a time when you could hear yourself think. Some of the music is French, but it's possible they knew it in England. What a green and pleasant land. The cherry stealer reminds me of myself at that age when I did the same thing.

    • @emr3114
      @emr3114 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This was after the Norman conquest so there would be a fair bit of French cultural influence and exchange.

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Gísiu the Saxons didn't go north they were mostly midlands, the North would have been Anglo-Celt-Norse

    • @SandileNgwenya-gv7nx
      @SandileNgwenya-gv7nx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@emr3114this was in the 14 the century tho were every member of the nobility was speaking English and people never spoke French only English and some knew Latin

  • @KatherineGreyhunter
    @KatherineGreyhunter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The little cherry thief is adorable, just as is the dog)

  • @elinor1968
    @elinor1968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +465

    I doubt the farmers would wear purple, that was a very expensive dye.

    • @MyNameHere101
      @MyNameHere101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      I think it was actually a red or brown, but post editing gave it a purple tinge

    • @Plantsandtoyhorses
      @Plantsandtoyhorses 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Yes the people depicted here would be the ones who had the nasty job of extracting the purple dye from snails, so that the rich people could wear purple cloths.

    • @AlexandraLynch1
      @AlexandraLynch1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Not PURPLE. But you can get interesting effects overdying indigo with madder root. I was gratified to see a lot of blue, because indigo was prevalent and cheap and so a lot of peasants wore blue, in addition to the range of olives and drabs that you get with herbal dyes.

    • @AlexandraLynch1
      @AlexandraLynch1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Plantsandtoyhorses No, the mollusk that produces Tyrian purple isn't found in English waters. Only Mediterranean.

    • @Plantsandtoyhorses
      @Plantsandtoyhorses 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@AlexandraLynch1 True, the shellfish you mention of course would have been imported from the Mediterranean. It really does produce purple dye, but the process is disgusting. link is to a clip from Tony Robinson's "Worst Jobs in History" on making the purple dye. th-cam.com/video/wXC8TA1SJ-A/w-d-xo.html

  • @mariamrezki1261
    @mariamrezki1261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Hey the ladies wearing head scarf..so lovely...

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mari am Rezki Indonesian

    • @samirahsamir6930
      @samirahsamir6930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Mari am Rezki I thought they are Muslim but I remembered hijab is not only in the Quran but in Bible too like here
      Bible 1 Corinthians 11:6
      For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.

    • @johnbrinabeen5206
      @johnbrinabeen5206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Mary mother of jesus she wear hijab

    • @miabir4148
      @miabir4148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@johnbrinabeen5206 right

    • @mariamrezki1261
      @mariamrezki1261 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @A B oh..that is why all these vanished by the time..it was not about religious..All being naked..🤣🤣..

  • @passionatesingle
    @passionatesingle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Headwear has been worn for thousands of years and for many reasons...protection against the elements, religious reasons,modesty and fashion etc. It's only in the last 60years really that people in the western world have stopped wearing headwear in a manner that was part of the dress standards of the times.

    • @bangguyraj
      @bangguyraj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Many Muslim women maintain such modesty!

    • @shoaibakther1453
      @shoaibakther1453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bangguyraj I'm glad.

    • @arsalanzaidi15
      @arsalanzaidi15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bangguyraj yes bro

    • @muhammadzishan7606
      @muhammadzishan7606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How lovely n respectable they looking😊 .... Wearing head scarf adds beauty n dignity to women.

    • @juliphukan5107
      @juliphukan5107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Then you men also used to wear headgears so medieval rule does not fit in today's scientific world so please don't try to impose your rules on us you selfish menfolk.

  • @pelicanus4055
    @pelicanus4055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Beautiful. I think just watching this lowered by blood pressure.

  • @Madamegato
    @Madamegato 6 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    Wonderful work! And I found myself just breathing easier watching the whole thing. The world has gotten so fast. Not that these folk didn't have their fair share of enduring - we have many conveniences they did not, but there is something to be said for a hard days work and a festive companionable evening among neighbors.

