What Life Was Like In Medieval Castles
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Despite what pop culture might have you believe, living in a medieval castle wasn't all that glamorous. If you were one of the lucky ruling class, you got some wine or the occasional hot bath. But with the lack of plumbing, castles smelled pretty ripe. Not to mention rats. So many rats. Today we're getting real about what living in a medieval castle was like, and it's not that pretty.
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What would be the best or worst thing about living in a Medieval castle?
The worst and best part is seeing ladies do their business right next to you
@@aaronbradley3232 Those are both valid
@@jomolololo4398 LOL!
Worst thing would be everything; small town style hierarchical (and super-superstitious) ruling, the misery index, and the depressing lack of mobility or escape.
These days we live better than those kings; All the creature comforts, mobility, information, healthcare, (relative) justice, and anonymity or fame if we really want either.
Oh and more free entertainment than we can watch lol
Excellent video! 👏👏
@@orbitaljellyfish808 Thank you!
The fact that I live a life more lavish and comfortable than nobles. Who's the peasant now?
Haha, yes
you still have no gf tho
@@noonecares5340 yeah you're right.... But I do have a boyfriend.
Surprise! This boi is a woman.
@@meisheencalsado4142 trap moment
That comment actually makes me feel pretty good 👌
You wanted to live in a palace. A castle was built mostly for defense.
This channel do shitty research
@@cancerchannel1515 no
@@cancerchannel1515 true
@@cancerchannel1515 Can you tell me more? I don't want to get wrong information.
@@misschocoholic2126 Almost all of what you heard is plain misinformation. If you'd like to learn what actual castle life was like, look up Shadiversity's video "Biggest Misconceptions of Medieval Castles and life."
Cats protected people from rats, they were the pest control of the medieval times. He literally showed a picture that illustrated that point but didn't mention it.
Oh shut up no one cares 😂
He did the voiceover, not the pictures
RO speak for yourself
Perhaps the lord and lady of the manor were crazy cat people before it was cool ;)
That's why plagues and witch hunts went hand in hand. A minor epidemic happens, idiots blame witches who were typically stereotyped as having familiars in cats, cats got hunted and killed, so rats spread carrying the disease and soon you have a bloody pandemic.
“Nothing ruins a meal like having to look at poor people” lmaoo
lmfao
So true! 🥲 🤴
DEATH to the RICH
Eat the rich
Lmao
I love this channel, but in this video is so many misconceptions.
- Stone accumulates heat in long term, so if you constantly burn fire in the winter rooms in the castle stay comfortably warm. In the summer stone works as an insulation against sun, so is confortably cold even in the hot summer.
- The myth about medieval people drinking a lot of alcohol since the water was dirty is only half of true. Most of the villages and castles was build around wells or close to the rivers with clean water. They also collected rainwater. All people in the castles has very good source of clean water, if the castle was not besieged.
To stay clean you onle few litres of water and they clean themself every day if it was possible. It is only logical since they believed that bad smell indicates desiase.
Only people who drank only alcohol was soldiers on expedition and travelers because they can not trust to foreign sources.
- People working in the castles for aristocratcy was higher sort of the society. They was not rich but they has good wealth and sources of everything above standard. If the ruler was sane working in the castle was always desireable job.
castles also werent the dark dank places people think. they were decorated with tapestries or paintings, as much bright color as could be used...and lit as well as possible with torches, lamps, etc. the castle owners were wealthy and wanted to be in comfort. what we see today are basically the bones of once lavish domiciles. its akin to thinking the great pyramid today is what it was always like, and that certainly isnt true
this video is basically "medieval castles arent what you think, now let me tell you every myth about them as if it were fact"
I like to think people who lived in those times were just like us. If they ware dirty, they would try to clean themselves. If there were rats, people would try to eliminate them, and so on... People are smart and criative.
i also want to add the when people mention laying down "rushes" they didn't mean loose straw. They used rushes to weave mats that would cover the floors like japanese tatami mats.
I mean think about it. during this time women were expected to wear long dresses and never allowed to hike them up. if the rushes were loose they'd be dragging piles of hay around. Also in no art did they depect their floors as covered in loose hay. What DID they depict? Mats.
this video makes the medieval era out to be way worse than it actually was.
You're right about some things, such as castles not being too cold as they had fires...and there would've been some decor, depending on their status and wealth. But I have to disagree with you on a couple of things. It's hard to imagine how different we were back then, remember it wasn't that long ago we enjoyed a good hanging! But the accepted way of life really was astounding. Bathing was not frequent, even the wealthy would often only bath once month. Poor, maybe 4 times a year. Some people even shat in the corridors of the castles. Everyone, everything, everywhere stank, they were used to it. Our hygiene standards now are a very new concept and we'd been used to living in filth for thousands of years!
Almost everyone DID drink beer instead of water, including young children.. but not as we know it, only about 1% alcohol. It was safer than the water, even from wells, which could have rats and shit in them.
P. S. It is said that Queen Elizabeth 1st only bathed once a year!! 🤢🤮
@84n70 Also they fail to mention that the beer/mead back then had a much lower alcohol content than the beer of today. They weren't slamming 5%'ers all day.
Plumbing was a lot more common than you suggest.
There was running water and there were ways to flush a toilet, the oldest known flushing toilet is in a medieval castle...
Cesspits were far below where people lived, they also mixed straw with the waste, making it a bit like a dry composting toilet, which means they barely smelled.
Bathing & washing was a common part of daily life for medieval people, even for peasants.
They also had soap and all the open fires meant that everything smelled like smoke.
The idea that everybody stank is also an outdated view.
Although shared toilets did exist, there were also plenty of solo ones, the idea that you would never have privacy while using the toilet is also incorrect.
The whole dungeons and torture thing is also more myth than reality.
Rats? No pest control? Not much you can do about them?
They had lots of cats and dogs who did a pretty good job at dealing with this pest.
Also it wasn't rats who spread the plague but fleas, the plague also killed millions outside Europe...
No, not everybody was drunk all the time.
The ale/beer/wine they drank was a lot lighter than what we drink today and contrary to myth they also drank lots of water, they were not stupid and knew how to avoid polluted water.
They also had strict laws regarding pollution and needed clean water also for washing, bathing and cooking.
It was essential.
Clean water was NOT hard to come by, people had wells, not just public ones but private ones in their garden, yes even peasants, there were also rivers, canals and clean water being piped in from springs, yes that happened more common than you think.
Why would a wooden tub not be hygienic?
Why would having a bath not be private?
Castles were also designed to live in, living quarters were comfortable, had windows, fireplaces, the walls were plastered and painted in bright colours.
Those huge feasts were not that common.
Floors were covered in rushes because that's easy, comfortable, smells nice and makes living better, not to cover up animal feces.
Also these rushes were woven into mats, quite comfortable and nice looking.
Medieval people had noses, cared about hygiene and thanks to the miasma theory were obsessed with getting rid of bad smells.
Your rushes story is based on ONE historical source from a foreign tourist judging an English home, not a castle.
Where are your sources, references, research?
You forgot to mention them in de video description.
There I found your comment ! You have so many videos on youtube done by (mostly) american "historians" that are borderline outrageous. You could create a label "Historically Approved".
Weird how the romans in Britain had plumbing and then we just lost all that tech.
lol most people don't understand this joke, made me lol
What joke? It's true
They probably thought the toilet was a "devil's device".
@@IlGattoGialloCucina No
@@IlGattoGialloCucina bath did exist.
I think it's silly to assume that they just had miserable lives. When it's all you know, it's all you know! Tribes living in the jungle today without modern conveniences are said to have much lower rates of depression.
Yeah because many urban dwellers waste time on face book where people gloat about their wealth thus causing depression.
