History Hit Medieval Expert...Time For A Reality Check

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  • @metatronyt
    @metatronyt  19 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

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    • @OGDamnnation
      @OGDamnnation 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      You should check out Tasting history

    • @Oldmaninabasement
      @Oldmaninabasement 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I want for my note for another episode

    • @mansfieldtime
      @mansfieldtime 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      . Southwark. I would have said South War-k or South Ware-k.

    • @Casey2262
      @Casey2262 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Hey Metatron. There's a guy's channel named Kurimeo Ahau, who thinks Napoleon was black. He's been saying this about every medieval character for years.
      Do you think you could debunk his claims whenever possible?
      Thanks.

    • @JackyHeijmans
      @JackyHeijmans 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Tea, herbal tea. You can make wonderful tea with all kinds of herbs, berries and what not. Try Elderberry together with another herb, as an example. Elderberry is medicinal, but it is also very delicious as a tea. I am sure people made hot drinks with herbs as medicine, and if they liked the taste, why not tea? They had things like mint, lemonbalm, etc. ❤

  • @etiennesharp
    @etiennesharp 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +463

    'Having your tea' = a British euphemism for having dinner. He didn't mean literal tea.

    • @MultipleSquids
      @MultipleSquids 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +81

      We truly don't make things easy for people not native to the UK but aye I agree he was meaning having dinner.

    • @tiramisunsun
      @tiramisunsun 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

      how did it came to mean dinner? Do British people drink tea during dinner time?

    • @someonesilence3731
      @someonesilence3731 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

      @@tiramisunsun The Brits have blood in their tea, not the other way around.

    • @Im-Kaspa
      @Im-Kaspa 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +47

      ​@tiramisunsun well we used to have high tea and then dinner, which eventually merged into just tea meaning dinner
      It was a literal meal time name

    • @tiramisunsun
      @tiramisunsun 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@Im-Kaspa oh ok thank you

  • @rorymkirk
    @rorymkirk 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +174

    Tea is a regional term in the UK for supper or dinner. Though dinner is also lunch in some parts. Tea is also just tea in other parts. Whatever you do, never start a discussion over what bread rolls are called.

    • @Juxtaposedjoker
      @Juxtaposedjoker 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      I know I read this incorrectly. But now I think the UK has a second lunch and I am here for it.

    • @JarlOfDemise
      @JarlOfDemise 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Round bread rolls are called Baps and hot dog style bread rolls are called Buns! The meals of the day are Breakfast, Dinner, Tea! ofc just my opinion/upbringing but everyone else is objectively incorrect 😊

    • @rorymkirk
      @rorymkirk 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@JarlOfDemise lol tell me where you’re from without telling me!

    • @IanHunter-xc1po
      @IanHunter-xc1po 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Bread rolls, what are they? Do you mean barms, or cobs? Maybe you mean baps?

    • @JarlOfDemise
      @JarlOfDemise 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@rorymkirk nah, I think that even Sherlock and Batman would have difficulty trying to guess where I'm from!! (Sarcasm for people like Sheldon!!!)

  • @doctorlolchicken7478
    @doctorlolchicken7478 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +52

    This was a much more fact based expert than we usually see in these kinds of videos. He didn't try to sugar coat anything or exaggerate. He didn't shy away from saying peasants were almost slaves, which is a position many modern historians shy away from because it's seen as "normalizing" slavery. Only black people being slaves to white people is the permitted modern definition of slavery. So good on him for not trying to rewrite history.

    • @harryhanz1690
      @harryhanz1690 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Maybe in America, but I've never heard that.

    • @exantiuse497
      @exantiuse497 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      I don't think I've ever heard people try to glorify the life of a medieval peasant. If anything people exaggerate how awful their lot was

    • @holzlastname1976
      @holzlastname1976 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@exantiuse497it may be more of an American thing. But, definitely happens quite often in the States.

    • @trenae77
      @trenae77 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Matt and Tristan Hughes are both great. Tristan hosts ‘the Ancients’ and Metatron has enjoyed videos of his as well.

    • @davidreece5867
      @davidreece5867 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Literally no modern historian shies away from saying peasants were ALMOST slaves. However it’s a gross generalization to say all peasants were “almost slaves”. There were “freemen” peasants who owned a small piece of land for subsistence farming. There was serfdom which was more akin to sharecroppers in the US. They were given a plot of land for subsistence farming but were required to work their Lord’s land and give military service when required.
      The peasants of Europe are different from chattel slavery in the fact that, except in Russia, they weren’t property that could be brought or sold.

  • @soulknife20
    @soulknife20 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +124

    The guy answering the questions is actually pretty good at what he does. I don't have any issues with him. And hearing Metatron speak with an American accent is....unsettling

    • @ConcettaLynch
      @ConcettaLynch 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      TOO BAD FOR YOU. ENGLAND IS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY ON THE WORLD.😊😊😊

    • @soulknife20
      @soulknife20 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      ​@@ConcettaLynchI live in America. The best country on the planet.

    • @nickwilliams6621
      @nickwilliams6621 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@soulknife20 I would agree, but USA has tornadoes :(

    • @StarRider253
      @StarRider253 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Timestamp for the American accent moment?

    • @magyarbondi
      @magyarbondi 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      America is not a country, it's a continent, you dipstick. 🤣

  • @mxlexrd
    @mxlexrd 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +170

    He may have been using the word "tea" to refer to the evening meal as is common in parts of Britain.

    • @Vandal_Savage
      @Vandal_Savage 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Undoubtedly.

    • @Ramdingle007
      @Ramdingle007 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      In NZ we also have breakfast, lunch and tea. when someone says it's tea time they mean dinner time

    • @Vandal_Savage
      @Vandal_Savage 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      @@Ramdingle007 what!? No second breakfast?

    • @Ramdingle007
      @Ramdingle007 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@Vandal_Savage only for hobbits :)

    • @jonbaxter2254
      @jonbaxter2254 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He absolutely was.

  • @billygoat3564
    @billygoat3564 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +52

    Towards the end of the video, when the professor refers to peasants having 'tea'. In the UK, it's used as another way of saying dinner.

