Did People In The Medieval World Believe in Ghosts?| Medieval Afterlife | History Hit

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  • Ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night! Dr Eleanor Janega delves into the medieval phantasmic to find out what their restless dead can tell us about the worries of the living. Because if we want to understand what makes another society tick, it helps to take a look at what makes them scared.
    In this show, Eleanor visits the ruins of Byland Abbey to explore some of the most terrifying stories to survive the medieval period. The 12 ghostly tales written by a monk on the blank back pages of a religious manuscript, share traits with our own modern ghost stories but we learn that medieval perceptions of ghosts may be very different to our own.
    Then at one of the most important religious sites in medieval England, Canterbury Cathedral, Eleanor investigates how the church uses ghost stories for political gain and reinforcing religious values. Archivist Cressida Williams shows us some of the memento mori tropes implemented by the church, like Cadaver tombs and the ‘Three Living and Three Dead’ Illustrations, which acted as warnings against sin and reminders of the death that awaits us all.
    Eleanor comes face to face with the dead at the University of Bradford, which houses one of the UK's largest collection of human skeletal remains, Dr Jo Buckberry, explains why adhering to proper burial practices were crucial for making it into the afterlife and describes some of the gruesome ways they prevented the revenant dead from rising from the grave to haunt their communities.
    And to complete her journey, Eleanor braves Chillingham Castle, once used as a border stronghold staving off invasion from Scotland, it’s now home to a gathering of ghosts. First recorded over a hundred years ago by Lady Leonora Tankerville in the “golden age of horror” we discover the Victorian and Edwardian obsession with the supernatural… something that haunts us still….
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  • @jamiebryant1524
    @jamiebryant1524 27 днів тому +101

    Please keep the Eleanor Janega content coming. She’s the perfect combo of super knowledgeable, easy to listen to, and quirky cool. I will watch anything she does!

    • @Me-wk3ix
      @Me-wk3ix 15 днів тому +1

      Agreed!

    • @thewhitewolf58
      @thewhitewolf58 День тому

      Quirky, weird women are the best in the world.

  • @Tadicuslegion78
    @Tadicuslegion78 Місяць тому +157

    "I'm not dead."
    "I can't take him like that. It's against regulations."
    "I don't want to go on the cart."

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 Місяць тому +68

    it has always fascinated me, that fine line between "wanting to die" and being completely fine with dying, as opposed to "not wanting to die" and not accepting mortality.

    • @user-ug2hk3go6i
      @user-ug2hk3go6i Місяць тому +4

      I suspect that many claims of being fine with dying may fail when the claimant is dying.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 Місяць тому +4

      @@user-ug2hk3go6iI think you’re probably right. I do think the manner or circumstances make the difference. I’ve had family dying of old age or chronic illness feel it coming and embrace it. I also don’t believe we’re left alone. I’ve heard one aunt and my grandmother say things like, ‘oh, they’ve come’. My grandmother was almost radiant and called her husband by name

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 Місяць тому +3

      @@user-ug2hk3go6i being alive is the same as dying. thats what being mortal is all about. so no, i dont think so

    • @abnurtharn2927
      @abnurtharn2927 Місяць тому +4

      @@beepboop204 “You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”

    • @user-ug2hk3go6i
      @user-ug2hk3go6i Місяць тому

      @@beepboop204 I'd say being alive is a rather different condition than dying.

  • @Air-bear
    @Air-bear Місяць тому +52

    Gadfly here 🤫. I was in the Vietnam conflict. I had a hard time sleeping in the jungle. Not due to the environment it seems. I mentioned this to a Vietnamese scout who was with us. He said my soul was in distress. That I should sleep facing the east when I arose. Said my spirit would know it faced the light. It worked…still set my bed accordingly 😑

    • @hillerymcdonald2303
      @hillerymcdonald2303 Місяць тому +5

      This is fascinating. What a cool story! Thank you for your service and sacrifice, truly, thank you.

