@@gnumann64 Me too. Although he's sarcastic many religious people won't get that vibe..For example him saying that all you had to do to get rid of the plague is praying is dangerous.. That's something they love to hear cause it hardens their belief in the imaginary grandpa from the sky who watches what you eat and with whom you have sex with.. Even the conspiracy theory nuts could deduce that he really believes in Illuminati and how that is a valid theory that the rest of us "fools" don't want to admit cause we "haven't explored the real information" on the internet..
For those of you interested in knowing...the Black Death was even more twitted than you imagined. Actually, when a flee is infected by Yersinia pestis, the bacteria develops in its gut and creates a biofilm preventing it from absorbing nutrients. Therefore the flee becomes hungrier and hungrier. This means it tries to feed much more and kill its rat hosts much faster and is even more attracted to larger prey like cats, dogs or humans...
The biofilm plug is more likely to form when the average temperature is lower. Thus, volcanic winter after 536 AD triggered an outbreak of plague, famine contributed as well.
The novel Inferno by Dan Brown features someone with a similar ideal to Thanos, wanting to majorly reduce the world's population to solve humanity's major problems. In the book, the villain is specifically inspired by the story of the Black Death, believing that its population culling of Europe is what allowed for the age of enlightenment to follow.
Bonus fact: First written traces for quarantine as we know today date to 27th July 1347 in Dubrovnik (then called Ragusa) where city council ordered 40 days waiting period before people, ships and live stock could enter the city. And that's where the name came from old Venetian word for 40 days or ''quarantina''.
Marechal Zolotoy they really really didn’t. Their cities were a Pig sty that promoted the spread of disease. They literally threw those feces out of their windows
70% of a population wiped out in a few months that is insane. Imagine that happening now the world would break down. Its hard to wrap my mind around that concept
I was thinking about that. Think what would happen if that many garbage men, power company workers, coal miners, cell network workers, oil/gas workers, MORTICIANS, doctors, nurses, cops, firemen, etc were just gone in a matter of weeks. I can't even imagine the chaos. We wouldn't need zombies for it to be hell. Think I'd rather be among the dead in that case, survivors likely wouldn't be surviving for long.
OGSpaceCadet fr atleast people then knew how to survive off the land now most folks dont even know how to start a fire. The social upheavals would be insane
It could actually be MUCH worse if it happened now, because of how interconnected and reliant we are on others. Sure, our medicinal research is far superior but before something like a cure or containment could occur, vast segments of the population would be beyond help. Not to mention we can travel WAY further than our predecessors, thus spreading the plague further and faster.
Thank You. I really enjoy your videos here. I want to add this about Norway. I am a Norwegian. The Black Death did not turn out so well here. It killed off 2/3 of the population and left our country in ruins. Up to the plague Norway was on the height of its power. And in the late 1200 Magnus Lagabøte (Lawmender) gave us the first laws that gave some rights to poor people, workers and women as well. Some of these are still in our constitution. But after the plague, in 1380, we came under Danish rule. Generally referred to as «The 400 year night». That was kinda harsh, until 1814 when Denmark that had sided with Napoleon had to give it up. We were then «given» to Sweden. And in 1905 we broke free, very peacefully. So, we can say that the effects of the plague lasted this long. From 1349 until 1905. Thank you again. This is good history.
Iceland was another Scandinavian country that suffered horribly from the Black Death, despite being a far-flung, semi-isolated island. Even the Faroes weren’t safe.
I've read that not so many would die today because a lot of them died from dehydration but I'd like to see what Simon and the research team would say...
Really? There are far more cataclysmic diseases in our history. People are so limited in there history lessons that they know the Auschwitz but, not the gulags Romans but, not Mesopotamia Every European Empire but, not a single African Empire. If you want creepy and horrible read lectures from the University's that are not censored because, they are to gruesome for our history books.
@@AmbyJeans I would never answer things like the best the worst facts and proof. History is a science and when we learn more we changed the previous believes we had about it. So to answer things like that is ridiculous for a scientist because, they know how much they don't know. In my field of work it's not about having the right answers but, its about asking the right questions. I will not give answers if I don't have the required knowledge or post things like fun fact blabla. If you want me to name a few that we know of but, most people haven't heard of I be happy to help. The only thing is I'm not a native English speaker and I'm dyslectic. If that don't bother you I'm always ready to share knowledge between each other.
1:40 - Chapter 1 - Revelation 6/8 3:35 - Chapter 2 - Black death (origins) 6:40 - Chapter 3 - Out of the land of darkness 10:15 - Chapter 4 - 23 days 15:40 - Chapter 5 - Europe shall fall 21:40 - Chapter 6 - After the end
What an interesting way to frame a major historical event. It worked so well for the video, and for Biographics' style of presentation. Wonderful writing as well. The video was as captivating as a really good novel, and I loved the whole thing. Even if this might be a one-off for Halloween, I would love to see more historical event videos framed this way.