  • @mk__cyanheron1154
    @mk__cyanheron1154 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +115

    I was taught that the medieval period was from the fall of rome to the fall of the constantinopole. That seemed like a more satisfying historical arc.

    • @Subutai_Khan
      @Subutai_Khan 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +29

      It is arbitrary at the end of the day. But as long as we agree on the general area I guess this is what matters. The thing with terms like “Early Modern” for instance is everyone saw their period as modern. Modern just means present. So nobody was like “it is 1500 so it is no longer he Middle Ages.” But it is fair to say that after a certain point many developments we associate with our world start to come into their own.

    • @Marveryn
      @Marveryn 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      @@Subutai_Khan as people cant make up their mind when rome fell as he did mention rome was sack several times before finally collapse

    • @olorin3815
      @olorin3815 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Over here they use 3 events together to kinda mark the ending of the period 1)Discovery of America 2) Invention of the printing press 3)Fall of constantinopole ... or in whichever order they happened doesnt matter much

    • @rikulappi9664
      @rikulappi9664 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Me too. Printing press and reformation where also mentioned along the fall of Constantinopol.

    • @HD-mp6yy
      @HD-mp6yy 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@Subutai_Khan Yeah but you need to choose a date to separate time periods. And is harder to find something better as the end of the medieval period as the fall of Constantinople. Expecially if you look at the entirety of Europe, the Mediterraneum, and the Middle East. 476 it's more arguable.

  • @dartskihutch4033
    @dartskihutch4033 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    I expected a roast video, but damn, this was awesome!! This man did an awesome job answer the further commentary only filled in the gaps of deeper understanding.
    Truly awesome! Thank you!

  • @Sturdy_Penguin
    @Sturdy_Penguin 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    I think my biggest gripe with the video was when he was talking about medieval food. There is so much that is different! The modern westerner living in a big enough city has more access to varieties of food, herbs, and spices than any nobility from the era. You would be limited to food that you could actually grow and was available. The varieties of grain were also much smaller than their modern counterparts that have been bred or genetically modified to have giant yields. You would also eat food seasonally for what couldn't be preserved, varieties of fruit were also much different to go along with the grains. Paintings of medieval watermelons and descriptions of oranges are just depressing compared to what you can find at any supermarket. Not to mention how widely things differed depending on your region. You can't really grow olives in Norway or have access to oceanic fish in Bohemia without it being salted. You deal with what can survive around you or what can be preserved and transported, and be willing to pay higher prices for it.

  • @mattjack3983
    @mattjack3983 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    CORRECTION. The king who was shot in the face with an arrow was not actually the king at the time. And it was not actually a field surgery either. It happened at the Battle Of Shrewsbury, and he was at the time known as Prince Hal, who later became King Henry V, son of King Henry IV. Even at 16, Prince Hal was a very skilled and competent fighter. Some accounts say that after taking the arrow to the face..which struck him somewhere next to his nose and just above the corner of his mouth, embedding itself approximately 6 inches into his skull thru the cheekbone..he continued to fight on until being dragged off the battlefield and to safety by several men in his retinue.
    John Bradmore, a royal surgeon and metalworker, woukd be the man who would save the future King Henry V's life. BUT, at the time of the Battle Of Shrewsbury tho, when the Prince was wounded, John Bradmore had been imprisoned by the King, under suspicion of using his metalworking skills to counterfeit coins. Bradmore was immediately granted pardon and released, and sent to take care of and hopefully save the Prince, who had been taken to Kenilworth Castle (i believe).
    Other surgeons who had aided the Prince were successful at removing the arrow shaft, but the bodkin point arrowhead still lay embedded in the Prince's skull, just narrowly missing his brain stem, and surrounded by arteries and blood vessels. Even the slightest wrong move could cause the arrow head to knick one of the arteries, and the Prince would be beyond saving.
    Bradmore had the wound filled with honey, and then quickly and diligently went about designing and making a tool to extract the arrowhead, which came to be known as the Bradmore Arrow Extractor.
    Bradmore himself did the surgery, guiding in the tool, and locking it into the arrow head, and then very slowly, over the course of several days, backing the tool out and pulling the arrowhead out without causing any further damage. It was a very slow and excruciatingly painful process for the young Prince. But operation was successful, and Prince survived a wound that absolutely 100% would have killed any other ordinary soldier who did not have access John Bradmore's medical mind and metalworking skills.

    • @JKribbit
      @JKribbit 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Love your detailed accounts! Just to add another fun tidbit. it was this battle that Prince Hal, later Henry V saw the devastating effect of Henry "Hotspur" utlisation of longbowmen, so when he became king, longbowmen became a big part in his campaign in France. Henry V is one ot my favourite English kings and I love him because he's always a student throughout his life.

  • @JuliusSeether
    @JuliusSeether 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    I love the enthusiasm Metatron gets when he gets to where his armor.

    • @LoLFilmStudios
      @LoLFilmStudios 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I know you did that on purpose.

    • @holzlastname1976
      @holzlastname1976 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I agree❤ and that blue silk is gorgeous ❤!!!

  • @WickedFelina
    @WickedFelina 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    One thing I can say about both you and Matt Lewis, you are on my list of the genuinely sweetest, and kindest men not just in history scholarship, but the world in general. Bless you both.

  • @Cationna
    @Cationna 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    Re: torture issue, it was kinda mentioned but not gotten into, that justice was for the most part a local issue and enforcing it fell to the community itself or the local ruler rather than to the idea of specialised authorities. Harsh and swift punishments were a way to ensure law and order in a society where dangers of lawlessness were also much, much higher than we realise today. Basically it was the way to protect those for whose whole lives you were responsible, or your community which was as safe as it was strong.