    • @wretchedrider2157
      @wretchedrider2157 28 днів тому +2

      Hear hear!! Great story and my genuine thanks for your service 🍻

    • @shelbynamels7948
      @shelbynamels7948 24 дні тому

      Poppycock! Nothing to do with facing the light.
      You need to align the meridians of your body with the magnetic field of the earth.
      Our bed is set accordingly.

    • @Air-bear
      @Air-bear 24 дні тому

      @@shelbynamels7948 gadfly here 👻. You know much about the ancient sun worshipers. 😵

    • @briganja
      @briganja 23 дні тому +1

      Placebo effect is pretty amazing! Our brains influence our bodies so much

  • @k.edwards3138
    @k.edwards3138 Місяць тому +59

    I love watching Dr Janega. She makes history interesting and, in some ways, exciting, and her enthusiasm is contagious. I've always loved history, but the demands of life have made me neglect reading and learning. Thanks to Dr Janega, I've started learning again about a subject I love.

  • @mikki3961
    @mikki3961 Місяць тому +40

    If your life was fraught with danger, a fever or cut could kill you then an obsession with death is rather logical. To top it off, insufferable priests and officials telling you that you were a sinner just because you happened to be poor or lower class. Thanks Dr. Janega as always you present with respect and genuine enthusiasm.

  • @jiwik731
    @jiwik731 Місяць тому +33

    There is nothing like ghosts.... i have been visiting that castle for more than 300 years and i have never seen a single one.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 Місяць тому +4

      Maybe they just don’t like you. That’s a long time to be shunned

    • @theaxe6198
      @theaxe6198 28 днів тому +3

      Nice one 😂

    • @ankhpom9296
      @ankhpom9296 28 днів тому +1

      Uh huh.

    • @ankhpom9296
      @ankhpom9296 28 днів тому +1

      The dowsing rods…I don’t believe.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 28 днів тому

      @@ankhpom9296 I don’t care. Guarantee you’ll try it if you’ve been without water for a few days

  • @commiebiogirl
    @commiebiogirl Місяць тому +40

    I'm a simple girl : I see Dr Eleanor, I click the video

  • @brettcurtis5710
    @brettcurtis5710 Місяць тому +24

    Dr Eleanor Janega nails its again - wish I had teachers like her when I was at High School - so informative and with a sense of humour too!

  • @ExUSSailor
    @ExUSSailor Місяць тому +218

    I don't think they were "obsessed" with it, I just think they had to deal with death much more than we, in modern society have to.

    • @Yandarval
      @Yandarval Місяць тому +24

      Pre the mass production of penicillin in the 1940s. Almost any cut or infection has a fair chance of killing you. So you are correct about death being something everyone had to deal with on a regular basis.

    • @ellie698
      @ellie698 Місяць тому +6

      Exactly this

    • @jimplummer4879
      @jimplummer4879 Місяць тому +3

      Yes !

    • @PrettyPoppyGirl651
      @PrettyPoppyGirl651 Місяць тому +20

      That is exactly why they were obsessed with death, there were rules, there were steps thats had to be performed & in the correct order, there was no other way to think, only this belief, only this way for a "happy" afterlife, being allowed into heaven. To do anything else was to be damned. So yea, I think obsessed is pretty accurate.

    • @422katieleigh
      @422katieleigh Місяць тому +16

      Eleanor has talked a lot about this and has the degrees and experience to back it up. When she says obsessed, she means obsessed.

  • @richardprescott6322
    @richardprescott6322 Місяць тому +8

    Couple of of my favourite paintings as, a kid - Bruegel - The Triumph of Death - lots of 'Skelingtons' running amock.
    Bosch - and his visions of hell - I think they are awesome.
    I got the prints recently and had them framed. I think the woman who framed thought I was insane. 😂

    • @anissaferringer4965
      @anissaferringer4965 20 днів тому

      My favorites are David's Death of Marat and Millais' Ophelia.