Fraztov oh man, COVID19 is not gonna have such a massive effect as this did back then ... or impact on population percentages. Don’t be surprised tho, if it kills similar a number of people, directly or as a result of health systems collapsing worldwide.
@@juanuribe9198 the closer comparison to COVID-19 cannot be the plague, 1 is a virus with the ability of mutating, the other is a bacteria that does not have this ability. Second the hygenical condition of the middle age were atrocious, not to mention the absence of actual medicines let alone antobiotics or vaccines. We do have the most of what middle age folks didn't have. The closest comparison to COVID-19 pandemic still infact the Spanish flu, not by lethal potential, but by "behavior" of the virus itself. Sure as hell if the whole human race does not take a step back from the insanity of profit at all cost, putting the benefit of the very few above the benefit of the many...well...then COVID-19 could become the 21st century black death, obliterating the human kind. A coronavirus literally mutates with the sole goal of surviving and as long as we are more worried about " when the pubs will open again" then " the virus will have wide open doors to ravage across the globe pretty much unchallenged.
That was the most entertaining and chilling videos I've seen on Biographics. The way Simon talks about the pathogen as a cold and calculating psychopath was an excellent choice. Please do the plague of children like that too!
I was gonna chill out and watch TV. I’ve given up on that medium ~ especially when I can watch Simon and crew tell me true stories far more entertaining and informative than any crap on the tube.
The "ring" (I'd learned) was the round, pink discolouration on the thigh. Posies were flowers used to cover the stench of rotting corpses. Ashes was the cremated bodies. All fall down was people dying.
Alan Horowitz . In England we always sang a’tishoo, not ashes, which is new to me. This may be a corruption of the original of course, since American English often retains earlier meanings from which English English has diverged. I’ve heard of plague pits but I’ve never heard of bodies being burnt, although this might have happened of course.
To your point, the past participle of "got" in American English is still "gotten," as in "it had gotten too cold." In England, "gotten" no longer exists. That said, it's at least agreed upon that "Ring Around the Rosie" is based in Black Plague. I personally learned that it did, in fact, come from children who could do nothing more than mock the horrors that were going on. To think that this has been the very first communal dance that children still learn gives me a chill. I did it as a toddler as do the children I've met today.
Thanks WildRhov, your comment is much appreciated. The inspiration came from Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Mask of the Red Death’ in which a physical embodiment of the plague crashes the party of a corrupt aristocrat.
Some of my favorite historical paintings are of the Black Death genre. Idk why but as a kid I would look at those paintings for hours noticing all the tiny details. The contorted faces, scenic mayhem and just general misery painstakingly brought to life on every corner of the page. I was a weird kid 🤷🏽♀️
For real. I told my wife he must post 7 videos a day, how does he have the time when I cant complete 2 projects a day lol. Videos are research, writing, editing, shooting, uploading, promoting, etc. man that's a lot of work in 24 hours lol. I do know there is a team but still.
@@cmasterson I guess his channel has done so well that he probably has made it his full time job (I can be wrong, by the way). Good for Simon if that is true though - I love his content!
So neat to learn of Naglfar or Naglfari (Old Norse "nail farer") as a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. Thank you for your work on this video share.
Big fan of your videos but even more of your work ethics - It's just crazy to me the dedication you have for all your YT channels and how well you stick to schedule, always cranking out content. I can't go 4 weeks without slipping :)
I've been absolutley fascinated by the art of the black death by various artists during the time ever since I picked up Black Sabbaths Greatest Gits as a 5 year old and is what set me on my artist path til this day. Great video guys! ✌
You guys are such a great team. I love being able to watch a good info documentary without sitting here on guard for like inaccuracies and borderline xenophobia. Love how the opposition isn't other humans in these like in naming things for whose "fault" it was it popped up. Great script, and the editing both cracks me up and sends shivers down my spine.
Most pirate stuff is a literary re-writing thanks to Robert Louis-Stephenson and a couple of campy 1950's movies, carried through to today in even more campy movies.
@@veselinjokanovic3032 until you create a super version of it by using antibiotics to only leave the most drug resistance strains left. It is already happening with ecoli and TB
You know, the Spanish influenza was even worse. But it is not as well known due to war time censorship. Pple were not informed untill they were ill. Make a video about that one too?
I bit of an amateur historian on the Plagues of this time period, but mostly in England. WONDERFUL personification of the disease....enthralling and quite an increased knowledge base for me!!