    • @cjohnson3836
      @cjohnson3836 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I don't think that its necessarily true that "dangers of lawlessness were much, much higher." You're doing the same thing people were doing in the questions. Pretty much everything we know about evolutionary behavior tells us that smaller, more closely connected social groups, lead to greater regulation of social interaction. People would be less likely to crime against each other because standing among each other was much more important for daily life, than we would expect today. If anything, I think what we would be shocked by is how well people generally would get along. Social norms were also far more concrete. Barring certain notable locations in major cities (Rome, Constantinople, etc.) most places would be culturally homogeneous by comparison. This, again, leads to reduced social conflict as interactions are predictable. And really, there's a plausible sociological argument that the reason punishment then was stronger was a result of that greater social cohesion, not as a means of maintaining it. In modern times crime rarely impacts us per capita. In medieval times, a criminal in a village would be your relative, or at least someone you interact with closely. The broken trust would be closer to home, and the more extreme punishment may have been a result of a that social wound. Not as a maintenance mechanism for cohesion.

    • @cjohnson3836
      @cjohnson3836 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      To support my above statement; evolutionary theory predicts that cooperation is greater when we make frequent interactions with the same person, when they are related (often these are correlated through most of history), when the cost is low, or the benefit we gain from helping each other is high (or at least higher than the expected cost). All of these conditions are generally met in smaller communities of the type that would be the majority in medieval period.

    • @leodesalis5915
      @leodesalis5915 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@cjohnson3836 you make some very good points and i agree with the majority of it, but i also think the more severe punishments were used as a deterance. Its difficult to track down a group of robbers or bandits on the roads or someone in a city whose been killing people at night and especially difficult if you dont have much evidence. Its also one of the things i think led to religion being pushed so hard. If people fear the outcomes and punishments if they're caught, they're less likely to commit a crime. When you then factor in the idea of an all seeing god who will also judge you for those actions it deters people from commiting a crime moreso as youll be punished in this life and then be sent to hell. Also quite a lot of justice as they saw it came from an eye for an eye. The idea of blood money, paying money to the murdered persons family or they get to murder one of your family, or having a hand cut off as a thief, it was about the idea of getting even eith the criminal.

    • @cjohnson3836
      @cjohnson3836 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@leodesalis5915 You have it backwards. Eye for an eye was a restriction on the mob, not a punishment for the criminal. It was a recognition that mob rule goes too far. It was put in place to ensure proportionality. Also the new testament further cautions against even that (relevant since this entire topic is being framed under medieval period Europe and near east).
      As for religion. Religion is an emergent property of social behavior. Culture is nothing more than information you inherit that encodes your behavioral profile, not that dissimilar from genetics Culture functions to reduce behavioral variation because that increases predictability in our interactions. And because of autocorrelation, culture becomes a means of determining out-group when it is then placed into larger societies like those that emerge post agricultural revolution. Religion is just one more means of crystallizing social norms within culture. That's why its so entrenched in faith. Other animals do this. We call them conventional signals; signals believed to improve fitness while holding no biological relevance to an individuals health or ability.

  • @AxeBearWhoCares
    @AxeBearWhoCares 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    I think it's fair to say that knights were probably built more like modern fighters. Most are pretty lean, but there is muscle there

    • @2TrackMind-c6i
      @2TrackMind-c6i 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      or, athletes in general. Some are soccer players, some are rugby guys, some are NFL players - which covers just about all body types from linemen to safeties. I saw a lot of armor in Graz, Austria that was made for guys 6' tall and taller. One suit was for a man who was about 6'8" A lot of them showed repaired battle damage.

    • @TA-yw7ce
      @TA-yw7ce 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      There’s an account of a guy at the battle of Bosworth around that tall. I think the Knight was a bodyguard/flag bearer for Henry

    • @AxeBearWhoCares
      @AxeBearWhoCares 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@2TrackMind-c6i potentially, but you have to remember a different sports effect the body differently. I wouldn't be surprised if a knight looked a lot like the average Muay Thai. Dudes do a bit of strength training, with a crap ton of cardio and fight training

    • @sashasemennikov157
      @sashasemennikov157 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would expect them to be akin to modern infantry types

    • @2TrackMind-c6i
      @2TrackMind-c6i 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AxeBearWhoCares There is at least one written record of instructions to men-at-arms to be free of drunkenness, lascivious living, and to be physically fit through weight lifting, calisthenics and running - along with frequent wrestling and armed practice. Unfortunately it was long time ago and I can't remember the source. I think such practices would result in a normal level of fitness among any athletic class of men, with some being those in the Top biological 10% that would be bigger stronger and faster than their peers. Just like today. It wasn't that long ago.

  • @nihtris3204
    @nihtris3204 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    About beer as an everyday beverage:
    At the very least, most of the history professors I spoke to consider cleaning water was little more than a secondary effect. As far as I and they are aware, brewing good beer with unclean water is nearly impossible and clean water was generally pretty accessible unless the local well(s) where specifically dirtied or poisoned (which happened, don't get me wrong, but was the exception, not the rule). The primary reason to choose beer over water was probably ease of storage and taste. Trastporting fresh water (once or a few times a day) from the well to your home (and generally place of work) in buckets made of wood and having it sit in them for hours at a time doesn't tend to make for a tasty drink. Storage problems where the primary reasons for it as a traveling beverage. Same goes for wine in the south.

    • @exantiuse497
      @exantiuse497 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I think storage is related to cleanliness, and taste as well. It's definitely true that you can "purify" actual tainted or poisonous water by brewing it into beer, but if the water's a little off and has a bad taste makikg it into beer makes it drinkable.

    • @Vampirzaehnchen
      @Vampirzaehnchen 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@exantiuse497 That's the problem: If you store your water in a wooden bucket (or barrel, or whatever), it will taste bad, but it will still be drinkable. You won't get problems from that water, besides a nasty taste in your mouth. You won't get sick, you won't die from it, it just tastes ugly.
      To give an example: I hate eggplants. I don't like how they taste. But if I eat them, it won't kill me. They just taste bad. They are still edible food, they are just not yummy food. So of course I choose different food to eat but that doesn't make the eggplant suddenly poisonous or unhealthy.

  • @AdamJorgensen
    @AdamJorgensen 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I bake my own bread at home. Nothing fancy, just bog standard half wholewheat half white flour. Usually end up with two loaves that get used over the course of a week and a half.
    Even without preservatives bread doesn't get mouldy that fast if you keep it in a clean, cool, dry airtight container.
    Obviously some parts of the storage would have been tricky and the bread does still get stale but it remains edible toasted for a good long while.

