The Tudors' Bizarre 12 Days Of Christmas Ritual | Tudor Monastery Farm | Absolute History
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- Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold explore the festive season as it would have been celebrated during the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII.
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Ruth Goodman is so excited about history. She has such a sparkle in her eye when she tells what she is doing, and the history of what she is doing. She is the reason I watched the series.
Indeed
Same here. I love her. And Peter with his dreamy eyes 😊
She is so smart when it comes to historical concepts and upbeat.
Same!
Between her eyes and her smile, she could light up an entire Tudor home without candle light!
I LOVED The Tudor Farm series. It was a step back into Pre-Reformation English History, full of the kinds of facts I love to absorb.
Highly recommend Tales From The Valley, if you haven't seen that yet! Swap Alex for Tom and add Stuart and it's basically the same crew, just a little earlier period...so good!!
@@troglodytehunterI haven't heard of that one! Thanks for the heads up:)).
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A little later- it's the Jacobean/ early Stuart era, with some mentions of the English Civil War - but yes, I also highly recommend it!
Can we all appreciate the lighting job the crew did. It could not have been easy to illuminate the space for filming while keeping it warm and natural looking.
I love the togetherness. It’s quite unfair how much better certain aspects of life have gotten but in other senses it’s begun to lack.
My dear, I think this series was about how its the Folks, the Humans who are the producers and cause of these lovely times and we can do the same today, if only we could find such like minds and souls as these nice people here were. But it could be still if we really wanted it. Nothing has to be GONE, even God doesn't destroy, He REPURPOSES.
Yeah, they had 12 whole days off just for Christmas, and there was numerous other holy days on their calendar. Nowadays most workers are lucky to get just Christmas day off and have no actual vacation days. If it weren't for federal laws restricting work hours we wouldn't get any days off. And to think hunter-gatherers only have to work 4 hours a day to survive. Even for farm work, there was only really intense fieldwork during certain times of the year, notably plowing in the spring, which was only a few days, and harvesting in the fall. Winter was something of an off season, there were animals to care for and other things to do, but not that time-intensive. Now there is no off-season for most people. If we could keep most modern medicine and sanitation systems I'd happily go back in most other ways.
@@amberkat8147 If you have a back yard you can plant every inch with whatever fruits and vegetables can be successfully grown in your region, maybe even have a chicken coop. If no yard, there are likely community gardens in your city where you can rent a plot for really cheap, year-round. And even if you live in a high-rise apartment, you don't have to use the electricity, light the rooms with candles or kerosine lamps, stay warm with bundled clothing and blankets, cool with the widows open, etc. I don't know how you would watch youtube videos though, lol. It's fun to romanticize the past but even if the work is as easy and quick to do as you say (and I suspect you might be underestimating that), what would a modern person do with all that free time? I mean a modern person used to being entertained with modern inventions. Just now I think to myself, 'I would pick up sewing again, like when I was married and didn't have to work full-time.' But then I remember, my sewing machine is electric, lol.
@@audreymuzingo933 and candles are actually unhealthy to our respiratory systems, it's a good thing we don't rely on them for lighting
@@audreymuzingo933 No need to be so rude. Anybody can reply if they want , like me. Grow up, be a nicer person. That should take some of your essay writing time up
Plus, nobody today should be relying on candles for light, Fire Brigades are busy enough
Ruth Is so good natured and brave. I love everything she is in
I have a complaint! I'm very upset that this episode... ended. Great show, great job all.
This is part of a whole series about medieval England, you can watch the rest on CZcams, too
Would love to see another 2023 version of this series: amazing view of our history!!!
I guess sign up for History Hit and they might find it if there’s enough demand.
Bad teef n poverty that’s yer history
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Your history....not mine! But I have to say that changing the religious beliefs just to be able to divorce queen Katherine and keep marrying and burying until he finally gets his male heir...Jane Seymour died from the after birth infection ECT... Sorry, but his son passed away at a very young age and his girls ended up ruling Mary "Bloody Mary" and well I would have been safe with her! As I'm a Catholic and went to Catholic school!!! I love my history from all over the world but being from the United States of America and I grew up with a lot of European cultures and stories about "the old country"😊❤🎉
As a history lover myself, I absolutely adore Ruth Goodman and her love, passion, excitement and presentation of history....She even got my 9yo dd excited so now we watch and learn new things together...Thank you Ruth and the team!
13:59 this is just insane to me like, I can go to my pantry right now and have each of those spices in a ready-to-use little container, or at the very least go to the grocery store and buy said spices altogether for less than an hours worth of pay based on my personal hourly income.
