Medieval landscapes; a brief discussion whilst riding in the summer woods.
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2021
- Jason Kingsley, the Modern Knight, takes Talos, his shire andalusian cross warhorse for a ride in the cool woodland during a hot summer day and discusses medieval landscapes.
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Due to something called transpiration, a medium size tree has the cooling capacity of 9 room size A/C units. All that cool air sinks to keep the area under them cooler than standing under a sun shade. Therefore it is cooler in a forest. Plant more trees.
i was told that trees are cooling in day time and warming in night time. so if you get lost in the forest at night or are just camping out overnight, take shelter under a tree.
Definitely, we need to refoliate the Earth with as many trees and bushes that we can make room for. I've been really studying the amount of foliage and tree cover that we have destroyed in the last 200 years. We have removed about 41% of the Earth's surface land areas of trees forests and just plain bush's and plant 🌵 life due to clearing for homes, and gardens and then parking and shoping malls, building and infrastructure incl. Highways and cities, then the farms and huge tracts of land that many had forested areas or just wild scrub and large grass lands like the area I come from in Kansas, I remember what my grandparents farm looked like when I was a child, it was green and lovely with rolling hills and bushes everywhere on it, or vast corn 🌽 or wheat 🌾 fields , or barley and it was much cooler back then but it no longer exists and now every year we see record breaking Temps in the news etc..yearly and it's getting worse We have all caused and contributed to the plains lands and prairies and forest destruction and we shall instead of fighting and all poking our heads into other business and we need to get together realize that we are killing our home before were we live becomes unlivable and poisoned to the point that we can not change it back. Peace 🕊️ y'all sorry for my rant just looking at all the things that used to be around in my world and think about how I could not wait till 2 am when it would be cooler and easy to sleep with the windows open, and didn't have to worry about a robber thief because they just knew better 🤣🚫🖕💀 like these symbols mean Don't F*$k ing get killed or die in the spot were a man is getting ready to fire his 12 gauge shotgun because if your standing in that spot in his living room at 2 o'clock am Tonite then you just might have a really deadly problem. So, nobody worried and it was like sleeping in a little piece of heaven in the middle of the night. It was an amazing place to grow up just 50 years ago. Unbelievable.!!!?
@@vernondaniels6506 tru
There are more trees on the North American continent than there ever has been. We have developed the land and, simultaneously, planted dense forests throughout. The yield of lumber in the United States had grown by substantial amounts since the 1920's, and accordingly, so too have the harvestable lumber areas.
@@webwarrior1.038 The US isnt the entire world....
I’ll never grow bored of this channel.
thanks
@@ModernKnight No worries! I never would’ve thought I’d of stuck with yah when I first watched those medieval food videos, but you’ve kept my interest and I’m loving it!
@@connorgolden4 Matt Easton's fault that I am here.
lucky you :D
boar-ed
I love how you don't talk only about "flashy" subjects of History. Very refreshing to talk about "mundane" subjects like this. And on a horse in the forest... More immersive than a face camera in front of a green screen !
Watching on another grey evening after another grey day here in Wales, this was amazing: one can feel the heat on the mown open field - and feel the cool, gentle temperature in the woods - just by watching.
As for Talos - he's majestic! When it's cooler, could you show him charging down that field, please? With divots flying and the sound of thundering hooves ...
will do!
@@ModernKnight Thanks - I look forward to that!
Your channel is so relaxing and calm (even if you, dear sir, swinging sword in an armour) that it’s like a breath of fresh air on generally hysterical UA-cam.
He is one of a few creators getting me through a particularly difficult time
The woods are the essence of medieval and fantasy!
Half Shire you say? Talos is definitely a big fellow then! I mean, it's clear that he's much taller, and more muscular, but this just gives me an even better idea of it. A Kingslander...oh, if there were a mythical world where I could have such a horse (and actually care for him properly) I would want one so badly. Talos is just gorgeous and such a good boy!
All water courses/rivers etc need to be tree lined. The environmental impact of taking away this tree cover cannot be underestimated.
could you explain why? Its a very interesting subject.
