What Life Was Like In A 13th Century Castle | Secrets Of The Castle | Real Royalty
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- As their time at Guedelon Castle in France draws to an end, the team look at the castle's place in the wider medieval world.
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These are the kind of documentaries that I crave. I've learned so much in a little less than an hour!
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I came here to learn all the positions and jobs performed inside a fully garrisoned medieval castle. Instead, I learned how to build one.
Right
Not at all what I expected either
Same! Interesting but not what I came for. I stopped watching it, but saved for later.
Yup. This is supposed to be titled somewhere along the lines of how a castle was constructed or something like that. Whoever uploaded it purposely made a click bait title to seem like a new video from them in another castle.
I pretty much stopped it when I figured out which video it actually is. I've seen it already a cpl times. Its good and all, but not what i was expecting.
What's amazing is that, as advanced as we think we are today, 99% of people today couldn't accomplish what these people did with hand tools almost 1000 years ago.
but why should we? we have moved on and advanced and technology has made things more efficient.You are the sort of people who still prefer riding a horse instead of a 4WD SUV with 50 horsepower and V8 Engine like mine
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@@goldenboyi1989 Weird flex but OK.
Now I can have a pizza delivered by a robot car. How is that for advancement?! lol. But yea, hard work your whole life to be sure you have shelter and food. That theme hasn't really changed much.
Amazed at how much valuable and informative content is available here for free to the viewer 🥰
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Your lost brother. Read the i ching or fast and find the reality that theyre hiding right in front of your face.
You should rename this as "How to build a castle"
I thought this, but then realized that nobody's gonna watch that. Whoever's behind this channel knows how to attract a TH-cam audience.
@@krdiaz8026 brilliant!...
Wow I learned so much just from this video. How wonderful people are willing to do this to teach us as well as their self how it was done in the past. Thank you for this education..
In this "disposable" culture we have today, it's amazing to see how much imagination and experimentation it took for those in past generations to develop and perfect the art of their crafts to pass down to us.
Ruth, Peter and Tom have such contagious enthusiasm in experiencing the amount of work and dedication these people had, how much they accomplished in their lives. I can't help but feel quite in awe of the ingenuity of such a hard working society working together to build something so grand. And I'm grateful to our hosts for bringing this history alive for us. Thanks for posting this program. Educational and enjoyable.
Hello Karen Fitzpatrick. How are you doing?
I think we're de -evolving.
I just enjoy watching these three work together. I've watched all of thier documentaries. They work together well and I learn so much from them 😊
oh please they would've used the shit we have had it been available.
I was taught the two stitches shown herein by my older (15) when I was five during my pettipoint embroidery lessons. These stitches require a "good eye," steady hand & commitment to detail. I have taught these stitches to crossstitchers in less than 5 mins. Pat in Philly
Much respect for the people who live this life in order to teach us about the past. It's a hard lifestyle!
Pretty sure they sleep in modern homes etc, this is just a project haha though that does not detract from the admiration one should have for them :).
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Ul so slide over here and give me a moment your moves are so raw II've got to let you know you're one my kind.
@@jamesbishop5119 So I actually live near Guedelon and have been there a few times (it's a thing in France to get the children to visit the castle with their school) and I can confirm these people are allowed to go back to the XXIst century every night 😂. They have modern labour law, and there are more protections around the buildings than there was in medieval times (like fences around the eight meters tall towers they're working on and so on), etc. I'm pretty sure they aren't healed the medieval way either 😂
@@jamesbishop5119 It doesn't matter where they sleep. But what matter is that they have no clue, just guesses, on how it was build.
This was so interesting. The segment about making dye, who first figured that all out? So clever and innovative! Mad respect for all of them.
It was the fallen angels and nephilim who first brought knowledge ie: masonary astrology, herbalism, animal husbandry, science, laws etc etc.to mankind,
Dying fabric and linen has been around for millennia, Egypt had a very particular turquoise that we have not figured out how it was made, purple is the hardest to achieve.
