Howe were these tiny parts of MEDIEVAL CASTLES used? 

Yeah, Christians are weird. ;)

Listen, once you have kids your mind starts racing, looking for any spot of privacy to make more

@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 😁😇

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As an Exmo, I can confirm that Mormons always think "yep, you can get a quickie in there" any time we see an alcove or broom closet.

What do you call it when a Garand misfires? Projectile Dysfunction.

Lol, you ripped that off from BG3.

​@@abear7199Who cares? It was funny and pertinent to the video.

@@AFVEH I care because it's interesting.

What do you call a gunner with a grenade launcher and diarrhea? Explosive disfunction

On the bed, on the floor On a towel by the door In the tub, in the car Up against the mini-bar

@@sparkieT88in a recycling bin?

@@Springtrapisafurry We have some standards.

@@chipsdubbo6983 only some

@@chipsdubbo6983 well actually......

Yeah, the timing makes more sense in the southern hemisphere.

I always forget that it’s winter there this time of year

I know 😢 reds not my color. I hope they do more colors at some point😊

I'd probably choose one if it was in leather-brown colour with brigandine plate outlines visible... Likewise the chainmail hoodie seems nice..

The hoodies dont ship out until august, so it'll be more appropriate by time they actually come out. But yeah, more colors would be a great addition for sure

Nothing galvanized square steel can't fix

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Privacy wasn't really a thing in those times. At least not for non-lords. In reality, it was normal for people to engage in intimate activities with others in the same room. Particularly the children, because they often spent all of every day at their parents' side. The children were generally expected to just ignore it and/or look away, because while sex wasn't really taboo, blatantly watching would be. The most common time privacy was generally sought out was unmarried persons, whether as youth or those committing adultery. Ironically, since churches most sat empty, this was one of the few places a couple could engage in 'sinful' relations and expect to not be seen.

You probably would have learned not to be a light sleeper at a young age.

@@Blurns Maybe. It's honestly hard to imagine what it's truly like living in such an incredibly different world. That far in the past almost doesn't feel like the same planet anymore. We all can look at the technology (or lack thereof) and how the world was physically different. The things that get more lost to time are the societal differences. The way people perceived their own world when it was the only version of society they could possibly know. We have examples from other parts of the world where the ancient culture has been well-preserved, but medieval Europe got white-washed so hard as the church changed things we really didn't get to preserve what their true way of life was like.

​@@BlurnsIf you are working hard enough light sleeping isn't a problem.

@@TheDoc73 you're making a lot of assumptions and generalizations based on things you half read or watched

Area for changing and such... castles had very little privacy 😂 Could also be a knights room. A baron with a dozen knights would still have to take care of those knights. Not equals, but something close. They also might have a dedicated surgeon/healer... someone trained to remove arrows and bind wounds.

​​@@kevinsears7300 i doubt that castles don't have a lot of privacy. castles have to prepare for sieges and have to be somewhat self-sufficient. that leads to a couple of unfrequented rooms you can go to for privacy. stable, storage, bedrooms, some defensive parts, workshop and more are not always occupied but necessary in a castle. yes there might not be much inbuilt or intended privacy but you can make do. also consider that a castle is not full in times of peace. you need more capacity for soldiers in war than for residents in peace. while a castle in war, especially under siege, will be very crowded, the same castle might only have a dozen permanent inhabitant that could entirely avoid each other.

@@BayWa4eva a BARONS castle has a typical garrison of around 50-150... thats just men at arms... youll see around 7 or 8 at a gatehouse, a handful at various towers... several training in the castle yard... and this is for a baron... all those troops add up... 50 is a pretty low number in times of peace, while times of war might see this drop to around 20 if the small baron is called to serve his leige in battle. A mott and baily is prettymuch the only castles that can be garrisoned by a force of 20 btw. Then theres typically the lord and lady, any aunt uncle, causins and so on... residents in a castle typically number around 200-300(counting the garrison of a typical Baron) But the good news is, most of the causins and such will have some kind of meaningful position in the castle, often these causins will earn their spurs and serve as knights, or work in the kitchens. Especially for barons and baronettes, because the relatives who were not the heir typically werent 'nobility' unless they they were knighted or married to a knight. Was different in scottland, where 90% or more of the castles residents were clan.