@@captainalex157 Trees and other sorts of vegitation transpire so water is passed from the roots and temperrily stored in the plant. This means that soil saturation is much lower in areas that are forrested and so in late autumn and winter it has much reduced change for above ground run off (flooding). Secondly trees as stated in this video are much better at cooling the ground and so the soil isnt as badly effected by evaporation and so more moisture in the soil means plants and animals have a readly supply of water all year round. Also its more difficult for fetilizer to enter a river with trees so fish are more happy :)
@@jamesdaniel6240 thank you for the answer, its amazing how nature just works if we dont mess with it :D
Every time I need to relax I just put on one of these videos!!!!
thanks!
Not getting tired of your videos.
Everyone loves a little shade but in the southern US we see tons of mosquitoes that come with it. But still- shade is great and thanks for the jaunt, Sir Jason! 🌿
:) I'm biologist, but just thought about it recently - trees do not only absorb the heat as a tent would, they convert and trap the solar energy. A tent would protect someone under, but would give the heat back to the atmosphere, trees would not - all that wood is build from thin air (CO2, N2 fixed by bacteria) with help of solar energy and water with micro-elements from the soil.
I like to imagine Talos thinks you're telling him all this information. "Oh ok thank you I will keep this in mind"
It's still Winter and cold. This is a nice video to watch til we have Summer again. Also, reading the seed catalogs helps.
Best medieval content on UA-cam
Loved the video!
I hope people are making an effort to re-forest the UK and Europe. They lost so many trees for farmland, construction, shipbuilding, and war materiel.
Half Shire, half Andalusian? No wonder he is so majestic!
Ikr, such a beautiful horse!!
These types of videos are so relaxing to watch. Keep it up sir!
Glad you like them!
Talos? What an awesome name!
I watched Green Knight recently and watching this video made me realize how much I would enjoy a video about Jason giving his opinion and analyzing that movie a bit.
Anybody else think that would be something ?
And thanks for all the nature vids and pics lately, I love 'em.
I can only agree!
It's always great to learn something new about horses, they are beautiful creatures!
Very pleasant video. And I share your enthusiasm for trees. Here in the US people are always cutting trees down because of their obsession with lawns. I live in a rural area which is traditionally heavily forested, and my area has fewer and fewer trees all the time. Lawn culture is a huge problem here that needs to be abolished. People see a tree and cut it down so they can replace it with empty lifeless grass that has no purpose but to be mowed ad infinitum. Depriving wildlife such as bees, birds, butterflies and so on of their habitat. It's sad.
I've never been to Europe so I'll just live vicariously through you LOL.But where I am we have the renaissance festival so we have that lol.
"Talos" what a beautiful name.
A beautiful name for a beautiful horse.
@@ragnkja Yes, indeed.
I always think of the Skyrim game when he mentions the name :)
@@harag9
It’s from Greek mythology.
@@ragnkja I know, but I know more about Skyrim than Greek mythology ;(
In Normandy, most small farmers still rotate crops. Doesn't change the landscape too much but it does mean one year you live next to wheat, and the following one next to a wild abandoned field.
I can't tell how old the "bocage" landscape is, but it certainly is more agreeable than large field landscapes.
Most farms crop rotate, its just a bit more complex
Wow, a beautiful sunny day. In England.
Enjoy it while it lasts I guess.
Nice to cool off vicariously in a lovely wood. Our heat index today is 105 deg F.
ouch, that's hot!
@@ModernKnight It's better now thanks to you.
A truly serene video. Makes me want to take a nice walk in some open fields and woodlands myself.
Talos is such a handsome horse.
Seeing this video really made my day, so beautiful and calming. Thanks for sharing this.
The best channel for a relaxing and informative video
*cough* Jason please get with Karl Urban and make Dredd 2 *cough*
I just wanted to tell you Thank you. You have answered a lot of my questions.
Glad I could help!
Hes such a beautiful horse!
nice ride! hope you are having a great summer Jason, Hugs from us here in the US! take care of Talos and be sure to spoil him!
Laxton, Nottinghamshire is best known for having the last remaining working open field system in the United Kingdom.
Good to know. Thanks, Jason.
