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I rhought i paid attention in achool. But your description is the most complete explanation of the role of guilds to reach my old brain😮

Peasants generally had it better back then than they do today living under the umbrella of the western empire

Yes.

Hatters thrown out of a guild became....wait for it...wait for it....mad hatters!

In modern times we would call it a "Goatse".

As always... MOAR PLZ!

Fyi-everything smells like animal or human poop back then. EVERYTHING

It's a wheelbarrow.

Becoming masters of doing battle in their terrain and weather conditions like this is why it was so difficult to conquer the northern part of Westeros

i kinda think the coarser meat was pemmican for the poor people since it has more nutrition and they definitely knew how to make it

Fantastic and very inspirational!!

A modern day cooperation would find some way to argue that the word "night" dosn't mean when its dark outside or within a specific period of time and then run 24/7. How much of this kind of skullduggery went on back then?

Thank you for this lovely overview of the guilds.

What I learned from this channel: The darker something is the cheaper it costs

Dear Jason Kingsley, I wish to congratulate you belatedly on being raised to the rank of Commander in the Order Of The British Empire. The knighthood is within your reach, dear squire.

Only the ones who were exiled .

There's a good historical novel in this. I'm swamped in my own writing but would be awesome reading if research is good

The gong farmer at first I thought you were saying gold farmer. 😅 Wonder if one was ever randomly hired to come early just to find something like a gold bracelet that was doped down there by accident. 🤔

I know you are speaking informally, but general inflation cannot be controlled through price-controls. It is entirely a function of how much currency chases how many goods.

Guilds. They aren’t much different than a Mafia. I am guessing it’s necessary to be in one of those, when everyone else is involved in the same way. I’m guessing it’s why Police occasionally are noticed to act in the old ways. Covering for others, and agreeing to a record of events beneficial for them.

Fun fact he completely missed the opportunity to explain, the phrase "dont even have a pot to p!ss in" comes from the fact that if you were hard on cash at the time, you could at least sell your pee after you collected it in a pot. If you didnt even have a pot, you were poorer than p!ss poor, another phrase that comes from that practice.

Things haven't changed much. The rich rule us all while we work their fields for them. The difference is we can leave one lords fields and beg another to work HIS fields for him and we somehow pretend this is freedom.

I'm a member of a modern guild, The Animation Guild in Los Angeles. Started as a trainee/apprentice (after going to art school) and worked my way up to journeyman. All the big studios have contracts with the Animation Guild. The guild looks out for the artists, the studios would have us work for nothing if they could.

Humorism in medicine actually works. Ok, bloodletting was stupid. But the humorist could use the four elements to describe tissue conditions such as inflammation (too fiery) and edema (too wet), and prescribe appropriate herbs. I get a little frustrated with the idea that there were just no medicines until penicillin... frankly, I feel safer trying a medieval cure first. Just not leeches.

I've been fascinated with guilds since I got into genealogical research. My several greats grandfather was a master of the linen weavers' guild in Weiler.

In Germany it seems that the “guild system” for mainly professions that require manual knowledge how (stonemasons, basket maker, black smith, gold smith, silver smith, hair-dresser, miller, mason/brick layer, car mechanic, baker, butcher, etc.) is still prevailing to this day. Maybe not as arbitrary as in the the medieval times, still there is: - an apprenticeship [Lehrling], - the journeyman [Geselle] (to be awarded once the apprenticeship has concluded, usually after 3 years and passing an exam and making an journeyman piece - similar to a master piece, just not as demanding) and then there is - the Master [Meister] (approximately after 7 to 9 years of being a journeyman, passing an exam and producing their master piece, that will be judged by other masters). Sounds quite similar to me 🤔

In one of the Tom Clancy novels Jack Ryan, while visiting England witnesses an IRA Terrorist attack against members of the Royal Family. The attacker's wipe out the security detail but Ryan comes in and on his own saves the members of the royal family. As a reward Elizabeth Knights Jack, however, while he can use the letters, he is not allowed to use the Honorific "Sir" as he is American, and thus not the Queen's subject. If a surf did such a thing (saving the life of a member of the Royal family) could they then be granted their freedom? It wouldn't have to be in a battle, perhaps the crown prince had become lost on a dark stormy night and the surf took the Prince into his home and fed him and warmed him to the point the prince became healthy again.

17:10 This was said by Henry V the character in a play. I doubt the historical King Henry V would have made such a speech, and even if he did, he would have made it in middle English lot Early Modern English as was used in the play. Still, it's a good speech.

I have lived here a year and a day undetected. I am now free. No, actually this is a leap year. you would have been free tomorrow but today you have to be returned to your lord.

The Sword you have next to you is cool. King Arthur? Excalibur???

