What Was City Life Like in the Middle Ages?

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  • @jonnyw82
    @jonnyw82 Рік тому +1073

    It’s strangely comforting to know life has always been terrible

    • @nateoliver3285
      @nateoliver3285 Рік тому +105

      You think your life is terrible in 2023? LMAO

    • @jeremiahlumpkin7601
      @jeremiahlumpkin7601 Рік тому +75

      @@nateoliver3285what do you mean? Just curious life can be terrible any time.

    • @plantainsweetie
      @plantainsweetie Рік тому +121

      @@nateoliver3285 why does life cease to be terrible just because we’re in the age of technology? technological and medicinal innovation has bettered society but it has also opened up a world of new issues

    • @austyn5004
      @austyn5004 Рік тому +87

      @@plantainsweetie running hot water and soap makes our lives lignt years better alone

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 Рік тому +34

      ​@@austyn5004not everybody in the world has that though

  • @roman6135
    @roman6135 Рік тому +59

    Wow!
    This helps me feel grateful for my clean beatuful apartment, a few blocks from a well stocked market where I can buy anything I want to eat.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 26 днів тому +2

      Also your water may be safer... there may be lead in it, but you don't have to worry about cholera or typhoid fever.

  • @chichodormi4732
    @chichodormi4732 Місяць тому +30

    How people who were dumping their waste on the streets were also able to design and build those cathedrals is so bizarre ..

    • @marcussinclaire4890
      @marcussinclaire4890 26 днів тому

      It really was bizarre. It is strange knowing what we know now and looking back in time.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 26 днів тому +1

      It is pretty crazy that the skills to create such structures existed even though they lived with so much filtih.

    • @CasperLCat
      @CasperLCat 23 дні тому +6

      Architecture is easy. Plumbing is hard. Seriously, services like clean water and sanitation require sources of constant power to move water uphill from rivers and lakes into homes and cities. That really didn’t exist until steam power in the 19th century, and electricity in the 20th.

    • @whatdoyoulivefor735
      @whatdoyoulivefor735 17 днів тому

      Plumbers have saved more lives than doctors.

    • @nataliagonzalez1698
      @nataliagonzalez1698 11 днів тому

      Once you realize progress isn’t linear it makes sense

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому +555

    Curfews were began to reduce the risks of fire in cities, not provide security from crime. The word comes from the French couvre-feu, or “cover fire”. At curfew, all were required to cover their fires, by banking or other methods, to prevent sparks escaping and starting fires. Most European cities were built largely of wood and fires could destroy many stone buildings, too, as there was plenty of wood and other flammables in their construction, including inner walls or paneling, floors, ceilings and roofs, as well as their contents, of course.

    • @kdubb4953
      @kdubb4953 Рік тому +27

      Thank you for that information I appreciate it

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties Рік тому +10

      Wow, you know some stuff alright. Thank you

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties Рік тому +22

      Though having listened to this properly now, he didn't say that this is where the notion of a curfew originated, just that curfews were sometimes used for this purpose. Which I guess is no less true than saying that more recently, curfews were implemented to prevent the spread of covid in some places, etc. So I guess you're both right!

    • @Donathon-xt2nl
      @Donathon-xt2nl Рік тому +3

      Thanks....I learned something new today 😊

    • @kdubb4953
      @kdubb4953 Рік тому +11

      I wish I had someone in my life that could randomly message me interesting facts lol. Learning never gets old.

  • @IanPayne-z5l
    @IanPayne-z5l 9 місяців тому +47

    Want a good read? Try “The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century”. It’s a history book but written to inform you much like modern travel guide does such as what to wear, healthcare places to stay, things to do.

    • @pourquoipas2673
      @pourquoipas2673 3 місяці тому

      There is also a series of video "Modern History" all about medieval life. It's really interesting.

    • @CaesarRenasci
      @CaesarRenasci Місяць тому

      Thank you very much.

  • @Doctor-vn8es
    @Doctor-vn8es 7 місяців тому +20

    So the collecting of rubbish was more frequent in the middle ages than the local councils can manage today.