  • @cameronturner1865
    @cameronturner1865 Місяць тому +8

    Clicked on this as soon as I saw Dr. Janega. Love her appearances on The Medieval Podcast

  • @Aspen7780
    @Aspen7780 Місяць тому +17

    I grew up with a mix of Native American and Catholic beliefs. As a result, my understanding from the Catholic side was to welcome death, embrace it, even look forward to it. That it’s unfortunate that we have to live a life because it interferes with our whole goal, which is to dwell with god in the afterworld. The life in the here and now really means little. This life only exists to prepare us for the next one and our actions in life will determine that. Because you don’t want to go to the Other Place. Our Native teachings (I’ll only say it’s from the Southwest) on the other hand taught that, you don’t think about those things unless you want them to actually happen. That to dwell so much on death and suffering was to invite it to happen because thoughts can induce action. So don’t worry so much about the afterlife because 1)it exists, and 2) we really don’t know what form it will take so 3) It will take care of itself, and 4) there really isn’t a punishment of sorts there except for the absolute worst of beings. Live for now. That doesn’t give you permission to go all crazy, but enjoy your life right now and all the blessings in it and don’t worry so much about what tomorrow brings. Death will come eventually so don’t hasten it. If anyone was obsessing or focused on death, they were sick in the heart. A sickness of the soul so to speak. Maybe akin to depression. Literally killing themselves with their own thoughts. I had a couple of devout Catholic relatives who would say “I don’t know why god hasn’t taken me yet” feeling like being left alive in old age was a form of punishment. Even praying for god to take them. I respect that, but I could never understand it. But then, I have never ascribed to the whole preparing for the afterlife is the whole point of living. A sort of purgatory in life. I have always preferred every day is a gift to be enjoyed. You can see the missionaries had a lot of work to do to make us good Catholics and focus on death.

    • @gnostic268
      @gnostic268 29 днів тому +7

      I'm also Native (Northern Great Plains) and was raised in a Christian liturgical tradition since the Freedom of Religion Act didn't happen until 1978. Our traditional cultural beliefs are that there is no difference between this world and the next other than if you weren't a good member of your people/tribe then you would have to go back and try again in the next world. However, there was no punishment such as hell, there would simply be another chance to get it right.

    • @Aspen7780
      @Aspen7780 29 днів тому +1

      @@gnostic268 The same for us too. Our traditions for down here is that the next place is a mirror image of this world. The only actual punishment being reserved for those being, the popular pan Native term “two hearted”, if you believe in those things. But for everyone else it’s a birth into another world, like our current one. I really don’t know if our concept of that “punishment” is really indigenous either or is it Christianity seeping into the Native religion. Anyways, lots in common!

    • @cynhiacations9879
      @cynhiacations9879 13 днів тому

      ​@@gnostic268this is the belief I have. To get it right to then move to the next level to get that level right.

  • @katebowers8107
    @katebowers8107 Місяць тому +47

    Divining rods:
    A method of not finding water that can also be used to not find ghosts.

    • @user-ug2hk3go6i
      @user-ug2hk3go6i Місяць тому +5

      Ah! Now that's the spirit!

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 Місяць тому +3

      My BIL used a dousing rod to find water for a well on his property. He had hired several ‘experts’ that told him he’d need to make arrangements on adjoining or nearby property owners. This guy was as pragmatic as a person could be. A history teacher who taught in the jr college nearby. Goes to church etc. I watched him do it and it was really interesting to see. It was ‘Y’ shaped and when water was indicated it bent at a 45 degree angle it wasn’t just a quiver or shaking. It was straight out and then it was pointing straight down while the two parts in his hand remained straight

    • @katebowers8107
      @katebowers8107 Місяць тому +3

      Cool story, bro.

    • @user-ug2hk3go6i
      @user-ug2hk3go6i Місяць тому +2

      @@debbylou5729 It seems a surveyor's map would be a sound way to locate water.
      The fact the douser was a teacher and church goer are not relevant to dousing being effective or not.