  • @Arigriphantua
    @Arigriphantua 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    I always considered the Middle Ages to be the period from the fall of Rome to Columbus landing in the Caribbean.

    • @Kili2807
      @Kili2807 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      this is one way to localise the middle ages, there are other dates as well for certain regions

    • @Terter1551
      @Terter1551 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Or from the fall of Rome to the fall of Constantinople as we were thought in school. Most final dates put it somewhere in the 15th century, though.

    • @crushedcan5378
      @crushedcan5378 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      what if we are still in the middle ages? Just a thought

    • @DanielMWJ
      @DanielMWJ 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@crushedcan5378Nah. We're in the modern age, and have been for over 500 years! We still got another 500 years until the next age. 😂

    • @LynetteTheMadScientist
      @LynetteTheMadScientist 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Is the Renaissance Era considered part of the Medieval Ages then?

  • @bethanywallace8575
    @bethanywallace8575 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

    I'd be a hot commodity in the dating world if big foreheads were a draw 😆 Let's bring that beauty standard back 😉

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh my god a self aware woman. Maybe lean into it and trim an inch more off? Or maybe try the headdresses of that period?
      Your eyebrows must have won a great battle because your hairline has routed!
      I have a dinted head, balding in a fantasy dwarf sense, and crippled but taken.

    • @OnceUponReddit
      @OnceUponReddit 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lol

    • @3nineXO
      @3nineXO 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      🗿

    • @Lopfff
      @Lopfff 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Honey you’re fine in the modern world

    • @OnceUponReddit
      @OnceUponReddit 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@Lopfff bro, she's not going to sleep with you. Stop being creepy

  • @michaeltelson9798
    @michaeltelson9798 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    In England during the Middle Ages, salmon was very common. So common was salmon that certain guilds restricted how many times a week an apprentice could be served it.
    Sweet corn is also a 20th century development of maize. The first sweet corn variety was Country Gentleman released about 1910.

  • @chwilhogyn
    @chwilhogyn 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I live near Eryri National Park, where there’s a mountain called ‘CNICHT.’ The name is thought to come from the English surname Knight. This family used to be merchants in Caernarfon. When the Welsh adopted the name, they kept the same pronunciation for the consonants ‘K’ and ‘gh’ in English. So, in Welsh, they’re spelled ‘C’ (/k/) and ‘ch’ (/χ/).

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      In monty python's holy grail the french call them 'kh-ni-gts'
      Also in that film there's a great moment when they debate pronunciation of 'aghhhh' in aramaic... 10 years later in a random moment it dawned on me there ARE no vowels in aramaic, and so few people will ever get that joke.

    • @DanielMWJ
      @DanielMWJ 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Good ol' hard ch/kh.

  • @bobulationnation
    @bobulationnation 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    The boats were made of wood but the men were made of metal

  • @brettmuir5679
    @brettmuir5679 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Three weeks in as a new subscriber and I must say...
    "Veni, Vidi, Pompei"
    Love it. Im here everyday. Thanks

  • @anom5389
    @anom5389 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    What are you trying to say, Metatron? “Kings would have had hair as long as mine” 😂

  • @melvinhilber4403
    @melvinhilber4403 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    What was said about the streets is only true for the two big cities London and Paris. In the holy roman empire for example the cities were not crowded, they had streets where the houses were very close to each other, but they had gardens for subsitance behind them. No need to throw out poop, you need it as fertilizer (after processing it). Cities had street sweepers who worked with brooms. Does not work if every street is full of mud and poop

    • @exantiuse497
      @exantiuse497 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I'm sure it was a city by city basis. If the city was ill-managed or if it was growing too quickly you'd get feces on the street, if it was well managed and coordinated you wouldn't

  • @omegazombies
    @omegazombies 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Loving the HistoryHit reaction videos. I like a lot of their stuff already and its really ni e to have some expansion and alternative answers/perspectives discussed on the same topics

  • @richardavery4692
    @richardavery4692 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    People keep thinking in modern terms of physical fitness. You're all forgetting there were no automobiles back then. If you wanted to go somewhere, you walked. If you wanted to go somewhere quickly, you ran. Every single person was in crazy good shape when it came to cardio & endurance. Being a knight, or a professional soldier of any kind, would have required crazy strength training on top of the standard cardio you already did. Carrying the weight of all that metal, swinging a heavy melee weapon for any length of time, would have required a ton of muscle. Those guys would have been seriously jacked & capable of running several miles without stopping. Even our professional athletes of today are incredibly soft compared to our ancestors of just 100 years let alone several 100.

  • @LilShrimp01
    @LilShrimp01 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    "Why were medieval punishments so cruel?"

  • @matthijsnaylor4000
    @matthijsnaylor4000 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    When English people refer to tea, they can also mean dinner or the main meal of the day. He didn’t mean having a nice cold one with a nice cup of tea xD

  • @aule10
    @aule10 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Fun fact about bathhouses, they where very common in medieval, but with the new disease called syphilis in many countries those bath houses got closed down, because of the side hustles happening there, unfortunate it didnt help, and they never opened again in many countries.

  • @DualStupidity
    @DualStupidity 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Your average soldier throughout history could rarely afford the upkeep required for such muscles, but there were definitely some dudes in every era providing real references for those insanely ripped statues.

    • @exantiuse497
      @exantiuse497 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The question was about knights though, and a knight isn't your averge soldier but a military aristocrat who has access to all the food he needs and whose life's purpose is to be ready to go to war

  • @youcantrustmem8
    @youcantrustmem8 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Yeah I also find that line satisfying also makes the joke that the roman state was such a massive entity in history that only half of it falling marks an age

    • @exantiuse497
      @exantiuse497 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Start of medieval period: fall of Roman Empire
      End of medieval period: fall of Roman Empire

  • @Glegionar
    @Glegionar 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    About the last bit of the video: you didn't watch Vinland Saga season 2! That's so beautiful.

