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- Professor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armstrong answers your questions about the Middle Ages from Twitter. Why is it called the "Middle" Ages? What activities did people do for fun? Why were animals tried in court for crimes? Answers to these questions and many more await-it's Medieval Support.
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Expert: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Kelsey Barnhart
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
00:00 Medieval Support
00:11 Medieval English
00:57 Middle Ages
01:40 Red Wedding
03:19 Sleep Cycles
04:34 Torture Devices
05:15 Medieval Castle
06:17 Motes
06:50 Hygiene
07:26 Black Death
08:19 Infant Mortality
09:37 Animal Depictions
10:27 For Fun
11:04 Court Jesters
11:57 Jousting
12:47 Animal Crime
14:02 King Arthur
15:11 Sword Naming
15:41 Vikings
16:56 Medieval Women
18:13 Holy Grail
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7:28 “They did not. Most of them died.” Delivery was so dry and factual but this made me genuinely laugh out loud
Same!
It's good to get out though haha. For some reason people keep asking questions like "How did people in the past deal with X then?" when they doubt the efficacy or importance of something we currently have that they didn't have in the past (IE Vaccines, etc.). And the answer a lot of times is that. They just dealt with it. However bad it may be. And it often sucked. "People have been giving birth since humans were around, natural is best!" I mean, people have also been dying in child birth since humans were around too. Frequently. They also died of disesases we have vaccines for all the time. They also had terrible diets, not some idealized "natural" diet that is perfectly designed for them. Life was just harder and had a lot less value in the past and we take almost all modern advances for granted because we frequently don't have any other context. When we DID live through the other option, we tend to be more supportive of the advances. Most people that are old enough to remember Polio and TB and Measels and so on being massive epidemics that crippled and killed millions don't end up anti-vaxx for instance simply because they remember what it was like before widespread adoption of vaccines.
Well they died, so.
Same! hahahaha
Haha, me too!
Please give us 10 more videos with this woman!!!!
This!
absolutely!!! i'm really not that interested in middle age history but this (Dr. Armstrong) was just so amazing, i'm here for hours of this!
Yes please!
She has a fantastic series on the Black Death on the Great Courses :D
You may want to add a couple of zero to the back of that number! We need more!
The way she knew GOT lore just as well as medieval history made this even better
She's also a professor of literature!
I mean… it’s probably everything she always wanted lol
They def get the questions in advance to be prepared.
As a Spanish native speaker I have realized that I have never mispronounced anything, I was just talking in Medieval English!
Yes! It makes me appreciate my accent ever more 😂
And when you mispronounced Spanish, you were just talking in Portuguese.
"this stain, my Lord, has been done by our beloved cat, who peed on, he is a trouble maker and a scoundrel."
at least back then you'd have the option of taking him to court.
If you google image search, you have to remember that arrow as a symbol for pointing is very recent, so you have these lovely images of drawn pointing fingers on stained papers.
And his name was Ruffles wich thy name is pronounced RA-u-FFeLyEs 📜
Beloved AND a scoundrel. Yep, he was definitely a cat.
@@claytonberg721>The cat wins the case, becomes officially canonized, and you get 15 mins on the rack for bothering the cat
A queen who not only divorced her husband, but got quickly remarried and had several sons, among them the famous Richard Lionheart, but she also lived to 80yrs old!?
That's a lifetime achievement award!
not only that she supported Richards revolt against Henry II and then acted as regent while he was on the crusades
She was legitimately one of the most powerful European women in history, her influence and wealth were almost unmatched by ANYONE of any gender. Really an incredible historical figure.
Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshall are two of my favorite medieval personalities. Both lived to a ripe old age
I’d like to recommend the book “A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century” by Barbara Tuchman.
Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II were an absolute power couple. It’s a shame their kids were such greedy shits.
3:48 Wakes up at 11 midnight
"Lo! 'Tis a fine hour to meet mine neighbor Jake anon."
Let's bring this back for the night people(like me)! Snacks and revelry for all my men! Yes of course! Do bring the doggies, be they sainted or not!
"Forsooth, let us partake in the Netflix and enjoy the Stranger of Things!"
So basically, medieval people were all Sims.