    • @debbylou5729
      @debbylou5729 29 днів тому +2

      @@user-ug2hk3go6i I was establishing his character. This is not a fanciful, deluded man. In your wisdom you completely missed the fact that he used several experts. These were surveys done by geologists and people with knowledge of water tables and mapping of the geographical area

  • @jfurl5900
    @jfurl5900 29 днів тому +5

    Purgatory was a real place to me as a child . The teachers pounded it into us verbally and literally that we would be going there and that we would be there for many thousands of years unless somebody was praying for us (on the outside) or among the living in other words.

    • @catlyn777
      @catlyn777 22 дні тому

      Me too and I was very confused by it.

  • @ricksmith5315
    @ricksmith5315 Місяць тому +6

    Love watching all your videos. Especially durning the Medieval period. You make it very interesting and informative. I have always been interested in this period. Thank you for all the content.

  • @newgabe09
    @newgabe09 25 днів тому +1

    You feature Canterbury Cathedral..I'm quite sensitive to places and have sometimes 'seen and known' murders/deaths that have happened in a place- as verified by people who know the history of the place. Canterbury Cathedral filled me with chills of horror as soon as I entered, I had to leave straight away.

  • @dereks1264
    @dereks1264 Місяць тому +12

    "...a tailor named snowball..."? There must be a story attached to that name.

    • @theaxe6198
      @theaxe6198 28 днів тому +2

      My favorite name - Seaxwulf

    • @jasonrr9817
      @jasonrr9817 21 день тому

      In the original story a bunny had an encounter with a phantom hedgehog, but it was just NOT getting anyone to cough up silver to get holy men to shuffle ghostly paperwork. A few edits were necessary.

  • @Voodoomaria
    @Voodoomaria Місяць тому +6

    With lifespans less than half the current and medical care that could double as the Spanish Inquisition [didn't expect that, did you?], when something as small as a bug bite, as innocuous as drinking a cup of water, or as universally common as giving birth could lead to a horrible demise, it's not at all surprising that death was ever present on their minds.
    If you live in a house full of scorpions, then scorpions are going to occupy an inordinate amount of your thoughts.

  • @petetirp9776
    @petetirp9776 Місяць тому +4

    Terrific production and editing. Kudos to the entire team.

  • @NorahSweetheart87
    @NorahSweetheart87 Місяць тому +4

    I'd love to see this topic discussed more

  • @zackhalter9571
    @zackhalter9571 Місяць тому +3

    Dr. Janega is the best!🎉

  • @mikecobalt7005
    @mikecobalt7005 Місяць тому +4

    :) Another excellent informative video. Dr Janega is always great at explaining ancient issues in a way everybody can understand and in an interesting manner.

  • @kayscanningacademy
    @kayscanningacademy 13 днів тому +1

    Some of these visions that folks had back then makes me feel like taking a too hot bath after having some bad rye bread is such a recipe....

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp Місяць тому

    I love this! Thank you so much!

  • @wellingtonsboots4074
    @wellingtonsboots4074 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you, enjoyed that interesting video

  • @cathrynbyrnes8737
    @cathrynbyrnes8737 Місяць тому +1

    That was good! I’d like to see more shows like this.

  • @billquinn6224
    @billquinn6224 26 днів тому +1

    I think it was because death was around them all the time and they developed a mind set that sooner or later death was going to knock on their door.
    Anyone who has been in combat has the feeling that somewhere out there, there is a bullet with your name on it and you stick around too long and that bullet will definitely find you.

  • @zoeburnett4792
    @zoeburnett4792 29 днів тому

    The paranormal investigation show sound affects, brings me back 👻

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Місяць тому +2

    It was interesting and thrilled watching introduced about that matter of cathedral enlightenment & clergy influenced on people's outlooks towards death, spiritual stories.. how those stories served churches inside and outside churches ⛪️ walls in medieval terms.