This is one of my favorite things about history, is that it shows how far we’ve come as a civilization just to have cinnamon ready to go on a shelf in my pantry. In fact, if I’m feeling fancy, I can buy the cinnamon bark stick things 😅 and grind the cinnamon myself. I just love those little moments where you can compare life today verses life back then
If you've never tried freshly grating your nutmeg, I highly recommend it.
It's SO much better than the pre-ground stuff you buy at the grocery store.
It almost tastes like a different spice than the pre-ground stuff.
These shows made me realize how lucky we are today. I love the way everyone helped each other out during these times, but everything was so much harder. I'm grateful to have been born when I was. These shows were all so awesome, I loved all of the farm series. I wish they had done more shows, I grew to love Tom and Alex and Peter and Ruth and I rewatch the shows over and over again just to see them.
Oh yeah. The past is the worst. One day that will be us.
It is great seeing these types of shows, but I wouldn't want to live in any time before antibiotics were common. The past WAS the worst in almost every way. Still it is fun to see how things that are largely automated now were done by hand.
Yes, say goodbye to that. I can only imagine what the gen. before us (millennials) think about us (millennials)? It must be horrendous if it is any close to how I feel about gen z (I mean the tik tok junkies and lovers of self)
@@deaniej2766 we are a lot worse than the past. A LOT worse.
Ak47. Times are worse. Says the violent right guy who names himself after a deadly weapon. You ought to know, sheep.
I would ❤️ to attend a Ruth Goodman Christmas feast!
Absolutely! Every thing Ruth does is done with so much joy.
Only if I can be the designated farter
It always seems that Peter and Ruth work the hardest on all the different series I've seen them in.
Maybe they're looking on to learn?
The other guy they had in Victorian farm, tales from green valley, etc suffered a back injury during filming of Tudor farm and couldn’t participate to the fullest
@@karenvonbargen4472 Hi karen Good evening. I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….
After watching this, I am so glad I live in the 21st century. My pellet stove adding supplemental heat to my gas furnace. All I had to worry about this year was the huge blizzard covering much of the US making driving pure hell.
My Nanna (grandma) would always put "thrupnee bits" (three penny coins) in our Christmas pudding and she'd exhange them for dollars when we found them - I guess that came from the pea in the 12th night pudding tradition.
I love everything that Ruth Goodman does….She’s not a bit timid or afraid or squeamish to “get her hands dirty” handling whatever she needs to - which, BTW, would turn my stomach. God love her!!!
Her enthusiasm for history is so genuine and she is the hardest working “teacher” that desires nothing more than to present history in the most authentic way as possible. I consider myself one of her many “students,” and I live in NC. She is absolutely incredibly AWESOME!! Let me quickly add the answer to the question often asked “If you were stranded …on an island, on a mountain, in a secluded cabin in Alaska - almost anywhere really - (LMBO), who would you want to be stranded with?” Answer (without hesitation): Ruth Goodman, especially since I want to survive - LMBO!!
Thank you Ruth, Peter and everyone who works so hard to bring us these series. Blessings from the USA! 🇺🇸❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸
My Mexican family starts celebration on Dec 12th, ending on January 7th, then we do Candelaria on Feb 2nd
So right you are! Or a Simon Whistler says:’The past is the worst.’
In puerto rico is all month of December. It's called Parranda Navideña .
In polish tradition we have the Wigiłia, 13 meatless, very specific dishes on December 24..starting when the first star appears in the sky..then we pass around the opłatki, like a communion like wafer with different scenes imprinted on them..each person gets there own and takes a piece of everyone else's..starts with the father or eldest patriarch, all the way down to the youngest girl..there is even one for the animals..there is hay on the table with a white table cloth over it..a chair and empty plates is always left out for either Christ should He decide to come, or a guest or beggar, if one happens to show up..then presents and some drinking..then all go to Pasterka, Christmas Midnight Mass..then next day food, presents, visiting family..but the big deal is Christmas Eve Wigiłia..
Then Jan 6,. 3 Kings Day, there is a chalk blessing above the entry door of the family home writing "20+K+M+B+24" for 2024 for example, written with blessed chalk..then blessing of throats on Saint Blaise Day Feb 1, and Candlesmas, the next day we take candles to Church to get blessed, and those candles are lit during storms to protect from lightning. Candlemas officially ends the Christmas Season..yes, there's the Christmas Octave, and the 12 days, but the Season officially lasts to and ends on February 2..there's many other things we do, but that's some it. God bless Mary protect +++
48:01 I cannot believe that dude is playing actual music with a friggin PLANT STEM!!! And it sounds like actual Medieval music, or what I've heard of it anyway. Incredible!
Lol Ruth does definitely wear the pants in the farm house of this series
Good God I have missed these three, absolutely love them and to a degree envy them that they can live it again, in the raw. Then I am old and used to hearing about it and smiling,. because I can have a hot cup of tea at the touch of an electric kettle. These three amazing people are just that, amazing, and incredible that they live the life to show us all how it goes.