Im down for this two stages of of sleep thing lately I'll sleep for 5 hours then be up for a cpl hours and back to bed for the rest of my sleep lol
And that practice continued up to the invention of the light bulb. I've heard that references to the "second sleep" were edited out of georgian novels such as Jane Ayre
Hmm wow. I always thought the whole "KNIGGET" pronunciation of knight was just a monty python joke
Funny enough Ser Davos said knighet in game of thrones when Stannis' daughter was teaching hi to read
The word knight is related to the Dutch word 'knecht' (which means servant) , and is almost the same pronounced today as knight was in old/middle english.
knäkt in swedish
I came here to say the same thing.
@@PennyAfNorberg Knekt in swedish, but yes. Also "house" is Hus in swedish as well
I loved how cats are just as "I do what I want" back then as they are now. 😂
And people were pretty tolerant of their antics too 🤣
they are catch the rats. and so cute. 😂❤🐈🐈⬛
the monk shaming the cat in said manuscript is just peak "I'm not having this remade or doing this over again"
In those times there was no printing press and the materials for such manuscripts would've been costly to obtain since they predate the use of paper, also you have to consider how detailed the illustrations were.
the note is in Latin, and apparently says "Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during the night in Daventer. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
We need more history experts on this show!
Autism cat ?
If it's the topic about history Other than that it would be useless to have them on
12:47 Can we start a petition to get that dog canonised!! Justice for Saint Guinefort!
This story made me cry! Saint Guinefort was a true martyr!
what i love is how that story entered folklore! I have received several copypastas in my emails back in the day, and later on social media, about this tale - some details changed, like the profession of the man and the breed of the dog, but it was basically the same story. Our capacity for storytelling is fascinating!
@@mariaraposabranca7062 Lady and the Tramp is basically the same story without the dog dying.
@@spiderqueen601 It's like the story of Genghis Khan's falcon 💔
the most cannonical good boy
It's always nice whenever the Teacher really reads out the whole tweet, with cuss words and all.
brings more character. 😂❤
“What did they do for fun?” a whole lot of se-
dont forget the booze!
@@irimac1806don’t forget using religion as an excuse to commit genocide!
Things have not changed much
we call it hide the sausage around here
@@giasharie274 Now we have video games, Netflix, amusement parks, and uh, substances, they could've never imagined.
What do you mean there is no Iron Maiden? I've been to their concert. I've seen them with my own eyes
The coffin with spikes inside, the iron maiden, is what she meant. Not the band
@@luska5522I know, I was kidding
@@luska5522cmon man…
They were as real as it gets. Still are. And don't you forget it
@@luska5522 🤓
On the "animal drawing" question, I have to add that animals are difficult to draw: unlike with people, you can't get an animal to holds a pose for you. Before photography, artists relied a lot on dead / taxidermies animals to draw animals.
And in case of exotic animals, sometimes only on the witness description. So it is actually quite impressive if people who never saw an animal were able to somehow accurately draw it.
My spouse is no longer in the workforce, but she's still an amazing hooseweef.
😂❤
Your spoos
😂
That's still how we pronounce it in some accents of Dutch
@@LeekClock 😂 "spoos" 😂😂😂
Professor Armstrong is one of my favorite instructors on Great Courses Plus -- her Black Death courses, especially her more recent updated course, with latest research results, is amazing! SHE'S amazing!
Cue me running to Libby to borrow her courses
THANK YOU KIND SOUL. OFF TO HOOPLA
This might be my favorite Wired yet. Bring Dr. Armstrong back PLZ!!
Please be aware that she did actually make numerous false statements and oversights during this video. She openly denied how medieval plague doctors dressed with beaks when that is actually what they wore. She also made it seem like the bubonic plague was equally as harsh as it was in the mid 14th to the early 18th century, when any subsequent outbreaks were generally localized and much smaller.
@@trapezoid5810she said they didn’t wear that type of outfit, that we see represented in so much artwork, until much later, in the 17th century
@@trapezoid5810 sources?
@brunoir283 They're all listed in my original comment, they're all historical journals and entries. You can view all of person's comments on any channel. That comment begins with "this is a very interesting video..."
@@trapezoid5810 I can't see your other comments but that does is provide different and opposing sources, one that you've chosen to believe. That doesn't make her wrong. YT doesn't like links but a very quick search shows a site called Live Science that backs up her position of beaked masks not appearing until after the middle ages. Masks were worn earlier but not beaked ones. I'm not claiming who is right or wrong, only that you haven't proven her wrong. 🙂
Prof Armstrong is brilliant, have been a huge fan for ages. She is the Queen of Arthurian academia. Pls can we get another 15 videos with her?