@@dawnpalmby5100 I guess that's why it was a favorite of royalty.
@@lookupyourredemptiondrawsn8799 yes that is true
As a craft interpreter in an American 19th century village, I learned what plants made the dyes used.
Boiled onion skins= yellpw
cochineal= red
indigo= deep blue
walnut bark• brown
I think I love Ruth's daughter almost as much I love Ruth.
Amazing how similar the masonry technique is to modern day masonry. I worked as a mason for 10 years most of our stone is pre shaped but we still have to do all the things they show to finish and mate the stone because nothings perfect from factory and modern plans.
Are you saying it's impossible for a modern mason to be outdone by factory manufacturing of stone? Quality items that would be smithed form the same time are being mass produced. I mean you're basically saying they could comunicate just as well if you were a master then and now. It's just wrong. We've vastly increased processing and understanding of minerals and architecture since then.
Ruth and her daughter getting excited when they figured out how to make the gold thread was so wholesome
Already watched this on timeline world history and its a great series 👏 ill watch it again 👍 😀
There were 5 episodes in this series 'Secrets of the Castle' with Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and
Tom Pinfold (2014)--Narrator Paul McGann (8th Dr. Who & Holby City). Excellent historical
documentary:
1. Why Build a Castle
2. Defending the Castle (Drew the highest UK viewers of the series-11/24/2014)
3. Inside the Castle
4. The Castle's Community of Skills
5. Beyond the Castle Walls
Thank you for teaching us about our roots and keeping our history! How quickly we forget in this modern age! -United States:)
What’d you expect? You have lowly educated 22 year olds becoming teachers these days, owned by teachers’ unions. It’s ridiculous.
Hunterston Castle in Scotland is 13th Century, 1263, in excellent condition.
This was so interesting! Thanks for posting this video! ~ Anastacia in Cleveland
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I love these series soooo much I wish they could do more!
Imagine if someone from the future found these ruins and thought "ahhh, authentic historic ruins from eons ago" when in fact it was an experiment in very recent history...
Or in the future they believed we, in 2000s, lived in castles like this.
Leave a Plack or corner stone!
Lol they better test the age of the wood, like how we do now.
Archeologists in the 31st century would be wondering what happened in that part of France that it reverted to a feudal system. 🤔
@@jefferyindorf699 Right?! Lol
I am looking at this program and being thankful that I wasn't around during this time. I have so much respect for the ppl that made everything possible back then. I don't think I would have survived a week.
You would have been just fine. Haha hope you are feeling blessed and loved.
Oh come on, this would have been an amazing time to live. Sure hard work but its also rewarding. I think its amazing.
@@lostamericanhistory2536 I am a tailor, trust me making clothes all by hand ( no sewing machine) ain't that much amazing.
@@lostamericanhistory2536 also the near constant issue of infection would have been normal to them but still really unpleasant. Especially the virus, so many (the plague- "the Black Death" or as they referred to it - The Great Mortality). That stuff is horrifying & there's been nothing like it since the "Spanish Flu" that I'm aware of since that time (1348+).
Not to be to grim.....☺
@@davidrustylouis6818 that is true, medical would be one thing that would be hard to give up. The things that killed so easily is nothing to us now. A lot of their ways seemed so primitive to us but my family has been trying to get back to that (growing 100% own food, self sufficient) for years now. We really underestimate how much they knew just to survive. It takes years to get good at gardening, know when its going to frost, what to grow and how to grow it. These people had it down pat. What I've found, the further my family gets from mainstream way of life, the closer and happy we are though.
Absolutely like a visionary outlook. Thank you for posting historical content.✨
Ruth is fascinated by all of the very early home methods and the messier the better to her.
yes i shivered when she started using hands, i thought that's a british reflex that you would not find in continental europe.
Very moving. Brought me to tears.
Yes i think the main host guy is so simple, straightforward and friendly he was the mortar to this documentary bringing it all together.
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Castles are mindblowingly amazing to visit in person. The imagination they provoke makes my brain smile from lobe to lobe. If you ever have the chance to visit one in person, the memories will lest your lifetime!