Aaactually it did. There was a short about this narrated by Remy. He claims that the rats were victims here as much as humans and the fly is the main guilty.
I started off watching the casual criminalist since I'm a crime junky but I'm learning so much on this channel that it's mind blowing. Thank you for making these videos!
The writing for this episode is beyond anything I have encountered in recent times. Amazing. 1 like just doesn't feel sufficient to express my gratitude for this episode.
That's a great video, Simon, especially the Game of Thrones insert there. But you forgot to mention Septicemic Plague, which is even more fun than the Bubonic and Pneumonic version of the plague. This gives me an idea: House Blackdeath of Ratfort Hall. Possible House Words: "Spring is Coming", "Summer is Coming", "None Shall Be Spared", "Our Foes are Doomed", "Fear Well Our Bite".
3:15 "Trapped in purgatory a lifeless object alive awaiting reprisal death will be their acquiescence sky is turning red return to power draws near fall into me, the sky's crimson tears abolish the rules made of stone pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above awaiting the hour of reprisal your time slips away raining blood from a lacerated sky bleeding its horror creating my structure, now I shall reign in blood...
The Yersinia part of "Yersina Pestis" refers to the person who discovered the bacteria - Alexandre Yersin. It was formerly referred to as Pasteurella Pestis. So I wouldn't worry about the women!
Everyone would have died anyhow, you cant hide from disease. You might escape the 1st wave or the 2nd but it will get you. Just keep calm and go about your business, if you die, you die.
@@Cj-xt6tv Wouldn't have helped. The rats carry the fleas, and rats seek out humans to eat our food and live in our homes. There's no winning against Bubonic Plague without antibiotics or sheer dumb luck. You cannot enforce tyrannical lockdowns on rats and insects.
Wow, this was brillliant!! I've been interested in the Black Death for ages, & most docos/vids go over the same old facts, but this covered some different things, particularly the progress of the disease outside of Europe, which I knew very little about. I like the inclusion of contemporary sources; & again, some non-European ones. I've read the Bishop of Bath's letter before, & it's a good illustration of how desperate things were, but I had to roll my eyes at "even a woman." It's good women *were* allowed to hear confessions though.
I find the way you described and talked about the Black Death like it was a cunning and strategic general equivalent to the likes of Hitler or Napoleon very interesting and entertaining. It made it feel as though the plague was alive. And even though it was responsible for bring the entire world to its knees through death and utter destruction, in many ways it was very much alive like a living, breathing person.
I'm pretty sure the level of freedom Simon is given in Business Blaze has directly correlated to him adding whatever commentary he wants on biographics
maybe. But he`s occasionally added commentary on other channels and I guess the amount of comments saying they love that lead to the idea of Business Blaze.
Thank you Brilliant for making this one possible! Check out Brilliant: brilliant.org/Biographics/
Biographics KNIGHTS TEMPLAR video please.
In Denmark, they had to release prisoners because they ran out of people.
536 AD "the darkest time in history" I'd love to see a video on it....
Wit ice melting,;it unknown what is released?
You remind me of a history teacher haha I love listening you're perfect British accent
I love how Simon talks about the Black Death like it was sentient.
In a sense it was
he's running out of people. much like the plague did
I don't like that. Somebody might think it was.
@@gnumann64 Me too. Although he's sarcastic many religious people won't get that vibe..For example him saying that all you had to do to get rid of the plague is praying is dangerous.. That's something they love to hear cause it hardens their belief in the imaginary grandpa from the sky who watches what you eat and with whom you have sex with.. Even the conspiracy theory nuts could deduce that he really believes in Illuminati and how that is a valid theory that the rest of us "fools" don't want to admit cause we "haven't explored the real information" on the internet..
Nice word though.
I’m glad these comments are filled with people who enjoy history as much as I do.
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Hate to break it to you, but this isn't going to help you survive a plague dude,
I really dislike people who discount history and learning history as pointless
I am pleased to see that Simon has been able to connect the Bolt to the Knut with this story. Even if I did get here late! 😁🧐
@@Cj-xt6tv me too.
For those of you interested in knowing...the Black Death was even more twitted than you imagined.
Actually, when a flee is infected by Yersinia pestis, the bacteria develops in its gut and creates a biofilm preventing it from absorbing nutrients. Therefore the flee becomes hungrier and hungrier. This means it tries to feed much more and kill its rat hosts much faster and is even more attracted to larger prey like cats, dogs or humans...
Yikes
The biofilm plug is more likely to form when the average temperature is lower. Thus, volcanic winter after 536 AD triggered an outbreak of plague, famine contributed as well.