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Taking simple ingredients, along with some luxurious ones, and making the best of it all is the exemplification of the phrase "It's the thought that counts". Plus it looks delicious. Gotta give yourself a reason to survive the winter, after all.
I want to bring back having neighbors come together for public revelry.
Couldn't think of any thing worse, one should not have anything to do with the neighbours, they cause nothing but trouble.
No way... My neighbors hate me and my family. They think we're nazis.
@@Reub3 NO there are not
God bless you All!
This cast seems so authentic it makes me feel like we’re truly there!!
Love me some Ruth, Tom, and Peter 🥰
Very cool holiday video from my favorite group of historical teachers. Thanks everyone.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. But I did notice one inconsistency, when you mentioned no one worked during the 12 days of Christmas, I think you overlooked all that work done in the kitchen to prepare the feasts to come. Tudor feasting involved a lot of work. haha
They mention kitchen staff working during the 12 days @33:48
For the first time as an adult ; I’m excited about Christmas. I now understand the need.
I love this series and the way that they present all of this information, but I can’t get over how cute this piglets are!
Yes! And they did not deserve being used and abused by humans. Not necessary.
The best part of traditions is that they can change or even be brought around again for a refresh with historical backing. Always enjoyed the Tudor Monastery Farm series, and I highly recommend the books by these archeologists and historians. Very good reading.
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Ruth is a gem. The blokes are alright too. Great video. Really got me in the Christmas spirit!
What a wonderful episode! Get a sense of the difficulties of the time, but the real joy, laughter and hope as well. Thank you.
Haha, all the parties Prof. Ronald Hutton has been to across the historic farm series, always invited for the fun bits!
Wasn't feeling too Christmassy until I stumbled onto this video. Now I do!
i miss peter so much😭 i hope he's having a great day
I love finding these documentaries with Ruth & the guys that I have somehow missed! She always is happy to show how things were done & the guys with their parts, do such a good job bringing the men's parts to life again.
I love how whenever they're loud, you can hear Ruth the clearest. I love her!
What a wonderful support of community and sharing....the celebration to look forward to after a year's hard labor!
I adore Ruth. She’s absolutely a darling. I could listen to her lecture for hours. She has such a good enthusiasm and cadence.
I am a farm wife and I’m grateful for the leisure time I get to have. We grow mostly cereal grains and grassland for cattle. I don’t even have a garden.
It makes me appreciate the ancestors who worked so hard before me.
Humans should not even be eating animals. We are not physiologically made to eat them. To do so is therefore, sheer cruelty. Farmers should only grow plants which is what we are designed to eat. So much more nutrition in plants than in corpses.
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In The Royal Canadian Regiment we had deep British traditions.
On our birthday the youngest member of your Battalion became the Commander the real CO was arrested and thrown in jail. All to much hilarity and irreverent fun.
We totally desecrated our uniforms.great memories
Thanks
wow, quite eye opening. thanks for such a detailed look at traditions that have been forgotten. i learned so many things.
I loved everything about this.
Peter in his felt crown: "Right, CHAOS!!"
YESSIR!!
I kept a subsistence farm in S. Ohio. I was not yet 30, but the only one with any experience, and much of that was from books. I will never forget the look on my husband's face, when I'd cut around the pig's head, seized it by the ears, and twisted it off with that distinctive sound! Luckily, our pig's head went to a Mennonite Sister for souse meat. I didn't even have to brush his teeth!
Husband: ....... remind me NEVER to make you mad....!
VOMIT
This is bloody psychopathic. Not necessary to harm anyone. Doing harm is psychopathic.
@@carolbarrett6492the pig was already dead by the time the head came off 🙄
I just discovered this show and I absolutely LOVE it. I would love to be on a show like this, living history!!
Tudor monestary farm is my favorite series on this channel!
That woman, Ruth, worked her fingers to the bone, what'd she get ?!? BONEY FINGERS !!! A great hard working gal !! Wonderful show with lots of enthusiasm I loved it !!
I enjoyed watching this so much, thank you to everyone who makes these videos possible
This was a great series.
My family does Yale celebrates ending on January 1, then on to Three Kings day. So December 21st to January 6 is very busy. By then. I am tired. And we also have the farm work and homeschool on top of everything else to do.
Some night know the Three King's Day by it's Church designation. The feast of the epiphany. That is why I recall correctly January 6th and celebrate the arrival of the Magi 2 years later by the way to give Christ his gifts all of which symbolizes upcoming sacrifice. You follow the one God are so wacky
oh! that was marvelous!
