Were Medieval Folk Really THAT Violent?

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  • čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
  • Were the Middle Ages really as brutal and sadistic as we imagine today? There are many records from the time that actually do prove the stereotype to be true. Let’s face it we all know what the character Marsellus Wallace meant in the film Pulp Fiction when he threatened, “I’m gonna get Medieval on your a*s!”
    0:00 Introduction
    1:33 Degrees of Violence
    2:24 Crimes Against Women
    4:07 Pardon Letters
    5:40 Fear and Loving
    8:34 Carnage
    10:06 Military Aggression
    🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
    Narrated by James Wade
    Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
    Edited by James Wade & Adam Longster
    Thank you for watching.
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  • @NoXeB1995
    @NoXeB1995 Před 5 měsíci +229

    What blows my mind is that all our direct ancestors really lived through it and managed to leave offspring alive so each of us can be born.

    • @_Minos
      @_Minos Před 4 měsíci

      Cause they entirely were supporters of the ruling regime. You wouldnt even exist now if one of your ancestors was against some discriminating event or rule back then.

    • @Jaime-eg4eb
      @Jaime-eg4eb Před 4 měsíci +13

      They left a lot of not-alive offspring too

    • @torch1028
      @torch1028 Před 4 měsíci +5

      And we all suck compared to them individually based on force of will

    • @ryanlopez1050
      @ryanlopez1050 Před 4 měsíci

      @@torch1028how so? Because live in our shit with rats with plague?

    • @GrannySoupLadle
      @GrannySoupLadle Před 4 měsíci

      @@torch1028religion is a powerful sedative

  • @lawlivelaugh
    @lawlivelaugh Před rokem +2452

    They were super violent because of all the video games they used to play

  • @b.valentine5283
    @b.valentine5283 Před rokem +1511

    I used to think that the medieval age was a lot more violent and that people were so different back then. But once I started reading and watching true crime, I realized that people are just as evil today as they were back then.

    • @sir313jonsson
      @sir313jonsson Před rokem +107

      people just don't die as easily today

    • @winterroadspokenword4681
      @winterroadspokenword4681 Před rokem +139

      this video gives the statistic that the murder rate was about 10 times higher!
      Was pretty striking to hear that. We all know about wars and battles, and punishments, but we are talking murder here.

    • @sir313jonsson
      @sir313jonsson Před rokem +67

      @@winterroadspokenword4681 makes sense. Way many assaults resulted in death back then

    • @LouigiVerona
      @LouigiVerona Před rokem +86

      Perhaps people are the same, but the structure of society and environment is different.

    • @flash_flood_area
      @flash_flood_area Před rokem +56

      @@sir313jonssonAnd all that was needed for an attack to lead to death would be for a wound to get seriously infected

  • @Edgelord-rn9he
    @Edgelord-rn9he Před rokem +561

    1:49 110 Murders out of 100,000? That beats out Detroit's score of 49.7 Murders for every 100,000. Can't have shit in Medieval Oxford.

    • @danielfritts854
      @danielfritts854 Před rokem

      Lack of medicine and hygiene is a b*tch

    • @Snarkapotamus
      @Snarkapotamus Před rokem

      Or Texas, winners of the highest murder rate in the US...

    • @gregdaweson4657
      @gregdaweson4657 Před rokem +113

      Imagine living in such a terrible city that it is halfway to being medieval.

    • @Dayvit78
      @Dayvit78 Před rokem +56

      And I think he's using Oxford as a "not worst case." I'm sure there were plenty of cities across the continent that were much worse.

    • @bigfatchubbybritboy9445
      @bigfatchubbybritboy9445 Před rokem

      London alone would of been even more murderous and even more violent.

  • @EGamer8008_
    @EGamer8008_ Před rokem +299

    God bless the souls who lived, survived and died throughout the middle ages. It is literally impossible to imagine what those men, women and children went through.

    • @EGamer8008_
      @EGamer8008_ Před rokem +1

      @Pride Fr

    • @robinrehlinghaus1944
      @robinrehlinghaus1944 Před rokem +33

      Don't be so dramatic, by that logic literally all of history would be a story of constant suffering

    • @DavidHernandez-dk1zs
      @DavidHernandez-dk1zs Před rokem +11

      @Pride Not exactly, when you go to the times of prehistory then things turn much peaceful again. it was after humans began to form cities and made up the concept of land ownership and property, that was the main catalyst for starting wars and other violent things

    • @cole27456
      @cole27456 Před rokem

      @@DavidHernandez-dk1zs this isn't true, that's a narrative people have constructed. Marxism can be a useful tool to analyze capitalism, but this is obviously an ideologically biased way to describe pre-historic human society. The development of ideas around property, large settlements, and the state certainly led to larger scale conflicts, but people fought before then.