  • @Steadyeddie3
    @Steadyeddie3 Місяць тому +4

    These ghost stories are awesome, I'd like to see more if possible

    • @ankhpom9296
      @ankhpom9296 28 днів тому

      Even in death there is still politics.

  • @Maleni143
    @Maleni143 28 днів тому

    This was fun! Thank you!

  • @jyotivig3666
    @jyotivig3666 24 дні тому

    A great talk Dr. Janega, would love to visit the Chillingham Castle.

  • @theaxe6198
    @theaxe6198 28 днів тому +1

    I love Janega!

  • @bluestarfish95
    @bluestarfish95 Місяць тому +11

    I Love Dr Janega Videos ❤

  • @lightofmylifeimnotgonnahurtya
    @lightofmylifeimnotgonnahurtya 29 днів тому +1

    fascinating video. people haven't changed

  • @richardsoos8902
    @richardsoos8902 21 день тому

    This was Fantastic!

  • @necroprankster524
    @necroprankster524 14 днів тому

    amazing as alwaysss

  • @fishbone470
    @fishbone470 22 години тому

    Great video!

  • @Frank_Nemo
    @Frank_Nemo Місяць тому +2

    History shows that Medieval people were right to be so obsessed with death, especially when you consider that indeed they are now all dead. So, they were right on the money on that one.

  • @pamelatarajcak5634
    @pamelatarajcak5634 29 днів тому +1

    One thing that I'm noticing in all these tales is an underlying vein of hope. There's hope in each of them and a slighly happy ending. So unlike our ghost stories which always ends more negatively than not. Tolkien's eucatastrophe at work here.

  • @robotdeer
    @robotdeer 29 днів тому +1

    I'm fairly certain I could watch Dr. Janega talk aboout anything and I'd be like "slay".

  • @user-ug2hk3go6i
    @user-ug2hk3go6i Місяць тому +1

    I'm always surprised by how much it rained in the Medieval period.

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 27 днів тому

    Thanks guys👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

  • @oldmanjenkins38
    @oldmanjenkins38 Місяць тому

    In a time when life expectancy was not long (especially for children). It is no surprise you would think about death. From black plagues, civil wars. Heck even a staff infection would kill you! Another great video Dr Janega!

  • @natalie_popova
    @natalie_popova 4 дні тому

    i love u eleanor janega ❤️ keep her forever

  • @ryantrumble4582
    @ryantrumble4582 Місяць тому +1

    entertaining presentation of a creepy subject. thanks

  • @franklinowens
    @franklinowens Місяць тому +1

    We got the Halloween episode early this year! 🥳🖤

  • @oliviasayshi7517
    @oliviasayshi7517 10 днів тому

    She has the same intonations as Caitlyn Dougherty! Also amazing host!

  • @Gaeliclass
    @Gaeliclass Місяць тому +2

    Can you imagine if you had a severe injury or disease that was quite painful? You might want to die if you had no pain relief. A peasant with back problems, but they had to continue to plow the fields so their family wouldn't survive?

  • @sarahwatts7152
    @sarahwatts7152 26 днів тому

    Halloween vibes in April? Yes please!

  • @bobdevreeze4741
    @bobdevreeze4741 Місяць тому +4

    It is the one absolute in life. If you are born , you will die. I don't see it as an obsession as much as I see it as a fascination. We know it going to happen..so what is next? Is there a next?

    • @R08Tam
      @R08Tam Місяць тому +1

      No

  • @692ALBANNACH
    @692ALBANNACH Місяць тому +3

    Perhaps because they were so surrounded with it.

  • @chrisball3778
    @chrisball3778 27 днів тому +1

    'We're all haunted... just by societal expectations'. I.e. the real ghosts were the friends we met along the way...

  • @metoo7557
    @metoo7557 Місяць тому +13

    Death was common every day to medieval peasants.. the rulers thought of them as disposable cattle. And treated them accordingly. Their lives had very little value to the rulers, as has been common throughout all of history.