    • @Orinatl
      @Orinatl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The world tends to get faster when you can run without having to worry about tripping, scrapping you knee, and dying from infection.
      But yes. Agreed.

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Too right. It's hard not to feel like a modern version of this would hardly be anything but people sitting at assorted computers in assorted rooms with the only seasonal cue being the gradually changing light filtering through the window. Either that or I just personally need to get out more and find a career I enjoy.

    • @johnstenlund472
      @johnstenlund472 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Shufei Public life is crowding out private living, as Hanna Arendt discusses

    • @ianlilley2577
      @ianlilley2577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Shufei feels like most companies greatly discourage the keeping of a sabbath of any kind.

    • @sirlot1917
      @sirlot1917 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Shufei your words are beautiful!

  • @d0lph1n63
    @d0lph1n63 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    there are three absolutes in life that have never changed: death, taxes, and the brief entertainment that is marriage drama.

  • @louise-yo7kz
    @louise-yo7kz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This makes me melt. I love Medieval music

  • @christinethornhill
    @christinethornhill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Perfect viewing for a Sunday afternoon ! May all who watch have Peace and Contentment in their lives 🙏🏼

  • @BlackJoak61
    @BlackJoak61 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I really love this! It's like seeing a glimpse of my ancestors!

    • @cohort075
      @cohort075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Grandmother was a Luttrell, from the Australian Luttrell’s.

  • @borgestheborg
    @borgestheborg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There is a serene quality to this video that can slow a racing heart and calm an anxious spirit.

  • @amroziachand1850
    @amroziachand1850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Such modest woman.... looking elegant

    • @amroziachand1850
      @amroziachand1850 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Auditour ok it's your mentality.. but I really like them 😊

    • @amroziachand1850
      @amroziachand1850 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok I have mental problem.... now be happy 😊

  • @coffemuse
    @coffemuse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    This is the England of our imagination, I think. As in, when we think of England as an idea, we think of something like this. I love it so much, I'm going to watch this whenever I feel down. In fact I've just finished binge-watching your whole channel and I'm in total awe. Nothing else of this quality is offered free of charge anywhere. Thank you thank you. Long may you continue here ❤️ p.s. I checked out the clothing link specifically because I was curious about the purple!

    • @aborgeshonorato
      @aborgeshonorato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Because is harmonious

    • @muhrad8690
      @muhrad8690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Emily Barclay really !! I always think about beautiful countryside I’m not British tho 🤣✌🏽

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@muhrad8690 I'm British and you are correct.

    • @georgiangelov13
      @georgiangelov13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Since when? I thought everyone thought of the Victorian era when thinking of England: the steam-powered locomotives, the tea, the top hats, everything. And this isn’t just me saying this because I am stubborn to admit, literally. All the ‘traditional Christmas’ traditions we think of originated or got popularised in 1800s England, the most famous example proving my point is how Dickens’ Christmas Carol is centre to Christmas traditions within England

    • @romanticlady8157
      @romanticlady8157 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@georgiangelov13 I think that would be when people think about Britain. Those are different things. British things tend to be more Victorians whereas England is very much the beautiful green countryside. Interesting how British and English percepfions differs.

  • @karenlm9062
    @karenlm9062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When I see this I am in awe; even the bad people. Without them I wonder how advanced we would actually be. So many things we take for granted actually had to be tried out first and learned through hard, difficult and tragic outcomes. Every day was truly dangerous in every possible way (physical, emotional, social). Today nobody really worries that anything cannot be fixed, saved, or repaired. Any illness, injury, or condition can be treated or maintained. But back then people truly suffered. I am grateful to have been born in this time because of our ancestors. Thank you for the post.

  • @TomorrowWeLive
    @TomorrowWeLive 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I like how much attention the animals got in this, given how important a role they played in rural life.