  • @hennyschneiderbauer855
    @hennyschneiderbauer855 Рік тому +48

    I grew up in Germany and every Saturday we had to sweep the streets in front of our house , if not there was peer pressure and fines

    • @ctgman
      @ctgman Рік тому +8

      That is interesting and admirable. I believe you! My grandfather, who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy when he was a boy, grew up in a poor NYC tenement in the 1920s. I remember he once told me a story about how a family of German immigrants washed the steps to their building with soap and water. The point of his story was that no matter how poor many immigrants were, they still had pride (the good kind). This is a contrast to what goes on in the American inner-city today.

    • @lars4261
      @lars4261 10 місяців тому

      Dangerously based.

    • @smackindabox
      @smackindabox 5 місяців тому +2

      That’s noble… in the US there’s trash everywhere. Mattresses on the side of the road and dumped in alleys and empty lots. There’s trash everywhere.

    • @CaesarRenasci
      @CaesarRenasci Місяць тому +2

      The Geeman people are amazing in their cleanliness, honesty, and work ethics.

    • @startledmilk6670
      @startledmilk6670 Місяць тому +1

      @@smackindaboxwhat are you talking about? Where in the fuck do you live that this is the case?

  • @josephwear9572
    @josephwear9572 Рік тому +119

    Medicine in the Middle Ages would be a terrific topic especially the switch from sorcery to science. It really took hold right around this time frame.

    • @saragrant9749
      @saragrant9749 Рік тому +16

      Medicine went from sorcery and alchemy to science in the late 180’0s- not during the Middle Ages though. The miasma theory, blood letting, belief in humoral balance, etc. didn’t go away until well into the time of Queen Victoria. It was actually during the last of the major cholera outbreaks that someone put the link between dirty water and the disease together- thus beginning a more modern understanding of disease. Bacteria was discovered in the 1880’s, and the move towards modern medicine began.

    • @roman6135
      @roman6135 Рік тому +1

      They burned the herbalist and healers!

    • @jimmylim5015
      @jimmylim5015 11 місяців тому +1

      Whatever happened that we lost the power of sorcery and magic?

    • @jessaustin7830
      @jessaustin7830 10 місяців тому

      It wasn't really considered 'sorcery' though. Alchemists were Christian's and while a lot of their theories were related to the law of nature, the belief was that nature was created by a Christian god. Sunflowers, for example, were called such because the flowers were orange-like the sun and followed the sun across the sky. They didn't understand photosynthesis at the time, but saw the relationship between flower and solar energy. Alchemists were trying to understand the myseries of the divine (God) which was, to their understanding, revealing itself in the natural world

    • @umbertotine410
      @umbertotine410 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@roman6135No.

  • @Rydonattelo
    @Rydonattelo 8 місяців тому +23

    The lack of advertising on this channel is fantastic. See being able to put a video on and know it wont be constantly disrupted by ads, it really makes a difference being able for something to run from start to finish. Take note UA-cam.

  • @khukri_wielderxxx1962
    @khukri_wielderxxx1962 Рік тому +117

    I'd imagine it was chaotic (at times), the place for business, also people walking about with various level of hygiene standards, and there was often a weird smell in the air.
    Much like today.

    • @rogerbartlet5720
      @rogerbartlet5720 Рік тому

      Everything smelled like s**t.

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties Рік тому +12

      I see you've taken the tube before

    • @khukri_wielderxxx1962
      @khukri_wielderxxx1962 Рік тому +2

      @@coconutsmarties Yup 👍

    • @thenathanimal2909
      @thenathanimal2909 Рік тому +3

      When I visited London it smelled like human waste at the Camden Lock...so yeah a much smaller San Francisco lol

    • @lyndawilliams4570
      @lyndawilliams4570 Рік тому +8

      Don’t forget the animals and poop everywhere. Let’s be honest - people had no deodorant or our hygiene standard but they were surrounded by smelly things 24 hours a day so I can see how they got used to it.
      There’s no excuse now but extreme poverty and mental illness

  • @AIBETTSYIA75
    @AIBETTSYIA75 Рік тому +22

    Just come to Norfolk, not much has changed

  • @angel8fingers
    @angel8fingers Рік тому +43

    Dude! Your videos have really helped my writing! I appreciate y’all!
    Great content as usual! Keep up the great work!

