Could You Have Survived Living As A Medieval Peasant? | Tudor Monastery Farm | Chronicle 

Thank you for this! I'm reading how to be a Tudor!

@@3vaniamariaI’ve reread that several times; I love it!

I love Ruth

She is hands down my favorite historian and I watch everything she does. Cheers

​@@Thewholetreewho is She?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Too bad most people don't think like that today. They only care about their cell phones and being entitled.

Gratitude is never corny. A good virtue.

That's the correct answer. We live off the sweat and sacrifice of those that came before us.

And no time for looney Vegans!

It’s not corny we don’t know what hard work actually is anymore these ppl worked hard labor from eyes open to close everything is at our fingertips order on Amazon or anything online or get in r cars and drive anywhere machines pretty much can do anything for us and we live longer we work hard in other ways today but nothing is easy I thank our past ppls to because of they never figured all these things out we’d still be wearing leaves 😂

Absolutely! People tend to "other" those who lived in the past, as if they aren't the same as us in so many, many ways. Also: *were ^_^

Which village are you referring to ? I live in a small village in Hampshirite county UK .

‘Pure’. That’s hilarious. How much ‘pure’ manual labor have you done?

Sounds ideal!

​@@debbylou5729I've done alot of manual labor. I'd give anything to live in a small village and grow my own food.

@@hyperboreanforeskin that’s what every safe first world person says. Gonna grow your own shoes, too?

Makes me quite jealous to be honest. But then I've always figured I was born in the wrong decade.

I laughed how Ruth’s persona slipped when the eel wriggled around her feet in the boat LOL. They do a marvelous job at their tasks when you figure the are modern folks.

And not a single innovative item present. No cell phones, internet, food processing, clothing manufacturing, no modern cons at all. It boggles the mind how we have made it to the 21st century relatively intact as a species.

Yup. Bet they had a much higher appreciation for the majority of the things we take for granted as "just there."

They were one of the earliest pastoral inventions of humankind, they are so old every single culture with access to fish have some version of the fish trap. Humans are the perfect engineer race

​@maaingan It's always awed me to an extent that people living thousands of miles away could be having the same ideas and working on the same things at the same time.

How to think that all of these tools and traps and clothes and everything are handmade out of organic material, and how little of it survives to this day because it was all perfectly biodegradable. We humans really fucked up with the invent of plastics

@Iðunn I run adblock but you are right, it didnt occur to me that ads are a thing.

They run ads every 5 minutes. Greedy AF

@@skiptoacceptancemdarlin Adblock is a thing. A thing that blocks ads. Hence the name. Adblock.

Youd' never see anything like this on MSM, EVER. Throw out the TV.

PS: The Crown is still at it, what?

You’re 100% correct

Right

Yes. I looked through my family records and noticed I have relatives who lived into their 70s and 80s regularly. There were quite a few that lived until amost 100 (those were Bavarian. One was a grandmother who lived to 103).

That is the average if that’s what they always are talking about. If not then they should change the wording. Like life expectancy or something

@Yankee The Rebel -- In 1900, the average life expectancy in America was age 47. Proper hygiene and nutrition improved health and wellness, but life expectancy would not increase beyond age 47 until medical practices and medicines achieved (1) women surviving child birthing, and (2) children surviving to age 10. Therefore, in 1900 only 4-5% of humankind lived beyond 60+ years. The first generation to grow older together beyond age 60 , was the GI generation (born 1901-1924), Silent generation (born 1925-1945), and then, the Boom generation (1946-1960). These three older generations comprise the older population who either have or are attaining 85+ years together (94-95%) instead of the historic 4-5% elders that society rarely saw in public. No doubt, the Covid19 vaccines reversed the progress mankind achieved. Nevertheless, the world is experiencing a phenomenon never recorded in history. You can find all this data by launching GOOGLE SCHOLAR and choosing search words to bring a plethora of scientific research on these topics. Enjoy! :-)

Yes! Imagine just being able to go and live like this for three months, even a month. Just pure relaxation.

Online or in person? Unfortunately not the deep history we have in the US.

In my day we used xeroxes but I went to grad school in Ireland and England. The first time I was handed a 1500 year old manuscript was awe inspiring.

Maybe we are lacking a solid sense of purpose. We do have it much to easy in many ways.

Difference is you worked mostly for yourself and you saw the fruits of your labor. Not a boss who barely knows your name. And you could survive the whole year on what you worked during a few months.

If you don’t work- you don’t eat. Motivation.

​@@ShortStuffMegs21 Have you ever heard of tenant farmers? How much do you think the farmers working those farms actually got beyond enough resources to survive a season? The serfs enslaved under feudalism only ever got the absolute bare minimum to survive while the feudal lords, who definitely did not know their names, kept the profits and surplus value and yet you act like these people lived lives of plenty and excess instead of back breaking subsistence farming where only 0.001% of the population actually saw the fruits of that labor.

Right? Imagine worrying you're going to starve to death because there hasn't been enough sunlight and you'll have a poor crop yield.

Are you on drugs

I'm thinking they appreciated it much more than we do these days. We take a lot for granted for it just being available.

my girl always jokes shes hooking up with the goofy lore guy LOL

It's the pig, isn't it? :(

@@frankberger7035 always the handsome animal (:

Peter Guinn. I REALLY like him.

you could find a group or two to do a few things like this or similar.

It's mind bogging,they were brilliant

Peasant trades would have included millers, carpenters, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, shoemakers, cobblers, chandlers (candle makers), coopers (barrel makers), tanners, tinkers, potters, weavers, bakers, fletchers (arrow-makers), book-binders, masons, and many others….. So I guess you could say they had quiet A LOT of talent 👍👍👍😊😊😊

What are you absolutely certain you don't want to interrupt your medieval Pig farming with a Peloton class?😅

I've been trying to pick up bits of knowledge like this. I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. 🤷‍♀️ It boggled my mind earlier on the Clock app that there was a video explaining how a kerosene lamp worked. Never crossed my mind that people wouldn't know what it was or how to use it.

Don't quote me on this but I'm guessing tips...street musicians call it busking.

Just craving more and more 😂😂

She probably did alright as long as she didn't run into any vikings looking to pillage the treasures of god lol

Haha well her family was in Bohemia, well away from Vikings.

The planet is routinely hit with meteors, asteroids, solar flares, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, tectonic shifts, earthquakes, etc and you think farming is going to kill it?

​@MartianAmbassador69 Well, it does strip the land of natural minerals and things from overfarming. Kill the soil, kill the planet.

Dogs were better the rats got so big they would kill the cats. They wernot the brown rats that we have here . And people were afraid that the cats would sleep with babies and suffocate them . The dog would get a hold of the rat shake it and it’s neck would break. Rats can jump over three ft high land on a cat bite it with those teeth in the neck and kill it a dog could shake it off then grab it .

Why were cats persecuted then??

@@miaj5118 they weren't, it's a myth

They were associated with witches & having one could brand you a heretic. We can thank this attitude for giving us so many breeds of Terriers. 😄

@@animerlon That's a myth, Terriers are hunting dogs and have nothing to do with this and cats were very common in the middle ages