I dont know if she is that awsome!
Her chain mail jewelry is perfection ❤
Every nation probably have their own version of the Red Wedding some time during history. Also, Martin has said the Red Wedding was inspired by two events - The Black Dinner of Scotland in 1440 (as mentioned) and the Gelncoe Massacre in 1692.
There is a strong slant towards Anglo-saxon history and their general vicinity in YT medievalist content - mostly because so often the content is created by English Medieval Historians. So it is quite natural they gravitate towards comparing to what they know.
The Stockholm Bloodbath (Nov 1520) went similarly too.
@veevoir Bruh that's not even taking into account what the East was doing. The Byzantine Empire was an entirely different beast.
I would like to see a debate between the two. Of course she will decline
I always assumed it was the McDonalds Glencoe one.
My husky would be a criminal during the Middle Ages
so would my shiba inu 😂
@@ilhuicatlamatiniScammed people of their wealth
You husky is clearly possessed by Satan
On the plus side, a husky could probably sway a jury.
They are among the more "talkative" of breeds and could convincingly paint others (including their owners) as the true villain.
@@MrVvulf Wouldn't that just convince them more that they were demon posessed? 😂
The Church knew if they made one dog a Saint, they'd have an endless list of Sainted dogs 😂
they knew dog was better than man .-.
So true 🤣
It would've been all dogs lol
All dogs go to heaven. And then you have Saint Bernards
On a more serious note, they actually believed animals didn't have souls and thus were lesser than humans. You can't make something without a soul a saint. I personally believe the dog was far more worthy of sainthood than most legitimate saints.
I wasn't sure if "Roland the Farter" would come up in this video or not 🤣.
I wish entertainment was that easy now. My dad would have been a billionaire.
I love her courses on Great Courses!!! She is so knowledgeable and makes history fun and approachable.
Signing up now!! Thank you
agreed- her Black Death course is a favorite
Me too!
Great tip!!
I'm a huge medieval geek, This is a treat
I am happy that many clishees were covered in this vid.
Are you a gamer? Sooo many immersive medieval games.
Me too!
@@JaytecxWould you be willing to share some favorites? Choosing a video game based on anything other than a sick cover is out of my skill set but my boyfriend is a massive fan of both games and history in general and his birthday is coming up!!
@@ClayAching Kingdom Come Deliverance is a super fun and immersive game set in the middle ages. The story and progression are amazing and it is also graphically beautiful. It has a sequel coming out at the end of this year as well due to the first games success.
Please give us a sequel!! What a great lady
Don't know if anyone else has commented but the story of the sainted greyhound is almost identical to a story in medieval Cymru (Wales) about a dog called Gelert. In fact, you can visit where his grave is meant to be in a village in North Cymru called 'Beddgelert' which translates as Gelert's grave.
Curiously.. Bedd.. so also resting place.
So that’s why Gelerts are vaguely greyhound-shaped in Neopets! 😳 the name brought back my early 2000s Neopets memories 😅
Dr. Armstrong made me fall in love with medieval history twenty years ago with her book on gender and chivalry. She's also done an incredible series on the Black Death. My favorite historian hands down.
You definitely have my sub. This content is next level. For me Unimantic was the turning point. Please keep doing what you do and keep being you, love it.
Bring her back. Awesome, awesome breakdown.
I love the question regarding the favorite mediaeval castle! One of the most beautiful (in my opinion) is the Castillo de Gormaz in Soria, Spain, whose construction started during the Califato de Córdoba in the 10 century. It is now mostly ruins, but it is vast, and the view is incredible-you can understand why they chose to build a fortress there!
Although I'm guessing the incredible view was secondary to being able to see people who were on their way to attack them.
Dr. Armstrong is an awesome medievalist. My favorite professors as an English major were usually the ones who focused on medieval art, history, or literature. The Old English dirty riddles, the silly Canterbury Tales, the Romanesque architecture we had at UCLA, the history of mystics and witches, illustrated manuscripts. love stories like the one of Heloise and Abelard, the history of Islamic Spain… what is NOT to love about the Middle Ages?!