  • @richardmetzler7909
    @richardmetzler7909 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Re. literacy: Shadiversity had two videos on the topic arguing and showing evidence that basic reading and writing was tremendously useful to any farmer running his own farm, every craftsman etc., and they weren't stupid, so many did pick up enough for everyday communication in their own language, especially in urban areas. However, to be counted as "literate", you needed to be able to read, write and understand Latin, and that was limited to nobility and clergy.

  • @recalone
    @recalone 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The humor you put in is really refreshing and sobering. 🤝 and I massively respect your work

  • @exantiuse497
    @exantiuse497 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have heard that the origin of the myth of the heavy medieval sword comes from movies.
    When filming movies involving medieval swords, the prop swords they use are usually much thicker and as a result heavier than real ones, because the props need to be safe to use and a sword of realistic thickness is unacceptably dangerous even if it's blunted.
    As a result, the actors using these prop swords (as well as other people that use similarly "safety proofed" replicas) find using them much more heavy than it would be with the real thing, and so when they give interviews they'll mention how heavy the weapon was and how incredibly hard it must have been to use them in battle, resulting in the myth that medieval weapons weight much more than they really did

    • @theguileraven7014
      @theguileraven7014 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A heavy blunt sword is very dangerous, especially since the thicker spine likely means it’s stiffer and thus a potential impalement tool even with a completely rounded tip.
      If safety were the concern, they would have gone the opposite route, and them as light and floppy as possible, like you see with swords in kung fu movies.

  • @MarkHorton-n3t
    @MarkHorton-n3t 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +34

    In medieval Europe, illiterate meant not knowing Latin. Only clergy, nobility, and merchants learned Latin.
    However, most people could read and write, but not spell, their native language. There is a museum in England with hundreds or thousands of notes written by medieval peasants. One asks for more beer sent to the field. Not only did someone write it, someone had to read it. These are notes with no reason to keep them. If some survived, there must have been many more. Due to the cost and limited availability of paper and parchment, these notes were on tree bark, leaves, and such. They were scratched or written in crude homemade ink. Obviously, all literate peasants were homeschooled. There is also evidence that French commoners could read French. There is even poetry in French, English, and other languages considered vulgar. Someone must have been able to read them.
    A different situation, but all Jewish men were expected to be able to stand up and read Scripture in Hebrew in the Synagogue. Dating back as far as there has been Jewish Scripture. There was a deviation to Greek, but the Masorites fixed that.

    • @habacht2465
      @habacht2465 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      From when were theses letters? since paper was valueable i doubt they would use it even if they could write. What museum are you referring too?

    • @MarkHorton-n3t
      @MarkHorton-n3t 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @habacht2465 My source is several people on TH-cam who were there, not people like me who only heard.
      Paper and papyrus were indeed to valuable for a note like "send more beer"
      The notes were not on paper. The inner side of a piece of bark scratched with a stick or rock works.The rock works as a writing surface too. There are plants with sap that stains.

    • @13thcentury
      @13thcentury 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Parchment was used. Wax tablets. Chalk board. Vellum. Lots of materials to write on.

    • @cjohnson3836
      @cjohnson3836 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      @@habacht2465 Did you really only have the attention span to read his first sentence?

    • @KnightofAges
      @KnightofAges 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Really? First time in almost 60 years I heard that; all that I studied before pointed at a literacy rate between 4% and 10%, depending on the century and country. Also, in my family (wealthy landowners), almost all men and women born before 1850 never learned to read nor write. Literacy rate in the whole country in the 1830s was 14%. Do you live in San Marino or some other special country? Also, scribes and cleargymen produced a LOT of written things over the centuries, enough for one to find hundreds of thousands of written documents. If "most" people would have left written records, we'd have hundreds of millions of them.

  • @rurikschutte2188
    @rurikschutte2188 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    18:16 I would look at a military special ops guy to compare them to. “Lean, agile, VERY CAPABLE “

  • @LaineyBug2020
    @LaineyBug2020 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Lol, I totally gasped when you flipped the brigandine armor around. Did they wear chainmail under it? Because that's what I'm imagining...

  • @AverageAlGuitar
    @AverageAlGuitar 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video, always love watching these sorts of videos as you expand on the points they make and give much more context.
    Just a heads up, in certain parts of Britain, "tea" isn't solely used as a word for the drink, it's often used as another word for dinner/evening meal.

  • @TheRealSoldatmesteren
    @TheRealSoldatmesteren 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    17:12 When I was in the army, the officers there were extreamly strong and hardcore individuels but non of them were jacked bodybuilders, they were lean guys. Young men that are active are naturally strong. I were at time down to 60kilos 180cm tall quite skinny, and I were very suprised how strong my body was when pushed over the edge.

  • @tipemotions
    @tipemotions 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    About Southwark, the best way to learn he pronunciation of the different area in london is to listen to the announcements in the tube.

  • @stumccabe
    @stumccabe 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Metatron, at about the 55 minute mark, when the "expert" used the word "tea" he was using it as the British (working class) name for the evening meal, he wasn't literally referring to tea. It was a poor choice of words since it has probably confused thousands on non-Brits!

    • @mandowarrior123
      @mandowarrior123 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Also metatron assumed tea means indian tea but non caffiene teas were popular drinks, still drunk today, like nettle or Dandelion tea, some with medical uses like willow tea (asprin) and things like rose petal tea, mint tea, you name it.
      If you're boiling the water anyway to drink you might as well give it a little something, and if you're boiling food you might well not waste the broth water.

  • @stumccabe
    @stumccabe 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    One disagreement I have with the expert is the suggestion that the medieval peasant's food was bland and tasteless. I don't have any evidence, but human beings are human beings and if there were ways to make their food tasty they would have done it - and there certainly were plenty of delicious wild herbs available to peasants even in medieval England, here are a few: wild garlic, wild onion, wild celery, horseradish, calamint, wild basil, meadowsweet, and more. They might rarely have eaten beef, but I'm pretty sure they'd have at least some bacon. With the vegetables they grew, the bread, the cheese, the beer and a selection of tasty herbs I just do not believe that their food was bland. Of course I could be wrong!