This is a beautiful video, cheers for sharing
I love this channel so much. It's fascinating to imagine what medieval landscape looked like and how different it was from what we're used to today.
That was a lovely, simple video with a lot of information.
I would love to visit that county with the great fields!
No wonder Talos has such majestic movement, it’s the Andalusian heritage shining through! I used to ride an Andalusian mare with strong movement & even stronger opinions 😁!
All of your horses that I’ve seen are exceptional. An absolute joy to see.
Please send some of that heat to Norfolk, Sir! We could do with some nice, summer weather! Thank you for taking us all on that ride in the woods :)
I am about half in love with this man. Intelligent, knowledgeable and kind.
We should suggest him as sexiest man alive. ;D I'm sure he get chances!
Thanks Jason for your videos, thoroughly enjoying your channel over the years,
Glad you like them!
I always enjoy the rides and woodlands that you have in your videos due to my inability to get there of course. Thank you for the ride in the wood ..
The villagers organised the big fields themselves. It was decided by the community and agreed by them all. Anyone who objected had to have good reason or would spend the rest of the year as pariahs.
Yes that’s probably what was intended but over time I suspect it was bastardised and one rich person would come to dominate the allocation of land.
@@alanb9443 There are a lot of chronicles detailing purchase and selling of land among peasants.
Referring to Talos as your "horsey colleague" gave me such delight!
Someone on Time Team channel mentioned this channel. Glad I came by.
thanks!
thank you for sharing. Your channel is one of the greatest.
Glad you enjoy it!
37 degrees?!? Thats incredible, here in Sweden the autumn has already arrived, rainy and cold :(
yes, super hot for here. Normal summer temps are circa 25 to 27 ish.
Another Swede here can confirm!
This channel never fails to educate and entertain. Your riding videos always remind me of my childhood spent on the back of an Appaloosa, hopefully I can afford another one in the next few years.
A fun thing I learned this past year while roaming - there are places on my property that are so wooded, unnoticeable, and untravelled that any injury there might leave me equlogized as having been "very beneficial to woodland creatures."
Thanks for the ride and the information. I live in a place where there are few trees.
Always a pleasure to see the horses - but please, please give us an update on Mule With No Name !
You forgot someone in the credits! 😯
Thank you for these videos.
I find these rides through the countryside so very relaxing!
You two make a great team.
Its nice to see more often uploades.
We really need to talk about that Canterbury project, and the recreation of medieval woodlands!
As always, a stunning video!
Hi, Jason. I've been watching ur videos for a while, and luckily, it turns out, one of my work colleagues owns about a few horses. So, i went for a few rides, and decided to help him out with chores and things. It's been such a nice and lovely experience. Horses really are amazing, and while i'm still a novice, i love it.
I live in the middle of Romania, and we have some amazing trails around here, in the hills and mountains, down by the river beds and fields, its really wonderful.
I thank you for all the videos, specially the horse related ones (those are my fav), and i have to encourage everyone to go out on horseback and see for themselves the beauty involved.
It's really hard to put into words, but while the videos sure help and are lovely, they will never do justice to the actual experience of riding around.
lovely to hear your adventures, and I'm happy that we've inspired you even if a little. Living and working with horses improves the more you do it, and if you have beautiful landscapes to ride around, there is nothing better as far as I'm concerned.
To me it is relaxing. I owned a horse for a few years. My BEST times are out by yourself. My horse was great listener.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos.
This summer must have been horrible for both horses and knights in armour.
Oh wow, half-shire half-andalusian! Well that is a piece of fabulous mix!
If I ever have a chance to go to Laxton, I'll definitely go :D
Half Shire half Andalusian?!? Wow!! He must be massive!
yes he's very big and well muscled.
Very interesting about the open field system. Didn't know that. Looked up Laxton, Nottinghamshire, UK.
I never knew you were also a Leicester man! Love watching your videos, thank you!
I grew up in Leicestershire mostly.
Channels like this make me want to visit the sacred lands of Albion.
I really enjoy this kind of videos, they are so informative and at the same time so relaxing. And I'm sure poor Talos with his long mane and dark coat was happy to cool down in the woods a little 😃
Glad you enjoyed!
Love your videos.