    • @roberth721
      @roberth721 Місяць тому +2

      Can be argued that it hasn't changed.

    • @metoo7557
      @metoo7557 Місяць тому +1

      @@roberth721 It hasn't changed. it's not even arguable.

    • @markaurelius3119
      @markaurelius3119 Місяць тому

      ​@@metoo7557exactly. But we still fight over white-black, right-left.
      When there are only rich and poor. And everything we see was built on greed and in a chase for pleasures

  • @debralittle1341
    @debralittle1341 15 днів тому

    What about those who were thrown into plague pits? Too many died so close together that there wasn't time for individual burials.

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 8 днів тому

    Interesting video

  • @mhfromnh1421
    @mhfromnh1421 28 днів тому +2

    I have that same scarf!

    • @nymperico
      @nymperico 6 днів тому +1

      Is it the Saoirse kufiyah? I thought I recognized it 🤩

  • @shaggycan
    @shaggycan 28 днів тому

    24:30 I think it's more likely the marks on the skull come from difficulty mounting it on a spike. That's much more difficult to do than decapitation. Animals were regularly decapitated, but mounting heads wasn't done that someone had a lot of practice doing.

  • @keenoled
    @keenoled Місяць тому +1

    The man at the thirty minute mark with the waist coat, can he please read me the phone book?

  • @xaviervegiard5994
    @xaviervegiard5994 Місяць тому

    I love her 🖤

  • @Odanti
    @Odanti Місяць тому

    Change the castle's name to Wakefield's Castle. I like the sound of it.
    ❤️🙏❤️

  • @user-ug2hk3go6i
    @user-ug2hk3go6i Місяць тому +1

    It would be more impressive for the spirits to move the rods with no one holding them.

  • @choughed3072
    @choughed3072 Місяць тому +3

    Ive alsways assumed it was because death was far more previlant back then.

    • @roberth721
      @roberth721 Місяць тому +4

      No, it's the same as now, one death per person.

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 28 днів тому

    Ghosts do not concern me. However, the Borg scare the bejabbers out of me!

  • @persephonequeenoftheunderw84
    @persephonequeenoftheunderw84 Місяць тому +5

    I’m obsessed with Eleanor like OBSESSED

    • @dwhitt567
      @dwhitt567 Місяць тому +1

      I love Dr. Jenega. In this video I wanted to see more cleavage and legs. Dr Janega is sexy beautiful very interesting to listen to and is perfect blending historical facts with her own sense of humor. Wonderful lady!

    • @plastikmaiden
      @plastikmaiden Місяць тому

      ​@@dwhitt567 Don't be a creep.

    • @Ragerian
      @Ragerian Місяць тому +1

      @@plastikmaiden Don't kink shame me.

  • @paulceglinski7172
    @paulceglinski7172 Місяць тому +4

    Well done Dr. Eleanor. Cheers from Tennessee

  • @jameskatz7833
    @jameskatz7833 Місяць тому +1

    I hope Dr. Janega says “France” in this video.

  • @catlyn777
    @catlyn777 22 дні тому +1

    Maybe it was a bit entertaining for some of them like today. I don’t doubt there were ghost hunters and ghost storytellers then, like today. People are still fascinated by ghost stories and the afterlife. I don’t think we’ve changed so much as humans.

  • @darmick3028
    @darmick3028 22 дні тому

    Can anyone explain to me the first ghost story of the 30 spirits?