This is just amazing..
For the first time in 60 years as an historian I am getting a glimpse through my computer at master craftsmen at work in the 13th century. I almost expected to hear Middle English. Ladies and Gents, you're awesome.
Well ordinary people couldn't travel better but yes actually is quite probably traveled more isn't it? Fascinating!!
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What an interesting program . Havent found something this interesting on youtube in quite some time .
I love how mother & daughter are doing this together as real friends.
Heartwarming.
This was one of the most amazing free video I have ever watched on the internet.
Many thanks from Brasil
Maybe our modern day developers could take note! Apartment construction springs to mind. Because some of the work is pretty shoddy.
I would love to have the financial freedom to go there and be a laborer around other history nuts.
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You don’t realize how labor intensive it was to make anything back in those days. It really does give one a new found appreciation for the people of the past.
This series is so fascinating. These three people have done other ones, they are worth searching out!
I adored this marvelous series. I’ve always been fascinated with castles and medieval life particularly weapons. How in the world they managed to contrive so much with so little only shows their ingeniousness. They dealt with inadequate food, shelter and pretty much non-existent health care. It’s little wonder life expectancy was only to mid-30’s. Excellent series I highly recommend it. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hello Susan Schmitt. How are you doing?
Yea, there is something fishy about that particular piece of narrative. We are expected to believe that these master stonecutters traveled from country to country bc their marking were followed. It takes a long time to become a máster, also each castle, also traveling to other countries between castles ... kind of hard to all that before 30.
@@wendymoran6759 This is the common misconception with Medieval life expectancy. When calculating life expectancy you look at a number of deaths and the ages at which those people died. Add them all up, then divide by the number of deaths examined to retrieve an average. The problem with this formula is that infant mortality was very, very high during the medieval period. The number of infant deaths drags the life expectancy down, when in reality if you lived passed infancy, living to your 50s or 60s was not at all uncommon!
@@michaelaw555: past. Good points though! 👍🏽
I love it. Thank you for your hard work. It was very interesting.
I would like to see someone remake Gobekli Tepe with the tools that were available at that time period in which it was made. And some of the other mysterious sites that seem impossible to make.
I could always imagine the hard and delicate work that these magnificent buildings required but when I actually see how all the work was done, I feel a much bigger appreciation and awe! 😍
My grandmother and grandfather used to run a cotton loom dye business. I remember my mother telling me how colourful our balcony would be from all the dyed loom
Absolutely love this episode. A great glimpse at the past. Really brings a new appreciation to how people lived and how we live now. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lol I saw all those ads and just immediately scrolled straight to the end and restarted. Good lord. Can we get some video with those ads?!
Every three minutes, that’s pretty excessive.
It’s the reason I gave in and paid for no ads. It’s not that much a month and it really is a lot less irritating! I knew the ads were getting to me when I’d be watching something and just when something was about to happen, AD came on and I wanted to throw my phone! It gets REALLY old after a while.
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Los castillos son fascinantes, la vida en ellos no. La mayoría de la gente no habitaba en las mejores condiciones y muchos de ellos eran explotados. La romantización de la vida feudal no se ajusta a la realidad.
Eso lo sabemos todos...pero lo que nos impresiona es ver que tuvuieron la imaginacion para construir. NO TE ENFOQUES EN LO NEGATIVO!!!
What I'm getting is how the contemporary common man/woman lives much better than royalty in the middle ages.
This is the kind of first-class entertainment that the bbc excelled in before they went *woke* and got *broke* (morally, if not financially, yet).
“Woke”. Pff.
A word used by idiots to cancel people.
Annastine you are so correct!!
How amazing is this experience! Wow! And Ruth, we love to see you and the way you explain things in such intricate ways.
My mom's side are McNamara's builders of castle's and monasteries, from research I've done theres still a few standing... if we ever get out of our current predicament I'd love to visit them!
How beautiful that stonework is, what amazing craftsmanship. I hope young people keep training in it.