You got the good ones then. I had one who ended up getting the sack because she'd basically given up on life and that was how she taught. I have ADHD and you put that together with the most boring lecturing known to mankind and an archaic form of English that requires a certain level of translation and you get 😖😖😖
I would listen to this woman speak about this topic for eternity.
I love how cats and dogs are just the same as they ever were, like when you seen a dog in an old movie it’s just there doing dog things
Would love to see a video where History Expert answers questions related to Medival India or Indian history in general.
More of Medieval Support with her!
Eleanor of Aquitaine is maybe THE most influential women in history!!! She crusaded!
Woman, not women.
then why did she only mention that she slept around?
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (of Last Kingdom fame) was instrumental in the founding of England, which profoundly altered the course of human history. Her Mercian armies conquered the northern half of the Danelaw and she peacefully secured the submission of the Danes in York. The consummation of this deal would've effectively created England in 918, nearly two decades before her nephew ultimately achieved it on the battlefield at Brunanburh. Sadly she died right after and the deal fell apart. The fact that it did I think speaks to the weight of her influence. The Northumbrian Danes submitted to her, not to King Edward. The show takes many liberties with the truth, but Aethelflaed was an incredible woman. Her impact on history is severely underappreciated IMO. I love Eleanor, she's amazing, but I'd make a case for Aethelflaed being even more impactful.
@@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive That's a really vulgar way to describe it. Besides, it's not like a noblewoman in the middle ages had any other options than marriage.
@@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive women aren't even allowed to have kids with their lawfully wedded husbands anymore?
We need justice for Saint Guinefort 😡
She was a good girl! Yes, she was! Yes, she was!
She's the patron saint (tongue in cheek) of the hero Thomas of Hookton in the Bernard Cornwell series collectively known as The Grail Quest.
@@MrVvulf I love it.
So amazing, do a part 2
It's always a treat when Wired posts a support video in one of my special interests :D
She explains it so well it just about makes me want it as one of my special interests. Sadly, I studied English and some of the professors killed medieval literature for me. That and ADHD. It's so much harder to read Chaucer when your brain is like herding cats.
These medieval pronunciations sound Scottish
Aye, laddie, now you're starting to get it 😘
@@rossyrossross makes do much sense now
i was thinking this too😂
exacly my thoughts
It sounds like swedish to me. I can hear the swedish word but with a non native accent
This might be the BEST one yet. SO WELL DEPICTED!!
This woman is incredible - please have her back!
Dang! This was 10x more fascinating than I'd expected ❤
She was my professor and she was WONDERFULLY intelligent, kind and funny! I dreaded taking a class on Arthurian lit and came out LOVING it. I adore this woman
More please. I love the medival times so much. I could listen to her talk for hours
She's amazing.
Please invite her again!
This was really fun and interesting! I would love to have a follow up episode, please!
I genuinely think this is the best person youve ever had for this series. I love the way she explains things. A true mother
I NEED a part 2 of this. This was interesting as heck.
Most of the fairy tales that we know today are much older than we think. They got written down between the 16th and 19th century, which would be long after the middle ages, but they were already told verbally a long time before. According to some researchers a few of the fairy tales that the grimm brothers collected do have their original version going back 2000 - 6000 years. That would mean that these stories were already extremely old before the middle ages even started.
WTF, thanks for the info
Dr. Armstrong, you rock! WIRED, you have to bring her back!
oh man this video is a delight, so much knowledge in 20 minutes, this lady is unreal at explaining things
I would watch a full Netflix / History Channel special with Dr. Dorsey.
Read somewhere that 'privacy" didn't really start until fireplaces were invented and there could be small rooms.
Privacy existed a long time before that. Most people didn't live in big cities and if you wanted some privacy, you could just go for a walk and have all the privacy you desire. And even still, a good fireplace usually attracts many people around it.
The middle ages had fireplaces
What you are thinking of is chimneys.
@@desyncer yes and no, privacy as the concept we think of today is very modern. Big cities are what truly allow privacy, for small villages made everyone identifiable and anonymity impossible. Before that, privacy existed to refer to private property or the opposite of public domains. But privacy, as being let alone and have secrets or confidential information was very hard to achieve during this time. Just think about how the catholic confession was one of many ways society used to disrupt the idea of a private life ;)
@@cristinafayad7502 But the confession IS private...