  • @TL_oS
    @TL_oS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This is like a beautiful dream, what a lovely film🥂🌟

  • @pedromoreira455
    @pedromoreira455 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    As I am starting a reenactment group in my lands, this video is a great masterpiece for studies and demonstration what is reenactment and how it works.
    Somehow, it touched me deeply and made me, cry of happiness and nostalgia! This is really art.

  • @LynxSouth
    @LynxSouth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    At 15:02 - I can't remember the name for this arrangement, but notice the globular vial of water in front of the candles (from the scribe's point of view). The water "magnified" and spread the light from the candle, creating far more light over a larger area.

    • @TheSteelpony
      @TheSteelpony 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you for the explanation! I wondered about that.

  • @qaiserzaman1531
    @qaiserzaman1531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    today we have totally forgotten that basic culture and natural living style.

    • @di7209
      @di7209 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No we haven’t millions of people in rural areas and in developing nations still live like this and up until after WW2 quite a lot of Europe was like this as well.

  • @esmeraldagreen1992
    @esmeraldagreen1992 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember the farmers from my childhood they were all skinny, short, gnarled with sunburned faces and prematurely aged.

  • @aliciavellante
    @aliciavellante 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This entire channel is just stunningly beautiful. Thank you for giving us a look through the window into these lost times. I love history told through the human experience.

  • @ljantares
    @ljantares 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    oh my goodness this is so lovely! everything about this video is amazing. Thank you!

  • @timbukdrew4262
    @timbukdrew4262 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    That was great. I loved the happy ending with the harvest celebration. Looks like how I always envisioned it whenever I read about it.
    Thank you for the honest portrayal of peasants.
    Hollywood has done an repairable amount of damage.
    I can only hope that the ignorance of the 21st century person can get past the ideas given to them by movies someday.

  • @suzannederringer1607
    @suzannederringer1607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Looks like a good Life to me. Simple and close to the Earth. And QUIET so one could really listen to the Birds, Sheep, Churchbells, Music.
    Thanks for this idealized view of Medieval life.

    • @jampubs1
      @jampubs1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fleas, head lice, bed bugs, rodents, childbirth mortalities, non-existent oral health … no thanks.

    • @popefrancis8153
      @popefrancis8153 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jampubs1 They had some tactics to get rid of the rodents and flees

    • @popefrancis8153
      @popefrancis8153 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jampubs1 and there was no need of oral health because they never ate sugar

    • @thetruthstrangerthanfictio954
      @thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@popefrancis8153 actually that isn't true. Tooth decay was actually very common back then, and diet was poor because most people ate very little meat (with the exception of the elite). One thing we must remember is that their diet consisted mostly of wheat, which has lots of carbs, which are sugars.

    • @yathatsme132
      @yathatsme132 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 go to school please. There's a difference between natural sugar and synthetic sugar. And consuming little meat doesn't mean poor diet

  • @AbigailPoirier
    @AbigailPoirier 6 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Wow! That had to be a huge undertaking! Very interesting, and helps me appreciate the luxurious life I have now. Also, when it comes to history, I'm used to thinking of the tools from the 1800's and tend to forget how much more primitive things were for so much of history.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      99.9% of human history.

    • @thetruthstrangerthanfictio954
      @thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One interesting fact is that the Romans, who came before the time depicted here, were actually more advanced. There is some Roman technology that we still do not understand, such as their flamethrower. The other thing is that some technology which started to become popular at about the time this film depicts, such as windmills for grinding grain, are not shown here. The windmill is another Roman invention.

    • @davidniedjaco9869
      @davidniedjaco9869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 yes, but there are so many things invented specifically from this period that we still have and take for granted today..a lot of which came directly from the Catholic Church

    • @MrSomebodyyy
      @MrSomebodyyy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​​@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954This is simply not true lmao. Medieval times were thousand times better than Roman times in any aspect. Rome, by the way, is ridiculously overrated

    • @thetruthstrangerthanfictio954
      @thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MrSomebodyyy I mean more technologically advanced, not better quality of life. It is pretty well documented that there was a technological regression at the start of the middle ages and much Roman technology was lost. Nanotechnology was just one of them which was recently discovered.