Hello Kimberly Perrotis. How are you doing?
So, math teachers should show this video for every "Why do we need to learn this?"
In those times there was no such thing as “starchitects’. The didn’t need fake accolades, just created, along with their highly talented workforce, incredible structures from Castles to Cathedrals. Their work pisses all over so much crap that gets built today and praised by a totally ignorant narrative. ‘’The Emperor’s new clothes” is as relevant now as it ever was.
Back when things were *built to last!* 😄
They had spiritual connections... people nowadays just want to be entertained.
I love this narrator!
Never in your LIFE have you seen the expression "from SCRATCH" illustrated so graphically and literally 🤣💪🏆
Except for when I saw this comment and clawed my intestines out of where my now severed testicles once lie dormant.
Yet someway how our houses and buildings nowadays look like a square box with no detail or vibe to them while we have all this modern technology.....what a joke we have become.
Now that this documentary is done what are they planning to do with this building?
They have been at it for over 25 years and it will take them another 25. You can visit it though in summer.
@@TeylaDex wow 25 years is a long time. Thanks for the info.
Probably they will use it for a tourist attraction.
@@corazoncubano5372 it has been a tourist attraction since they started and they're long not finished.
It's gonna be my family home 🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡
This was a beautifully done documentary 🥰
This is old and from Absolute History
BBC
All the way back in the 13 century.
Why would she say back then when people thought about their religion they were largely ignorant? She has no idea that the opposite was true. Even for the poorest of the poor. In fact, people in today's world are way more ignorant of their religion than medieval people were.
This is all very fascinating and I do indeed watch my dear chaps with rapt attention, but they do tend to focus upon the "nitty-gritty," as the Americans would say. I'm the guy who would live in the castle, not the man who would build it. But that is what people nowadays wish to see. So be it.
That's because they are actually building something that will last over time unlike weenie men like you who just watches but couldn't survive in the wilderness on your own if you tried.
Such an old series. Thanks for the re-upload. Do you have the entire series I wonder
History is AMAZING I am so grateful for this content ❤❤❤❤
Well very cool idea for ppl to get together and do.a lot of talented ppl here...very awesome 😊
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Royalty you are not. Did a Google search just to be sure. Lol
Now I want to know how many village and how many people will this Lord of the castle rule over
Ruth Goodman is so wonderful. All her documentaries bring the past to life, with dignity and appreciation.
"Hey, I have an idea. Let's grind up this leaf, dry it, powder it and then piss on it and see what happens"
Amazing, Amazing,Amazing... I want to Thank you so much for this video.
They were more worldly people then, than they are now.
This is just an incredible journey your on, I hope there's more. ❤️
Hello Debbie D. How are you doing?
What a terrific experiment . It’s no wonder these castles lasted hundreds of years !
Ruth's passion is absolutely super refreshing compared with all the assholes in this world acting like they know it all and are too cool for everyone. You keep up the great and inspiring celebration of your life and work Ruth Goldberg!!!!
Love these programs. It makes me grateful for what whe have now.
Very interesting and very informative, the amount of labour went into a creation in the medieval aga was overwhelming, I will never again look at a historical monument the same way again, I will always be thinking about the workers and their marvellous work.
The ladies were crouching over the plants cutting leaves and I thought, "WOOOOOAD."
Holy fuck how did I know! They use piss on it to make the dye
Kudos to the team of Royal Realty for showing us everything in so much detail and much respect for their first hand experience practice of everything. This brought a smile on my face 😁
They always have poor Pete do all the hard grunt-work. I suppose because he's so big and strong. And Ruth just loves getting her little hands into grit, dirty little gel 🤣
Interesting that they used a center bit instead of a pod (or spoon bit) auger. In furniture history they are thought to be much later, though increasingly there is evidence for earlier use. Note the tool in about 12:05 mins. I wonder if they have hard evidence of this tool's use in the middle ages? Great project and great video!