  • @jojotaylor8079
    @jojotaylor8079 Місяць тому +1

    People still are obsessed with it. it’s the most asked question in the world

  • @Crustdaddii
    @Crustdaddii Місяць тому

    The Queen we all asked for…Dr. Eleanor Janega. 👑

  • @theeutecticpoint
    @theeutecticpoint Місяць тому +3

    you might be a lord, you might be a lady, but sooner or later we all push up daises

  • @MunsterBeavis
    @MunsterBeavis Місяць тому +1

    Whoever selected the thumbnail for this was trolling lol

  • @user-ct3oq5ez8e
    @user-ct3oq5ez8e Місяць тому +4

    I don’t want to say they like they didn’t go through the recycling center and become beasts or rejoin the ranks of mankind so I’ll say we did our best making sense of the unknown with what little we had to go on? God isn’t Catholic

  • @MsOriantal
    @MsOriantal 28 днів тому

    The Old English tale of the life of St Edmund tells us that the Danes decapitated him post mortem to prevent him from having an honourable and proper burial. It was the many spears he was pierced with that actually killed him (he's described as resembling a hedgehog for all the spikes sticking out of him).

  • @macofthenorth
    @macofthenorth Місяць тому +2

    it's the only thing you really have to look forward to

  • @strangementalitypaperYT
    @strangementalitypaperYT Місяць тому

    I wonder if these medieval people ever looked forward trying to imagine what we'd be like the same way we look back wondering what they were like.

  • @theaxe6198
    @theaxe6198 28 днів тому +1

    Why don’t we have awesome names like Snowball!

  • @CharleneCTX
    @CharleneCTX 25 днів тому

    I was listening, rather than watching, this video and was struck by how much Eleanor and Caitlin Doughty sound alike.

  • @SirAntoniousBlock
    @SirAntoniousBlock 25 днів тому

    Ralph: “The trouble is, are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?
    Piggy: _"Course there aren’t.”_
    Ralph: “Why not?”
    Piggy: _"Cos things wouldn’t make sense, houses and streets, and, TV, they wouldn’t work.”_

  • @nymperico
    @nymperico 6 днів тому

    Aw of course she's wearing the Saoirse Hirbawi kufiyah. She's so great 🇵🇸✊🇮🇪

  • @Meredith36
    @Meredith36 Місяць тому

    Ugh, so good! Dr Janega is amazing

  • @CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb
    @CarlosRodriguez-dd4sb 28 днів тому

    History - the original reality TV

  • @hostiliscivitas
    @hostiliscivitas Місяць тому +3

    Life expectancy mattered

    • @naelbi8870
      @naelbi8870 Місяць тому +1

      Baby death was very high but past the 1st year, most people lived long lives, 50, 60 +

    • @TheBTG88
      @TheBTG88 Місяць тому +1

      @@naelbi8870 Not in the Medieval period. The average life expectancy in Europe was in the 30s, even though, naturally there were some people who lived longer. In the mid 1800s, with the advancement of medicine and sanitation, the average life expectancy advanced to the 40s and 50s. In the middle of the 20th century, life expectancy was in the mid 60s, which is why the Social Security system in the US used 65 as the target age.

    • @alwilliams5177
      @alwilliams5177 Місяць тому +1

      Still does to me.

    • @alwilliams5177
      @alwilliams5177 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@naelbi8870I think it's more like the 5th year and a few people might make a hundred but most never see 50. I haven't researched it lately, but I think it was a bit more grim than you imagine. Your basic point is spot on. High infant mortality skews longevity statistics downward. I have heard that since studying Greek in '87.

    • @naelbi8870
      @naelbi8870 Місяць тому +2

      @@TheBTG88 You are right IF you include the 1st year of life which saw a lot of deaths
      If you made it past the 1st year, your life expectancy was longer than people think nowadays, 50 and more in the Middle Ages in Europe
      People living very long lives was not a rare thing in Medieval Europe

  • @earlshaner4441
    @earlshaner4441 Місяць тому +1

    I'm so glad all the women have everything covered

  • @HelloFellowYoutubers
    @HelloFellowYoutubers Місяць тому

    The printing press.

