What Was Everyday Life Like In Medieval Britain? 

She presented that intro as if your place in society no longer effects all of those things!

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uhm, you were saying how your place in society determined all these aspects of your life, pretty sure it all still applies.

Sorry. No offence. But you speak of money like it was a common object. Rent, Christmas cash crop, etc. What peasants had money??!!? Lol. Maybe a coin or two, a gem or a nugget, or a promissory note. But their everyday existence did not include money, not in the way a modern person does. They paid rent in grain or goods for starters.

If you don't know what the word "pejorative" means, don't use it.

I couldn’t agree more! She is so delightful and engaging to watch! You can tell how much passion she has for history and the work she does around it!☺️💗👍

Also, she looks like the waitress from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Totally agree! I loved this and really fed off her passion and knowledge.

She got nice cans too

She's perfect

She has some great historical movie reaction videos

@@MidwestFarmToys she kinda looks a bit like the waitress in Always Sunny lol. not intending to mock, she genuinely looks a bit like that actress

She really is! She has a great tempo and interesting information. I haven’t seen her before but she’s is absolutely excellent.

Why do you fancy her?

@@MidwestFarmToys Lucy Worsley 10/10 Yankee woman 1/10🤣

... and we pay higher taxes.

@@marek_petrovsky which mostly go to a social security net, if you live in continental Europe, at least.

@@AggroJordan86 But they had children instead. Real family, not 1 per woman on average (which leads to fast and inevitable crash of our civilization).

We also have a far more comfortable lifestyle. I imagine they would have worked our long hours (assuming you are correct that they didn’t) if they got all the food they could eat, air conditioning, cell phones, medicine, etc

​@@RyanBanman They may have had the same hours during the summer since it naturally had more sunlight (5 am to 8 pm?), but the other seasons would have been shorter with less work, especially in the winter. Candles may not have been cheap. We are more comfortable physically and should be healthier because of technology. Most of us have comparably smaller or no family to rely on. They relied on ale on God for emotional comfort. We rely on hard liquor, heavier illicit drugs, and social media for emotional comfort. I suppose the sexual market was more serious back then. Farming and animal husbandry can be more rewarding because you can easily see the fruits of your labor. It's easy, free exercise as well. Most white-collar work now consists of b*llshit jobs and meaningless tasks. Lower class service workers are treated like serfs anyway. Lack of physical movement and a poor diet are the norm nowadays, and that is leading to shorter life-spans anyway. They didn't have to worry about rampant life philosophies and ideological theories. Their lives were hard but simpler. Heavy or constant work takes your mind off the complex. That's why rates of anxiety and depression are rising steeply in the modern world where you worry about everything even though you have less and lesser work.

it's called historical materialism. marx theory. it's how adults do history now.

Yeah, the British isles are full of thousands of years of history and innovation. But all people want to think about Britain these days is colonizers, ignoring the huge role they've played in world history and the MOSTLY good they've done.

@@AlistairHig Also we often hear feminists nowadays saying that women were treated poorly by the patriarchy in medieval times. If we look into history, we see that it was more teamwork and reciprocation than modern people think!

@@AlistairHig As an Englishman myself I believe we have to be honest about the past and acknowledge the good and the BAD. We were colonisers, and no, we didn't do it for the good of the natives, we did it for profit and power.

@@keithlillis7962 like every other nation in the history of mankind that went in to another nation? Guess we should at hate the Scandinavians and Italians for what the Vikings and Romans done to us then? The past is the past. It seems ridiculous to feel guilt for what people done hundreds of even thousands of years ago.

@@AlistairHig I'm not asking anyone to feel guilty, but I am asking that we in the modern-day, acknowledge the facts from the past. In your initial post, you said that the English did 'more good than harm'. A benevolent dictatorship is still a dictatorship. All former colonising nations should acknowledge this.

Commoners are the regular class of peoples. Peasants are by definition not common and not regular. Peasants are below the commoner class.

Yes it’s an interesting angle rather than focusing on the monarchy.

Shaul is a fine peasant name.

Most of you spoiled wokist would go beserk living under such demanding circumstances. Not much glorification or hysterical genderism those days 😅🤷🏼

@@lukeshaul820 did she peasants made up 80% of the population who could prosper but there was a subclass of serfs?

Thank you! It just be crazy easy to get your doctorate in history studies. Bc this lady makes frequent and wildly incorrect statements, and is also crazy prejudiced against anything involving the church at the time 😂

People shit on the Church. They did ablot of bad, obviously. But they did a lot of good, and the secluded religious groups were really just peaceful and did their own chill thing.

