Medieval is a European period. Various parts of the world developed at different speeds. For example, the iron age began in Rome back when, but the Scandinavians and those on the British Isles were still in the bronze age at that particular time.
The fact that not only you but 36 people liked your comment thinking that the Medieval age would apply in different places scares me. It a European Age. Other areas had their own ages at this time. 🙄
A note on the German Shepard. I recently worked with the production designer of gladiator Arthur Max he told me that they were meant to get wolves but they could only get German Shepard’s for filming.
I don’t know if The Algorithm just found you or if it was some other magic that popped this channel into my recommended, but I can’t stop watching. It’s like VaatiVidya irl. Love it.
Loving the high quality editing, humor and historical accuracy in these videos! 👏🔥Looking forward to seeing this wonderful channel grow and learn more about this infamous time period. Cheers 💖💖💖
Wow! 👍 that is fascinating, keep that book and pass it along your descendants. I reckon it cost a small fortune nowadays. My oldest book is “Devil upon two sticks.” by Le Sage …printed 1708
I'm looking forward to more from this channel. This was a very good first entry to explain the blanket term 'medieval age', it's surprising how many people think that it only includes knights and castles. I'm especially interested in the Viking and Norman ages.
I read Anya Seton's novel Katherine as a child in Los Angeles. It's a romanticization of the 14thCentury liason between John of Gaunt and his mistress, later his Duchess, Katherine Swynford, from whom many European monarchs are descended. For years I dated time as Before and After Katherine, the 1300s being unimaginably old. Then I moved to Istanbul. One obelisk in what's left of our Hippodrome casually states on its bronze plaque: Erected by Theodosius I in 390. I would look out from my apartment across the ruins of the 9thCentury Boukoleon Palace to the Marmara Sea, and marvel at how sophisticated the Byzantines were in the 5thCentury, a time when English history was shrouded for me in misty Arthurian legends. I love your channel, shedding light and humor on the Dark Ages. One thing about the English, they preserve their antiquities and respect the ones from elsewhere in their custody. There's very little left of the Byzantines here, but it is evocative of a time of splendor, learning, beauty.
I love how both the guy sticking a sword into another guy's head AND the guy getting the sword stabbed into his head both have beatific smiles like they're taking a stroll and this happens all the time. Crazy. It's a wonder the human race survived.
Considering Hollywood's primary goal is to entertain at the cost of historical accuracy I suppose we're lucky that Russell Crowe didn't whip out an iPhone
Actually, the conquest and sack of Constantinople was radically violent. So, not so much less burning. The conquest of all the rest of the Eastern Roman Empire happening in the centuries before that was also extremely violent. Not done by 'barbarians', though.
"Logical, intelligent, and progressive" aren't exactly things I attribute to "woke". Based on my observation it is, as you say, world's apart from those things.
Thank you so much for this history lesson, man! Now I can say: "Today, I am smarter than yesterday".😅 It's true. I never really thought of the difference between "the Middle Ages" and "the Dark Ages". It does seem like it would make sense that it is an anachronism like you said. According to Google, the one "who coined the phrase: the Middle Ages" was some Melchior Goldast in 1604. To me, it's clear that no one really knows exactly when "the Middle Ages" started (or even ended), therefore it's clear that history in that time can include anachronisms. Also, "the Middle Ages" itself can be thought of as an anachronism, the historians themselves are not even clear when it started. THERE IS CONFUSION IN TIME: ANACHRONISM. HOWEVER: How can you say "... while everyone just read the Bible", when the Gutenberg Printing Press appeared in 1440, which is approximately during the Renaissance (i.e.: NOT THE MIDDLE AGES!)?
I thought the Dark Ages began with The Fall of Rome and ended with the coronation of Charlemagne... The final breakdown of the ages shown here is quite informative.
Just found this channel and am glad I did! Thank you for clarification of several points I had wondered about. I look forward to viewing the rest of the videos!