Rats
You know you're right ! I never thought of that. I've never been rich, but for 12 years I had an EXCELLENT, excellent paying job. I had a blood clot and wound up on disability. I'm very happy and content although I have considerably less things and money. Doesn't seem to make sense does it??
Shit pilled up
Stench
Jesus, I'm SO glad to live in this century. Running water, ELECTRICITY? Come on! Heat on demand, insulation, methods to rid yourself of pests, laundry, deoderant, pizza and the goddamned internet. FFS if I ever wanted to punish someone, I'd send them back to 1347.
It wont b here 4 long what was shall b
I'm so unlucky that I'm living in this century. Living in 3019 would be better as we have downloadable food!
tubez4321 totes
SORRE 123 It was even better in 9520 BC in my hometown of Atlantis. We had actual *magic*. And then we built all this fancy technology and, well, you know the rest.
You forgot doctors that actually some idea of what they are doing and medicine that generally works.
When I was little I always wanted to be a princess and live in a castle....
Uh yeah never mind.
It's because Disney gave us the opposite picture of Castles.
Yeah it didn't matter if you were lower or upper class back then, life was rough and castles were no luxury suites.
just as long as it has plumbing and electricity.
There is a large amount of misinformation in this video. Check out the channel Shadiversity and look at the vid talking about life in a castle. It has so much real information in it. This vid paints a very dark look at life back then that just isn’t accurate.
I mean I’d definitely rather live now, but humans knew basic hygiene and how to keep a place warm and dry! Lol that’s just logic. Humans haven’t changed much, we like our creature comforts
@@destinytroll1374 thats why they were called the dark ages.
Right, so I couldn’t get through the entire video without driving myself up a wall with how much misinformation is presented. Many of the points made here are either entirely facecious, leave out important details, or contradict themselves.
Firstly, castles and their lavatories were often situated in areas where it would drop from the battlements or even outside the keep if entirely possible. Even if they only had to make due with large pits that had no real way of being emptied, they would have access to things to cover up the hole in the lavatory to block the smell off or even some mediocre ventilation. These smells would likely be localized away from high traffic areas and not considered a major problem.
Secondly, baths were not rare. In fact the danish often washed themselves as much as, if not more often than the average person today. For people to live somewhere, there needs to be a source of water, be a well, a river, a pond, or even a stream. If you didn’t have the facilities or time to lug cold water to a bathtub you would jump in downstream and wash yourself off that way. It wasn’t all that difficult to clean yourself. Yes, soap was a little harder to come by, at least on smaller towns, but it wasn’t kept only for the rich. Also, hot or warm baths aren’t all that difficult to get. You’d fill a bath most of the way with water, fill a few porcelain containers or a cauldron if you had one and head that over a low fire. When the water was nice and hot you’d just mix the two together to get at least a lukewarm bath.
Thirdly, everyone was not constantly hammered or drunk. You were correct in saying that alcohol was a very safe bet in terms of being a safe source of potable water. But back then most of these drinks did not focus on making the consumer drunk as they do today. They would typically have a very low alcohol content if they were things such as beer and wine, with wine being the higher of the two. Also water was indeed unsafe, but it’s not like they didn’t know how to make it safe to drink. Straining water through multiple bundles of cloth and then boiling it in a pot was a known way to purify water and when the average peasant or servant could not afford to buy a beer they could resort to water. How do you think they survived when the settlement was being set up? They couldn’t buy beer for every single villager or servant and have it shipped to them, and they didn’t have their own brewery to make the beer.
Fourthly, in most instances castles did not have 100 people living in them. Not only did you contradict this point later in your video saying they were built as fortresses first and homes second, but castles were usually far too small to actively house 100 members. A typical lords castle would house the family, a small retinue that is kept raised at all times, and servants who may have a small home to live in inside the castle walls, but that was it. There simply is not enough room to house that many people. Most servants would live on the surrounding village and come in to the castle to work during the day with a very small number of on-site staff. If I were to give an actual estimate on the number of people who would actively live in the castle itself, it would number between twenty and fourty including the family, guard, and a small number of servants such as the cook, steward, and personal servants to the lord and his family. In larger castles belonging to much more powerful individuals such as viscounts there may be an upwards of 100 soldiers garrisoned in separate barracks build inside or adjacent to the castle, but not the keep itself.
Fifthly, and this is going to be the last one because otherwise I’ll be here all day, they did have ways of dealing with rats. This is where rat catchers and exterminators began to make their living and place in society, it was actually during the plague that ratcatchers became incredibly important. It was a job where you went around with a big stick and played a game of whack a mole using rodents, I imagine it could’ve been quite fun before the plague hit for the average man. They would be paid by the rat they caught, permanently removing infestations WAS difficult but it’s not like they didn’t have any form of pest control.
Regarding soap, most folks washed using only water as soap was a luxury.
Thank you, this video was incredibly painful
Not exactly effective but you got to do something.and rats eat dung so no use trying to bait them with poisons with the the dung heap nearby.they might could use it as a fuel but burning it would create even more trouble
ua-cam.com/video/PFC32MzqHIc/v-deo.html. Shadiversity published a great rant specifically in response to this video. Much more accurate information here.
I was wondering if someone was going to do a comment like this. something really didn't seem right about it.
This is all misconception based on being so far removed from that time. Living was not so far different than today. I agree there was no running water in the modern plumbing sense, but they did have pillows and comfort. Mattresses and sheets and blankets. Castles are cool in summer and warm in winter. The "peasants" who served in castles actually lived like the nobles who owned the castles. It was a rare treat to serve in the castle for this reason. They ate well, took baths, had physicians (not modern medicine) so they were as well as the nobles health-wise. This video paints a grim picture but it largely unfounded. Do research from familial memoirs of the time rather than looking at archaeology. Consider what your house would look like to someone 400 years later after you abandon it.
Good comment. I think the channel is more interested in subscriptions and views than facts from the past....
Yes, this is clearly a content farm
Castles in the 13th century are far older than 600 years, and they had stone walls with lime plaster, white paint, looked much better.
@@richardhe5973 Limes plaster might make them looks slightly nicer but it doesn't make them any less primitive.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 primitive compared to what? Lmao they were the most advanced buildings of their time
...and suddenly that thatched house in the countryside doesn't look all too bad.
till you relise the condions where not much less cramped
Mr. Person Humanson The thatched hovel had even more vermin than the castle.
Just my two cents here but more rat's aside it would smell less bad if you built a out house away from the hovel then at least you wouldn't be smelling everyone's 💩💩💩 all the time. if you had cat's around the hovle the rat's would be more manageable
🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶 Trogdor was a man!
I mean, he was a dragon man!
Or, maybe, just a dragon!
Yeah out in the open vulnerable to basically any threat almost no insulation and most likely sleeping on dirt
In the year 2500 they'll make a video called "what life was like in a 21st century city"...and it'll look a lot like this to the viewers.
The viewers would say things like "oh my gosh they had rubbish" or "people used to get ill". ....or they didn't have even instant food synthesisers...HOW DID THEY LIVE.
Moral of this is that the guys in the middle ages didn't mind that situation, it's all they knew.
Oh my God, they got herpies
Humanity cease to exists before this.
Or we might not make it that far
World population was estimated at one billion in 1800, 1.6 billion in 1900, 2 billion 1927, 3 billion 1960, 4 billion 1975, 5.53 billion 1990, 6 billion 1999, 7.7 billion today. If the population trends continue, by the year 2500 most of the world will be a cesspool of overpopulated peoples everywhere. More people means less resources and more poverty, more crime, more disease, more stress, smaller and more smaller homes and more pollution. Sorry but we are not progressing, quite the opposite.
I think one of the biggest differences will be in medicine. Transplants, body parts reproduction, elimination of disease...