    • @queenofthestoe3109
      @queenofthestoe3109 Před rokem +1

      ​@Pride until u go to some 3rd world countries

  • @robertburk5550
    @robertburk5550 Před rokem +163

    Judge: You are sentenced to be hung by the neck until death.
    Criminal: Well, isn't that bad...
    Judge: And then hanged again in the other town.
    Criminal: Aww come onnnnnnn
    Attorney: Hey, I got you off the hook with the 3rd town, show some gratitude.

    • @laurarules3642
      @laurarules3642 Před rokem +8

      I know it was extremely rare but with just one hanging there was always a chance the rope would snap or due to the executioner setting it up wrong due to intoxication that you might survive and have to be freed . I know the odds of that happening are insanely low but lots of stories of it happening here in the UK and people being released

    • @robertburk5550
      @robertburk5550 Před rokem +8

      @@laurarules3642 Yes it happened but he was clearly dead to begin with, you don't sentence someone "to be hanged by the neck until death" just to say "you're off Scot free because the cheap rope broke.
      Hanging a dead man a second time, sorry, seems kinda extreme 🤣
      And IF he survived the first time, I'd honestly have let em go, that's like divine intervention sh*t I don't personally want part of lol 😂

    • @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874
      @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874 Před rokem

      Quickly Write me up I have something for you 📌📌

    • @Wtfukker
      @Wtfukker Před rokem +1

      Still makes more sense than handing out multiple life sentences to the same person today ... :)

    • @cyberdemon6517
      @cyberdemon6517 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@robertburk5550a man in the 1800s survived being hung 3 times

  • @flyerman5357
    @flyerman5357 Před rokem +130

    I would have been a fisherman. On a boat away from this madness. Great videos mate.

    • @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874
      @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874 Před rokem

      Quickly Write me up I have something for you ❤️❤️

    • @craigore2011
      @craigore2011 Před rokem +33

      Oh, but the madness finds you, perhaps in the form of Ottoman or Viking slavers looking for hapless fishermen and anyone else they can capture.

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz Před 6 měsíci +17

      Being a fisherman at sea is anything but relaxing, especially back then when many things weren't understood yet

    • @iamlwazzi
      @iamlwazzi Před 2 měsíci

      Scurvy, anyone?

    • @noah4822
      @noah4822 Před měsícem +2

      a hard life at sea, and you still have to come to town to sell your fish, and make your way back to your ship with your pay, after everyone saw you come into town with a bunch of fish.

  • @ashlid5653
    @ashlid5653 Před rokem +178

    oh god i would've never survived

    • @heathermason9311
      @heathermason9311 Před rokem +31

      I would have died at age 11 from appendicitis, that’s only if I survived the broken arm I had at 9 😅

    • @ajayparikh2121
      @ajayparikh2121 Před rokem +35

      One day people will say that about our time lol

    • @susanmenegus5543
      @susanmenegus5543 Před rokem

      Luckily Ivv only dislocated my right shoulder and been lucky wene it comes to being sick with sickness that would have killed people back then . If the Spanish inquisition we're around that is wene I would die.

    • @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa
      @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa Před rokem +8

      Same, I would've died young due to illness lol, and that's assuming my mum somehow survived giving birth to my older sibling

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 Před rokem +3

      I would have died of food poisoning multiple times over, probably get an amputation too... Antibiotics are really a great invention!

  • @banks3388
    @banks3388 Před rokem +555

    It's just as likely the reason why the women who were raped names aren't in the legal record is because the courts/administrations of the time wanted to protect their modesty/privacy i.e. not blow the whistle to everyone that they were a rape victim.
    I'm sure they would have been aware of the culture at the time were women who weren't married and/or were non-virgins were often ostracized by broader society and by covering up these details the courts effectively protected the women from further victimization.

    • @garypowell1540
      @garypowell1540 Před rokem

      Yes and likely many of these apparent murders were carried out by the families of rape or otherwise victims precisely because there were no actual police services or prisons filled to overflowing with all kinds of nasty people as we have today.

    • @DarthKater311
      @DarthKater311 Před rokem +150

      I personally Don’t think they gave a shit about the women.