There is a huge difference between writing a carefully sourced and edited academic history book an delivering a lecture. A video like this is more like a lecture delivered to a popular audience. Every lecturer (teacher) does get some things wrong from time to time. For a history enthusiast to listen to a professional academic, spot one incorrect fact, and then discount the whole person is a little naive. Perhaps she was making a distinction between monks. I doubt she is completely unaware that medieval monks worked.

Agreed 100% Still liked learning history in school but it didn't stand out as much to me then.

I had a professor in college who would teach history by telling stories as if she was there....but I know she wasn't so I learned to take her history with a shaker of salt

I'm pretty old, but they didn't teach any history in my school. There wasn't any yet.

@@mikemondano3624 In which country? Lol. I just remember realizing that history is often written by the "winners" and thus, often not told accurately because some let their ego get in the way and leave out a bunch of things that they think will make them look bad

@Turaglas What do you mean by Commonwealth countries?

Corruption isn't limited to certain classes. Whatever system England has, there will still be a certain amount of corruption. Human nature has its negative aspects, whether the individual is a serf or a king. Utopia is not a feasable option. Not with humans involved. Certainly, we should try to minimize bad behavior, but it will alway be with us.

The peasants losing wasn't the worst outcome. The peasants had wildly crazy demands, and were basically wanting communism to be implemented. Even more peasants would likely have died had the revolt succeeded. Then another country would sweep in and take control of the weakened country. That is the best case scenario if the peasants had won. The peasants simply didn't understand enough, to create a better system. There is a reason after many revolutions, a lot of the same people stay in power. Those people are the only ones that know how to keep society running, such as managing complex supply lines, and handling international trade. A successful revolution needs to be lead by better educated leaders, than your typical peasant.

@@maxpowers9129 Your extremely classist and fascist attudes are disgusting. Are u a descendant of an SS officer?

@@maxpowers9129 hi

Churches were basically the complete opposite of ordinary peoples life. Leeching on hard working peoples outcome, demonising and punishment..

All history is an interpretation of sources. Another historian might present these same sources differently. There's no such thing as objective history.

@@kaclama Tell me you've been brainwashed by Howard Zinn, without telling me you've been brainwashed by Howard Zinn...

What I wish I can know more about are the lives of women in the medieval times.

Dr. Beard is one of my favorites, and I will agree Dr. Janega is outstanding.

I definitely.agree with you .Both are great to watch ❤

Yes not just war and kings. She doesn’t even mention who the monarch is at the time

@@chesterdonnelly1212 Yes she did! Richard11.

I am in my 50s and history at school was farming, diseases, etc.

Australia is rich in folk who chose a less restrictive class structure and thus new opportunities. New arrivals either pointed to that or to a broken heart. So my Australian friends tell me.

keep crying about it

In England, your social status is pretty accurately determined by the time you have spoken a half-dozen words.

Nothing stopping an intelligent poor lesson in the UK from going to a university.

@@GUITARTIME2024 1. A very long term and very robust study of children showed that poor children in the top performing 25% of all children at every stage are THREE TIMES LESS likely to get a well paid job in their 20s as the child of wealthy parents who performed in the bottom 25% from kindergarten onwards. This is not comparing average with average, but top with bottom achievers. 2. Schools in working class districts are underfunded in comparison with middle class areas where parents massively subsidise both the school AND private lessons and coaching for their children. 3. Many UK universities, especially the top ones, now require students to demonstrate ahead of matriculation that they have not only tuition fees covered but that they can maintain themselves. There is no longer a maintenance grant. No sweat for wealthier students whose parents can pay their rent and even their groceries, no chance for an 18 year old from a poor family who hasn’t even had a bank account before. How are they going to demonstrate that they can move to that city, get a full time job that will pay an 18 year old enough to live independently, and also study? With great difficulty. They are in places restricted to living at home. But wait - now that every middle class duffer girl and boy goes to uni, even unis in the north / north east like Durham, Newcastle & Hull are full of wealthy southern kids from private schools. 3. The amount of money owed in student debt after a degree is, to a poor person in the UK a HUGE amount, an amount that is frightening as debt. An amount incurred each year of study that is more than the parents earn. Middle class people are confident that they will get a job and be able to repay it. It is hard for poorer people to even imagine that possibility. It is a huge and dangerous unknown. 4. The poorer students in the UK know already that a massive number of jobs for graduates are got through personal connections, and that public advertising is just a formality. They know that apart from who their parents know (which is nobody) they will be judged on a thousand little social details that they don’t even know exist. 5. As said at the start, even the outstanding poorer graduates are crowded out of well paid jobs by not only the mediocre middle class but the dumb and lazy ones as well. And they know it.