Notice how the channel only hearts comments that support their findings and not the hundreds of comments pointing out all the misconceptions and generalizations
lol but of course
Its funny that those misconceptions and generalizations are mostly made by people who didn't actually do any research and only calls people wrong when it goes against what they have seen or heard
I only subscribe to kill time
@@wesleymcspadden5437 shadiversity?
@Mrs Neanderthug There were some good castle.
They weren’t dark places. The walls where beautifully hand painted with hand made paints. The art on castle walls was incredible.
@GO D yes?
Many also had walls covered in tapestries, as well as larger windows facing inwards, on some occasions opening into a closed courtyard.
Most castle walls were just stone but yeah there were tapestries sometimes.
Quite a number actually used wood. Wood castles were quite common in the medieval era, though not many can still be found today due to their quality of being made of wood.
Art does not equal light. Museums at night with lights off are still dark.
Always thought it was strange how they had basically primitive levels of technology on everything else yet had the knowledge to build these gigantic architectural wonders
Hannibal Barca Ancient Rome had heated floors, hot water, clean running drinking water, upstairs plumbing with water pressure, and so on.
@@tikaalik this is about the dark ages, not roman era
Yes, obviously. The point is all these technologies had already existed for hundreds of years. Medieval Europeans just didn’t know about them.
Hannibal Barca there was no dark ages the only “dark age” was when the Roman Empire had left all of its subjects on their own and the brits suffered heavily because of it
@@tikaalik these types of castles were built by dark-age europeans, not the romans. My entire point was that the dark ages were a period in which they had lost all the technology and knowledge of the roman era in virtually every area, yet for some reason in the area of architecture, they retained a high level of expertise
CASTLES WERE WARM IN WINTER AND COOL IN SUMMER, THAT IS HOW STONE WORKS
You got it exactly backwards.
You live in a castle? 😂
@@dandaddavi yes I did. You think people are going to live in a fridge willingly. Dont be funny. People were always innovatibe to build for comfort.
Isn't that how wood works
@@narayaumar3130 wood too
I'f I lived in these times I'd be know as the man with a million cats
😭🥰🥰🥰
I'd be the crazy cat lady
one of us
On no, time to burn at the steak then
@Daddy Savage Gotta have them cats to eat them rats tho !
A few things I think should be mentioned.
- the plague was likely spread by fleas not rats.
- cats where used for catching rats en mouses.
- the townfolks paid the castle so in case of an attack they could use the castle's safety.
- compared to living in the countryside the castle was still quite fancy.
I’m learning more from the comments than the video itself 😂 this makes me question all the other videos from this channel now.
Stephanie Logan Bro what. I’m learning more facts from the people correcting the video than the “facts” in the video itself. Tf.
@Stephanie Logan lmaooo i just read that person's comment too
@Stephanie Logan wat.
Every video I've seen from them is incredibly wrong
this channels other videos comments have one similar theme: remarks about misconceptions stated in the videos.
My water had to be turned off for 2 days. Worst 2 days of my life. I can relate to the lack of plumbing
No water is worse than no electricity, I speak from experience.
I can relate. My water tank was broken and 3 days without hot water and the heater was broken. This was in the fall season.
Just two days? 😂 I lived through Hurricane Maria. My family and I were without electricity or running water for a month. And we were the lucky ones cause other more remote communities were without for many months.
I would of got a hotel
lol...first world problem. Imagine not having safe and easily accessible water for your entire life? Boiling water isn't just to make tea, you've got to or it might give you any number of ills. Any water that you do want has to be carried from a well or a river or other water source. There are still people living today that have these sorts of every day problems, and obviously, the farther back in time you go, the lack of "modern amenities" increases, so that there comes a point when even the rich don't have easy access either.
I live beside the River Clyde in Scotland, and I'm literally just across the road from Newark Castle, a mid 12th century castle, it's quite small, and in good condition inside. You can still see paint and patterns on bedroom rafters. You can even climb a set of tight windey steps to a parapet where you can look out from. I like to imagine what it must have been like in its prime.
Edit - it's got cellars, a kitchen, a great hall with a huge fireplace with carved stone mantelpiece, rooms with the loo cupboard with the hole, it's small, but there's a lot of history there.
you're so lucky
Damn you’re lucky
man that's just awesome, lucky lucky dude. I'm jealous, but I don't begrudge you your access to that, I'm grateful and happy for you that sounds so cool man : )
Also for what it's worth I think you deserve it, because as you mentioned you take the time to think about what it would have been like to live back then, to consider what it would have felt like to stand on the parapet when it had just been built.
The excitement of likely you and everyone you know in the village as it gets built over the years, the pride you would feel, the wonder you'd experience *especially* since you possibly wouldn't have even heard of concepts like geometry, and physics, and terms like "load-bearing" or "architecture"
Thank you all for saying I'm lucky, my area gets a bad rep just because of some people, but the river Clyde runs along the front of the castle, and you can go on the walkway and walk along the river till you get to a 'abandoned' picnic area, with benches, the bushes are all overgrown, and the path bricks are crumbly, but the tables are still there, I like to walk to one in a shaded patch of trees and read or listen to a podcast. And if you keep walking that way another few miles, you come to an area called ',the 2 tunnels, it's literally as far as you can walk along the Clyde on this side, there's always loads of swans and cygnets, next time I plan to take my metal detector, because that area has had an interesting history 😁
I'm also 10 minutes away from a cemetery, but if you go off path getting there, you're in a weird overgrown place with sets of stairs to nowhere, old lamp posts still standing, and I'm sure there's a Victorian bottle dump around there, it's been left to the wildlife as it's an important habitat, and I want to find the bottle dump if it's there, Ive seen videos of people finding all sorts of really old bottles etc, intact sometimes, it's not quite 'mudlarking', but theres a name for it. It's far too wet, mushy, dark the now in Scotland, I'm gonnae get prepared and that'll be my new year hobby 😁🤗
I just love being beside the river or in the woods lol, any excuse. 😂
@Johnny White 😂😂😂 you win at what? Living in a cesspit full of backward society and government? Delusions of grandeur at its finest. Imagine having to remortgage your house to pay for your cancer treatment or other medical bills. I could go on and on but it's Christmas and your brainwashed mind would never comprehend it. What a joke.
Scotland and Great Britain invented most of the stuff you use today by the way, you have 250 years of history and are descendents of Europeans anyway, but in some way I don't know how... you have devolved.
Merry Christmas!
Castles being extremely dark and bland is a misconception. Nobles spent loads of money on artists to paint the walls with gorgeous paintings and elegant designs. They did their best to keep the castles lit in every definition of the word.
Geoffery George perhaps yes, after the late 1500’s. Before that, this is accurate.
There are allot of inaccuracies in this video, Bathing was normal through out most of European history, only falling out of fashion when it was believed to spread the black death.
Where did you get that from? It's not true (atleast for the big majority of castles). They are really dark, bland and cold. I've been to a lot of castles. I have never seen something different than that.
Unless those paintings glew, they wouldn't really bring any light, would they?
Had to light them up to stop mob spawning
Gordon Ramsey: My kitchen is hell.
Medieval Chef: Hold mine ale, peasant
Wrong.
Who cares
A stone building is actually very pleasant as its a great insulator. It keeps a constant temperature mostly so it would feel cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
The video is not really well researched. 😅
Lol
Living in a castle? At what time? And in which state? You can't generalize in this way. Its funny you're using visuals from the the 8th century to the 18th as if it's one and the same.
Who cares...
@@Wazzupyoyoyojdog people with IQ's in the triple digits, which you clearly are lacking
the videomaker is a dumbass, people knew how to wash, clean, and get rid of rats in Medieval times. Same as they do in 2019
Adam Rose this isn’t that important tbh
NOT A COP nice one pal
"Septic Volcano" sounds like a hyper advanced stage of Diarrhea lol.