    • @lonelystrategos
      @lonelystrategos 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      Many people nowadays seem to be completely ignorant about herbs. I've seen plenty of idiotic statements that traditional European food is bland because they didn't have spices back in the day, but herbs can make a tremendous difference to a dish.

    • @2TrackMind-c6i
      @2TrackMind-c6i 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      I agree. Salt was a monetary unit and a fiercely guarded commodity. The Bishop of Salzburg became one of the richest men in Austria because of his control over the many salt mines in the area. Salt paid for the fantastic Fortress of Salzburg, which was never taken by arms.
      Just add salt to almost anything and it transforms the flavor instantly. Add some onions and garlic, and that's western culinary basics right there.

    • @catocall7323
      @catocall7323 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I used to believe that until I traveled to England.

    • @cheften2mk
      @cheften2mk 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Had you lived near the sea, people would have plenty of fish. You can catch it all year and it requires little skill or equipment. Dried in the wind it will last.

    • @soulknife20
      @soulknife20 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@cheften2mkThis was basically Sweden

  • @onegunninja
    @onegunninja 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video! Very informative and we as an audience get 2 knowledgeable historians for the price of one in a single video. Thanks for putting these videos together. Really interesting, entertaining, and educational. 👍

  • @michaeltongue
    @michaeltongue 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    When he says Tea he is referring to the Northern evening meal ... ;-)

  • @Maybeabandaid9
    @Maybeabandaid9 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    "...there were peasant revolts."
    Just an aside, the painting from earlier in the video is a depiction of one such revolt.
    The painting where you pointed out the frogmouth helmet is a painting of an event during the Peasants Revolt in England in 1381, if I remember right.
    The painting portrays Wat Tyler being killed by Richard the 2nd's men at Smithfield outside of London. This happened right after the rebels stormed London and killed the Bishop of Canterbery Simon Sudbury, who was also the Lord Chancellor at the time. I feel he was basically sacrificed to appease the crowd by the king. (conjecture on my part, I know)
    Crazy part is, Richard the 2nd was a kid at the time. I think he was 13 or 14 years old or something like that. After he watched Wat Tyler get killed by his men during the start of negotiations, he rode straight to and convinced the whole "army" of rebels to follow him to another town nearby, defusing the situation in the process. He's actually depicted twice in the painting.
    It's actually a really crazy story if anyones interested and in my opinion, the situation probably led Richard to being such a firm believer in his divine right of rule.
    Side note, he was later deposed like 20 years later lol.

  • @Tang-qi6zw
    @Tang-qi6zw 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    18:30 I’d expect knights to look like fighters, but not quite as lean and dehydrated as they look in fight day. So look at the mma, boxing, or wrestling guys between fights when they aren’t cutting for a fight.

  • @morriganmhor5078
    @morriganmhor5078 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A) Sword: If you´ve said correctly about the weight of an arming sword, it would be nice if you also did it for hand-and-half, longswords, and two-handers. B) Guilds: I don´t know much about the situation in England, but elsewhere there were not only merchant guilds but also craftsmen guilds- i.e. armourers´, painters or butchers´.

  • @CatsAttackAgain
    @CatsAttackAgain 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Metatron's hair makes his frog-mouth look like an Elden Ring helmet

  • @Alloy211
    @Alloy211 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The helmet with the headphones has to one of the most cursed images I've ever seen.

  • @frankenstein6677
    @frankenstein6677 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    13:42 I'll say that commercial whole-grain bread is also very different from homemade (especially if you use wild yeast like sourdough), as they focus on making it 100% whole-grain, BUT artificially add high amounts of gluten in order to make them palatable. Just that fact makes them worse than properly made white bread, not because "gluten is bad" or anything, but because the amount of it is just excessive.

  • @eevee9632
    @eevee9632 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You certainly, make me want to believe. Awesome channel! Watched for years. Well done!

  • @katiau2449
    @katiau2449 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yay, shout out from Bristol! P.S. it is common to call evening meal "tea" in UK, pretty sure the expert is using it in this meaning here

  • @Arkantos117
    @Arkantos117 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    On the topic of how people looked in the medieval period I think it's worth noting that there would be some blatant regional differences in physical appearance even on the local level.
    More curly haired people in a town 15 miles away, guys with thicker eyebrows in the next village over, squarer jaws in the next county, more blondes down in the bay and so on.
    Even today we have these things but to a lesser degree for obvious reasons.

  • @Bazerald777
    @Bazerald777 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    6:39
    THE MUSIC IS BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @kurt-j8s
    @kurt-j8s 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    1 question comes to mind... can that brigandine double as a xylophone?

  • @Sidistic_Atheist
    @Sidistic_Atheist 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    16:26 I lost a lot of muscle mass when I stopped horse riding. It's a very physical activity, riding a horse. And that's without any heavy armour etc..
    17:46 Yes! 100% correct. Body Building and Weight Training are two completely different disciplines.

  • @dannygreenland4853
    @dannygreenland4853 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Another great chapter very informative from both of u

  • @cedricschmidtke4287
    @cedricschmidtke4287 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    heyo German here,
    i sometimes watch a German TH-camr who decided he's going to travel the world on bike, and he went to really desolate places, for example some mountain villages in Afghanistan which maybe a couple of hundred people, and when he went into a store i was a bit shocked how little acess to various food they had but after thinking it over I became amazed that compared to old times It's still was an exceptional selection.
    sure maybe some products are out of stock for an exntended period of time, but considering the terrain, the situation in that country and how desolate the village was it really surprised me.

  • @nickwilliams6621
    @nickwilliams6621 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    0:56 Laughed a little too much at this lol. Speaking of *The Dark Ages* , Metatron's channel was recommended to me by TH-cam after watching Timeline's *Age of Light* documentaries over a year ago. Props to TH-cam's algorithm for working how it should.

  • @beyondrecall9446
    @beyondrecall9446 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As for the British accents, I find the WW1 POW records uncovered in Germany fascinating.. Props to all who were involved in that project

  • @MCharlesPainting
    @MCharlesPainting 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dark Ages = Period of Unknown Light
    That is quite a wonderful way to look at it, I find. Certainly, somebody like Tolkien would enjoy the notion, though he understood the 'darkness' of it in terms of source material and so on -- this is actually partly what drove him to create Middle-Earth.

