I feel like the Four Humors are gonna make a comeback in the alternative medicine world pretty soon because time is a flat circle and the present is the future and the past all at once. ...so what I'm saying is good work!
@@lucifermorning-star9310 what? Psychiatry has literally nothing to do with the four humours at all. Hey you have a genetic chemical imbalance in your brain take this medicine to rectify that is just normal medicine, just for a different area of the body. Now had you said homeopathy on the other hand
The actual answer is that the "dark ages" didn't exist, at least not when/how we think of them. The term originally referred to a time period with an extreme lack of written sources (so, like literally a "dark" age, from a historical perspective), I think it was around like the 11th century but definitely don't quote me on that. During the medieval era, people were absolutely sciencing it up fucking everywhere, and no not in just the "we're being too Eurocentric and the Islamic golden age and shit was happening" way, but like. In Europe, they were doing loads of good work that was super important. My personal favorite Science Bitch from the time is Hildegard of Bingen, a botanist and healer. Miasma theory, more or less the precursor to germ theory, was developed in the medieval era, and that's BIG, like for most of history disease was just sort of... this thing that happened, and like it vaguely tended to clump around certain people/areas, but beyond that it was just completely random. Miasma theory refined that into "disease is specifically transmitted by a type of physical presence in the world that can be contained, tracked and manipulated", which was an immense step forward, and basically gets you as close to germ theory as their tech let them come. People rag on the humors as a medieval specific thing, but like... they kept on going as the dominant theory until the 18 fucking 50s, so it's... I mean they were developed in the 1350s sure but... progress is bumpy, they gelled with the data people had. Also, people bathed. Like a lot, actually, like a weird amount. More than we do, although showers being such a convenient thing now kinda change that dynamic.
Thinking of the medieval era as the "dark ages" is basically imperialist propaganda because at least in Europe there weren't many empires then, and what there were weren't doing too well, so it's just easier to pretend that everything was chaos and ignorance until the Glorious Empire came to be.
This is the thing people forget about science. The Miasma Theory of disease was wrong, but it was way less wrong than theories like "you're sick because you've been cursed by faries". The Miasma Theory correctly identified that streets full of rotting waste and drinking water that's 15% poo is bad for public health, even if they didn't get the mechanics quite right.
Another thing that people don’t know is women were the main medical practitioners in the medieval and renaissance eras! Only men could be fully licensed as doctors, but it was much more expensive to go to them. So the women who practiced medicine as healers-who had all of the same qualifications, just not the title of “physick”-would be the first resource for people who were sick and injured. There are hundreds and hundreds of recipe and medical manuscripts all written and maintained by these women kept in the Folger Shakespeare Library and studied by scholars all over the world. It’s an amazing field! Check out EMROC (the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective) if you want to learn more.
@@kogasfurryjorts5963 That's why Hildegard is my favorite!!! Love those girls, keeping everyone safe and doing it in style. Thanks for the rec, I'll definitely check it out!
The "dark ages" were filled with many brilliant things. But because these brilliant things weren't necessarily based on Greek (and sometimes Roman) philosophy, the prolific poet Petrarch thought the were a "dark time" and called them the Dark Ages, hence the name
This is a nerd ass answer but there’s strong arguments in the medieval history community that the dark ages were primarily a creation of “middle age” knowledge-makers (i.e. church and state) to make their own time period seem less shitty (and more divine).
But can we all agree in retrospect that both time periods were real shitty and thus both encompass a Dark Age, despite what the church wants people to believe?
@Wemple No, but that doesn't mean everything is completely shitty either? Nor does it mean that compared to other time periods it's not an objective improvement?
Serious answer- they did not think like that. People back then didn't recognize change as a world altering thing, they felt that the way things were was just how they were meant to be and changes were just temporary disturbances in the devine way of the universe
Woah! How did you make this? Did you make the tapestry physically and then take photos of it or is it all some kind of complex digital illustration, or what?
If I understand correctly from another answer, he downloaded images of the Bayeux Tapestry (possibly from the Historic Tale Construction Kit, you can look it up online but it's a tool to make this style of tapestry using images of the Bayeux Tapestry) and used the normal movie magic to edit it all together :)
But the serious comment is that I love how many times you shift your style to fit the atmosphere of a goof, yet it’s still definitely A Fraser Connell Creation.