@@joanhuffman2166 and also explains why it doesn't seem to have affected much hotter climates
Thanos: "I will wipe out half of all people!!!!"
Some medieval real life bacterium: "Hold my ale."
Hi
Underrated joke lol
The novel Inferno by Dan Brown features someone with a similar ideal to Thanos, wanting to majorly reduce the world's population to solve humanity's major problems. In the book, the villain is specifically inspired by the story of the Black Death, believing that its population culling of Europe is what allowed for the age of enlightenment to follow.
"Plague reservoir" is by far the most terrifying term I've ever heard. Thank you for the nightmare fuel Simon.
Jesus Christ is the truth reach out
@@ElegyVio 👎
I’ve heard this story so many times, but with Simon narrating, it felt like the first. Thanks for all that you do! 👍
Ain't nothing like the first time .
Bonus fact: First written traces for quarantine as we know today date to 27th July 1347 in Dubrovnik (then called Ragusa) where city council ordered 40 days waiting period before people, ships and live stock could enter the city. And that's where the name came from old Venetian word for 40 days or ''quarantina''.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Dubrovnik is my town!
Marechal Zolotoy they really really didn’t. Their cities were a Pig sty that promoted the spread of disease. They literally threw those feces out of their windows
This comment is pretty funny seeing as we’re stuck in quarantine now
@Marechal Zolotoy And which half of the world might that be huh?
70% of a population wiped out in a few months that is insane. Imagine that happening now the world would break down. Its hard to wrap my mind around that concept
I was thinking about that. Think what would happen if that many garbage men, power company workers, coal miners, cell network workers, oil/gas workers, MORTICIANS, doctors, nurses, cops, firemen, etc were just gone in a matter of weeks. I can't even imagine the chaos. We wouldn't need zombies for it to be hell. Think I'd rather be among the dead in that case, survivors likely wouldn't be surviving for long.
OGSpaceCadet fr atleast people then knew how to survive off the land now most folks dont even know how to start a fire. The social upheavals would be insane
It could actually be MUCH worse if it happened now, because of how interconnected and reliant we are on others. Sure, our medicinal research is far superior but before something like a cure or containment could occur, vast segments of the population would be beyond help. Not to mention we can travel WAY further than our predecessors, thus spreading the plague further and faster.
@@venicec3310 Yeah, there were few specialists then, except perhaps doctors, and if they were having any effect it was making things worse.
Don't worry, it will happen again
Thank You. I really enjoy your videos here. I want to add this about Norway. I am a Norwegian. The Black Death did not turn out so well here. It killed off 2/3 of the population and left our country in ruins. Up to the plague Norway was on the height of its power. And in the late 1200 Magnus Lagabøte (Lawmender) gave us the first laws that gave some rights to poor people, workers and women as well. Some of these are still in our constitution. But after the plague, in 1380, we came under Danish rule. Generally referred to as «The 400 year night». That was kinda harsh, until 1814 when Denmark that had sided with Napoleon had to give it up. We were then «given» to Sweden. And in 1905 we broke free, very peacefully. So, we can say that the effects of the plague lasted this long. From 1349 until 1905.
Thank you again. This is good history.
It takes 23 days for first kill and killed 2/3 of the population. Hmm.
Thank you for sharing, that’s fascinating. Makes you wonder how advanced Norway could’ve been had it not been for the plague.
Iceland was another Scandinavian country that suffered horribly from the Black Death, despite being a far-flung, semi-isolated island. Even the Faroes weren’t safe.
*Alexander the Great:* "I'm thinking about conquering all of Europe. Any ideas?"
*Black Death:* "Yes."
The Black Death won the war, but lost the peace...
Corona : " hold my beer"
@@BaskiHighT hold my protein shell
Alexander the great didnt conquer Europe.... he went east not west
Alexsander conquered Persia
Please do a biographic on the Spanish influenza
I've read that not so many would die today because a lot of them died from dehydration but I'd like to see what Simon and the research team would say...
Yeah Spanish flu would be entertaining
@@gendeb9666 You read wrong.
Spanish flu was bird flu. Testing was done on tissue samples.
I should add, MODERN testing on old samples
That Black Death dude has the most creepiest history in the world
Really? There are far more cataclysmic diseases in our history. People are so limited in there history lessons that they know the Auschwitz but, not the gulags Romans but, not Mesopotamia Every European Empire but, not a single African Empire. If you want creepy and horrible read lectures from the University's that are not censored because, they are to gruesome for our history books.
New Jones Africa sucks
Max Dejean
No it doesn't
New Jones
What cataclysmic disease would you say is the worst?