    • @CaesarRenasci
      @CaesarRenasci Місяць тому +1

      Start improving your writing by dropping forever the word "dude:" it screams ignorance.

    • @angel8fingers
      @angel8fingers Місяць тому

      @@CaesarRenasci your reply screams pettiness!

  • @jamestarrou3685
    @jamestarrou3685 Рік тому +14

    the medieval really went through a sanitation renaissance with their body waste changes. Sounds like seeing people squatting in public was a normal occurrence up until then.

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel Рік тому +23

    I have read thousands of village court rolls. All over Britain, serfs were moving all over the place buying and selling land.

    • @ktom5262
      @ktom5262 4 місяці тому

      LOL, what nonsense. Serfs by definition could NOT buy or sell the land they worked and lived on. The land belonged to the "noble" landowner, be it a church official or some other privileged, wealthy twat.

  • @maxdout564
    @maxdout564 Рік тому +10

    So awesome they kept the records of these murders from so long ago. I'd like to hear more

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому +74

    They didn’t make and ship clothing, those lowland cities spun, often dyed, and wove and shipped bolts of cloth made from English wool. It was always locally made into clothing at its destination, in Europe, or farther (some wool was used for a few non-clothing applications, as well, like cushioning, but mostly local materials like straw were used, good, imported wool cloth was expensive). Pre-made clothing is a modern thing, not a medieval one.

    • @SleepyFl0wer
      @SleepyFl0wer Рік тому +14

      Ohh shit since you were there tell us more about what you did back in that time? I’m excited to learn about this one 😊😊😊

    • @alexandracenuse9419
      @alexandracenuse9419 Рік тому +16

      Girl you've left 3 comments correcting this man, I have a pet peeve for misinformation as well, but you could've at least put it all in one comment istg

    • @alexandracenuse9419
      @alexandracenuse9419 Рік тому +5

      All you've done is boost his algorithm with your 3 comments

    • @plantainsweetie
      @plantainsweetie Рік тому +27

      why is everyone pissed off that she’s pointing out misinformation and providing us with more accurate information? what’s wrong with accuracy? aren’t you guys interested in learning about history? people are so petty 😂

    • @KD400_
      @KD400_ Рік тому +1

      U should make a channel lady. We can all learn from u.

  • @seangilchrist3102
    @seangilchrist3102 Рік тому +29

    you have sparked an interest in this era that i didn't know i had. I've always wandered though how did people keep track of who was who and how much money they had in the bank. Who could be trusted not to just steal your wealth? how did the entire country keep seemingly steady enough in the conditions and lack of tech they had with out collapse or god awful corruption?

    • @blackkakari
      @blackkakari Рік тому +1

      @seangilchrist3102 People had hiding places in their homes for money.

    • @seangilchrist3102
      @seangilchrist3102 Рік тому

      @@blackkakari they only had 2 rooms lol id find it in seconds haha

    • @blackkakari
      @blackkakari Рік тому

      @@seangilchrist3102 Yeah, probably. They often buried it.

    • @myriamickx7969
      @myriamickx7969 Рік тому +7

      You will be surprised to learn that the first banks and letters of credit were created in medieval times, by Lombards and Jews mostly.

    • @pourquoipas2673
      @pourquoipas2673 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@myriamickx7969the Knights Templar operated a banking system also during the time of the crusade.

  • @BradenBest1
    @BradenBest1 Рік тому +5

    I'm so glad I found this channel

  • @claudiaccaa9712
    @claudiaccaa9712 Рік тому +33

    Cologne Cathedral was "completed" in 1880, not the 16. century. 😎
    I'm from Cologne, and here we have a saying that, if the Cathedral (der Kölner Dom) is ever really completed, the world will end.
    And actually there is constantly work being done on it. Has been so since its so-called completion. :)

  • @navelaviator18
    @navelaviator18 Рік тому +14

    So if you're a serf, go to a city, sign your name, then sneak out of the city. The bailiff or steward then spends all their time in the city looking for you even though you're not there.

    • @Novusod
      @Novusod Рік тому +1

      Only problem is most serfs couldn't sign their own name because they were illiterate.