I can’t imagine the stench there was in the Middle Ages.
You get used to it.
Seriously just about 100 years ago hygiene was really poor....Modern plumbing is the main reason for better hygiene before that people smelled butt holes.
john N Some people still do!!! Lol
And entire civilization of idiots choosing miserable lifestyle
You mean, all of history?
Even the most poor of us are privileged in comparison to people of this time.
It's said that middle class people live much better than the really wealthy ones in the middle ages. I can't imagine what was for the poor ones in that time.
That is because we have debt. you had to have the money to pay for whatever it was to buy with you. now we just have to push a button and something will appear at our door whether you have money or not.
@Geniecus this is something that people don't seem to get, the poor now have a worse diet and its much more from social engineering by the wealthy to keep them wealthy. while they didn't have avocados they weren't starving, and there were no obesity epidemics, opioid epidemics, food wasn't sprayed with carcinogens, etc.
people think because they have air conditioning and a cell phone they are living the life because that's what they are told to think.
The lowest classes today have the luxuries of kings and queens s
@@Gee-xb7rt but still we dont die in our 30s
3:43 how college apartments on a Saturday night be like
@Thegreatkingslayer ikr
I live in the North of England and as such I have had the amazing opportunity to see so many castles, the ones that are still in good condition, you can still see the paint work on the walls, and the decorations hanging. Even some of the better pieces of furniture have remained in tact. A lot of them up here even have roman bath houses in the vicinity.
And yes Europeans bathed, even if they didn't have access to a hot bath etc... people from all walks of life would bath in rivers and streams daily.
This misconception that medieval Europeans were all scruffy living in dingy conditions just isn't true, and this person quite obviously did absolutely no research apart from look at pop culture and myths.
Yeah people didn't even wash their hands before SURGERY until the 1860's and there's tons of evidence that people thought being too clean was bad for your health into the 1800's in Europe and the USA but I'm sure they bathed twice daily in the middle ages to spite pop culture 800 years later.
European used to believe that water was related to Satan so the church banned bathing Europe used to be the the toilet of the world it's a fact it's time for u to acknowledge it
Thank you!!! I got the same impression about this video!
England countryside is all freshwater streams and rivers, you could even bath in the rain if you needed to.
Do a video on whats life like in the chinese empire palace
This would be a awesome video
a Game of Sultans-era type place would be amusing as well in its own retardiculous way.
Oh yesss what a great idea!
Probably cleaner lol
Unlike the Europeans the Chinese Emperor would have a very large harem of wives and concubines and often would have sex with a different woman every night. The Emperor Chin (Qin Shi Huang) after whom China is named, had all of his wives murdered and placed into his famous tomb upon his own death from mercury poisoning, as he had sought out an elixir that would grant him eternal life, but instead it killed him. His wives were required to die at the same time as he did in order to accompany him into the after life.
This video runs longer than the amount of time they spent researching this topic.
What are you saying?
They had more pests, way less plumbing, no one bathed, people were sick all the time bc there was no medicine, people got tortured etc etc
You mean to tell me you heard all of this before?
This guy is hustling though. He's trying to make a living so I ain't mad at him lol. But yes this is some wack bs
@@JrobAlmighty "people were sick all the time bc there was no medicine"
So just because there is no medicine you think you´re automatically going to spend your entire life being plagued by some disease?
Try check your own life. When was the latest time you did not take medicine? Have you been constantly ill since then?
Just how do your brain work when you attempt thinking about reality?
@Jamie Try watching Shadiversity, he has plenty of videos debunking bullshit like the one spoken in this video.
@Jamie There are people who work really hard to make content that is accurate and informative, not just sensationalist shit. Calm your tits and accept that even if we don't produce content, we have the right to criticize.
@Jamie why aren’t you checking other sources to see if this is accurate? He’s over generalizing & some of it is misleading. For example, nobody back then knew it was the fleas on rats that caused Bubonic plague (from the bacteria, Yersinia pestis).
Hollywood should start making films about Medieval cesspits.
wonder how many times the cesspit gasses exploded due to someone dropping a torch down in them to see what was there...
No they would make it like a fairy-tale. Like Disney.
They did. It was called The Other Boleyn Girl
Castles as they stand today are ruins; back in their heyday they were usually dressed with white lime on the inside and painted, furnished and decorated. There's a group of historians conducting a project to build a castle using only medieval tools and methods, and they cover it pretty well.
A thousand years from now someone would be making a similar video about us.
I hope the guy who'll make videos about our time will do less mistakes than this one
Lol true! Isn’t that so weird yet cool to think about?
If we have yet to be wiped out yet!
And the people watching will be wondering how we did it and thankful they weren't born in our time lol. I'm glad I grew up in the time of no cell phones, internet. A normal childhood where I played outside everyday. And then as I got older have all the technology we have now. Best of both worlds 😊
Woke
They pest control. Cats. You even showed one the moment you claimed they had no modern pest control. Cats were modern pest control then and still is in some regions.
I think in medieval Europe, cats were considered evil or something like that. I am not very sure, but I just read this somewhere..
@The Resistance coo.
My doggos are good rat catchers. My cats are scared of rats because they're half their size.
Jack Russell's are great rat catchers.
@@sudhasunder794 Not in ALL of Europe and not in ALL centuries. 1000 years and an entire continent are open to variety.
In Byzantine Empire there were toilet system and running water in all the major cities of the empire
Giorgos Sket it’s because that was a branch of the Roman Empire. The Romans actually had running water and plumbing of sorts.
thx to these times, all of the knowledge earned was either lost; destroyed and/or burned ... we'd probably be the jetsons by now without all of those losses
The Byzantine empire was ran by black kings who conquered Europe
@@lorensweatman1573
No
I will focus only on the city, not the Empire which stretched had from Sicily to Syria (that area was not dominated by black kings).
In the early 300's the Byzantine Empire was established by a ROMAN named Constantine who happened to be born in York England. The newly named city, Constantinople was the NEW ROME. Many powerful Romans moved to the new city to be closer to Imperial power. From Constantine, it was his descendants who were mostly GREEK (marrying into Slavs, Russian and European royal families) until 1450 when the Ottonian Empire (again, not black) conquered Constantinople.
@@lfreddub2763 I know but thanx for the info. Still tho a medieval empire that was the most developed of all Europe
Life back then was rough and short!
The average lifespan was around 50.
Wealthy nobles for the most part didnt "live" in a castle, they lived in a palace or estate. Castles were military focused and housed garrisons of just enough people to defend it.
Yes, country houses and estates, were and are, still common.
Well... no
@@tristov6649 actually... yes.
In medieval times a palace was a castle and yes, nobles lived in it. The safest place possible for that time. And don’t forget, the chief business of the nobles was war.
@@tristov6649 That's an incredibly broad generalization that as a whole has absolutely no backing in any historic record that I am aware of, it sounds like more of a supposition than hypothesis. There is a huge variation of types of "castles", all built for specific reasons that many times changed along with the political or military climate. Either way you look at it though... A palace is not the same thing as a garrisoned military castle.
This video is erroneous on so many levels. Yes, castles were damp, cold, and drafty. But MANY castles had their toilets built over running water, effectively flushing away the effluence. Virtually NO castles had torture chambers, and every picture you presented was actually of the Spanish Inquisition, NOT individual rulers torturing their victims. Those rushes on the floor were changed a hell of a lot more frequently than, say, your carpet today is, and since eating was confined to dining halls, food was not indiscriminately strewn about, cats and dogs would do their business outside, and general fastidiousness prevailed. People drank WATERED wine and "small" beer--both containing only enough alcohol to effectively sterilize the water with which they were diluted. I could go on...and on...and on...
Thank you! God I thought I was the only one thinking this !!!
I was getting really upset how the B.S. Was piling up! They know nothing of history NOTHING!