@@AmbyJeans I would never answer things like the best the worst facts and proof. History is a science and when we learn more we changed the previous believes we had about it. So to answer things like that is ridiculous for a scientist because, they know how much they don't know. In my field of work it's not about having the right answers but, its about asking the right questions. I will not give answers if I don't have the required knowledge or post things like fun fact blabla. If you want me to name a few that we know of but, most people haven't heard of I be happy to help. The only thing is I'm not a native English speaker and I'm dyslectic. If that don't bother you I'm always ready to share knowledge between each other.
_Yersinia Pestis_ - surprisingly _not_ a character from _Harry Potter._
It's almost like most of the names in both Harry Potter and scientific naming systems both come from Latin. Almost.
it was spell. Totally. Yersinia Pestis!
Pestitis Maximus!
@@sethabdul7824 yesinis totalis
1:40 - Chapter 1 - Revelation 6/8
3:35 - Chapter 2 - Black death (origins)
6:40 - Chapter 3 - Out of the land of darkness
10:15 - Chapter 4 - 23 days
15:40 - Chapter 5 - Europe shall fall
21:40 - Chapter 6 - After the end
I never thought rattata and raticate could have this very deadly effective moves...
I love how he talks about the plague like its a person.
Look up Nurgle
Not really, more like a invasion force
@@georgehh2574 one "man" invasion force
It's the easiest way to describe the spread and damage of a pandemic
Why are some of you so hostile
The black death is my favorite person in history
Soon, biographics will become poethics...
Prince Phillip?
@CLVNES FILIÆ PARVVLÆ FINDAM LOL, I was thinking about "factual poetry" :P
It's a thing not a person. Disease is a thing..
How did you read my mind
HOW DID YOU DO IT?
What an interesting way to frame a major historical event. It worked so well for the video, and for Biographics' style of presentation. Wonderful writing as well. The video was as captivating as a really good novel, and I loved the whole thing. Even if this might be a one-off for Halloween, I would love to see more historical event videos framed this way.
COVID19 : *Exists*
TH-cam suggestions: You think COVID19 is bad? Check THIS out!
Fraztov oh man, COVID19 is not gonna have such a massive effect as this did back then ... or impact on population percentages. Don’t be surprised tho, if it kills similar a number of people, directly or as a result of health systems collapsing worldwide.
r/woosh
@@juanuribe9198 the closer comparison to COVID-19 cannot be the plague, 1 is a virus with the ability of mutating, the other is a bacteria that does not have this ability. Second the hygenical condition of the middle age were atrocious, not to mention the absence of actual medicines let alone antobiotics or vaccines. We do have the most of what middle age folks didn't have. The closest comparison to COVID-19 pandemic still infact the Spanish flu, not by lethal potential, but by "behavior" of the virus itself. Sure as hell if the whole human race does not take a step back from the insanity of profit at all cost, putting the benefit of the very few above the benefit of the many...well...then COVID-19 could become the 21st century black death, obliterating the human kind. A coronavirus literally mutates with the sole goal of surviving and as long as we are more worried about " when the pubs will open again" then " the virus will have wide open doors to ravage across the globe pretty much unchallenged.
I just wonder how many people back then refused to heed warnings or declared it a fake disease, etc.
several cases have been found in california in 2020...just saying.
That was the most entertaining and chilling videos I've seen on Biographics. The way Simon talks about the pathogen as a cold and calculating psychopath was an excellent choice. Please do the plague of children like that too!
Ahhh, the Medieval Thanos snap..
Lol this was underrated
Lmao
Indubitably..
😅😅😅😅
It was actually worse believe it or not
I was gonna chill out and watch TV.
I’ve given up on that medium ~ especially when I can watch Simon and crew tell me true stories far more entertaining and informative than any crap on the tube.
How perfect that my Halloween costume is a plague doctor.
"BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!"
Is your cure most effective?
Mine was too! :D
Those Are creepy looking Especially knowing what it means
Spy vs spy
This is one of your most poetic works, the way you personified the plague was absolutely phenomenal.
Very fitting during these covid19 times...
And I could listen to simon talk about anything his voice is so calming
You should listen to his business blaze. Completely different personality. I love them all.
Only the black death was actually deadly though
Black death makes Covid look like a bad joke.
This weeks episode is sponsored by Plague Inc.
Damned Greenland
@@LennoxMatt1 I usually started there as a means to avoid the issue :)
Pravus Gaming is taking Notes.
Unfortunately this isn’t funny anymore hahahah
Very literal, Simon you're down right poetic in this one.
The writing in this episode was amazing! Dark as the subject it speaks about, but incredibly poetic. Props to the writers!