    • @psychoticsyrup4788
      @psychoticsyrup4788 Před rokem +130

      @@DarthKater311 Well, fortunately, facts don’t care about your feelings.

    • @DarthKater311
      @DarthKater311 Před rokem +59

      @@psychoticsyrup4788 idk what that has to do with anything I said but ok.

    • @GhostScout42
      @GhostScout42 Před rokem

      ​@@psychoticsyrup4788 shut up ben

  • @diego6237
    @diego6237 Před rokem +307

    I work moderating social media content and I can tell you for sure medieval people were not more violent. You are just more shielded from violence nowadays, but them beheadings and tortures and rapes and nonsensical murders and child selling and all the horrible things you can imagine are happening right now, and are way worse because there is a consciousness about being observed, recording evil deeds and using them for a purpose. Its hell out there

    • @Internet_user777
      @Internet_user777 Před rokem +5

      I am pretty sure it’s the lack of or too much video games that are to blame for now and and then for all that violence

    • @jarlskuld7973
      @jarlskuld7973 Před rokem +9

      ​@@Internet_user777 what

    • @cl5470
      @cl5470 Před rokem +40

      There has never been a safer time to be alive than right now. Touch grass.

    • @hhdbhn302
      @hhdbhn302 Před rokem

      Any stories you can tell? I'm so curious

    • @diego6237
      @diego6237 Před rokem +18

      @cl5470 I disagree, i think your perspective might be very limited to your own geographical reality.

  • @mlg1783
    @mlg1783 Před rokem +165

    Humans have always been the same. We will never change. Only our tools change.

    • @jimbodimbo981
      @jimbodimbo981 Před rokem +16

      The data proves otherwise

    • @SonOfTheOne111
      @SonOfTheOne111 Před rokem

      Not the same- we are 100X less violent than during the Middle Ages!

    • @rebeccaorman1823
      @rebeccaorman1823 Před rokem +19

      @@jimbodimbo981 actually data provides that very little has changed if any.

    • @leradmuiel7634
      @leradmuiel7634 Před rokem +5

      @@jimbodimbo981 gonna have to agree with you.

    • @rebeccaorman1823
      @rebeccaorman1823 Před rokem +19

      @Matthew Clark I have a masters degree in History and one thing that I learned very quickly studying history is that there is nothing new under the sun. The details may very some but people are exactly the same as they have ever been. The myth that we have advanced so much is just that a myth.

  • @dk-fk4xm
    @dk-fk4xm Před rokem +125

    Dude I hope you'll make an episode about how often people traveled back then between towns. Did they walk? Are there carriages for hire? How close were towns back then? Examples of towns close together and truly isolated ones would be great. Were houses close to the city center? Were they spread thin? Who's the record holder in terms of travel back in medieval times? Love your videos man.

    • @dt534
      @dt534 Před rokem +4

      Most people walked

    • @monkeymox2544
      @monkeymox2544 Před rokem +16

      Read A Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, it's full of that kind of information. From what I remember, he says that people used to travel quite a bit - people from villages would need to travel into the nearest market town, they might need to travel to the county seat for various reasons (such as appearing before magistrates), and people went on pilgrimages. The whole thing about people rarely leaving their village is a bit of a myth.
      Iirc ordinary people mainly walked, but there were also coaches for wealthier people.

    • @baswar
      @baswar Před rokem +1

      Walk mostly but i think boat was rather common too (at least for goods). Though i would imagine most villages were in within a day's journey from other villages. Though not exactly sure if that was the case for all

    • @nobodyatall7438
      @nobodyatall7438 Před rokem +1

      Good idea

    • @lindahouston5635
      @lindahouston5635 Před 5 měsíci

      I really enjoyed reading that book.​@@monkeymox2544

  • @matejcingalek6582
    @matejcingalek6582 Před rokem +228

    When I was a kid, I was really terrified for some time when we learnt about count Jaromír and his two brothers at school. This amount of brutality between brothers was really unbelievable for 10 years old me. Oldest brother Boleslav let Jaromír be castrated around year 1000. Then his younger Oldřich expeled him to poland and he was in prison for 21 years. After his returning he was blinded and imprisoned again by his brother, then he was after all of that murdered by spear while on toilet in his a*us. This was power struggle between brothers in duchy o Bohemia.

  • @poopnoodle1597
    @poopnoodle1597 Před rokem +23

    I do not care what time period it is or what the social norms are: if a bucket of piss and/or shit is thrown on me, I’m throwing hands.