Love listening to your knowledge. Thanks!
Our pleasure!
Been to Laxton, great to know the background of it all,
Going to point out that shade under trees is significantly cooler than shade under roofs.
Trees (even when trying to conserve water by closing their leaves pores) transpire water, and evaporation is a endothermic process.
Part of the reason we need a lot more vegetation in cities, as they are extremely efficient (0 energy input) cooling mechanisms.
We're having to avoid our local woods right now because of an outbreak of Seasonal Canine Illness. I really, really miss being in the woodland. This video is a pleasant way to experience trees vicariously :)
I never thought I´d be watching videos like this, but it´s just so damn relaxing.
I always love your rides. The English woodlands is so different from ours in the southern US. Even under the tree cover the ground is covered in low bushes and brambles. You can't really meander around and certainly not on a horse.
Lovely video to cap off a week and a fine, educational comment section as well. Greetings from texas.
The horse is like " who is he talking to?"
It is a pleasure to watch this.
About the hedges:
Did the British also use hedges as a outer defense line around cities?
I know in the now German region they had specially grown hedges protecting the outskirts of cities (like Frankfurt for example). Including fortified farmsteads, occupied by knights under the city command
I don't know, but blackthron is very hard to get through quickly even in armour.
@@ModernKnight thorny shrubs were very popular in Germany at borders.
All depends on the land. Ditches were also common in some places and stone walls, a byproduct of farming stony areas, another. Still, more about keeping livestock and game in their places and out of the corn.
@@ModernKnight Further question on hedges; watching things like Time Team, it looks like there are hedges everywhere. Are your properties defined by hedges from centuries ago? Because I imagine that being such a great way to generally avoid prperty disputes, but that would make it so hard to redraw the property line if that ever came up...
Just thinking in terms of myself being an American. There will be old neighborhoods or something (yeah, I know, old is relative), then some firm will come buy up the land, bulldoze houses, and build condos or something. That's only a scenario, not something that happens all the time. Just thinking if we had a hedge system, it would be that much more difficult to rearrange property.
Sorry, that was a very long, silly thought. But I'm still curious😁
pretty much everywhere in Europe has been lived in for thousands of years. the closest village to my place is mentioned in the domesday book. Hedging that you see these days post dates the medieval period. three of my fields have the remains of actual medieval ploughing. They did have hedges, but the extensive hedging we have now is old but not that old.
Hail Talos! I will never not say that when Talos appears. Great video.
If you ever need a canvas war tent made .. let me know my uncle makes canvas tents in all olden designs , tipi's yurts etc etc 50foot tents with wooden doors and windows and stoves.. its kind of insane actually.
nice, it's something I might discuss in another video.
@@ModernKnight awesome .. if you want to speak to him let me know can get you his details.
Great video! Could you do one about medieval hunting/fishing and gathering resources? Also how to survive medieval winter!
What a lovely ride. Talos is a wonderful horse!
Please make a video about the most common misconceptions about the medievil period?
Really enjoyed this one...lovely to see Talos again
Talos is the true workhorse of your channel, your best stuff involves him
Man just vibing out the Kingdom Come Deliverance vibe.
Another great, educational video whose title could just say "You were (probably) wrong again about medieval period" =D
Use the sun while you can, autumn rains have already started here and it is just plus eight degrees. And you both look nice - the knight took his favorite horse, dressed in a homely manner, he just goes around the neighborhood. He did not take the weapon, because what could threaten him on his own land, he cut down the last Jabberwock before the hay harvest ...
Plus eight!
Heatwave where I live.
@@PalleRasmussen Let me guess... Nordkap? Spitsbergen? Archangielsk? 😄
@@minerwaweasley1008 Sisimiut
@@PalleRasmussen Respect 😄
@@minerwaweasley1008 no need for that. This is where I could get a job. Nature, fishing and hunting is out of this world here though. Really indescribable, and it is so much on the edge of civilization that... It is over the edge. How the Inuit survived here before modern amenities is impressive.
Great video. Another major difference between the medieval landscape and today would have been the prevelance of English elm trees, which would have added a great amount of height to the woodlands. The average mature height was 130ft+, taller than any native British trees today.