@@ElegyVio grammar, please.
man the people back then were so resilient, that amount of the population dying would destroy modern-day society, but they survived
The subtitle "History, one life at a time" really changes the tone of this one here. : >
Sounds like a slogan the Black Death might have used:
"Black Death, making History...once life at a time HaHaHa...."
Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, all fall down!
Ring around a roses, pocket full of posies (to keep the infection away) a’toshoo a’tishoo (sneezing) all fall down. Dead.
The "ring" (I'd learned) was the round, pink discolouration on the thigh. Posies were flowers used to cover the stench of rotting corpses. Ashes was the cremated bodies. All fall down was people dying.
Yep..origin of the children's rhyming game..
Alan Horowitz . In England we always sang a’tishoo, not ashes, which is new to me. This may be a corruption of the original of course, since American English often retains earlier meanings from which English English has diverged. I’ve heard of plague pits but I’ve never heard of bodies being burnt, although this might have happened of course.
To your point, the past participle of "got" in American English is still "gotten," as in "it had gotten too cold." In England, "gotten" no longer exists. That said, it's at least agreed upon that "Ring Around the Rosie" is based in Black Plague. I personally learned that it did, in fact, come from children who could do nothing more than mock the horrors that were going on. To think that this has been the very first communal dance that children still learn gives me a chill. I did it as a toddler as do the children I've met today.
When are we getting a biographic on Simon Whistler
He already said he wont do it
@@Gun_Talk first he would have to clinch the channel "Autobiographics"
What about his Mother? I would like to know about Whistler's Mother.
He's like the Russian chessboard guy he's only on 56 rn
@@nexusofice9135 what? Why?
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, BRING OUT YOUR DEAD”
Im not dead
I feel happy....
@@ryanmatheson5137 Stop that, you'll be stone dead any moment!
" I think I'll go for a walk."
Monty Python
Who watching this during the corona virus pandemic??
That's what I'm thinking the COVID-19 is similar to, to a certain extent
Of course
Yep
🔥
@@danielsanchez09 except not nearly as deadly thankfully.
Author Arnaldo Teodorani, amazing job writing the script. Personifying the Black Death as a military conqueror was brilliant. You're a legend!
Thanks WildRhov, your comment is much appreciated. The inspiration came from Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Mask of the Red Death’ in which a physical embodiment of the plague crashes the party of a corrupt aristocrat.
Some of my favorite historical paintings are of the Black Death genre. Idk why but as a kid I would look at those paintings for hours noticing all the tiny details. The contorted faces, scenic mayhem and just general misery painstakingly brought to life on every corner of the page. I was a weird kid 🤷🏽♀️
There’s something hypnotic about observing them while thinking the circumstances in which they were made.
Caitlin Doughty - Ask A Mortician - did a video on artistic corpses that you might like. Apparently she majored in medieval art or some kind.
@@seaturtlepoppy7679 I love her channel! She makes super interesting content
The style is called Danse Macabre
I know what you mean. My grandparents had decorated their house with several paintings in the style.
Simon Whistler: The Busiest Man on TH-cam
This guy must never sleep. Seems I get about 40 new videos a day from various channels from him.
I love it.
With 7 active channels, Simon gives us our daily Simon fix!
For real. I told my wife he must post 7 videos a day, how does he have the time when I cant complete 2 projects a day lol. Videos are research, writing, editing, shooting, uploading, promoting, etc. man that's a lot of work in 24 hours lol. I do know there is a team but still.
@@cmasterson my dogs are well feed. Thx
@@cmasterson I guess his channel has done so well that he probably has made it his full time job (I can be wrong, by the way). Good for Simon if that is true though - I love his content!
I don't think it'a that bad. Just another 7-5 job.
Can I just say the script for this episode is one of my favorites! It's so vivid yet chilling, bravo!
ive never seen simon as happy as he is when he’s making biographics videos - more power to him
So neat to learn of Naglfar or Naglfari (Old Norse "nail farer") as a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. Thank you for your work on this video share.
This is definitely one of the best episodes yet. You've set a high bar for yourselves now. I'm hoping to see the Dalai Lama episode soon.
Big fan of your videos but even more of your work ethics - It's just crazy to me the dedication you have for all your YT channels and how well you stick to schedule, always cranking out content. I can't go 4 weeks without slipping :)
and mage so calmly He's Legend 🙌
well he has a full team writing and planing these stuff so that kind of helps pumping out content
@@blancasonora714 Jesus Christ is the truth reach out
@@rampage3337 Jesus Christ is the truth reach out
@@ElegyVio Mc
I've been absolutley fascinated by the art of the black death by various artists during the time ever since I picked up Black Sabbaths Greatest Gits as a 5 year old and is what set me on my artist path til this day. Great video guys! ✌
Jesus Christ is the truth reach out
Anyone watching this in March 2020. Simon forecasting the future!