What are your metrics for advancement? Family breakdown, crime, human rights, world wars? If all you're measuring is technological or material then I'd have to agree, but there's far more to life than that and I'd suggest the overall record is far less clear-cut. To me, the West appears less free than ever as it heads towards moral, spiritual, financial and demographic collapse.

You know how it ended, tho!

This one can't end the same way though. Or else we are all slaves forever more.

​@@markfranklin1869 What does nitrogen have to do with a revolt? Why not stop destroying your soil for profit and maintain it for the future?

I'd think that what we see with the European farmers, is not so much a 'Peasants' revolt, as it is a Yeoman's revolt. So something of quite a different nature, and also far more threatening to the technocratic power structures ? Its also going to be the case that said Yeoman class will have little in common with, or have sympathy with, today's equivalent of the peasant class, which whilst it may not amount to the 80% of society mentioned in the video, its probably still around 65% of western populations.

Are famine, lawlessness and violent death part of that 'wonderful' storytelling?

Aaaaah I used to watch the TV adaptation of those books with Derek jacobi.

I was introduced to Cadfael by the TV show, and read the books as I could find them. And if you're looking for violence and/or murder, "One Corpse Too Many", "Monk's Hood" and "Virgin in the Ice" spring readily to my mind.

@@OmmerSyssel Cadfael is a unique History/Mystery series. There's only a very small amount of romanticizing and much more general realism to life in a Medieval town with a large Abbey owning a lot of land. There's even a leaper colony and pilgrimages. Read a few and see if you don't end up loving it.

I love historical fiction! I have never heard of this series. Thanks for the suggestion

It wasn't the Black Death that was the turning point that was more or less the straw that broke the camel's back. The Feudal system had been falling about for over a hundred years by the time the plague arrived. One of the earliest event was the passing of the Statute of Merton of 1235 which allowed the Lord of a Manor to enclose common land for his own use provided enough pasture remained for his tenants. It also set how and when he could assert his rights over waste land, Woodlands and pastures against his tenants. This statute quickly became a basis for English Common Law, developing and clarifying legal concepts of ownership.

@@Demun1649 total bollocks.

@@neiloflongbeck5705 He is correct. You live in a two tiered system. They just dress it up with "democracy" to fool you. Besides, Tony Blair basically runs the Tory agenda anyway.

@@fritobandito5374 just because they can afford better lawyers doesn't mean a 2 tier system, so yes he is talking bollocks.

@@neiloflongbeck5705 It's more than just lawyers, mate. Look at the case of Jimmy Savile. Your naivety is kind bollocks.

Yes!

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Temperment on Oxen?

@@mwillblade Most of them are pretty mellow in my experience. Draft horses are pretty mellow as well. My family preferred horses when they were farming. There's an interesting book called "Zero Fighter" by Akira Yoshimura and in it among other things, he discusses how Zero fighters were hauled on ox carts to final assembly because there was no airfield at the factory. Eventually they have to go to draft horses as the production ramps up and the oxen can't keep up with the numbers because they're getting worn out. It's a pretty good read.

@@mwillblade I think when startled Oxen are more likely to freeze while a horse is more likely to bolt When I was a kid I saw a team of horses run off with a plow, it was bouncing 4 feet high! Scary

Didn't@@deadhorse1391 Had a boss who had horses, 2 draft. Had a homemade sled, railroad tie runners, for them to pull. They were big. Came to work one day, shirt mostly open, bandages all over his chest. The draft horses had bolted, yanking him off the sled. Dragged him aways before he let go. Wife was digging gravel out of him for awhile. Crazy man...LOL Crazy riding horses too. One threw me, car came up from behind, dirt road, spooked it. Landed pretty hard, didn't spill a drop of beer. ;0) Horse just went to the roadside to eat grass. Didn't even check to see if I was OK, the bastard.

If you've ridden horses, not for fun but as a means of transport, you very quickly realize why they invented the automobile

You can't read too much Terry Pratchett

Statistically speaking most of us would've been.

I would only be a peasant until i could level up enough gold and exp

The whole series is excellent.

That is one of my favorite books