I can't believe this! I am fascinated by the middle ages and I am always curious about what the average person's experience of it may have been. It would have been smelly.
The thing is if you lived there during that time it would just be normal to you. Kind of like letting children die of cancer because they can’t afford the treatments is normal for Americans.
@stephaniezini which is mind blowing to me since we can't figure out how to do that for all tax paying Americans. That's why I feel like we just refuse to.
Non-american here, eat clean, excercise - but had cancer due to legally sanctioned corporate PFAS pollution. Collateral damage to profit I guess. So fuck that. There's shitloads of cancer due to pollution and other reasons than living unhealthy. As late side-effects of treatment I will probably die around age 45, and will peobably be poor until then due to cognitive damage Never commented on youtube before but really man - it's not that black and white, I get the frustration so not trying to attack you, it's just not that black and white.
Why do Americans feel this irresistible urge insert themselves into everything? Like legitimately how tf have you made medieval London about San Francisco, wtf?
At least you’d probably get used to the smell after a while. While I miss my grandma a lot and I wish she was still here, she was genuinely one of my favorite people… her house *stunk.* She had way too many cats and didn’t clean their litter boxes enough, and she smoked cigarettes indoors. The smell would definitely hit you when you walked in, but after a while, it blended into the background and you didn’t notice the smell. And no, she never noticed how bad it smelled because she didn’t have a sense of smell. Oh, grandma… I miss her so, so much, but I don’t miss the smell of her house at all.
😢 awe reminds me of my nana she passed away in 2018 but she smoked indoors too and you’d get a headache soon as you entered her home 😂. But I sure do love and miss that woman ❤
When walking down Bladder Street, assure that you do not trod upon an Edmund. And as for meat-selling, I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel. First we go down to the docks...
Been bingeing your content and i almost squealed when i saw the new video notification! I’ve been hyper fixated on the medieval period lately and you’ve been scratching that itch. Love your stuff :)
It was for most people you forget that Rome was extremely cruel and living under the empire made life rough. Most people didn't live in the cities in fact hardly anyone did so it doesn't matter that the cities were horribly filthy after it fell. The average European person benefitted from not having to deal with Romans and this is coming from someone who likes Rome. If the Roman empire was a good system at the end it wouldn't of fell. If it would of stayed Hellenistic it probably would of survived and thrived as it did before.
These tales reinforce the fact that ppl in medieval England were not dirty and didn't live in muck. There were strict laws and ppl no more liked muck and filth than they do today.
It’s times like this that I wish that my imagination wasn’t quite so vivid! I think that it’s funny that in so many TV shows and films the Middle Ages are presented like something that Disney would do. Try to imagine the REAL world that Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty might have lived in! Yikes!😲
You're confusing fantasy tales with actual medieval times 😂 Vikings or Kingdom of Heaven would have been better comparisons as those are actually set in the medieval period
@@JamesFromTexas no lit streets, lots of crime, no real police force… impossible to have any sort of control or cohesion for a city that densely populated at that technological time without insane crime. A lot of reason why punishment was so severe for crimes because you could realistically only catch a small portion of people, way more murders back then, or ‘accidental’ deaths
The main reason why cities then were much smaller was due to the fact that hardly anyone had their own transportation and there was no public transit so you had to walk everywhere to get everything you needed. If it was too far away the city would not be able to be viable.
There are cities today where far more people live per square mile, Manila being a prime example. Why you would think that in pre industrial times when a city had to be enclosed by walls and there was no public transport cities would be more spread out is a mystery
And yet another American just inserting some random place in America into a conversation for no fucking reason... it's a video about medieval London. Nobody gives a shit about portland wherever the fuck that is
Despite the challenges like Etori behavior and perilous road conditions highlighted in the video, there’s a strange allure to medieval times for me. The simplicity and authenticity appeal, despite the hardships. In that era, life felt more connected to nature and community. Sure, modern times offer comfort and technology, but there’s a unique charm in the medieval way of life that captivates me. What’s your take on this intriguing comparison?
It's very interesting to learn about, but living in this time would be truly horrible. I don't think you should romanticize it at all. Just live on a farm somewhere and limit your technology use if you really want that.
@@ACL7211 Well, I respectfully disagree with your view that the medieval era was a truly horrible period. I really don’t think so; in my opinion, people were truly humble folks in medieval times, and life was simpler without technology and today’s shenanigans. Regarding your suggestion, that’s what I will do when I get older and have a more stable lifestyle.
Great video of what it was like back then. Such a good chanel for historical content. I would love to see longer and more esoteric content on here, and less of the social justice feminist narrative from the narrator. All in all great content on the middle ages
For some reason taking your vegan girlfriend to 14th Century London for a meat pie is conjuring up some seriously hilarious mental pictures in my mind 🤣
It may be as it might have been - but London is, was, has been and always will be the town I love the most and the capital of the universe. For all eternities. ❤
Our cheek, the candle’s favorite place to come. Our hair where waters congregate to pray. Our teeth the angels wait to gaze upon in rare phenomenons our smiles stay. We’re taxed despite this miracle design. Where once a princess laughed, a tour guide’s there as cameras light the spiral stairs she climbed. In photographs her ghost almost appears. Who taxed a princess? Charging her to live? The morning blossoms on thy face for free, and still the government demands you give- -but mornings also bronzed a princess cheek. Deserving freedom, find that bygone wick, and never let them make you pay to live
You're talking about cities that existed between 4000-2000 BC, and by Rome presumably you mean the late republican and imperial period around 100 BC -350 AD. Either way, this was pretty standard for most pre industrial cities, and early industrial cities weren't much cleaner or tidier. Ur and Nineveh were however, tiny, by comparison, probably not more than 10.000 inhabitants at their height.
Would love to travel back to these times for a whole day, to see and hear what the people truly did act like and sound. Id also like to be able to spectate a battle scene of these times, so much of history is lost/misunderstood, that we dont truly know anything, we know only what we think is true, there is some solid evidence of these times, but i truly believe theres so, so much more we are missing. Theres so much misinformation spread on the internet these days, but as far as i know, this channel is the only one i trust to deliever facts on these times, granted, there are some that are totally inaccurate, but the vast majority are pretty much what we believe to be correct. Much appreciated MedievalMadness, youre doing a fantastic job at delivering these facts.
I love how the curfew was set by authority to protect people from authority killing them 🤣 I love your videos! Been binging them for 3 days in a row now 😅
Wonder back then who cleaned up murder scenes now there are specialised people who do it would they have them back then people who would get rid of bodies after traumer an clean it all up. Or would it just be left there?
The upper floors going over the street was a constructional reason. The walls are bending the wooden floor bars upwards. If they wouldnt do that the floors would slowly bend downwards. Making the floor uneven.