@@kevinsears7300 a "typical" castle has a rough time fitting 50-150 men in it for an extended time. are you only referring to huge movie castles? we have lots of castles around here and no there hasn't been a standing army in any of those. there has been a rather small permanent guard and some residents. if your castle needs 50-150 men-at-arms as guard it either is huge or it so vulnerable that you can barely even call it a castle.

@@BayWa4eva 50-150 is pretty standard for castles of barons... or are you forgetting that in addition to being able to provide security, with 2 shifts of guards, they typically had a handful of messengers and escorts for nobles, 50 is likely as few as any castle got after mott and baileys were phased out. It took money to build a castle, but a castle typically had a minimum of a lord, 3 knights, and 50 men at arms. In england and france both, your smallest castles would garrison 15-20 bowmen, either crossbows or longbows... then you had at least 10 riders. These would use their lords horses, wear their lords colors, and be sent with messages or as escorts then you has 20-25 soldiers within the garrison that used weapons from maces to swords to halberds and spears... half of these would be on sentry duty at any time, with around 10 stationed at the main entrance.. And we are talking the smalkest castles... In times of war, when the lord left one of his knights in charge, this number might drop to 20, as he took the rest with him to battle... In scottland, a clan had anywhere from 50 to 300 trained fighting men... 50 meant they lost a few fights and were on their last legs... however in scottland, these were all clan, family of the chieftain. Logically, the minimum 50 makes perfect sense, when you stop and actually use the brain rattling in your head. 20 is the barest minimum needed to defend the smallest castles... and you had guards sleeping in shifts, AND troops to go into battle with the lord... in times of peace, when the lord was at home, the men at arms he takes to war are at home too... When we look at spain and italy, the numbers run closer to 100 for the smallest castles. If you look at an Asian castle, expect their smallest castles to have a garrison of at least 300. India and china both. When we look at walled towns throughour sweden and denmark, we are looking at around 70-80 on the lowest ends, plus around 50-100 men in the torn itself that train on a set day each week and can be called up to fight... but remember in their situation they positioned around 20 guards at each entrance, and typically built fortified towns around a crossroads. IF you had less than 50, you wouldnt have a castle long... a garrison of 30 can hold out for reinforcements, but cannot send fighting men to aid neighbors and allies... you'd be conquered if 2 wolfships or a single dragonship full of ostmen showed up... (aviking is a verb, ostmen is the correct term) the dragons were military sgips with a crew of around 100-120, and a wolfship is the more famous raiding ships, crewed with around 30-40 men... the horseships were wider, cargo vessels, and had a crew of 10-15... rowers sail trimmers, sheethandlers, a skirl... the greek tritemes had 15 oars asside, banked, so 2 rowers per oar, 60 rowers, plus around 30 fighting men... a few of these could easily overwhelm a small castle as well if their garrison was too small. Just THINK ABOUT IT

Thanks to being an island, GB stays a little warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer than you might think. I suspect an east facing window might have someone that needs to be up with first light. A west window would warm in the evening and carry that through much of the night.

I really doubt there was glass in those windows at the time. I don't remember what people would use for insulation back then, but glass was hella expensive, so it would be an insane flex to have glass windowpanes. Also, a castle is meant to withstand sieges, where a lot of stuff would be flying at the towers to potentially break the glass (even through closed shutters), so this flex could be rather short-lived, too. All this to say, it could've been even colder 😅

Well, arrow loops are designed to be opened during a siege so that's not a concern. And large windows would only be put safe distance from the ground if ever. And glass is just one option. You can have a fish bladder or oiled linen cloth. They would not be see-through as they diffuse the light heavily, but they would stop wind while letting the room be lit.

​@@Lonely_Moth I think the windows were paper, unless they were really rich. They could also be taken out.

A good point, although it could have been used just in the summer. I also don't know who wants to wake up with the sun. I think medieval beds often had their own curtains for reasons.

Or an arras.

I think tapestries were smaller, usually... but maybe I could be wrong. The wall hangings/carpets Shad was talking about span an entire wall, acting more like a wallpaper than a painting (which is what I imagine a tapestry is more like)

@@_Squiggle_ Nah, wall hanging is a broad category, tapestry is the specific thing he is talking about and there ain't no size limit. The famous bayeux tapestry is 70 meters long and most tapestries are floor to ceiling.