That Reign in Blood reference around 3:20 was ace and I'm sad other people missed it.
"trapped in purgatory, a lifeless object alive" ok I smell another Slayer reference
NOW YOU’RE STANDING IN MY KILLING FIELD!
Different song but by far my favorite Slayer line.
Your sound effects are scaring me more then the idea of the Black Death Simon
"And I, Agnolo di Tura del Grasso, buried my five children with my own hands . . . And so many died that all believed it was the end of the world."
Written in 1350, describing the Plague in Sienna, Italy.
I LOVE the way you structure this one. The personification of the disease is very well done!
You guys are such a great team. I love being able to watch a good info documentary without sitting here on guard for like inaccuracies and borderline xenophobia. Love how the opposition isn't other humans in these like in naming things for whose "fault" it was it popped up. Great script, and the editing both cracks me up and sends shivers down my spine.
Europe: *Dying from the Black Death*
Poland: Why don´t I hear boss music?
My favorite video of the series by far he just has the right voice to narrate something so harrowing. Keep up the amazing work
When are we getting pirate biographies simon?
dulez ninjaman never enough pirates👌
yes we want pirates
Most pirate stuff is a literary re-writing thanks to Robert Louis-Stephenson and a couple of campy 1950's movies, carried through to today in even more campy movies.
dulez ninjaman you already got garribaldi
Pirates are fake
Unlike every other biographic.. This video has no secondary title... the black death IS that infamous....
thank god we got da rona instead of this messenger from hell
Actually, bubonic plague is very easily treated with modern antiobiotics.
Bubonic plague is still around. We just know how to treat it better in 2020 compared to mid 1300s
@@veselinjokanovic3032 the rona is easily sorted but it doesn't suit anyone
@@DaleDix You mean the pharmacy mafia wont give us the cure?
@@veselinjokanovic3032 until you create a super version of it by using antibiotics to only leave the most drug resistance strains left. It is already happening with ecoli and TB
Great composers much needed: Bach, Beethooven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Stravinsky, Chopin, Brams, Mahler, Haydyn, Shubert, Vagner etc.
You know, the Spanish influenza was even worse.
But it is not as well known due to war time censorship. Pple were not informed untill they were ill.
Make a video about that one too?
sounds scary. Perfect for next years Halloween
The 1918 Spanish Flu killed a greater number worldwide, but it was a much smaller proportion of the global population compared to the 14th century.
Then just have a video about malaria, it's the deadliest disease.
Bring out your dead! (CLANK!)
(Alternatively) It's a 'Mister Death' or something -- he's come about a reaping?
@lcyw20 he will be by morning I promise, lol
Tell Mr Death that nobody is home and to go away!
It was the salmon mousse 😂😂
Love that skit
He is very good. I've learned so much from this channel and Biographics. Thank you!
The irony is, as Simon is describing this, patient 0 was suffering with Covid 19. And we all know what happened next.
Patient 0 was likely long before this video.
No, what happened?
Bahahahaha
I've already lost the memory
"Ship of the dead" I AM NOT USING CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE EVER AGAIN
Like Dracula
Love the writing. Narrated perfectly by Simon.
I found it interesting and informative. You guys are awesome. Thank you.
Extra credits will always hold my heart, but you and Babish just have those soothing voices that i can listen to forever.
I bit of an amateur historian on the Plagues of this time period, but mostly in England. WONDERFUL personification of the disease....enthralling and quite an increased knowledge base for me!!
Ratatouille didnt mention any of this. 😳
DonovanRoush My dude, this deserve thousands of likes
Maybe it was a shameful aspect of his species’ background.
Aaactually it did. There was a short about this narrated by Remy.
He claims that the rats were victims here as much as humans and the fly is the main guilty.
Lol
You were suppose to watch ratatouing
as a grad student majoring in medieval history- i clicked on this video so fast
Although it didnt bypass them completely, Poland wasnt hit as hard by the plague as the rest of Europe
Poland also accepted Jewish refugees from Germany where Jews were being blamed for the plague and murdered en masse.
Not shocked to see so many covid 19 comments. Didn't disappoint. Watching cause I am on a binge with this channel.
I like that he doesn't just focus on this effect on Europe. This is quite unusual in videos on the Black Death.
Fantastic script writing on this episode! Well done, a great job done by all!
That was one of the best so far. Loved it. Never heard about the plague making it to Africa
Ooo a very fitting episode
Thank you
I started off watching the casual criminalist since I'm a crime junky but I'm learning so much on this channel that it's mind blowing. Thank you for making these videos!