Prickly Pear Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
the moment millenials realize their carpet has never been changed and everyone in their family has walked on it with their muddy shoes for their whole lives....
Moat castles weren't damp and drafty actually. They were actually quite warm and unexploded from the elements. And they usually weren't as big as we think of castles. Most castle keeps were anywhere from just 2 to 4 rooms. There really wasn't a lot of space that needed to be heated.
In Middle Ages, I would prefer to be a Muslim, Hindu or Chinese member of the rulling class, those nobilities were the ones that really thrived.
chinese mostly murdered each other, I wouldn't call that thriving
Indians would have wars every time a king died
Muslims commited constant assassinations against rivals and the ottomams specially were keen on fratricide.
This video speaks for itself. Might I add all the torturing, killing and burning at the stake; during this period, during the Spanish Inquisition, and through out Europes history. I agree with you.
Chock full of misinformation! Castles were brightly painted, reflecting any light. Also, stone accumulates heat, and works as an insulator. Castles also generally didn't stink, nor were the floors covered in rushes, nor were most of your other "facts" correct.
Nonsense. Bath houses (Stews) were common until Henry VIII closed them because they were also brothels. Bloody Puritan.
Joe... absolutely. Although, due to the growing volumes of firewood being used by people of all classes, regular bathing was becoming frowned on a few generations before Henry VIII's reign. I've come across mention of the issue in documents dating from as early as the reign of Henry III.
In addition, the producer of the video also failed to mention the great difference between 'big' and 'small' beer, the latter (as undoubtedly you would concur) having virtually no alcoholic content at all.
@@cuhurun can u send me a link u got me curious now 😂
Hi Kev... here's a link for small beer, good old wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer.
As for the firewood issue, that I've come across a few times, mentioned in books amongst my rather large collection. The problem was alleviated somewhat during the mid 1300's though, due to the 'Black Death' population loss, but by the reign of Henry VIII timber depletion was again a serious problem.
So you're reducing the middle ages to England? Henry VIII has nothing to do with anyone else
Joe Turner - Characterizing Henry VIII as a “Puritan” is like calling Trump a Social Democrat.
1000 years from now they will be telling the horrible tales of how people had to eat big macs and whoppers. KFC and taco bell.
*edit. I'm latino, guys. Taco bell is shit to me.
*wanted to
Hey now!...don’t talk shit on Taco Bell :/
Or be called "healthy food".
Taco Bell is life
Don't talk shit about Total!
Castle Funk is going to be the name of my stoner doom metal band.
This comment is gold
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I’m weirdly obsessed with fun history facts and I love this channel!
You're not gonna find historical facts in this video, it's 9 minutes of shameless, grotesque lies.
so basically, people living in the forest were better off than a king in a castle... ironic.
Yes, much better. But the life of a rich Muslim was probably as good as the life of modern middle class people, but just without running water and eletricity.
@@nurgleGurgell idk where that came from but still very interesting..
Henri Ludwig Gustavo Lopes the fact that they don’t gave running water or netflix tells me we’ve got it a bit better hehe
@Ethan Kunz oo ok.. now thats better explained.. but either way, if you were living in the forest you were better off.. less people less diseases..
Not necessarily. A lot of the stuff here just really isn't right or isn't explained in full. I'd recommend doing a little bit of your own research because these guys just play into the popular opinion that movies gave to everyone that it was all dirty, smelly, disease ridden, and horrible back then. Of course it's not nearly as good as it is today, but it's not nearly as bad as most people make it out to be.
The Dark Ages, which was the beginning of the Middle Ages WAS actually quite terrible as a bunch of people suddenly were left out to dry when the western roman empire collapsed, but when they went into the Mid Middle and High Middle ages things did improve significantly. When the plague came through the biggest reason why people died is because most doctors back then didn't really know what they were doing. Sure it was better than NOT having a doctor, but they had no idea what bacterium or viruses were. They considered bloodletting to be a common cure-all for illnesses which only rarely relieved symptoms. That and having towns where you built up instead of out caused some problems with overcrowding.
Inside an overcrowded poo smelling house with rat torture LMAO
He said that in the video??? You found it funny?! Woah!
Kevin Castellano lmfaooo
And while hung over😂😂😂
i want to live there
We are living in the most upgraded time of history and still we are depressed!
Because there is no communion.
Humans are social animals and due to the current events that has made a lot more people depressed because we are social creatures
sounds similar to " you have so many things to be happy about why are you sad" . it has no connection. both are different things.
Just goes to show, material possessions and pleasure doesn’t make you happier, it’s your relationship with God that determines that
I dont know if I'm depressed but probably I'm not
As much as I like the video, there is a lot of information out there to describe what it was like inside.
Castles weren't actually as dark as you think, they had many windows and where there weren't many candles were used. Also, many of the insides of castles were very colorful, potentially painted.
"As much as I like the video"
Why?
What are you all doing here go watch Shadiversity's video titled
Biggest MISCONCEPTIONS of medieval CASTLES and LIFE
he knows what he is talking about
Ah, a cultured fellow I see
MACHICULATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS!!!!!
@@confusedcylinder396 I hurt my ears just hearing him scream it in my head unprepared hahaha
Why does he know but not this guy?
Kevin Lefort because he’s a real historian and enthusiast of that particular era and not a Faceless UA-camr that apparently doesn’t understand that the “medieval era” was 1000 years of history with a ton of examples that disprove this video
I lived in castle for a couple of years around 1331 A.D it wasnt so bad except for the lack of wifi outside
Your WiFi lacked strength when it came to going outside? My castle wifi was fairly strong, it could go far enough as 100 meters, which is like 343 feet. I was in my castle from 1302-1343 A.D.
My castle had 5G WiFi was never a problem
Wow, all my castle had was 2tin cans & a bit of string, but my ferrari made up for that.
Didnt have wifi in my castle. Only a nice ganja farm
I reigned in my castle in the year 996. Before wifi we had MediLink(TM), think of it as primitive wifi.
9:33: "The Middle Ages were tough.. Even the best case scenario of living in a castle, was pretty much a miserable experience." While this is certainly true by today's 21st century standard, it is important to note here that when we discuss history, it is always important to view the living conditions through the eyes of a person who lived in that age and culture. The Royalty, nobility and wealthy people of the European Middle Ages, WOULD have considered themselves lucky and/or maybe blessed by God to live in the top tiers of society, compared to the short, rough and hard lives of ordinary people. But yes, even a European King's life would seem less than desireable to Modern people, who is to tell if a documentary explaining the 21st century will not draw many of the same conclusions about the current upper class? Wealthy for the time but just deceased, filthy and uncomfortable compared to the people of the Future. Every society through history ever has lived in the most "modern" and often, if not always truly, it has - to them - seemed the peak of civilization and enlightenment.
Ordinairy people were very well off too. They were richer and had more rights than we do. At least their right to their property, and ability to carry weapons was respected, unlike today. The average peasant owned more land than we do, and was probably relatively richer than we are, and happier. Lead more healthy lives too.
@@AverageAlienI wouldn't go that far though.
A lot of myths and misconceptions here.
The servants did bathe in rivers.
@@hannahbg1852 but why not?
@@hannahbg1852 i dont understand, why didnt they bathed in rivers?
@@hannahbg1852 You're an idiot
Maybe in the summer. What about all winter?
@@hannahbg1852 Rivers contain water, water cleans you.
You: I disagree
Where on earth did u get these facts I only see misconceptions
it wasn't all feces.
I thought the same. Maybe he is talking about a particular castle or he researched about only a few and in a certain area
Yeah I mean it wasn’t that extremely bad but yeah
He's talking Bullshit! Just created for dumbasses with nothing to do but watch this shit.