  • @MY_PLAYGROUND1010
    @MY_PLAYGROUND1010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for allowing me to see and experience as well as being able to open my eyes. Usually I just read books and can only imagine what it was like. In Thailand where I live. In the Middle Ages of Asia (the same period as the Middle Ages in Europe) it was a very different period and I can imagine what the Middle Ages was in my homeland. But for Medieval Europe I am fascinated. It has a certain charm that attracts me. i like history And Medieval Europe is another thing that I fell in love with. There is something to study There is always something attractive. this is charm These are all my views on the Middle Ages in Europe.

  • @lupinus139
    @lupinus139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    watching a documentary about anglo-saxons and then this, centuries after the norman conquest, was very interesting! thanks for a great video!

  • @HAngeli
    @HAngeli 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    This is my favorite video ever. I will watch it everyday 😍 😳

  • @celiahaddon4087
    @celiahaddon4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This is stunningly beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️. I can’t express how much I enjoyed it. I will be watching it over and over again. Thank you.

  • @whiteprisms3123
    @whiteprisms3123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love it!! The dedication and attention to authentic detail in this video has got my respect... Very well done, and very respectable to keep one's heritage alive and well

  • @andreiarruda6814
    @andreiarruda6814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's awesome that these recordings lasted for seven centuries. Thanks for sharing such a relic!

  • @attilathehen1555
    @attilathehen1555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    A beautiful and atmospheric film and you got the squirrel right! I really wish you made tv programmes!

  • @alkfs137a
    @alkfs137a 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is truly breathtaking. Nice work on portraying how life looked like in the medieval times. I feel like i was there; my mind and my body immersed with the video.

  • @youxarexmyxsunshine
    @youxarexmyxsunshine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This video is really beautiful. I love how simple it is back then. Every routine is faced with nature and animals. Fun, with songs and music. Ahh, today’s society is so stressful.

  • @lindamclean8809
    @lindamclean8809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Beautifully filmed.......wonderful music..an absolute joy. Thank you. ❤️❤️

  • @GarouLady
    @GarouLady 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This reminds me so much of the Documentary series, Tales from the Green Valley. And Tudor Monestary Farm series.

    • @homesteadtotable2921
      @homesteadtotable2921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was honestly looking for Ruth to pop out at any moment and provide insightful and enthusiastic commentary about what's going on in the scenes.

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      GarouLady monastery* but yes

  • @jennifermcdonald5432
    @jennifermcdonald5432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What a truly remarkable show! I could have watched it for hours! Thank you

  • @BeingJapan
    @BeingJapan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was a lot of work that went into this video. As a medieval-era fan, I appreciate this very much. Thank you for all the effort!

  • @buffplums
    @buffplums 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That was the most beautiful film I have watched ever....such magnificent colours and light amazing videography.

  • @ribanamay3724
    @ribanamay3724 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    amazing... i even got a slight culture shock after the Video ended XD

  • @mariahallynwhite9427
    @mariahallynwhite9427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I don't know about everyone else but I would love to go back and live like this but just with improved health and medical conditions. This is like my favorite thing ever.

    • @hazzaandlou2731
      @hazzaandlou2731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mariah White phonestly I want to wear the simple dresses like that

    • @Nyckname
      @Nyckname 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hazzaandlou2731 Google "Society for Creative Anachronisms". You can at least do it on the weekends.

    • @Nyckname
      @Nyckname 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When I win the lottery you're welcome to come and join me on the land I'm going to buy.

  • @ebrukarayigit4685
    @ebrukarayigit4685 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whenever I feel down, I watch this film.