  • @huggybear539
    @huggybear539 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hi Metatron, an interesting channel I've been watching lately is called V.Birchwood, a girl that makes her own period clothing and dresses in and eats meals of ancient Greece and Roman, also medieval, Victorian and colonial food and garb. She even did an episode on greco/roman period period wear concerning menstrual subligaculum (that's how I know this word). No worries, her shows couldn't be more "G" rated, she's very sweet kid. Check it out for fun and see how accurate she is.

  • @karliikaiser3800
    @karliikaiser3800 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As a baker I would say it´s not just about wholegrain and white bread. It is also about the type of flour in medieval times up to the 19th century and even into the 20th century rye was more common than wheat. Barley and speltwheat, oat. Wheat needs more nutrients and before modern fertilization wheat was there but other grain was more common, depending on the local climate. Preservatives dont do anything about making a bread better. A well made ryebread keeps relatively fresh for a week. Wheat is bad at keeping fresh. Wheat is etymoligical realated to white... Becasue wheat makes a relatively white dough.

  • @misere4
    @misere4 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    it always fascinates me how certain games make the two handed sword a big slab of iron barely able to be lifted off the ground, but the characters using it like a feather, mostly fantasy. I liked the one in the game Silkroad Online tho, it gave a fairly "realistic" set of animations for how a heavy two handed sword would be handled, there is its weight, movement, and inertia seem extremely fluid and convincing, from a physical standpoint it felt so right and immersing
    even the walking/runing animation perfectly presents the slight draging and arm swing motion while the heavy sword is always slagging behind the character

  • @runevi
    @runevi 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Friend, his "look like a clown" comment was in reference to the fact that clown shoes are long. He's not being insulting. If shoe length correlates to wealth if you go back in time wearing clown shoes-looking like a clown-people would think you're rich.

  • @Zaphodox
    @Zaphodox 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Rabbit, fish etc was very common food. Seperate meats like venison and beef from squirrel and voles and rats edit: and frogs and snails. Readily available to peasants and ‘meaty’. Still popular in many cultures including France, Malaysia etc

  • @OpticfIare
    @OpticfIare 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    44 mins in and its so refreshing to see u agree with what a professor has to say 10/10!

  • @kamikaze9699
    @kamikaze9699 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think you should do an episode on the Dark Ages. The first video I found searching for a Dark Ages documentary on YT had like 1 minute of European peasants, about 2 minutes of Muslim Iberia, then the rest of the hour run time was everywhere except for Europe (the geographic area for which the term specifically applies to). Even a quick no-justice-done overview of the art, the writings, peasant and noble life, major conflicts, philosophies floating around, archaeological finds...

  • @Bioshyn
    @Bioshyn 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    One reason we have such beautiful churches in Bavaria is the fact that people didn't work the fields in winter, but spent their time with wood carvings and such.

  • @markzuckergecko621
    @markzuckergecko621 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Every time I see these segments, I think of the movie "Quasi", it's a reimagining of Quasimoto with the Broken Lizard idiots from Super Troopers🤣🤣🤣 when Quasi meets the Princess, he says "how did you get so clean?" I die laughing every time, because he's not trying to be slick or funny, he's genuinely curious.

  • @Bennie_Tziek
    @Bennie_Tziek 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Haha really cool to see all the armor. Something nice to see when coming home from holidays

  • @TheArthoron
    @TheArthoron 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Ebglish word for the bread plate is Trencher. It later became the name for long wooden serving platters.

  • @nickywal
    @nickywal 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    The peasant revolt in England was in a large part caused by the black death, people suddenly had more freedom to demand better conditions because there was such a labour shortage. But it wasn't all peasants, it had people from most walks of life involved. They certainly weren't happy

    • @michaelpurdon7032
      @michaelpurdon7032 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It really was a newly emerged petite bourgeoisie for the most part

    • @nickywal
      @nickywal 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@michaelpurdon7032 Yep all that land up for grabs and people being able to make more money, despite the king trying to freeze wages. Hell we know the person who lit the final spark, a butcher who didn't like that the poll tax people were demanding the right to do virginity checks on women. Hardly the raving mob of country bumpkins

    • @nickywal
      @nickywal 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@michaelpurdon7032 Yep all that land up for grabs as bad as it sounds and the ability to demand higher wages despite the king trying to freeze them. Hell we know the person who ignited the whole thing, he was a butcher

    • @nickywal
      @nickywal 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@michaelpurdon7032 Exactly you had all that land up for grabs, the ability to demand better wages even though the king tried to freeze them and we know a lot of the leaders were craftsmen. I guess it was easier to call it a mob of country bumpkins descending on London and paint the king as a hero instead for being willing to face them down.

  • @kaltaron1284
    @kaltaron1284 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think there were some medieval battles with a lot of confusion. Usually due to bad weather and visivility. I think the Battle of Bosworth Field is an example.
    Guilds also provided quality control. After their influence got reduced during the Industrial Revolution it took some time to reastablish somewhat safe food.
    Funnily enough we can treat the common cold about as well as medieval people could. Or as one joke says "if you don't go to the doctor to treat your cold, it will take about a week to go away. If you go to the doctor, it will take about 7 days."
    I'm not sure when Bavarian companies stopped regarding beer as normal food and then Radler (beer + water) was ok some time longer. But yeah, medieval beer was usually a lot weeker tan even normal beer today. And don't even get started on the stronger stuff available.
    Medieval armies also understood how to cause desease. Ah, the human mind.
    Getting decent sewage systems was the turning point that cities didn't have a negative growth without people coming in. Underground sewage systems did of course exist in the medieval period as leftovers from the Romans but most likely in disrepair and overburdened.
    Nah, I agree with him. That one looks like a clown. Now if that's the look you are going for and you can make it work, more power to you.
    Would be interesting to look into the differences between slaves, serfs, dependant peasants and actual land owners.
    Overall pretty good representator.