This channel is awesome!😎👍
Glad you think so!
Lovely and informative. What a great way to learn and the ride was great. Talos is magnificent. I have my own horse and ride. Forests are great places to ride.
In the Middle Ages Europe and England was well on its way to having large trees cut down for use as fuel and other uses.
I can't decide if this channel or Historic Travels is the purest channel on UA-cam.
Hello, Skall recently made a video on maintenance of swords, it got me wondering on older method of caring for steel objects.
Gosh that horse is handsome. ❤️❤️
Great way to impart some historical information. Thanks for your videos I always learn something. You also seem to understand the concept with great prosperity comes a greater responsibility. Cheers
Great video. Informative and entertaining as always! :)
Love your channel, sir.
Greetings from the Netherlands, T.
Thank you very much!
There is a lot of "Up to a point, Minister" about your description. That's how things worked in the 'Midland Belt' during the post-Norman periods. Elsewhere and at different times the landscape was still very differnt.
For example down here in part of Surrey on the edge of the Weald and the great forest of the Andredes Weald villages and manors were very different, with scattered farms with individual fields, scattered woodland and small central village locations until quite late in history, late enough to appear that way on the early Tithe maps. Pigs were moved a long way south into areas of the, mostly uninhabited, forest that 'belonged' to each village[1] in Spring, Summer and Autumn or put out to graze with the Cattle on the sandy Heathland, keeping it from being covered with woodland as is increasingly happening (for the first time since Bronze Age farming depleted the soils).
The Fens were farmed in different ways again. Every area away from the relatively flat and fertile Midland Belt had it's own way of doing things that often changed with the times, such as the abandonment of of growing crops on East Hampshire's Chalk Downland once the soil was exhausted and the Heavy Plough became more available in Mid-Saxon times, allowing the farming of previously unworkable heavy valley soils.
Working all this stuff out is a right pain as so much writing about the 'Medieval' period really only refers to the 12th to 16th centuries in the Midland Belt. Trying to work out what Mid-Saxon South East England looked like involves digging into the less available literature, especially if you don't have access to academic resources. I have just been pointed at one really useful book - that goes for over UKP 100.00!
And even then I don't pretend to be any sort of 'expert' - so take all the above with huge handfuls of Salt.
[1] The sites associated with those tending the herds often became, in time, permanent settlements of their own in the forests, often with names that show their links to the 'parent' village. The links can be seen in maps made prior to various reorganisations as isolated areas belonging to 'parent' parishes much further north.
well yes, and it's something I'll explore in some later videos, but this was just having a casual chat whilst riding through the woods.
@@ModernKnight Yeah, sorry for the Data Dump! It was triggered by someone *at last* saying that the countryside wasn't the same 'back then'.
Thankyou - it was great refreshment after a recent surfeit of reading RPG supplements with villages, design rules etc. that look like US gridded settlements with token 3-field systems glued on. Looking forward to the follow up(s).
TLDR on my megapost: Context Matters!
it's a problem I always have with shorter videos. you can read a whole book on the three field system, and it will still only be a summary.
Wonderful! Thanks
Your vids are so entertaining and informative. Learning is fun again. If you don't mind questions, what kind of health care was available? How was a knight patched up after battle? Or a peasant that got hurt at work?
Anyone who is into permaculture should check this system out. Is such a shame we no longer manage the land this way...
What exactly? I'm interested, can you give something more specific?
@@servus_incognitusyearly rotation and alsp shared common land.
When suddenly, our traveler was waylaid by a band of merry bandits in green stockings, led by a disfranchised Norman crusader with an inexplicable American accent!
😂 Then, they start singing🤺
There are some British linguists that argue that the modern American accent is closer to mid-18th Century British than modern British accents.
There was a BBC article about it in 2018.
@@JerryB507 Hmm, that's interesting... Makes sense. Wondering which American accent to which British accent....
@@JerryB507I suppose technically speaking, no one had an English accent in the 10th Century.
Wasn't Errol Flynn Australian? (I prefer this version). And the temp was only 37C? And you have blue sky? I'm jealous.
Nice relaxing content.
That is some amazing woodland. Very lucky knight