I don't see why they wouldn't be able to use either with the capabilities of the smithie and even in some areas if they would have made chemical improvements to said smithed items based on the knowledge of chemical reactions when creating dyes. Though it would be very interesting to document and trace the exact facts. But honestly, look at the wood they made into planks. It's cut very precisely to be done by even a two man saw. Looks like a lot might be staged.
This is absolutely amazing! The people were very committed and disciplined. The blue dye was simply fascinating! The garments would be very expensive of course.
Amazing!
This is so amazing! Much respect to everyone doing this!
I always had the feeling that castles were chilly and damp.
They certainly look like it.
They might be now with things not fitting as snugly and being old. But, when they were new, everything would have fit well. I'm sure things were built with quality back then.
@Corazon Cubano: They are and were. We visited castles while living in England. Quarters for women and children were usually on the third floor; public reception room on the ground level, next floor was for the lord of the castle. All were accessed by narrow winding and very uneven stone stairs. I wondered how pregnant women and women with babies managed those stairs without falling and suffering serious injury. The other thing I wondered was how they got the firewood up those stairs. The castles we visited had a single, ten-foot wide fireplace on each level, so I don't imagine they burned two or three foot logs.
@@SR-iy4gg They were built to last, but there were no glass windows. At best, inhabitants hung tapestries on the walls. The latrines were open to the weather. Stone and brick becomes what is known as cold-soaked, that is, the stone is cold through and through and always gives off chilled air.
You don't have to look at only castle but any stone masonry building. In warm climates it's an advantage. You get a natural cold comfortable interior 10 degrees less than outside. In cold damp climates well, at least it breaks the wind and that is why they had fireplace in every major room.
I’m deeply impressed by amazing buildings all over the world, always with a thought to their craftsmen. By this series I’m from now on even more in woooow by the skills by our forefathers. This was so eye opening - the teamwork - the knowledge and learning from nature’s material - listening to the stones, I loved when that was said ❤️ Thank you to all of you, - from Denmark…
This is what you call real woodworking, sculptural, beautiful stone work with arches and tremendous Mason work with heart and soul put into it. God bless you all. What a tremendous job you all did. That's painstaking but worth it. God truly in the past and even now as you work hard at it has gifted all of you and c those in past ancient to medieval times with talents, knowledge and skills to do all this.
Hello M Theresa. How are you doing?
It’s so strange but I only know of my ancestors back to about early 1800s, so I don’t even think about the fact that, OF COURSE I had ancestors that
lived through this period. And probably in this area. But I just have such a hard time accepting that.
To be a rock and not to roll
You get that kind of satisfaction from pretty much anything you create by hand over a long period of time. A lot of the lessons learned are still learned today when you do an apprenticeship for pretty much any craft. It always teaches technique and patience. I'm thankful I learned metal working from the ground up and while I never went into that field of work, I still benefit from what I learned some 40 years ago. When most people go like "uhh, I'll just buy a new one" I go "how can I fix this" - and more often than not there's a way to do it.
Thankyou so very much for this insight of history and in general how we arrived at recieving materials for daily living nessesities to manage our needs.
Hello Barbara Hurren. How are you doing?
Wow! no word to express my feeling of appreciation is great , with all their hard work , genius art and ways in doing such wonderful nature design by hand .
EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY!⭐⭐⭐⭐💖💙💖🇱🇷
Love watching these three work together.
That man,s voice is so good.
Non skippable ads every 5 minutes is ridiculous. Edit. After 5 ads unless than 20 min. I'm done
Real life Minecraft
cook so Interesting with your foodBUT please trim and clean your fingernail’s
If we could go back to that time even for a month, we would appreciate supermarkets, pillows, shoe and clothing stores with all colors and fabrics, spice shops and even our own bathroom. And the dentist.
I really, really seriously hate English accent 🤮🤮🤮..worst than listing to the the most boring tuneless music in the world
Thease builders were members of a guild like a union .you had to go through aprentiship to learn trade,may took years.but they were highly respected and made good living.life expecion short,like all in the medical world.