    • @navelaviator18
      @navelaviator18 Рік тому +1

      @@Novusod yes, I'm sure that's true but the narrator mentions that that's how some runaway serfs got caught... by signing their name when entering a city. I was basing my comment on that.

  • @josephwear9572
    @josephwear9572 Рік тому +21

    9:50 that would be a terrific follow up to this video: guilds. I’ve heard about them in medieval times but never really looked into them.

  • @mariavm9178
    @mariavm9178 Рік тому +3

    New York City does NOT have 19 million people…this video has many inaccuracies.

  • @Jackson-ot3zc
    @Jackson-ot3zc 10 місяців тому +4

    Came for the fleet foxes cover, stayed for the dope content

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland Рік тому +19

    Medieval cities got a bad repuation in the history books.
    Of course, they were dirty but at least city populations were much smaller than in modern times.
    London, in 1858, had almost 3 million inhabitants and that was when the Big Stink occurred.
    As during the Middle Ages, the Thames was used as an open sewer but with this many people, it became such a crisis that it led to the construction of the first modern sewers.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 Рік тому

      Yet they every bit as overcrowded.

    • @AudieHolland
      @AudieHolland Рік тому +3

      @@shauncameron8390We don't know that. It's not just a matter of cramming as much people into tiny houses/apartments. You also require an efficient large scale logistics to keep everyone fed.
      The major cities like Rome and London would be able to do that, which is why they were so large. But by far most medieval cities were not larger than a big village today.
      Just look at the historical centers of old cities. In some cases you may still see and old city gate or remnants of a moat, sometimes they built a road in that place but you can tell because the buildings don't look nearly as old beyond that zone.

  • @angelwings1979
    @angelwings1979 Рік тому +14

    The raw wool would be processed and made into fabric not into clothing. Premade clothes weren’t a thing until the 1800s.

    • @dannythekid14
      @dannythekid14 9 місяців тому +1

      So most individuals made their own clothes?

  • @thenathanimal2909
    @thenathanimal2909 Рік тому +11

    Big cities don't seem to be good for humanity. Packing humans in so close ignores human nature.

  • @VultureClone
    @VultureClone Рік тому +3

    Man beats another man to death for mildly inconveniencing him.
    Ah, so I see things haven't changed since then.

  • @Ian-oh4bt
    @Ian-oh4bt 2 місяці тому +3

    Same as today then rich get richer poor get poorer

  • @bobrobertson9547
    @bobrobertson9547 Рік тому +8

    I do like the honesty of the reality of everyday life in the past. Brilliant piece of work. Well done. 👏👍

  • @VomicaEmanio
    @VomicaEmanio Рік тому +8

    3:02 I think you really overstated the population of New York. Can't tell if you said 19 million or 90 million, but both are way too high

    • @mariagordanier3404
      @mariagordanier3404 3 місяці тому

      Less than 8 million in New York City. The entire metropolitan area has 19 mill.

  • @madisonleeds3898
    @madisonleeds3898 Рік тому +5

    Who else thought this was a Fleet Foxes video

  • @Joanna7428
    @Joanna7428 9 місяців тому +4

    Lifes always been a crapper

  • @Livinginneworleansla
    @Livinginneworleansla 2 місяці тому

    Love the fleet fox album cover photo, also love the content! 🦊

  • @nickevershedmusic8927
    @nickevershedmusic8927 11 місяців тому +2

    How do we apparently know so much about so long ago?! Where is the main proof and evidence coming from?

    • @BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz
      @BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz 3 місяці тому +1

      Written history, archeology, literature and plays of the time. Things like that

  • @janiscrammond7046
    @janiscrammond7046 Рік тому +1

    Always look forward to your videos

  • @heyjoe9267
    @heyjoe9267 Рік тому +19

    You didn’t mention that serfs were required to work fewer days to fulfill the landowners needs than modern people are to pay their taxes. The landowner was also required to feed his serfs and look out for their welfare. In many ways they were treated far better than many of us are.

    • @Ares-dn3qp
      @Ares-dn3qp 7 днів тому

      I don’t know why this myth is still being pushed.