  • @StephenDeagle
    @StephenDeagle Před rokem +280

    Ask yourself seriously, what is worse? Being violently whipped or beaten or losing a finger for attempting to rob your neighbor? Or being locked in a cell for five, ten, maybe twenty years? Maybe for life. Effectively having your life itself shortened. Because prison as a form of punishment in itself wasn't a thing back then. It was just a place you might be held a while before you were branded a criminal.

    • @StephenDeagle
      @StephenDeagle Před rokem +1

      @@susanmenegus5543 Yeah, I think people on the outside just assume we're far more charitable and humanitarian today concerning criminal justice, but only because they've yet to experience for themselves just how dehumanizing and evil imprisonment really is. It doesn't aim to just punish the body. It aims to control it. Worse yet, it looks to putting a cop inside all our heads, so we can control ourselves just to stay out of there. Unbelievably cruel, and something our ancestors would no doubt view as an unconscionable tyranny.

    • @Sp0on777
      @Sp0on777 Před rokem +67

      A lot of people back then were imprisoned and then left to starve to death tho

    • @StephenDeagle
      @StephenDeagle Před rokem +22

      @Sp0on777 No, imprisonment was not used as a form of punishment in itself until the Enlightenment, and only became the conventional means of punishment more recently still. People have suffered horrible injustices throughout history, no doubt. But being left in a cage to starve to death was never anywhere practiced en masse as an accepted means of meting out justice. Sometimes it happened, of course. Still does.

    • @Sp0on777
      @Sp0on777 Před rokem +41

      @@StephenDeagle imprisonment may not have been labeled a punishment, however the fact is that many did get left in a cage to starve to death. Not to mention the practice of "immurement" aka being "walled in" wherein the entire point is to imprison the person and then leave them to die slowly.
      "In the Middle Ages, people weren’t held in prison for punishments of their crimes. Instead, the prisons held the people who were accused of committing crimes until their innocence was proven. But, those who owed large amounts of money were kept in prison until their debts were paid. Also, if a criminal is convicted of a crime and sentenced the death sentence, they would make a public appearance in a public square and have the execution done there. Prisoners had to purchase their own food, drinks, clothing, beds, and other resources. People who often couldn’t afford it usually died of starvation and cold before their case went to trial; however, wealthy prisoners had a likely chance of surviving the harsh environment."

    • @StephenDeagle
      @StephenDeagle Před rokem +14

      @Sp0on777 Immurement? Maybe in Persia for a fairly prolonged period it was historically practiced, but far from common in any part of Europe other than sporadic cases in Rome. I don't know where you're googling your information from, but it is highly sensationalized, misleading, and overall too broad and overgeneralizing. People historically did not typically live in conditions where if you were poor you could just be thrown in a prison and starved to death or made to pay for your own imprisonment for years on end, as you are suggesting.

  • @durhamrise6207
    @durhamrise6207 Před rokem +41

    I kind of wish I hadn’t listened to that. That poor woman who was made to eat her husband! Jeez people are evil.

    • @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874
      @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874 Před rokem

      Quickly Write me up I have something for you ❤️❤️

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR Před 5 měsíci

      you don t need to look far, to find such attrocities in the modern world. Usually people who do them, are revered as freedom fighters by some delusional folks, who think a higher education can replace a moral compass.

  • @ieatpilli
    @ieatpilli Před rokem +75

    Please do a video on the cooling and warming periods of the Middle Ages, and how they effected those societies.

    • @jdb47games
      @jdb47games Před rokem +2

      *affected

    • @ieatpilli
      @ieatpilli Před rokem +9

      @@jdb47games You know, I initially wrote that, second guessed myself, and now realize I should’ve trusted my instinct

    • @user-rn3us2vr2z
      @user-rn3us2vr2z Před rokem

      @@ieatpilli don’t listen to him

    • @scottw5315
      @scottw5315 Před rokem +6

      The UN IPCC erased the medieval cooling and warming cycle. Didn't happen according to them.

    • @richardthompson6366
      @richardthompson6366 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@scottw5315Just to be safe, deny the existence of the Middle ages all together.

  • @blackgirlcouchreviews
    @blackgirlcouchreviews Před rokem +10

    This channel is all the way up my alley and I look forward to each video every week!

  • @n1msu
    @n1msu Před rokem +9

    Great to see some new content posted!

  • @kevinsayes
    @kevinsayes Před rokem

    Excited to see a new episode today. Thanks guys!

  • @jpraise6771
    @jpraise6771 Před rokem +19

    My brethren, I think I'm beginning to understand the animosity women hold toward us...