Times were different back then all around the world. Conquering armies such as the The Huns, Mongolian Hoards & the Ottoman Empire were slaughtering groups of peoples to include Europeans up until approximately 1500 A.D. People who fought and were loyal to the conquering European class received lands to manage. Much like the more successful entrepreneurs of our time, these people had the jobs. They needed guards, soldiers, cooks & chambermaids for the castles, & husbandmen to till the land as they slowly regained the upper hand from other oppressors. These were prestigious positions of the times. Much like working for Corporations, Millionaires, Politicians or Hollywood elites is today. There were also tradesmen in the small communities and they still exist as small businesses today. These civilizations grew & improved under the peace brought in by Christianity that swept up from Rome & the Middle East until now here sits Western Civilization. There will always be good & bad employers/managers, governments, & citizens. The worst are always the godless.
I’m far from a history expert but this seems like irresponsible reporting. Highly generalized. You should pick a certain type of castle from a certain area and time frame. Something more specific. Hundreds and hundreds of different castles over 1,000+ years and you just say, “this is how castles were”. I’m willing to bet there were plenty of profound differences in a German castle from 716 to a English one in 1452. (Just an example, replace country and date with any).
It was fairly redundant too. (Smelly, bathroom logistics, lords above servants)
Just feel like we should demand more from people claiming to teach history.
CE4891 spreading false history is dangerous!
The title said medieval times idiot
The title said medieval times idiot
thats at least 600 years dumbass
@@marktristanbacho4859 ye he means when in the medieval period
Most of the statements are only partially true. Wrong enough to mislead on every topic. Pick up a history book
Been to see many castles around the UK and this video is not accurate. The internal walls were covered in lime plaster with decorations, they went to great lengths to keep everything clean and orderly.
Those are palaces, not castles - as it was stated in the video, castles were built to be fortresses. And you can try to keep things clean, but rats and living in a literal cess pit isn't going to change with a bit of sweeping
@@Nocturne22 Bullshit. Castles were decorated on the inside. Do some research before writing stupid comments.
@ Tom Bombadil castles translates to protect as they were built to protect people while palaces were built to show off wealth I know this from studying the Middle Ages
@@londonmason6129....
@@Nocturne22 yes but castle also sometime served as the Lord Manor where they live.
0:43 you had the perfect opportunity to say “plumbing was a pipe dream” , c’mon
😂😂😂😂U just had to! Sigh... 😉🤣😅😉
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Maybe the author is a grown up
🙄🤦♂️ haha
Adam Ristau for the win! Lolol.
I think your portrayal of medieval life in the castle is way over simplified.
Barry Hornby totally agree, these videos seem really dull and the constant little “funny comments” get old very fast. It just feels like they are trying to stretch it to the 10 minute mark so they can get ads...
It doesn't seem meant to be a whole overview, it's just refuting the idea that castles are glamorous
Sam Schaefer he didn’t even make it ten mins so your point is invalid
+Barry Hornby Agreed.
@@daveed467 but who has ever made that assertion?
I think the lack of ads is a HUGE reason why I watch this channel more than any other
I crapped in a castle and the toilet was crazy. You hear your stuff fall waaaay down and then hit the bottom.
JB Townsend lmao I was taking a shit when reading this and lolled
crap breaks down.
Wat castle??
"So someone told me this pit was bottomless"
"One way to find out"
I’m takin a shit now I swear on my life 😂
Suddenly im happy of living in 21st century
There are places in the world right now include the USA where people live in even worse conditions. I've seen people living in straw huts old campers missing walls with black mold infestation and no power or running water. Abandoned houses. Tents. Right here in Southeast Texas. In California there is skid row they live like shit as well
10am: church - 11am: torture
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thats how roman works lmao
The most important parts to anyones day
10 am: talk about freedom and democracy
11 am: bomb a country
@@julit7304 👏
They did NOT drink spirits , they knew nothing of distilling
Medieval period was not that horrible. 1) Hygiene was a thing. In fact people washed everyday, often using dry techniques, which are quite effective and don’t require hordes of water.
2) People didn’t just poop all over the place like savages. Even animals have pooping routine, and there were highly rigorous process on where and how to poop to keep things orderly.
3) there was a major difference between the castle of a small lord and that of a major King. So in terms of servants it wasn’t much different than working for the president of the US or working for the mayor of Shitsville. The lord works is part and the servants work theirs.
4) generally speaking people weren’t complete lunatics unable to breathe or think. They were normal humans living in a different era.
it's amusing to me how people think before the rennaissance people were just club wielding troglodites who rolled in pig filth. as if suddenly everyone just discovered the properties of water and gained a sense of fashion, and huzzaaaa! the rennaissance was born. they were still humans, and like most humans, they liked to have nice things and their living spaces clean to the best of their habilities.
How many plagues that nearly wiped out all of Europe? Hygiene was non existent..
@@panchoelsancho5595 Wow... you're a fuckin' moron if you honestly believe that the plagues occurred because hygiene was allegedly non existent. Think before speaking, research before claiming something is a fact.
Matthew Hemmings you would want to live back then?
They literally shitted in corners and fireplaces. Laid in beds with tanner fur that attracted more freaking lice and fleas. They dumped in the street. Decades and generations of stench within city walls.
Farmers having to retreat to castle walls was the last thing they wanted to do. Life expectancy could be days or a month crowded up like that. Lmfao.
Fun fact, that I learned while stationed in Germany: Castle names ending in 'berg' are in mountainous regions and are not necessarily fortified; castle names ending in 'burg' are fortified castles. Those two name endings are pronounced much differently in German than here in America. Germany is so amazingly beautiful!
@Yasmin E. Yes, they can as long as we overlook the trolls. I learn new things about my own country and state (Texas) all the time. It is easy to miss things when you grow up in your own culture. Schoenes tag!
AMERICA
@@BK-qp8zp Yeah, screw those guys. "the state, requires money, for passage over this route". Oh, that's tolls!
@Yasmin E. yes. I am learning economix in comments
I live on an iceberg
It’s true, I spent a year living in a shack with 12 other construction workers, there wasn’t anything else available. Man I was wasted drunk all of my time off, only way to keep it going.
sounds rough bro nice that you've made it
Watch the Ruth Goodman documentaries about Gedalon castle in france which will dispell a lot of the myths that this video perpetuates. Gedelon castle is an authentic medieval caste being constructed in france using only medieval technology and building methods.
This is very poorly researched, pretty disappointing.
@Jamie with all due respect sir. This video is full of misconceptions and historical stereotypes. If you have any sources on behalf of the video please do share. I believe the comment section's purpose is to share knowledge.
@Jamie America did have a war itself, you know, the Civil War?
@Jamie wow chill out
@Jamie bit extra aren’t you pal
@Jamie, DUDE CHILL, TF-
Just. Take a deep breath.
The reason why it's important for the video to be accurate because it is literally about human history
I will never complain about my plumbing again 🙏🏿🙌🏾
Currently i am living semi Victorian as my washing machine is broken and the new one isn't installed yet i am hand washing everything all my food is cooked from scratch and since I live with the joys of shared boilers in my building most of my baths are made up of water boiled on pots and kettles the only modern "convenience" I have that works is my phone which is on its last legs as it is an older model. I can relate to medieval times at the moment I'd better stock up on candles just in case my electric is cut off.
En Steve what the fuck is this. How triggered are you right now. Fucking fragile ass racists these days.
@@angelofdeath275 yeah, what we need is less triggered racists 😤👊 #gobacktoafricabytoto
En Steve aww someone is triggered
@En Steve u dumb fuck yes I'm black and proud and American so i'm already home dummy.. And you are hiding behind a keyboard 👍🏿 .😂😂😂😂.. Go outside and talk that shit to one of my fellow black folk and see your be eating that very keyboard 🙌🏿
Supplementary facts:
1) Even though the medieval times spanned over several centuries there was no change in the way people lived and behaved during this period.
