In this "disposable" culture we have today, it's amazing to see how much imagination and experimentation it took for those in past generations to develop and perfect the art of their crafts to pass down to us. Ruth, Peter and Tom have such contagious enthusiasm in experiencing the amount of work and dedication these people had, how much they accomplished in their lives. I can't help but feel quite in awe of the ingenuity of such a hard working society working together to build something so grand. And I'm grateful to our hosts for bringing this history alive for us. Thanks for posting this program. Educational and enjoyable.
@@jamesbishop5119 So I actually live near Guedelon and have been there a few times (it's a thing in France to get the children to visit the castle with their school) and I can confirm these people are allowed to go back to the XXIst century every night 😂. They have modern labour law, and there are more protections around the buildings than there was in medieval times (like fences around the eight meters tall towers they're working on and so on), etc. I'm pretty sure they aren't healed the medieval way either 😂
It was the fallen angels and nephilim who first brought knowledge ie: masonary astrology, herbalism, animal husbandry, science, laws etc etc.to mankind,
Dying fabric and linen has been around for millennia, Egypt had a very particular turquoise that we have not figured out how it was made, purple is the hardest to achieve.
As a craft interpreter in an American 19th century village, I learned what plants made the dyes used. Boiled onion skins= yellpw cochineal= red indigo= deep blue walnut bark• brown
Wow I learned so much just from this video. How wonderful people are willing to do this to teach us as well as their self how it was done in the past. Thank you for this education..
I was taught the two stitches shown herein by my older (15) when I was five during my pettipoint embroidery lessons. These stitches require a "good eye," steady hand & commitment to detail. I have taught these stitches to crossstitchers in less than 5 mins. Pat in Philly
I am looking at this program and being thankful that I wasn't around during this time. I have so much respect for the ppl that made everything possible back then. I don't think I would have survived a week.
@@lostamericanhistory2536 also the near constant issue of infection would have been normal to them but still really unpleasant. Especially the virus, so many (the plague- "the Black Death" or as they referred to it - The Great Mortality). That stuff is horrifying & there's been nothing like it since the "Spanish Flu" that I'm aware of since that time (1348+). Not to be to grim.....☺
@@davidrustylouis6818 that is true, medical would be one thing that would be hard to give up. The things that killed so easily is nothing to us now. A lot of their ways seemed so primitive to us but my family has been trying to get back to that (growing 100% own food, self sufficient) for years now. We really underestimate how much they knew just to survive. It takes years to get good at gardening, know when its going to frost, what to grow and how to grow it. These people had it down pat. What I've found, the further my family gets from mainstream way of life, the closer and happy we are though.
What's amazing is that, as advanced as we think we are today, 99% of people today couldn't accomplish what these people did with hand tools almost 1000 years ago.
but why should we? we have moved on and advanced and technology has made things more efficient.You are the sort of people who still prefer riding a horse instead of a 4WD SUV with 50 horsepower and V8 Engine like mine
Now I can have a pizza delivered by a robot car. How is that for advancement?! lol. But yea, hard work your whole life to be sure you have shelter and food. That theme hasn't really changed much.
Castles are mindblowingly amazing to visit in person. The imagination they provoke makes my brain smile from lobe to lobe. If you ever have the chance to visit one in person, the memories will lest your lifetime!
For the first time in 60 years as an historian I am getting a glimpse through my computer at master craftsmen at work in the 13th century. I almost expected to hear Middle English. Ladies and Gents, you're awesome.
There were 5 episodes in this series 'Secrets of the Castle' with Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold (2014)--Narrator Paul McGann (8th Dr. Who & Holby City). Excellent historical documentary: 1. Why Build a Castle 2. Defending the Castle (Drew the highest UK viewers of the series-11/24/2014) 3. Inside the Castle 4. The Castle's Community of Skills 5. Beyond the Castle Walls
Amazing how similar the masonry technique is to modern day masonry. I worked as a mason for 10 years most of our stone is pre shaped but we still have to do all the things they show to finish and mate the stone because nothings perfect from factory and modern plans.
Are you saying it's impossible for a modern mason to be outdone by factory manufacturing of stone? Quality items that would be smithed form the same time are being mass produced. I mean you're basically saying they could comunicate just as well if you were a master then and now. It's just wrong. We've vastly increased processing and understanding of minerals and architecture since then.
Yup. This is supposed to be titled somewhere along the lines of how a castle was constructed or something like that. Whoever uploaded it purposely made a click bait title to seem like a new video from them in another castle.
I pretty much stopped it when I figured out which video it actually is. I've seen it already a cpl times. Its good and all, but not what i was expecting.
I adored this marvelous series. I’ve always been fascinated with castles and medieval life particularly weapons. How in the world they managed to contrive so much with so little only shows their ingeniousness. They dealt with inadequate food, shelter and pretty much non-existent health care. It’s little wonder life expectancy was only to mid-30’s. Excellent series I highly recommend it. Thank you so much for sharing!
Yea, there is something fishy about that particular piece of narrative. We are expected to believe that these master stonecutters traveled from country to country bc their marking were followed. It takes a long time to become a máster, also each castle, also traveling to other countries between castles ... kind of hard to all that before 30.
@@wendymoran6759 This is the common misconception with Medieval life expectancy. When calculating life expectancy you look at a number of deaths and the ages at which those people died. Add them all up, then divide by the number of deaths examined to retrieve an average. The problem with this formula is that infant mortality was very, very high during the medieval period. The number of infant deaths drags the life expectancy down, when in reality if you lived passed infancy, living to your 50s or 60s was not at all uncommon!
You don’t realize how labor intensive it was to make anything back in those days. It really does give one a new found appreciation for the people of the past.