  • @atakorkut5110
    @atakorkut5110 Před rokem +5

    I’m so happy that you included the pulp fiction quote

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před rokem +128

    Well that ax to the head didn't exactly say nonviolent. But no matter what time in human history humans have always been tribalistic with an in-group out-group mentality prone to violence.

    • @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
      @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Před rokem +4

      CatSwingers PAW personal hygiene!

    • @valkyrie941
      @valkyrie941 Před rokem

      Axe*

    • @Cherimoya102
      @Cherimoya102 Před rokem +1

      Ahh! So fun to see a comment from someone w an understanding of Social Identity Theory!
      SIT provides such a valid framework for understanding societal behavior. All being traced back to when who we knew ourselves to be as strictly that of our African troop.
      In the resource-rich but cruel, competitive morass of merciless jungle we existed in close-knit groups of around 100-150 people, competing amongst rival tribes for safety and survival.
      If my group outcompeted yours, we got to survive. There had to be a winner and a loser. Given the choice bw members of both our groups receiving 50 dollars equally, vs my group receiving 40, yours receiving 30, and throwing away the remaining 30, we will still opt for the latter deal. Bc this is how we evolved to compete - tribally. There must be winners and losers. My group must outlive your group.

    • @joriankell1983
      @joriankell1983 Před rokem +1

      @@Cherimoya102 pseudo intellectual drivel

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el Před rokem

      prob not true for people who weren't alcohol, lead, and inbred poisoned. a good chunk of earth even one half was living fine for 10,000 years with clean water and creating agriculture wonders like corn and chocolate.

  • @b-92s25
    @b-92s25 Před rokem +4

    Brilliant, great channel!

  • @KingRumar
    @KingRumar Před rokem +55

    I love this channel, history and mythology are my favorite subjects. Thank you for your time and thorough work

    • @Forflipsake
      @Forflipsake Před rokem +1

      The CZcams channel “Forgotten lives” is great for history profiles if your not already subbed.

    • @lkmjin
      @lkmjin Před rokem

      Sam O'Nella, Blue Jay. Thank me later

    • @susanmenegus5543
      @susanmenegus5543 Před rokem

      I agree with you 💯 me to. ⚔️🛡️🗡️

  • @joseybryant7577
    @joseybryant7577 Před rokem +14

    Man commits crime.
    Same man in a different city: "I can't believe this guy, that is not me, would be able to do this!"

  • @SCDJMU
    @SCDJMU Před rokem +1

    I'm reallyt happy you used another music background track this time, was getting tired of the other one. Great video.

  • @brianhoward7277
    @brianhoward7277 Před rokem +63

    Our world is just as batshit insane today don't let anyone convince you otherwise

  • @CharlesM2
    @CharlesM2 Před rokem +58

    Imagine mortally wounding someone, them dying of that injury, and then getting away with it because “they should’ve been able to tend to it themselves”. Were people just idiots back then? It would’ve taken 2 seconds to think maybe they wouldn’t have died if the injury never happened in the first place.

    • @Jmerzio
      @Jmerzio Před rokem +8

      The mans arm wouldnt have gotten infected if he didnt have hilariously bad personal hygene. Plus, he attached first with the dead cat. I can understand the pardon

    • @cl5470
      @cl5470 Před rokem +15

      Men will treat women like objects unless women fight for their rights. This type of defense would probably still fly in modern sexist societies.

    • @snowbird1381
      @snowbird1381 Před 6 měsíci

      People weren’t exactly idiots but remember people died at young ages. Meaning that the country was basically being run by young 20 something-year-olds. Their brains are probably messed up too because they’re drinking all the time. Remember alcohol damages the brain. Not to mention how much poisons people were exposed to like Lead or arsenic.

    • @dolsopolar
      @dolsopolar Před 5 měsíci

      "were people just idiots back then" no. there's probably more than just sexist reasons (though sexism is still one of it). there are a fucking 14 year old mass shooter in thailand that killed someone's mother and then got away because the shooter pretended to be crazy about the "voices" and because he's underaged. yeah. are people today just a bunch of total idiots?