  • @jannguerrero
    @jannguerrero 25 днів тому

    People weren't obsessed with it, the mortality rate was common- your kid dies before 2nd birth day, wife dies from childbirth, father dies in war, mother dies from famine and malnutrition, family dies from epidemics. It's been like that until the Victorian era, when people were more comfortable with death. After World War 2 and "youth culture" developing due to more disposable income, people thinking they'll live and be young forever was normalized. Now people think if they have enough views, they'll be on the internet forever or something? And while they think death is this thing you can treat ironically and use for social media clout, death meant something else for older people, because those people they lost sincerely and unironically meant something to them; they were a part of a community structure that this generation doesn't understand apart from something on the internet.

  • @madderhat5852
    @madderhat5852 27 днів тому

    Well thankfully I'm only dead on the inside.

  • @10toMidnight
    @10toMidnight Місяць тому

    Dr Janega could give a talk on the writings found on the back of a toothpaste tube and I’d tune in.

  • @nikbear
    @nikbear Місяць тому +1

    I see Dr Eleanor Janega, I click 👍her knowledge and enthusiasm is absolutely infectious ❤ I have such a crush on her 😍

    • @user-gq3ip8kr5r
      @user-gq3ip8kr5r Місяць тому

      Who does she look like? I keep thinking it's an actress 🤔 It's bugging me, lol. I like all of her shows, too. They are so interesting!!

    • @sadman5038
      @sadman5038 13 днів тому

      ​@@user-gq3ip8kr5reverytime i see her i think she looks like Olivia Colman (one of my favourite actresses)

  • @ellie698
    @ellie698 Місяць тому +2

    It's so nice to see a video that's presented by a real person and not an A.I. voice
    However, at 15:37
    Echelons is pronounced ESH-ER-LONS
    not ECK-ER-LONS 🤓👍🏼

  • @miss_lay_hay
    @miss_lay_hay 27 днів тому

    I wouldn't call it obsessive, to me it seems to be more of a coping mechanism or a way of trying to process it in a time when there wasn't the standards of medication and hygiene that we have today, the high mortality, especially with infant mortality and death during pregnancy. Not mention low life expectancy caused by factors such as hard labour, environment, politics and religion. Guess they were just trying to make sense of it all and comfort themselves in their own way.

  • @SecretSquirrelFun
    @SecretSquirrelFun Місяць тому +1

    I swear I’m not going to the bath house because I like it.
    No no no,
    I’m going there to pray for...you know, what’s-his-name.
    Anyway, I have to go, Jeremy’s waiting.

  • @user-ls1lf3vz8h
    @user-ls1lf3vz8h 23 дні тому

    I love the way this lady narrates the stories and explain things. I don't believe in ghosts or either afraid of death. All these strange beliefs people had in the middle ages were supertitions created by the pagan catholic church.

  • @nycbearff
    @nycbearff Місяць тому

    It's interesting that medieval ghosts couldn't go through walls, and were stopped by closed doors and windows. They also didn't glow, and in other ways were very different from the modern conception of ghosts. Modern ideas about ghosts have largely been created by the 19th century spiritualists and by movies. So modern people don't see medieval style ghosts, and medieval people would have been very puzzled by modern style ghosts, since they "knew" that ghosts couldn't act like that. It's almost as if ghosts are complete made-uppery. Yes, odd things happen sometimes that we can't explain - but it's never ghosts.

  • @citytrees1752
    @citytrees1752 Місяць тому

    The point of spirituality is not 'you will die so make sure your life is right'.

  • @thomaslong8401
    @thomaslong8401 Місяць тому

    Even as a child I did not believe in ghosts. But then I had to go to church and didn’t believe there was god either. Age 17 I saw the exorcist movie at the theater. My friends were scared but I thought it was funny. Ghosts, demons, spirits had no hold on me.

  • @AKSnowbat907
    @AKSnowbat907 27 днів тому

    They were "obsessed" for the same reason I look forward to it...
    It has to be better than this and if heaven is the goal.. why hope for a longer game?

  • @BeckyM87
    @BeckyM87 Місяць тому

    Absolutely fascinating and some stunning locations!