I loved the blessing of the old man, at the end
Loved EVERYTHING about this 😍
I must say, I was wishing I was with you there when I was watching this. It was a delight! I LOVE Christmas! but I would have loved it back then too if I was lucky enough to have been with a good farm and folks like you all were. Thank You for this program, you gave me Joy!
Love seeing how Christmas is kept all OVER the world, throughout history.
We sang that carol, or at least one with the same tune, in our madrigal choir! Awesome.
Yes, the "12 days of Christmas" is the 12 days AFTER Christmas Eve until Epiphany! I really dislike it when people take down everything before then!!!!!! Don't celebrate the holiday if one cannot do it properly!!!!
I learned a lot from this. The origin of some traditions now makes sense.
Gosh this was excellent. Ruth really makes it life like she's such an inspiration 🥰
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So interesting and I learned so much. Love it.❤ Happy Christmas to everyone.
Incredible....I absolutely LOVE these brilliant episodes. I learn more than I could ever believe!!
Absolute History is back?!?!🎊🎆🎉✨👌🤗💚
The 25th of December still is the first day of the 12 days of Christmas. The feast days of the saints are still kept. Several things the narrator said "was" for still Is.
Especially if one is a Catholic, especially traditional Catholic ie integralist etc +++
congratulations ruth! you were fantastic. the acting even better than Katherine Hepburn in Golden Pond! i really find all of you so successful. thx for giving us a chance to experience life style in tudor age. as a classical archaeologist, i am quite fascinated with all i learn here... tallow candles, stooking sheaves, laying gorse under barley, alexanders, primrose, dandelion, hyssop as winter staples, pies made in coffins, fish, puffin, seals... stone masonry, carpentry, iron smelting and even steel production. absolutely fantastic!!!
This is amazing !!! I love seeing historical traditions I've read about come to life ! Well done.
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I have watched them all they're all amazing. I loved this one because you went deeper. Thank you
Thank you for sharing. I get bothered when People post about the 12 days of Christmas being before Christmas
I loved this series! They all did such a fantastic job and I learned a ton
I think Peter hit the nail on the head when he said they did not want to cut Holly trees down because they go pricked😅 they made them up a story to get out of cutting them down. 😉
As a chiropractor I love the head twisting part lol😮😂😂
loved the historical aspects of this documentary and the cultural context.. made me think we take soo much for granted with our technological society today. well done.
Such a fascinating series. Loved this episode.
Very informative I love good shows with so much to teach. Thank you so much!
I see so many comments talking about Ruth, Peter and Tom as if Tom had always been there. Yet, this is the first series I've seen Tom in. Before it was Alex. I missed Alex but, Tom was pretty good addition to the group.
I thoroughly enjoyed that one. Thank you!
I love Christmas. I also love history. But I love most that this was narrated by Cate Blanchett. Shes the absolute best. Merry Christmas everyone!
Now that was very interesting. Thank you for posting it
They surely seemed to have had fun back then, more then we do nowadays.
What if everyone in the village went wassailing at the same time? Nobody would be home lol.
I love Ruth so much ❤ I’m also obsessed with her use of the f word in a historical way 🤣
Great show, Merry Christmas ⛄🎄 !!
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Great series, Merry Christmas all!
Love the heritage farm series
Watching him in the holly tree was hilarious😂😊
I was delighted to find this video having seen others made by Ruth and her team. It was pure pleasure watching it.
Glad to see people keeping history alive😎
omg i love her. the series recreating farm life in medieval england is so cool
Every time I watch Ruth, Peter, and Tom, I learn new things and understand the past better. Of course roles were reversed: someone became the lord of Misrule; a boy became a bishop. It was a time of reversal, just as the sun itself was reversing; bringing long days out of short ones. Our ancestors understood the pattern of the universe and imitated it.
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How fun to watch how ppl celebrated long ago!
I love this series. So informative and entertaining.
Wasn't at all surprised that Ruth would be the one to start the food fight. lol. What a fun person!
This was so fun, i smiled and laughed, especially at the end. I’m glad these videos are here for us to enjoy, thank you team 😊
I've been lucky enough to have real mince meat pie before! I had it a couple of times when I was a child. One of my grandmothers made it. I remember always asking for mince meat pie on the holidays and as I got older it was the kind that didn't have meat.
Such a good series
Great show love it
Ruth’s laughter is the definition of a hysterical laugh.
New subscriber here. Merry Christmas.🎄 Keep up the amazing content!
This is interesting and also great to fall asleep to
Amazing and so educational!
I love the different series they have done. Very educational
Is it normal for tees to have all their leaves in December? Not asking to be snarky. Understand if they shot earlier in the year so it was warmer for participants
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Lol
If I was going to go time traveling, I would stuff my clothes full of antibiotics, spices and silk thread.