Really great one. Would love to see a sequel
This is hands down one of the best videos I have ever seen! So much information out there to think about 😮
I already knew the tale of that Dog Saint but it breaks the heart every time to hear it.
This was wonderful. Thank you!
I feel like I got something to correct here: The term middle ages isn't all that new.
The term came about with the emergence of humanism in 14th century Italy (originally in latin as medium aevum) which would then develop into the renaissance a bit later.
With the middle ages by our modern understanding ending some time around the late 15th or early 16th century, depending on which event you wanna pin it onto, this means that the term middle ages is in fact medieval, though it should be mentioned that the humanists who invented the term considered the middle ages to have just ended.
Love the brevity and clarity of these answers.
please more history. of any place, in any area. i can't get enough of these history episodes
I really enjoyed this! Please have this professor back on for Part 2 and answer how the legend of Robin Hood began. Also, were there pirates during the Middle Ages, or just Vikings terrorizing the high seas?
There have been pirates throughout human seafaring history. One of the earliest written references dates back over 4000 years
14:12 that isn’t how you pronounce Glastonbury… it’s pronounced like the ‘a’ in ‘cat’. We usually say the ‘bury’ part as ‘bree’ too.
no one cares
Yeah that bugged me too. 😊
I learned a lot more than I expected coming into this video. More videos with her please! :)
I love how she doesn't wait for you to get it. She's putting out information and it's up to you to digest it. Wish I'd had educators like her because my teachers, even those few who meant well, had to slow everything down for the other kids...
Hey, Dorsey Armstrong! She's a GREAT instructor! Love her Great Courses videos!
god i absolutely love these wired segments.
The best support video! I’m obsessed with all these videos but this one was the best by far ❤
I love medieval animal drawings so much. They are truly all treasures.
this video could be an hour long and i wouldn‘t get bored
This is the best one❤
I would listen to her talk for hours. Please bring her back. Does she have a CZcams channel?? A university where she lectures?? Should I get a degree in medieval studies???
Tech Support in general is a great series but this one was particularly fun and interesting, would love to see Dr. Armstrong again
Dr. Armstrong, you are so cool. We need more history videos with her WIRED!
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the reasons my parents named me Eleanor
This was a great episode! More like this, and more of her people have loads of questions about the middle ages. It was my focus of study and I think it is very unappreciated. People would enjoy it!
I was so happy to see Dr. Armstrong on here!! Please have her again soon :D I love her 2 series on the Black Death and her several other Medieval series through Audible!
I love Eleanor of Aquitaine! Have you read the book "A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver"?
I've been told Frysian is the one living language closest to medieval English - hearing her speak it, they certainly sound similar!
That's what I was taught when we had to read Chaucer for GCSE English
would love a part 2. please make it happen!
Ok MAKE THIS A SERIES!!! Professor Armstrong is SO engaging.
Why does the accurate medieval English sound like Trixie Mattel speaking Swedish? 0:42
The Holy Grail is a classic MacGuffin... it's the glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction, among many other examples.
This woman is great at explaining everything! Please use her in another video.
That was a lot more entertaining than I expected. Bring her back for more videos.
Dorsey reading that Old English like that!!!!??? 👀!! Mmmmm she CAN GET IT!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
😨
Middle English*, Old English didnt sound like that
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 thanks homie ! 🫡🤝
Galahad basically said "I found it and I'm taking it with me so there's no way you can prove I didn't find it"
This is facinating. Please bring Dr. Armstrong back for more.
More please! Fascinating to say the least!
I would pronounce old english mostly as a germanic language.
old english and middle english are two different periods! old english is pronounced as germanic but middle english is a lot more french ( due to the norman conquest.)
Well it's not gothic, ther has been some shift, but it still had some remnants of it, yes.
The sainted greyhound story sounds like a later retelling of Gelert the hound.
This woman is brilliant, I would watch a full series with her as the host. And the chain mail necklace is just ~ chefs kiss
Thank you r. Dorsey this was actually one of the most interesting of these videos i've seen.:)
"Might visit your neighbors" haha!
Them: Ey mate! Tea time and a quick chat?
Me: NO! it's 2 in the morning! 😩 go to sleep!
17:10 Ealonor Rocks =]
Excellent video! Thank you
This is so fascinating, I love the Middle ages. We need more of this!