2) All castles were identical across all countries and all times.
3) Claims generally do not need any documentation.
4) Life in medieval times was so bad that the human race went extinct.
Søren Ladegaard Kristensen after watching this video that sounds about right. Like what in the fuck?
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5) European's were FILTHY
Jysk Hegn A/S 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@b-bopeddie1290 You didn't get that, did you? The 5th statement should have given it away, but you still didn't...
It is on the same accuracy level as most of the video, intentionally
about 20% historically correct.
"Living with rat infestation and plague is just part and parcel of living in a big castle!" (Lord Mayor of London, 1366)
🤣🤣🤣
True 😂
They must be turning in their graves knowing England is being cheerfully handed over to islam
@Hannibal Barca England been shitty. At least it’s going to have good food now.
Oh my gosh I thought of this while watching the video I’m so glad you posted this 😂
“RIP” my dreams to live in a Castle
😂
Except you could modernise a castle with today's knowledge rather than think it all has to be historically authentic maybe it could be fun to disguise the new conveniences as originals then no one would notice
You can live in a castle now. Just bring in a toilet, a tub and a sink. Comfy furniture and kitchen appliances and your in a castle.
@@do_not_see_donotsee1104 Why would anyone want to live in a castle when you can live in a big mansion! We all know Mansions are way way more better than Medieval Castles! Even a modern average building is way more better than a Castle! Castles are cold very cold! Good luck heating up a Big Castle!
@@olwendavis327 If you would want to live in a period of time the 18th century would be the best to explore! Who the hell would want to live in Medieval Times when today it is ten times more better than it was back then! I would hope to live in a future where robots exist and resources are unlimited! Why do people seem to have this idea that going back is better? No life back then was way more worse than today! We should want to go to the future where everything is ten times more better than today!
There are still castles today that people actually still live in. Grant it most of those castles were built after the medieval ages and didn't really function how castles were originally intented. They were built to just look like castles lol. They have been updated throught the centuries too with modern amenities; running water, electricity, central heating and air, wifi. But you still get that castle feel when you see them and walk through them. I hope to live in one one day.
No disney I dont wanna be a princess anymore!
😂😂
Princesses was used as politic plaything anyways. They must always prepare to open their legs to the wathever people the king order her.
Too late, you've already been conditioned
And they ended the video with. "How would you like it in a castle?" I would like it in a Proper Medieval Castle, not this poor modern adaptation of a "medieval" castle.
How is misinformation about the Mediaeval period still being spread in 2019?
Because they want views and they are brainwashing people!
What makes it misinformation? Seriously I’d like to learn
@@brownhippiex496 It's mostly a lot of generalization and exaggeration. Several of the facts presented are technically true, but have exceptions and extra details that haven't been presented in exchange for making the video shorter and faster.
Lots of text below haha:
One example would be that many nobles would have more than one residence, while this video kind of implies that they spent four seasons in one. They could sometimes have a winter and summer castle, and alternate between them which would lessen the smell of the toilets. The toilets would often open into running water as well, and the smell wouldn't even be an issue in that case. They also had many ways of dealing with rats and mice, so though they were a big issue, it wasn't like no one was doing anything about them.
Additionally, the claim that all kitchens up until a certain point were made of wood is ridiculous! Humans have been cooking with fire for thousands of years and even the most basic of cooking setups utilize the inflammability of stone either as a cooking surface or as a ring around a fire pit.
One final point is that the medieval period lasted about one THOUSAND years and the regions we consider within the usual umbrella of "medieval" spanned from Ireland all the way to Russia and the Middle East. Cultures and practices varied extremely across the breadth of medieval society, so to boil it down to the tiniest details is really irresponsible.
Overall, it's a misleading and historically inaccurate video that would do better if it really took the time to research and put work into the topics at hand. I would recommend watching longer-form documentaries on the subject (many are on youtube) or finding videos made by real historians if you're interested in learning more!
@@RosieMe5 ...."...had many ways of dealing with rats and mice..." Yeah like eating them. Mhmmm rat pasta..tasty. Nothing is better than putting a mouse between two slices of bread during that time in Europe.
Brownhippie X everything
Imagine the romans or babylonians had more class and hygiene than the medieval
Even Egyptians had plumbing way back during their ancient times
And Egyptians
True! Read 13th Warrior?
What's the thing that surprise you?
Romams had public baths and ancient Cretans had heat system.Also medicine and cosmetics was advanced in ancient Egypt.
Antiquity WAS more advanced than european middle ages!
Not at all, this video is highly incorrect about hygiene and almost everything else.
Check out Shadiversity UA-cam channel for better information
Not to mention they didn't have Netflix or wifi. Dark times indeed....
@@3DHDcat uh, there was the moors in spain... kinda the thing that pissed the Christians off and made them launch the first crusade...
Lol
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Like why even live...
They would have had to spend 5 minutes removing layers of clothing aswell just to get a flash at abit of minge , Thankyou Pornhub , Take me to those sweet bresticles.
My little lady:
Before watching the video: i want to be a princess!
After watching the video: i need to rethink that idea...
HAHAHAHA!!!
Makes one grateful for A LOT of things and innovations which we take for granted today..
actionau like plumbing
Agreeing with @actionau ... I sometimes think, while I'm taking a shower with running warm water, in a warm bathroom, looking out the window at a cold and windy day; even the richest king or queen could not have experienced such a "minor" luxury.
Desiree Silva lmao why are these loser alt right nerdy ass LARPing whiny types all the same
The Rohingya are in danger of ethnic cleansing. Someone being able to see through your racism while you pretend be a victim with your bullshit ass first world problems is not ethnic cleansing lol
@@angelofdeath275 they want to be a victim since they've never experienced it before. " *Oh I went to Starbucks and they gave me a half mocca latte instead of a Frappuccino double mocca latte.* " They need to get over themselves.
As someone who loves medieval history, particularly castles, I must say slot of this is wrong.
The vast majority of castles were actually built out of wood, only the stone, Edwardian castles survived to this day so they are the image that comes up when we think of castles. Also, most castle keeps (were the Lord and the family lived) only had maybe 3 or 4 rooms at most, unless you were say royalty. They weren't this large, vast complext of chambers and winding cooradors as we think of. All the servants usually lived in separate buildings, within the castle grounds, all contained by the castle walls.
Next, most dungeons(and most castles actually didn't even have dungeons) in castles weren't actually underground, but we're towers. Digging underground in the rocky soils of Europe was more costly and labor intensive than just building a several story tower. Elevation was harder to escape or be freed from than subterranean.
Castles were actually not that cold and dark as this video says. Yes they didn't have very many windows and didn't let in much natural light, but they still lit the place with to3ches and candles litterally everywere, and all those open flames warmed the place right up. Especially if it was a wooden castle and not a stone castle.
They also really weren't as dirty as this video makes them out to be. If there was a mess on the floor like a spill or something, some servant cleaned it up. Thats what the servants were ment for. They didn't just leave the filth to cake up and just throw some straw on top of it as a quick coverup. People were actually a bit more hygenically conscious in the middle ages than our modern, stereotypical view of the times. Sure they didn't know about germs, but they did atleast make the connection with filth being linked to diseases. Rule of thumb for them, bad smell= possible disease.
Believe me, I am so damn grateful to have a job, a roof over my head, and food to eat. This is like living like a king.
Could not imagine living as a servant to these families.
And no, I am not rich in the slightest!
This video makes it look and sound worse than it actually was. Living as a servant that was especially close to the noble was pretty good depending on the wealth and prestige of those you serve.
Bleeding Masque. No electricity no heating during winter, good food is a rare commodity lol, no fridge, no hygiene, share a huge bath full of dirty water with more than 100 people where the water looks like a sewage, if your lucky you had a shower once every few months and if you was poor once a year so yes it was tough time to be alive.