Check out last podcast on the left
Man, I almost want to become a history teacher just to show this to students. This is really well made and engaging.
The writing for this episode is beyond anything I have encountered in recent times. Amazing. 1 like just doesn't feel sufficient to express my gratitude for this episode.
1:42- should be "a pale grey horse"... now I want to see a green horse, though.
I wondered about that.
@@busimagen You know what? I'm impressed. 1 million internets to you!
Isn't a Plauge of Children the official name for a group of kids?
That's a great video, Simon, especially the Game of Thrones insert there. But you forgot to mention Septicemic Plague, which is even more fun than the Bubonic and Pneumonic version of the plague.
This gives me an idea: House Blackdeath of Ratfort Hall. Possible House Words: "Spring is Coming", "Summer is Coming", "None Shall Be Spared", "Our Foes are Doomed", "Fear Well Our Bite".
One little detail, those famous beaked masks weren't a thing until 17th century.
3:15 "Trapped in purgatory
a lifeless object alive
awaiting reprisal
death will be their acquiescence
sky is turning red
return to power draws near
fall into me, the sky's crimson tears
abolish the rules made of stone
pierced from below,
souls of my treacherous past
betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above
awaiting the hour of reprisal
your time slips away
raining blood
from a lacerated sky
bleeding its horror
creating my structure,
now I shall reign in blood...
\m/ >_< \m/
Bro, I love Metallica!
@@StevenRainmaker lol
Slayerrrr!!!
Poetic justice
I love how this was scripted like it was an invasion.
Yesenia is a common girls name where I'm from. Just leaving it there
Where the heck are you from
@@sloanmariapowers5881 Canary Islands
Hmmm that's interesting thanks for the response
The Yersinia part of "Yersina Pestis" refers to the person who discovered the bacteria - Alexandre Yersin. It was formerly referred to as Pasteurella Pestis. So I wouldn't worry about the women!
Same here
The writing waxed nearly poetic in this episode. I enjoyed listening! Keep up the good work.
"If a plague comes to another city, don't go there.
If it comes to your own city, don't leave."
Here's hoping that a future Simon Whistler doesn't have reason to do one of these on the great Covid-19 contagion of 2020.
Who’s watching this in March, 2020 as the Covid 19 pandemic unravels?
Just imagine if they all had stocked up on TP and sheltered-in-place, how different the world might be now.
Singing happy birthday as they wash their hands.
World would probably be WAY more populated
Everyone would have died anyhow, you cant hide from disease. You might escape the 1st wave or the 2nd but it will get you. Just keep calm and go about your business, if you die, you die.
jordan hicks well you can take steps to maybe avoid being infected
@@Cj-xt6tv Wouldn't have helped. The rats carry the fleas, and rats seek out humans to eat our food and live in our homes.
There's no winning against Bubonic Plague without antibiotics or sheer dumb luck. You cannot enforce tyrannical lockdowns on rats and insects.
You do a great job narrating these videos. I got 12 yr listening to some of these. She loves them. Keep up the great work.
Simon, my friend you are a brilliant storyteller...they way you talk about the black death makes me wish there were a movie adaptation
A yes, my best friend, i know this person very well!
Wow, this was brillliant!! I've been interested in the Black Death for ages, & most docos/vids go over the same old facts, but this covered some different things, particularly the progress of the disease outside of Europe, which I knew very little about. I like the inclusion of contemporary sources; & again, some non-European ones. I've read the Bishop of Bath's letter before, & it's a good illustration of how desperate things were, but I had to roll my eyes at "even a woman." It's good women *were* allowed to hear confessions though.
"Illuminati confirmed"
I almost shot orange juice out my nose... 😅
Ok
You were really ahead of the curve here, man.
Even though I've read/heard so much about the black death plague, I learnt huge amounts about it in this video.
It was really interesting
The Number of the *BEAST*
AWESOME how "Beast" was emphasized and distorted!
I find the way you described and talked about the Black Death like it was a cunning and strategic general equivalent to the likes of Hitler or Napoleon very interesting and entertaining. It made it feel as though the plague was alive. And even though it was responsible for bring the entire world to its knees through death and utter destruction, in many ways it was very much alive like a living, breathing person.
Hitler wasn't really cunning or strategic, Rommel would've been a better example if you need to bring a nazi example.
I'm pretty sure the level of freedom Simon is given in Business Blaze has directly correlated to him adding whatever commentary he wants on biographics
maybe. But he`s occasionally added commentary on other channels and I guess the amount of comments saying they love that lead to the idea of Business Blaze.
Business Blaze is awesome, it cracks me up. I always look forward to the next BB video.
How timely this is documentary. Well done.