  • @maximebajer6354
    @maximebajer6354 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As usual when talking about the middle aged, we don’t talk about the links with the eastern world, the capital importance of the access to India, the fact that the fall of Constantinople pushed Europeans to find a new way to India, ultimately leading to the americas.
    We already had Arab words in French for exemple, and discovered famous Arab philosophers like Avicenna and averroes. I would love to see you dive into this aspect of the Middle Ages !

  • @SweetStrawberryShell
    @SweetStrawberryShell 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loving the tea/ dinner conversation in the comments 😂 I’m from London and I personally hate it when (usually Northerners) say “Tea” when they mean dinner. For me, tea is a drink (with jam and bread 🎶), and dinner is your evening meal. End of 😂

  • @zardify_
    @zardify_ 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ok. Mr. Metatron. Pointy shoes make people look like a clown. And I will die on this hill! 😂

  • @WHITERAGS
    @WHITERAGS 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I love the juxtaposition of the helmet and Nord VPN

    • @christianlenik5307
      @christianlenik5307 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Protection

    • @MarkHobbes
      @MarkHobbes 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      juxtaposition is a really strange word

  • @andrewthorpe2539
    @andrewthorpe2539 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They’ve managed to model a recreation based on the skeleton of a Medieval knight from Stirling Castle. Basically he looks like a rugby league professional. So look at them and there you go.

  • @mctwist13
    @mctwist13 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Did you buy the Tutankhamun Ale? I wanna see a video of an unboxing and maybe a taste testing. No idea how expensive they are though lol.

  • @valis992000
    @valis992000 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I like your channel and I also enjoy Gone Medieval. I would wager most people that like your channel would enjoy it.

  • @frankspider5871
    @frankspider5871 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    really a very interesting video. I would really like a video with an in-depth analysis of music in the Middle Ages (teaching, styles, purposes, etc....)

  • @WalterWild-uu1td
    @WalterWild-uu1td 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The other weapons issue I have is when we talk about maces and axes. Almost every movie I have seen show them as very large...where they really weren't. I'm talking about the maces, hammers and axes carried by knights. The blades or heads were really rather small when seen in museums...The ability to move them quickly and still have force without exhausting the bearer was important. Not that big.

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Watch one with the Ditch Guy! He’s very enjoyable and just the kind of historian you like - history, not politics!

  • @arkenarikson2481
    @arkenarikson2481 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Tea" in northern England often refers to the meal called "supper" or "dinner". (And "dinner" there often refers to the midday meal - if it happens zo be the main meal.)

  • @GenikaXVI
    @GenikaXVI 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    most bread here in Portugal that you buy fresh still takes 0 preservatives

  • @cornfritterjones5349
    @cornfritterjones5349 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It’s always fun to check out your stuff.

  • @krupam0
    @krupam0 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh God, the question on English pronunciation, that is a tricky one. It's referred to as Middle English. I'd say, most consonants would've sounded close to Modern English, with some major differences:
    - "wh" and "w" would always be distinguished
    - the "gh" digraph would make the ach- and ich-Laut sounds that can still be found in Modern German, but they would be in the process of being lost
    - the "ti" before an unstressed vowel would still be a /sj/ as in French, rather than the Modern "sh" sound
    - initial k before n isn't dropped
    With vowels it's trickier, as roughly halfway through that period we have the Great Vowel Shift which flipped the entire vowel system on its head. I'd say at the start as they're spelled they'd be similar to their values in Italian, except length was distinguished (sloppily indicated in spelling), and unstressed vowels were already reducing. The "ou" digraph as in "house" made the long /u/. The "u" that makes the modern /ju/ sound like in "cute" was a long front vowel /y/, so like French "u" or German "ü". By the end of the period with GVS in full swing you should get close to Shakespeare's pronunciation, for which the reconstructions by the Crystals can easily be found on TH-cam.

  • @TheGhost-7002
    @TheGhost-7002 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I wanna see a Metatron 🤝Ditch-Man Colab

  • @myleft9397
    @myleft9397 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Avengers? No. They were lean strong, like Metatron :D Great video!

  • @weeb3277
    @weeb3277 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    i think you are enjoying making these videos way too much!

  • @LovePikaMusic
    @LovePikaMusic 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey, you found a video to react to that is perfectly sound! love that

  • @DrDino123
    @DrDino123 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    For the medical part of the video, I would've loved if he talked more other than the four humors like alchemical medicine/chemistry or distillation methods that they did like with the usage of vinegar, wine/alcohol, salt, honey, herbs/plants, and even salt. And would've loved that he went into the adoption of autopsies and the previous version of anaesthesia that they used with opiates and a herbal blend.
    It is always brought up that you wouldn't want to be in an old hospital and clearly that is the case but I would rather have that than dying any day

  • @warrioroflight4577
    @warrioroflight4577 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can't wait for a review on Roel Konijnendijk(the ditch guy) battle scenes videos. He is by far my favorite of them all.

  • @CountAdolfo
    @CountAdolfo 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I grew up in New England with a VERY non-Rhotic accent. You wouldn't know that, now, unless you get me pissed off or if I go back up North to visit.
    I know what you mean by effort. I adapted my speech because I had a friend with a Rhotic accent teasing me about not pronouncing R...
    but, it took effort and conscious awareness

  • @SordoBjorn
    @SordoBjorn 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    21:00 It would be a bit weird if, say, you had a perfectly good helmet, and you then wouldn't use it because you bought it for sport use (or if you are rich enough where you have another better helmet for fighting, you still might lend out your almost as good helmet to a squire/servant you might like, if it helps your side win the battle)
    A bit as if someone started attacking me while I was wearing a motorcycle helmet and I then go: "wait a second, let me take this off; i'm not on a motorcycle right now"

  • @kevster2171
    @kevster2171 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I agree about the Dark Ages. I fisrt got into archaeology by watching Michael Wood's classic series In Search of the Dark Ages. It sounded epic and mysterious, and interesting. If it had been called In Search of the Early Medieval Period I don't think I would have bothered!

  • @ChunderAsunder
    @ChunderAsunder 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    By tea the guy meant dinner. We call the 3rd meal of the day tea in Australia and I'm pretty sure we got that from Britain, same with new Zealand, etc.