@@alimaeus455 Huh, now I know. Thanks

HUNG.

Actually, it's used today in cinema and studios to provide additional sound dampening. Still very effective.

Procreating another in a dark room with few small children sound asleep might sound dubious or immoral to outsiders, not really to the ones whose flesh and blood these blessings are. Obviously, be very very mindful, NOT to wake up the ones already out of the uterus. A woeful cry in the night will instantly seize ALL of your attention. Just listen.

It would have been normal to them

It's only considering traumatizing to us today because that's our current morals. Other peoples, throughout the ages and including tribal people today, think nothing of sleeping and being intimate in the same room as the whole family.

That societal discomfort is quite recent and comes from people's jealousy of sex, back then you were married off at 16 and were expected to have sex with your husband or wife or a divorce was in order, in fact the way they figured out if you were having sex is by having sex in front of a room full of strangers, people back then really didn't care about public sex, they only cared about sex outside of mariage. As the bible said its a sin to deny sex to your husband or wife as much as its a sin to have sex outside of marriage. So people just went like, yeah if the bible says so thats our morals, it really doesen't matter where you were if your partner wants it you gotta do it, the only exception to this rule was if you needed time to pray. So people who didn't want to have sex had to go to another room and pray until their partner fell asleep which happened a lot more with men than with women at the time mostly because there was no contraceptives and women had literally nothing else to do in life appart from giving birth and raising children.

"I'm cold. Throw another servant on the fire!"

Firewood expensive, bring up our fattest servant!

There is no point in using any other material unless you live in a place that absolutely doesn't have stone - even desert people use SANDSTONE that easily lasts 5000 years if not damaged, unlike modern materials that inevitably rot away.

@@MauricioOsuna-et8et This is assuming you want to create such permanent structures. Many cultures especially more nomadic ones might not feel the need.

@@MauricioOsuna-et8et My point is that its all about the reason you build and solving problems. Not about making the absolute "best" thing ever. You don't need a quantum computer to play Doom.

Yep. Concrete is cheap and fast but it crumbles in about fifty years. The Romans made some high quality concrete though. Anyway we should return to building for the ages. Yes it take longer and are more expensive but a thousand years later your new house could still be lived in with some modernising.

Imagine: you buy a plot of land and hope that your grandchildren will finally have a house to live in...

In fact, yes. The old word for dungeon is "donjon", which means keep. Originally they kept prisoners there, because that was the most defensible place, and prisoners usually were nobility anyway.

They did keep prisoners in tower rooms, but such inmates would have been of exalted rank. You'd place your high value hostages under similar conditions as you would have lived under back then as a noble. When actual dungeons were used for holding captives, it would have primarily been for those the lord wanted to break down, like their worst enemies. For the unlucky souls the lord of the manor REALLY wanted to do away with, they'd end up executed by being chucked or lowered into an oubliette/bottle dungeon where death would usually come via starvation and dehydration. The oubliette was designed to be absolutely impossible to escape from and is thus technically a variety of immurement (the process or condition of being walled up alive). The term "dungeon" is derived from "donjon", which was the keep of the castle. Despite the terms often being synonymous with "tower", the keep wasn't always a tower, it was simply the main dwelling of a castle.

Personally, that seems like the more likely option to me. Likewise, that sort of little room seems like the sort of place I'd locate my writing desk if I lived in a castle.

Not to mention, if two windows were positioned across from each other in the same room, they could double as a makeshift cooling system. Remember, Europe, especially southern France, Spain, Italy and other countries touching the Mediterranean, have hot summers.

Huh?

In my home town, there's a small log cabin smaller than my bedroom. If I recall, a family of ten or so lived there. This castle room would be huge to that family.

I suspect that it is not a real sword...

It’s shad’s larp sword from calimacil. One of their Witcher swords, to be precise.

Europe is not one country.

Though torture was more prevalent during the Renaissance than medieval period.

Shame he didn’t get to Hardwick Hall while he was over here, there are some wonderful examples of wall tapestries there, a bit more recent than the castles, but still an impressive place to visit.

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That's what she said 😂

​@@Zadamanim thanks for the tip... won't be following up on that though 😂😂