    • @drungeltunks3720
      @drungeltunks3720 6 днів тому

      😂 this is Facebook levels of research.😅😅😅

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 25 днів тому +1

    The thing that hits me about city life in the middle ages is the smell. I can smell it from here 600 years later. It must have been staggering. Human shit. Animal shit. Offal, smoke, body odor, halitosis, vomit, no sanitation, death and disease everywhere, the stench would make us sick immediately. It makes me gag to think about. Whenever I watch a documentary or a period piece, or read a historical novel, that is what I think about. The smell. It's one thing that cannot be reproduced. For most of history, that is probably a good thing.

  • @ulrikeneumann7495
    @ulrikeneumann7495 9 місяців тому +3

    🥰 London was, has been and always will be the capital of the universe. Most beautiful town that owns my heart and soul ....

  • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
    @icreatedanaccountforthis1852 4 місяці тому +1

    If I lived in a city in the middle ages, I'd be dead now and wouldn't be able to make this comment. Same would be true for you. Let that sink in.

    • @toughlikerocks
      @toughlikerocks 28 днів тому

      OMG you're right 😮. That's so crazy 🤯

  • @antonboludo8886
    @antonboludo8886 9 місяців тому +2

    I suppose the average person lived better in Antiquity than in the Middle Ages.

  • @common12
    @common12 Рік тому +2

    NY state has 19 million people not NYC

  • @brianmoore493
    @brianmoore493 Рік тому +2

    Please replace the background music with "if I was a young warthog" thanks😊

  • @adpink3069
    @adpink3069 Рік тому +4

    I love this channel. Amazing job!! Thank you.❤

  • @bobrobertson9547
    @bobrobertson9547 Рік тому +1

    Subbed. Love it. 👍

  • @shanarniatrice2560
    @shanarniatrice2560 Рік тому +3

    WOW! I did not know anything about this this is so interesting🤔

  • @Cheddarsoup
    @Cheddarsoup Рік тому +6

    Love your videos man

  • @fluffyg3137
    @fluffyg3137 11 місяців тому +2

    Nyc has 8 million as of 2021.....

  • @Judykag
    @Judykag Рік тому +6

    I wish these videos were twice as long ❤❤❤❤

    • @truthseeker8615
      @truthseeker8615 Рік тому +1

      Just binge watch the channel , I did that over like 3 days and was obsessed

  • @StinkJenson
    @StinkJenson Рік тому +3

    New York State has 19 million people. New York City has around 8 million. 3:04

    • @MarcUyghur
      @MarcUyghur Рік тому +1

      New York city metropolitan area including surrounding commuter counties and parts of jersey and CT, 19.77 million

    • @slifer0081
      @slifer0081 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@MarcUyghurWhy would you include other states

  • @worldtipper
    @worldtipper Рік тому +3

    Your trade became your surname. 🧐

  • @davehoward22
    @davehoward22 Рік тому +3

    You didn't go out after dark

  • @soulvelocity4247
    @soulvelocity4247 4 місяці тому +2

    love the artwork to the thumbnail, Fleet Foxes used it for an album cover.

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 8 місяців тому +1

    What if little children were out there touching any of that

  • @norml.hugh-mann
    @norml.hugh-mann Рік тому +5

    So.... little bit better than today

    • @lorealiiiii
      @lorealiiiii Рік тому +1

      better now then back then by a king shot as much as now does suck

    • @lorealiiiii
      @lorealiiiii Рік тому

      long*

  • @billmago7991
    @billmago7991 Рік тому +1

    Well my ancestors survived the middle ages, the industrial revolution two world wars and so far the tech revolution 😅😅😅

  • @Dr.Pronkzapetto
    @Dr.Pronkzapetto 9 місяців тому +13

    Probably cleaner and safer than San Francisco in 2023.

    • @pman5241
      @pman5241 Місяць тому +1

      Good lord be quiet

    • @Dr.Pronkzapetto
      @Dr.Pronkzapetto Місяць тому

      @@pman5241 Why? Do you like to poo in the streets? 💩

    • @levb.7338
      @levb.7338 Місяць тому

      Yankee, go home

    • @feedtherich11
      @feedtherich11 Місяць тому

      Stop hating go back to MAGA

    • @Cthulhuismyhero
      @Cthulhuismyhero 23 дні тому

      My son lives there and said it's horrible. Homeless people, people off their faces on drugs, broad daylight muggings and crime. Said he watched some kind of altercation and one of the people were knocked violently to the ground and there were 2 cops 30/40 feet away who just ignored it.