  • @bobcropf5069
    @bobcropf5069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    it all looks so serene and placid but disease and early death lurked just around the corner in everyday life. That being said, very artful depiction and beautifully filmed.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy ปีที่แล้ว

      Well the Luttrell Psalter was started the year before the black death arrived in England. So yes, it was on the eve of a massive plague.
      The 14th century was much rougher compared to the earlier centuries. Due to climactic changes, which caused famine, as well as the spread of diseases, and obviously the arrival of the plague, which hadn't been present in Europe since late Antiquity.
      But generally infant mortality was very high, perhaps half of children didn't reach adulthood. But if you did reach adulthood, your life expectancy was a lot higher. Comparable to the early 20th century in a lot of cases.

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Totally entrancing! Such fascination in the simplest things. I really didn't want it to end. Excellent work!

  • @DaisiesInVenus
    @DaisiesInVenus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Beautiful video! Really amazing how to see! Love learning about every day life in other times!

  • @cmhughes8057
    @cmhughes8057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful, and it shows that while life was hard, it still was a good life at this time. A tight knit community here that worked well together, and the clothes, they were beautiful.

  • @albusdumbledore155
    @albusdumbledore155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If I think back REALLY hard, I think I can remember my past life living in Medieval England. The music, the smells, the animals in the background, it's all coming back to me now....

    • @maxpayne3628
      @maxpayne3628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would love to live in Medieval Baghdad or in my homeland Medieval Kashmir. It would have been a great place.
      It's still similar if you go back 30-40 years back, rural Kashmir was somewhat like this.
      It's still somewhat similar in some areas, and there is Medicine also

  • @marenlatham4349
    @marenlatham4349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I could not but help think of how human scaled everything was in this. It makes me feel like I live in such an impersonal machine.

  • @madeline6048
    @madeline6048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Well this video just made my day! It was so pleasant and relaxing to watch. You did an amazing job!!👏

  • @davidayarra3129
    @davidayarra3129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love the accuracy of this, this video really brings an average medieval day into life, something that we have yet succesfully seen in movies. One small inaccuracy would be the language as here it sounds as tho they speak english or esrly modern english at the very least, and the pronounciations of words when singing Miri It Is While Summer Ilast are a bit off but then again from a small studio you cant really expect actors to go home and learn middle english overnight. Lovely video keep it up

  • @acornginger8279
    @acornginger8279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such a beautiful time, I wish we could good back, when things were better 🤍

  • @VickieV1333
    @VickieV1333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Finally, Time travel! Thank you, amazing journey!

  • @kuribo1
    @kuribo1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The final scene of the sun setting over the land, that hit me....what it would have been like to just wander and travel. Seeing the world and taking every day in. Beautiful life, and proves that medieval Europe was not all the blood, death and disease that is constantly perpetuated. Though one criticism, the video ended to soon and we did not get to see the wizard arrive at the village....

  • @englishgrammarwithihsanfai8213
    @englishgrammarwithihsanfai8213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am grateful to you for this production.

  • @shawntipton5078
    @shawntipton5078 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love videos like this, it is full of detail. we know from evidence that in all periods of the medieval period, people were clean and healthy they tried to eat healthy meals, keep the home clean and so on, even the poorest person would try to wash 2-3 times per week and people near rivers might daily bathe, this was done to prevent illness and to be more godly

  • @thegreenmage6956
    @thegreenmage6956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Well, you know, I truly felt the most enjoyable thing for me personally from this lovely piece of film was all the music! It has givne me much material to follow up on

  • @emmamushroom257
    @emmamushroom257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That was magic! Thankyou for sharing!

  • @thevintageplaylist7191
    @thevintageplaylist7191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This has a better production than many movies

  • @AhmedAhmed-uq3kb
    @AhmedAhmed-uq3kb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I always watch. To get more and more peace. AWESOME. So Natural, WOW. Amazing, thank you,Sir.

    • @Tv-im4nz
      @Tv-im4nz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is Islamic England..u can see women with hizab