Refreshing. That timeline graph is worthy of the usefulcharts channel. Screenshot for handy reference. Time for an Enlightenment revival. Neo-Enlightenment.
It’s perhaps far too “un-PC” to mention, but there are many Islamic countries today, whose beliefs, daily routines-even occupations-are almost indistinguishable from what they were in the Medieval era….
For Britain, the period between the Romans leaving in the 5th century and up to 1066 tends to be considered as the “Dark Age” because so few records survive; also due to the Viking (Danish) invasions at that period’s end. Scotland and Wales are not much better off in terms of surviving records. It more or less aligns with the “Early Middle Age” definition given.
The end of the middle ages was a very gradual process and there's still elements of it that exist today, e.g. take the various chivalric orders that are still around. Feudal structures didn't just collapse once 1500 hit and didn't even end in Russia until the 19th century. However if you want to put a time period on when it ended ,my vote would be the 17th century. Many castles were destroyed or abandoned, standing armies were used more, plate armor and swords were mostly replaced, the joust became less popular, modern science was born, feudal territories really started to consolidate into nation states (think Louis the 14th), capital punishment became less severe (at least by 1700), etc, etc. Obviously a generalization but just my thoughts
In the 19th century serfdom still existed in multiple German states, Spain, Serbia, Austria, Bulgaria etc. As for the feudal structures in existence today, it's not just some decorative chivalric orders, it's in the core of the economic paradigm - the structure of property and appropriation of the earned value.
5:47 sublime use of images to accompany what you're saying. Speaking of sublime, that quote about living among various confusing storms is a perfect summary about how conservative thinking is absolute brainrot
I would like to see a review of the e various so called medieval or renaissance faires in the U.S. I just been through one in Sterling, NY and I had to explain to my son what is “historical” and what is “not”.
A most excellent introduction! I was brought here by the promotion (because it *was*) from the "main" channel of Top 5s with the tales of medieval "ghost stories". But I've always been a bit of a history geek, and enjoy the crap out of this sort of stuff. I look forward to binging the rest of the channel until I catch up to, well, "modern" times. 😛
you're videos are great but I disagree with your version a little. From the fall of Rome in the 5th century to the Crowning of Charlemagne 300 years later was the dark ages. After that came the middle or Medieval age.
Lol the Renaissance Woke culture!!! I love it, I study Medieval History and that’s the best modern day dig I’ve heard. I usually say the Dark Ages were anything but Dark and the Enlightenment was often anything but Enlightened.
There is no, or there is very little (valid) question that islam was the keeper of knowledge & often the 'farmer' of it. During the time in question as well as most other.....which makes it so confusing to hear things like "if it's not in the Quran it's not worth knowing" what is that? Obviously I'm not suggesting you said it but it is said....
You did not mention the Victorian or the industrial revolution.?.? We should now be in the age of technology. Theoretically this could have started in WWI.
@@lilacspring2556 If WOKE is being used here as a synonym for a trendy, (graduate,) middle class fad then fair enough I suppose, although it's clumsy and awkward, but as for, "improvement," generally speaking the overwhelming majority of people of any period, (which is all the term, "The Middle Ages," really is however imprecise and disputed the definition,) prefer that things remain more or less the same, "and as long as they can plow and got market they don't much care who runs the country, etc." Personally I regard all the political WOKE stuff with considerable skepticism and disfavor and think that any comparison whatsoever with the scholarship of the Italian renaissance is probably deeply contrived, even more so, far more so in fact than, "The Middle Ages," it's an almost completely meaningless term. But that's just me.
@@Eris123451 It's probably better stated as "People Who Think Too Much Of Themselves And Often Ignore Reality". But that's kind of unwieldy, despite it being a common human failing demonstrated throughout all of history.
I’ve been so enlightened by your video’s! I was involved in watching WW2 information, but definitely have gotten into the Medieval times! Thanks so much for what you do! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You haven't been enlightened you've been a victim of misinformation. this channel is about educational and acurracy as the actual Disney History channel with their alien conspiracies.