  • @anniethemese1215
    @anniethemese1215 Рік тому +4

    What a great channel. Thanks. ✌❤🇨🇦

  • @niktorrente6640
    @niktorrente6640 11 місяців тому +3

    New York City doesnt have 19 milion people lmfao. It‘s 9 mil

  • @NPC-0013
    @NPC-0013 Рік тому +1

    I really really love these lil documentaries about life in these times!!! So I have started to slowly buy n collect gold. I started at 1 gram about 3 months ago. Now have 8 grams gold and 1 ounce silver with two lil extra bars one 5gram one 10gram. So one and a half ounces of silver and only 8 grams gold. What would this be worth in these times please? Can I buy a loaf of bread or a house? Maybe a horse? It would be super cool to know please mate

  • @piyushrana585
    @piyushrana585 Рік тому +1

    What was city life like in the Middle ages in Europe**

  • @sarah3796
    @sarah3796 Рік тому +2

    Haha the guy falling out of the window 🤦‍♀️😅

  • @SubjectiveFunny
    @SubjectiveFunny Місяць тому +1

    I would rather live in mediaeval, London than modern London today. This city has more in common with Persia than it does with mediaeval London.

  • @sithumrajitha9969
    @sithumrajitha9969 Рік тому +4

    If you think all medieval cities are terrible like this, then look at angakkor wat(khemer empire), Polonnaruwa city(sri lanka), Vijayanagar(india)

  • @F4Insight-uq6nt
    @F4Insight-uq6nt Рік тому +1

    MM = 33. Proof of all CLAIMS are Required.

  • @pourquoipas2673
    @pourquoipas2673 3 місяці тому

    I saw a documentary on "Modern History TV" about the urine and excrements. Urine was saved and collected to use in tanning leather among other things. Solid waste was also collected and disposed of in pits outside the city. There were special people who did this. The areas/streets where they performed their trade was often named after these kinds of refuse. It is said that there was also a "shit street". I urge you to watch that channel. Very informative and interesting. I think it's on Utube.

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Рік тому +10

    Toulouse is pronounced too-loose, not too-loo.

    • @VespasianJudea
      @VespasianJudea 11 місяців тому +1

      Damn, you roasted everything he said 😂
      Best to be right though.

  • @anthonyford411
    @anthonyford411 Рік тому +1

    Cologne cathedral wasn't finished until the nineteenth century.

  • @monkeymalletsvideos
    @monkeymalletsvideos Рік тому +2

    So what has changed?

  • @CoMorbiditty
    @CoMorbiditty Місяць тому +1

    I dont think humanity has progressed much in character.

    • @Eoin_D
      @Eoin_D Місяць тому

      Well....

  • @halleylow3615
    @halleylow3615 Рік тому +1

    NYC has about 8 million residents.

  • @spaceman9396
    @spaceman9396 9 місяців тому +1

    Pretty funny to see a fleet Foxes album cover as a thumbnail lol

  • @RpgCrow
    @RpgCrow 2 дні тому

    Im gonna go out on a limb and say the 50s to the 2000s
    Was probably the best time to be alive.
    Sure our lives arnt as hard as these people.
    But it feels like we exited our golden age and are in the middle of a downward spiral thsts only getting worse.

  • @covertcounsellor6797
    @covertcounsellor6797 Рік тому +4

    This sounds like you are describing the wonderful “15 minute cities”. I have to laugh (ironically) because in the earlier version of feudalism, my ancestors were (minor) lords. This time around I, and my family, are eco-peasants.

  • @StephenMerchant-up8sg
    @StephenMerchant-up8sg 2 місяці тому

    And 'motorways'. You can't transport the quality materials and talented workforce to build the amazing cathedrals otherwise.

  • @honkey2996
    @honkey2996 Рік тому +1

    Can't be any worse than Wales under Drakekefool

  • @roberterwine7650
    @roberterwine7650 Рік тому +1

    I wonder just how many and how big were the flies ?

  • @ersikillian
    @ersikillian 28 днів тому

    Population of New York City is 8.3 million people, not 19 million people. You may be confusing the entire state.