9:25 Oh Mr Kingsley, Instead of unpaid intern just use the word slave. Guild aprenticeship was basically slavery. Glad we have become more civilised since then.

Thank you very much for another great watch! I'm from the UK and my family name is 'Frith', and I romantically think it's dated back to 6th Century 'Peacemakers' but much more likely, like you said, Swordsman Guilds from the Medieval times. Thanks again.

Interesting presentation. Maybe freeman seems to relate to the feudal period if you were not a freeman Apprentice or thrown out by the guilds you were a serf and every serf must have a Lord or become a vagrant who could be mistreated or even killed. Another thing is that the Apprentices played a decisive role in the English revolution and alongside the journey man seem to be the beginnings of a modern working class and maybe the social backing for the Levellers, etc.

Vagabond Hatter is a perfect name for a folk band.

the Bad Hatter

Sorry for commenting after such a long time (I only found your channel a couple of months ago and haven't gotten around to watching all - but I really love your videos!). I can confirm that wearing chainmail, especially a shorter shirt like yours, is quite easy for a day or even several. You get used to the weight quickly, and because it's so flexible, it doesn't really get in the way or hinder movement at all. I've worn similar mail shirts before (although they weren't riveted) and I didn't really take them off until the evening - and I've even slept in one (once), which wasn't too bad either. I didn't have a gambeson, just a normal linen tunic - getting hit was uncomfortable and left bruises and some chafing, but otherwise I didn't feel ill-protected. I currently don't own a mail shirt, but I just ordered some rings to start making a new one - will be a while until it's finished, but I'm looking forward to it too. I'm going to see if a 6-in-1 pattern will be flexible enough to have the entire shirt made that way, or if I need to do a 4-in-1 pattern at least for some parts like the shoulders. I do believe that the 6-in-1 pattern will help with the weakness against arrows that chainmail has, because the tighter pattern doesn't leave much room for the arrowhead to get into. As I'm working on a full set of equipment for a 6th to 7th century Alamannic nobleman, I'll propably leave it with shorter arms and use some form of Byzantine cheiropsella for protecting the arms - with some chainmail hand guards because I don't like getting hit on the fingers :D

I am a freeman of an ancient London City Guild having been apprenticed in one. Then worked all my life in it.

So a guild was a Trade Union, Standards Board, Insurance Company and welfare office all in one! They must have employed armies of clerks (Scriveners?)

I started this video and accidentally became leader of the thieves guild

@1.00hr Eleanor, Is It How Medeival People BATHED, OR Is IT REALLY HOW Medieval People CLEANSED Daily/Regularly?? Because, I think, You Could BE CLEAN, by Sponging, etc. But NOT Bathing daily, as showers had not yet come to be. WHEN DID Shiwers COME TO BE? Thanks!

I LOVED that Comparison of Driving A Car, But NOT REALLY GETTING What It is LIKE To JOUST!!! Or Druve F1, Nowadays!

@57.20mins I (underlined numerous times) Was Going To SAY LIKE F1 ! Pit Crews, And THEN YOU Said IT!!! Thus has been REALLY interesting!!! Thank YOU!!!

The Normans had a far better grasp of their JudeoChristian faith than the Anglo-Saxons. Old Testament gives strict punishment for being abusive of people in the state of slavery, as well as a mechanism for setting them free. The New Testament book of Philemon really smashes the ball out of the park with Paul telling a slave owner he should treat his slave on the same footing as he does St Paul…very radical indeed. But most people never read them.

PRAIM-O-geniture Like 1 IS PRIME! Am I INcorrect in the pronunciation? ! Please explain, WHY PRIM-o-genuture, and Not PRAIM-O-Geniture. Thanks.😅

Quite a simple video but I found it fascinating how resourceful and efficient people could be back then.

Garderobes might have been for times of emergency. Certainly in peace time dumping everything into the moat would have been wasteful and probably avoided.

In Germany, there's the term "Schlitzohr", meaning sliced/cut/ripped ear - literally translated it's "slit-ear". These days, the proper translation would be "rascal" or "sly dog", but it originates in the guilds and may provide an answer as to what happened to people who were thrown out of their guilds. The idea is that, at least in some towns and cities, guild members would wear earrings as a "badge of membership". And if you got thrown out, that earring was literally ripped or cut from your ear, thus leaving it with a visible slit. That also means that you couldn't just go to another town and start working there, because everybody could see you had already been thrown out. I think there are some tales (although they may not be historically accurate) where former guild members tried to hide it by wearing their hair longer and presenting the other ear when joining another guild, but that trick would only work once at best - and it was risky, because there were very strict laws against this. As always, great video, great presentation, great sword (literally) beside your seat.