@@breezyway9387 First off, you might be surprised to hear that such a thing exists but there's this this ingenious method of providing warmth that many people and cultures have been aware of for thousands of years....
Fire. It's not that hard.
Bleeding Masque. So u can put on fire next to ur bed in your room if you even have your own room in them times lol. What about food , clean clothes, hygiene, i can imagine the whole place smelled like toilet lol not to mention the work an average joe had to do working upto 14 hours a day 7 days a week with no days off. Id rather make £500-1000 a day on my laptop and phone order uber eats every hour and sleep 15 hours a day lol, im thankful i live in this era for real
@@breezyway9387
Second, how so? Go ahead and tell me. No fridge? Guess what? Salt it or keep it in a clean place underground if you can. And on top of that, keep it off the ground.
Third, germ theory obviously wasn't a thing then, but one instance of them understanding the concept of hygiene is a bit of table etiquette from the time in one region is that during a large gathering for meals, you wouldn't scratch your face with your hand. You'd grab something from the table, like bread, scratch your face with that and eat it as to not leave anything from that to other people. If you're talking about the shit covered streets, that scenario is to my knowledge only accounted in one place in one city at one time and it was a street in London. There's even more accounts of laws and regulations for keeping the streets clean because people don't actually like to smell like shit most of the time.
Fourth, baths would only be present if a sense of hygiene is already established. Public bath houses were a thing because people didn't have as much of a sense of privacy as we do, but if some people can establish laws to keep streets clean, they can keep the bath houses clean too. "If you're lucky," then you'd be taking as many baths as you want depending on how lucky you are. The bath houses were public so if you were poor it wouldn't take much as well as I understand it. If you were rich, you could have more privacy if you wanted.
Fifth, yes it was tough to be alive in medieval Europe, but it was also simpler in some ways. I'm not saying I'd prefer it because I'd definitely not. What's important is to remember how lucky many of us are to live today, but to give credit to the people of the past for making our advances possible instead of cheapening everything about it because of a few gross generalizations and archaic misinformation. This video is largely overgeneralized and inaccurate so I'd recommend Shadiversity's UA-cam channel where he has debunked several misconceptions including the ones in this video.
Disney doesn't really skip the torture, that skeleton in Snow White is desperately reaching for a jug of water. That's messed up.
my trailer park is not so bad now
Meth
Until a tornado shows up.
B G no it ain't.
Too bad mr. Lahey he's not around to straighten it all out
B G.yeah you just keep telling yourself that.your life is a lie
Egyptians did it better if you ask me .....
That's what Steve Martin said.
@Farah Facett LMFAOOOOO! I believe it 100%! You people LIE so much about yall history while covering up the true history of others
@john son I've never been offered a mice sandwich in my life till I traveled to Europe. A delicacy that goes back over 600 years.
@john son I can explain all of it: religion haha
It was all fake facts
You kind of sound like principal skinner from the simpsons 😂😂
I can’t unhear it
Thank you!! I couldn't place the voice. Nailed it.
Wow, didn't think about that until your comment. Now I can't unhear it too!
That's all I hear now
Damn 0_0 I hear it too.
The water thing wasn't true. They knew they needed water, so they boiled it free of impurities.
I'm so glad I wasn't born in that era
This video is really f*cking wrong, but you'd still prefer modern convenience.
@@bleedingmasque.6193 chill Bro.
Me too , but we would not have known any different then... But still, ? Wonder why more did not seek out a lake or creek for a wash? Cold or not. Except winter. But like people who get used to their own smells? Pets, smoking, or ? Maybe some got used to it? LOL 👍 I was gonna say no wonder they stayed drunk, Lol, had to be some tho that could hardly stand it ! 🤢
@@tinyGrim1 First off, people were not fucking filthy all the damn time. Bathing was not foreign to them. Second, they were not fucking drunk all the fucking time. I'm so damn tired of having to forward this information to people in the comments of this ludicrously inaccurate video.
@Yeeto Latino Shadiversity, check him out.
Unrelated to the topic, but thank you so much for featuring a picture of Predjama Castle from Slovenia at 5:30! As a Slovene, I am exceptionally proud whenever my tiny native country is featured in something that is presented to a potentially international audience, even if just for a second.
For any castle lovers who may stumble upon this comment, we have *tons* of castles and would be very happy if you visited! Fun fact; the guy who lived in Predjama Castle was actually shot on the toilet while the castle was being attacked for several weeks. There are secret tunnels which enabled his servants to get him food & other supplies, so he was able to endure the siege for a long time, but, unfortunately, a cannonball happened to fly through a window at just the right angle to hit him while he was taking a dump.
This comment was brought to you by the Official Tourist Organization of Slovenia.
Lords and Ladies didn't do much work. Nowadays, the Lords fall asleep at parliament, some things never change
@L K the European union is hated by more then just the left the right hates it too because it is a cesspool of communism and Marxism with a totalitarian iron fist on freedom of speech and expression
@@starman7645 Lol. Nobody mentioned the EU. That stuff happens at every parliament. Its. not. easy. work.
Lords and ladies didn't do the types of work common at that time, often called soft work, being things like politics or economics.
Having to look at poor people absolutely spoils a meal
God, don't even want to imagine the state of their teeth 😱
They actually weren't that bad. They didn't have easy access to sugar and citrus so their enamel stayed intact longer leading to more durable teeth and less cavities. Their breath is another story lol.
@Teringventje yes he was i saw him
@Teringventje Quite easy to conclude after examining human remains skulls/jaws with teeth from that time
Not bad actually. The people of medieval europe cared about oral hygiene. They did stuff such as pick food out of their teeth with picks, clean them with a wet cloth, and used something like wine as a mouthwash.
Or their breath
people did not mind to live like that. In 500 years there will be review on our way of living today and they will be sicked of it, but we do not mind.
Yes it's all a matter of perspective, and its all they knew at the time. Im sure they believed themselves superior to those that came before them.
Imagine letting immigrants flood your country! Surely these days will be looked upon with disdain--if anyone remains to look on them at all
@@tehjamerz people were migrating in the history also, they migrate today and will migrate in future as long there are people on Earth.
Only, this cause can be misused by cunning,adroit and discern esoteric society as a weapon of distracting the majority from the real issues that they want to be obscured. Simply put, to blame another group of people as a cause of the bad situation that they themselves machinated.
Milan Borizovski what a sweeping generalization
@@tehjamerz Better than hasty generalization I guess.
I'd like to learn about ancient Africa😁
Look at 19th century sub-saharan [black] Africa that surrounded European colonies, it was literally the same then as it was in pre-history. Read Heart of Darkness, it was a first hand account of the Congo from the turn of the 20th century. Hell look at a National Geographic mag from the 60's. Egypt or Mediteranian North Africa, i.e. Carthagean civilization, where whites lived in classical times, until the Arabs took over, on the other-hand would make interesting history for this guy to shit on the way he just did medieval Europe.
ninjast4r - Have you ever been to ANY country in Africa?
Do not read ‘Heart of Darkness’ for accurate analysis of the Congo. Unless you’re interested in believing the history of Africa is confined to depictions of us as savages.
Take a look at HomeTeam History’s UA-cam channel.
Diamond Williams Sorry, most of Africa was tribal. “Heart of Darkness” is an accurate depiction of how Africa was, and it’s an easy read at that. It’s a first hand account. Europe’s feudalism wasn’t much better, to be fair.
@Stella H The Moors were just northern africans who borrowed some ideas from Byzantine Greeks and other Christians.
I found my 14-15-16th GGFs were nobles and my 14th was even a judge at the final trial of Mary Queen of Scots. Nice to know they didn’t actually live better than I do now 😂