  • @yasminesacristan5855
    @yasminesacristan5855 Рік тому +14

    The population of NYC as of 2021 is 8.6 million not 19 million as you stated.

  • @tomriddle5564
    @tomriddle5564 Рік тому +2

    It would STINK beyond belief.

  • @AbuSous2000PR
    @AbuSous2000PR Рік тому

    the auther excluded Moorish spain from the analysis.. i know he has mentioned Valencia and Barchalona, and those were Morrish cities that became Christian in the late 12th century... maybe later... lookup al Cid
    Moorish spain had a thriving economy, very large cities, big industries, and center of civilization for almost 800 years. i was surprised to discover that continued to the last minute just before the fall of Grenada.
    i was surprised to discover that Spain was way more muslim than Syria and Egypt at the time
    btw... what you described was almost slavery for farmers... this garbage didn't exist in Moorish spain
    that said, yes the auther is correct, Europe was almist a backwater countries. you will find a few structures that are more than two stories high.
    Europe took off because of colonialism

  • @goodnightmyprince6734
    @goodnightmyprince6734 10 місяців тому +1

    My sister is a snitch

  • @Norm-ih2rq
    @Norm-ih2rq 11 місяців тому +1

    Can you do a video about medieval apartment hunting?

  • @MusicMike512
    @MusicMike512 21 день тому

    I wonder how people in the year 2500 will describe us today.

  • @Nishk118
    @Nishk118 8 місяців тому +1

    A life free from social media fakeness 💀💪

  • @saheebsdream
    @saheebsdream 9 місяців тому +1

    Come to Haiti and find out.

  • @wren4811
    @wren4811 7 днів тому

    I genuinely don't think living things were meant to be sentient, life is truly awful

  • @pietro4772
    @pietro4772 Рік тому +2

    Haven't watched this video but definitely better than modern day life in Baltimore or Chicongo living around Basketball Americans.

  • @jopowers5006
    @jopowers5006 Місяць тому

    Calling this ‘Medieval Madness’ is a cliché that plays into stereotypes of that era.

  • @gmcoates63
    @gmcoates63 Рік тому +1

    That was a wood mouse, not a rat

  • @lisadaniels3509
    @lisadaniels3509 11 місяців тому

    Very interesting, but you talked so fast that I had to slow the audio down to 0.75

  • @geronimorex3608
    @geronimorex3608 Рік тому +3

    Overly England focused. Most important cities of the high Middle Ages were in northern Italy and Flanders. They were production cities. Paris was the largest and a major consumption city. English cities were of little consequence in the 11 and 12 hundreds.

    • @suntzu94
      @suntzu94 Рік тому +1

      That’s all you find when it’s on medieval topics, it’s like the only place that existed was England. I agree the French and Italians were far more advance than the British peasants

    • @Jettypilelegs
      @Jettypilelegs Рік тому +2

      But I think the whole channel is oriented towards English history.

  • @thelastbison2241
    @thelastbison2241 Рік тому

    All sticks and no carrots to keep things clean; of course it is on the common man instead of city managers

  • @philmcdonald6088
    @philmcdonald6088 26 днів тому

    the first franciscan house in london was in "stinking lane".

  • @julianjules706
    @julianjules706 7 місяців тому

    Actually the Cologne cathedral in Germany wasn't completed until the end of the 19th century 🤪

  • @dagrant927
    @dagrant927 8 місяців тому

    NYC has a population of 8 million and New Delhi over 33 million. Your numbers are way off.

  • @georgebushaway5833
    @georgebushaway5833 28 днів тому

    Wonder what people thought this place was before science and the knowledge we have today. Like knowing that we are on a planet in infinite slace etc… What would they have thought.

  • @kevinmckinney3785
    @kevinmckinney3785 Місяць тому

    Nice, cute mouse at 3:40 instead of the notorious plaque invested Black Rat with its fleas.

  • @rp6122
    @rp6122 9 місяців тому +2

    theres not 20 million ppl that live in ny...

  • @thenovelcrown
    @thenovelcrown Рік тому +1

    I could watch these all day lol! 😅

  • @user-vg5rv5xf4u
    @user-vg5rv5xf4u Рік тому +1

    8:10 😂