Elanor Janaga: On the Medieval era and it's strangeness.
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- Talking medieval with Elanor Jenaga, Professor and author! Interested in more with Elanor, visit the links bellow. Thank you for joining Elanor! You were a blast!
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Published work PDF:
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What Was Life Really Like For A Medieval Peasant?
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"If there's a potato, a tomato, and you can see a Protestant, then you're in the modern period." Lol...
Janega is awesome
I guess I wasn't fully paying attention when she said this because it took me a second, but it makes sense! Love it!
The destruction, loss, and lack of everyday source materials is why I'm obsessed with experimental archeologists and historians ❤ I think it's such a great way to suppositionally fill in the gaps
Dr Janega is amazing! I always look for her lectures, documentaries and podcasts. Always fun, interesting and real.
Well, I save all my grocery receipts and keep them in a drawer. Some might call me a hoarder, but --- I'm contributing to preservation of sources!!!
preserve them in a proper burial!
That was not only well done and informative-it was fun.
And when it comes to the snail thing... I obviously don't know the answer, but there is actually a book about proverbs from the 15th century, I think it's called "Proverbes en rimes" and one of the proverbs contains a sentence that is like "He is so angry that he would even fight snails". So maybe that could be another interpretation.
I find the comment about knitters who don't spin funny, because I'm a spinner who doesn't knit or crochet. I just make the yarn and give it other people. I do make bobbin lace. Haven't successfully spun thread thin enough to do that myself, though. 😁
"it's all fun and games till you have to grow your own flax" :-D
The rabbits revenge picture is awesome
The interesting thing with the Templars and how the king disbanded them just to get some money was that most of the possessions of the order actually went to the Knights Hospitaller (and a bit to some surviving ex-Templars) and not to the king. Which was of course not the decision of the king, but the command of the Papal Bull "Ad providam". So the king didn't really get as much out of it.
Excellent, such a great teacher 👍🏼
And the picture with all those people trying to flee from death and the one guy who tries to fight is really interesting. I just watched Puss in Boots 2 yesterday and "fighting death" is a big theme of that movie, so it probably hits a bit different. And the skeleton who steals the kings gold... it would actually be very cool for fantasy settings to not just have skeletons and zombies for the sake of it, but actually depicting them in this "death comes and takes us all" kind of way. Or maybe as ancestors who want to punish the living because they don't longer hold the same values or didn't care enough for the world their ancestors did pass on to them.
Great discussion. By the way, Saint Guinefort was the patron saint of Thomas of Hookton a book series by Bernard Cornwell.
I know what book I'm reading!
I would suggest that the whole reason women got that reputation for insatiability is because men were happy to have sex, but were unable to accept a role in the mutuality of the sex act, or the partnership. If “self” is the extent of happiness, you rather think if you are happy, your partner should be also.
I could make a comparison to many modern men in that belief, but i won’t.
I agree 💯 percent!! Men want sex with nothing to tether them and I can certainly tie modern men to that🤣 lol
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I think you misspelled her last name.
And her first name.
And you don't need the apostrophe in its.
The host is adorable.
You've made my day!
@@thebardsarchive5487 aw I'm glad.
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I feel like in the part where she's talking about the difference between serfs and peasants she still uses the terms interchangeably. Which elements of the life she describes apply to peasants, but not serfs? Are peasants free? Can they just leave if they want?
Yes, peasants who were not serf (in England at least) are often referred to as Freemen, and they could own land and were not subject to retrictions that serfs were.
They could move and would probably move to Towns/Cities, they bought and sold land with surprising regularity
The story told in Greece is the Greeks didn't want potatoes so the King or Ruler put guards on the front of the warehouse containing but not the back so the Greeks all rushed to steal & empty out the warehouse. At least that's the story. I cannot imagine tomatoes not becoming incredibly popular in those Southern climes as they are so over-represented today.
Shall be looked into!
Yup I’m Greek and I remember the same story (it was Ioannis Kapodistrias that was the Governor that supposedly did that in the story I heard)
By the way @@thebardsarchive5487 I love the video it’s brilliant but -I noticed you have a couple of typos in dr Janega’s name, which stopped me from finding your video when I was searching with her name, so you might get more views if you correct it ❤
That “bunny school” looks like a pie behind the big rabbit, maybe it is about rabbit pie.
Don't you think that most people who were serfs/peasants living in villages were for the most part weren't as dissatisfied as we think we would be because that is how the majority of people lived. Most people lived and died within a small area where they were born. Maybe they traveled to a nearby market. Foreigners for villagers was the town 50 miles away. Unlike our society in which we are aware of what others have that we do not, i.e. lifestyles of the rich and famous makes people want what we don't have. There would always be outlier who aren't content to live and die where they are born but for most people it was a life they accepted.
I guess it would have varied. Manor houses were fairly frequent so disparities would have been observable in most localities.
These people lived in a pre-Enlightenment world where science didn't exist. They had a totally different worldview that was mainly based on religious beliefs.
Enlightenment wasn't that enlightened. Actually some of the very bad stuff was basically a direct consequence of enlightened ideas. And I don't say that because I think the medieval times were better or whatever, I'm absolutely a fan of humanism, democracy and stuff, but way to our modern world was very bloody. ;)
And science as we would understand it today also didn't exist during the time of enlightenment. A lot of "science" were just rich people having some hobbies and making random experiments without proper procedure. Or self-proclaimed "archaeologists" blowing ancient unexplored ruins away because they think there could be an even older city deeper in the ground.
Well, experiment, testing hypotheses etc hadn't been formalised. They did make improvements in farming and technology though. Yes, their worldview was very different - I can't imagine an aerobics class in a medieval village.
Science has always existed, because people have always been curious. It may not have been called "science" and it wasn't necessarily systematic, but people of every level experimented with job/time saving devices and we already know people were close the the world around them and scholarly types studied ideas. See books like the Cheese and the Worms, alchemy manuscripts etc.
and witches
that girl can talk! she's good though.
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"right wing people who complain about women having sex ..." Yeah, punching the strawman is so easy but blows away your on credibility in a second.
You sound insecure bro
It's not really that much of a strawman, because a lot of right wing people do absolutely complain about women having sex (but not with them). There are whole communities based around this.
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@@MatthewQuigley Well, you can deny reality as much as you like I guess. Your whole ideolgy is based around that after all. ;)
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Did I ever explain my "ideology" to you?