I could always imagine the hard and delicate work that these magnificent buildings required but when I actually see how all the work was done, I feel a much bigger appreciation and awe! 😍
My grandmother and grandfather used to run a cotton loom dye business. I remember my mother telling me how colourful our balcony would be from all the dyed loom
You get that kind of satisfaction from pretty much anything you create by hand over a long period of time. A lot of the lessons learned are still learned today when you do an apprenticeship for pretty much any craft. It always teaches technique and patience. I'm thankful I learned metal working from the ground up and while I never went into that field of work, I still benefit from what I learned some 40 years ago. When most people go like "uhh, I'll just buy a new one" I go "how can I fix this" - and more often than not there's a way to do it.
This is what you call real woodworking, sculptural, beautiful stone work with arches and tremendous Mason work with heart and soul put into it. God bless you all. What a tremendous job you all did. That's painstaking but worth it. God truly in the past and even now as you work hard at it has gifted all of you and c those in past ancient to medieval times with talents, knowledge and skills to do all this.
Imagine if someone from the future found these ruins and thought "ahhh, authentic historic ruins from eons ago" when in fact it was an experiment in very recent history...
My mom's side are McNamara's builders of castle's and monasteries, from research I've done theres still a few standing... if we ever get out of our current predicament I'd love to visit them!
Kudos to the team of Royal Realty for showing us everything in so much detail and much respect for their first hand experience practice of everything. This brought a smile on my face 😁
Amazing, Amazing,Amazing... I want to Thank you so much for this video. They were more worldly people then, than they are now. This is just an incredible journey your on, I hope there's more. ❤️
This is absolutely amazing! The people were very committed and disciplined. The blue dye was simply fascinating! The garments would be very expensive of course.
Very interesting and very informative, the amount of labour went into a creation in the medieval aga was overwhelming, I will never again look at a historical monument the same way again, I will always be thinking about the workers and their marvellous work.
I’m deeply impressed by amazing buildings all over the world, always with a thought to their craftsmen. By this series I’m from now on even more in woooow by the skills by our forefathers. This was so eye opening - the teamwork - the knowledge and learning from nature’s material - listening to the stones, I loved when that was said ❤️ Thank you to all of you, - from Denmark…
Thankyou so very much for this insight of history and in general how we arrived at recieving materials for daily living nessesities to manage our needs.
Thank you so much for your guide through the labor and skill the medieval builders developed as they built their stone edifices. The buildings had my admiration before, and now I've gained admiration, intense admiration, for the builders.
They always have poor Pete do all the hard grunt-work. I suppose because he's so big and strong. And Ruth just loves getting her little hands into grit, dirty little gel 🤣
Wow! no word to express my feeling of appreciation is great , with all their hard work , genius art and ways in doing such wonderful nature design by hand .
Gotta love that ambition exceeded what tools dictated to reach what they _believed_ ought to be possible. That's why I never doubt what ancients achieved even if we don't know the minutiae of how they did it.
It’s the reason I gave in and paid for no ads. It’s not that much a month and it really is a lot less irritating! I knew the ads were getting to me when I’d be watching something and just when something was about to happen, AD came on and I wanted to throw my phone! It gets REALLY old after a while.
I love it. Thank you for your hard work. It was very interesting. I would like to see someone remake Gobekli Tepe with the tools that were available at that time period in which it was made. And some of the other mysterious sites that seem impossible to make.
I believe the medieval stone masons, architect and fine stone carvers are actually decades into that job, they're not pretending anymore, its their lives to be medieval artisans in the 21st century.
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If we could go back to that time even for a month, we would appreciate supermarkets, pillows, shoe and clothing stores with all colors and fabrics, spice shops and even our own bathroom. And the dentist.
They might be now with things not fitting as snugly and being old. But, when they were new, everything would have fit well. I'm sure things were built with quality back then.
@Corazon Cubano: They are and were. We visited castles while living in England. Quarters for women and children were usually on the third floor; public reception room on the ground level, next floor was for the lord of the castle. All were accessed by narrow winding and very uneven stone stairs. I wondered how pregnant women and women with babies managed those stairs without falling and suffering serious injury. The other thing I wondered was how they got the firewood up those stairs. The castles we visited had a single, ten-foot wide fireplace on each level, so I don't imagine they burned two or three foot logs.
@@SR-iy4gg They were built to last, but there were no glass windows. At best, inhabitants hung tapestries on the walls. The latrines were open to the weather. Stone and brick becomes what is known as cold-soaked, that is, the stone is cold through and through and always gives off chilled air.
You don't have to look at only castle but any stone masonry building. In warm climates it's an advantage. You get a natural cold comfortable interior 10 degrees less than outside. In cold damp climates well, at least it breaks the wind and that is why they had fireplace in every major room.
Watching this makes me appreciate architecture even more. And I don't even have even the slightest knowledge about architecture. Can't even tell the difference between stalagtite or stalagmite
This has been fascinating and I enjoyed it. Now I want to learn more. Thank you for starting me on my endeavor to learn much more about life in the Middle Ages.
Interesting that they used a center bit instead of a pod (or spoon bit) auger. In furniture history they are thought to be much later, though increasingly there is evidence for earlier use. Note the tool in about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="725">12:05</a> mins. I wonder if they have hard evidence of this tool's use in the middle ages? Great project and great video!
I don't see why they wouldn't be able to use either with the capabilities of the smithie and even in some areas if they would have made chemical improvements to said smithed items based on the knowledge of chemical reactions when creating dyes. Though it would be very interesting to document and trace the exact facts. But honestly, look at the wood they made into planks. It's cut very precisely to be done by even a two man saw. Looks like a lot might be staged.