    • @TurboImperator
      @TurboImperator Před 5 měsíci

      @@cl5470 Men will treat women like objects unless men decide that it's reprehensible. Like I'm sorry, I hate wife beaters and any non sports related violence, but the fact is that women got their rights given to them by men. If men for some reason decided women suffrage and any other privilege should be stripped, who'd stop them? Women? How? They're physically weaker, so it would be other men. Back then, not every man was a wife beater, but society was very much patriarchal as it was aristocratic. You couldn't condemn a man for beating his wife because you'd destroy the status quo and risk your authority position - and often get a worse alternative cause an extreme would win, so those things must come to a change gradually. Same as with a nobleman striking a peasant dead ,and vice versa, were seen very differently in jurisdiction (the noble would often get a fine, the peasant would be burned alive or something). And imagine having the gall to go against nobles, as a king for example, for the sake of equality, you'd have a rebellion. Its easy to see and judge with modern eyes what our ancestors did because we're brought up in a more equalish world than they were.

  • @lildoveable
    @lildoveable Před rokem

    I e been a member for a while now and I wanted to compliment you and help the algorithm.
    You do a really great job with this channel.
    Hi from Los Angeles Ca USA.

  • @fangsandfolklore8795
    @fangsandfolklore8795 Před rokem

    thanks for a great video!

  • @treyparkerofficial
    @treyparkerofficial Před rokem +33

    I'm sure the stink was violent enough

    • @scottanno8861
      @scottanno8861 Před rokem +5

      They had to have gone nose blind after a few years in those conditions, like how the host of Dirty Jobs lost his sense of smell doing so many seasons of the show lol

  • @D_XDC
    @D_XDC Před rokem

    Great vid!

  • @badgimp4577
    @badgimp4577 Před rokem +76

    Considering the fact that a commoner was believed to lie unless tortured, I think it would be a lot scarier back then. You tell the truth up front and then get tortured because your a lying peasant until you change your story. This was so common that most instances where not even documented.

    • @gamermasterL
      @gamermasterL Před rokem +3

      Any sources for that? I want to read and learn a bit more about that.

    • @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874
      @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874 Před rokem

      Quickly Write me up I have something for you 📌

    • @krinkrin5982
      @krinkrin5982 Před rokem +11

      @@gamermasterL This seems to me to be a myth. What would usually happen was that the accused was held in prison until trial, at which point they were presented with evidence of their crime, testimony of at least three people being considered evidence, and could present their own evidence. The strength of the evidence would be judged by the character of the people giving testimony. This of course varied from place to place and time.
      I read about two things that could have contributed to this:
      1. Slaves in Rome were considered untrustworthy, because the popular belief was they would always say what they were told to say by their master, so torture was a way of making certain they told the truth.
      2. People in some areas of Europe believed that you could only put on trial a person whose crime was evident, so they used torture to get the initial confession. This seems to have started, or become much more common with the reformation as well due to the whole religious divide, which produced a lot of extreme behavior.

    • @crazymonkey3331
      @crazymonkey3331 Před rokem +4

      Isn't that Ancient Rome rather than the Medieval period? They wouldn't believe a slave's testimony unless it was extracted under torture. Unless some medieval society carried on that belief?

    • @robinrehlinghaus1944
      @robinrehlinghaus1944 Před rokem +1

      I know no source for this to have existed in the middle ages. On the contrary, torturing subjects to get a confession was illegal.

  • @StevePdue
    @StevePdue Před rokem +13

    LOL😅 The cat swinger story reminds me of Monty Python.Seriously!

  • @Ethan-ee8rv
    @Ethan-ee8rv Před rokem +116

    3:36 Can I just say a nice lil “burn in hell” to Colin? I know it was a long time ago but the fact that the poor woman suffered such a horrific death and no justice was brought to Colin because “it was her own fault for nagging him” is just so sad.

    • @jamesgreen6376
      @jamesgreen6376 Před rokem +6

      I believe him

    • @artsymarxist
      @artsymarxist Před rokem +22

      Yeah, absolutely awful. Disgusting he got off with such pathetic excuses too.

    • @MrSmithington
      @MrSmithington Před rokem +1

      Colin passed through hell gracefully 3 years after his death. Colin does not recognise your mean words

  • @DTL0VER
    @DTL0VER Před rokem

    Love your videos man

  • @bobbybrown4652
    @bobbybrown4652 Před rokem

    Love this channel

  • @samus598
    @samus598 Před rokem +5

    Honey wake up, new Medieval Madness just dropped! Love this channel thx for making great content. Every video is so good 👍

  • @music_by_carlos
    @music_by_carlos Před rokem +6

    Great video. Make a vid about if the aztec were as violent as they say

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine Před rokem +2

    Got here so fast. The notice bell rang and I was like um hell yeah instant click

  • @fermleegrasspit2187
    @fermleegrasspit2187 Před rokem

    I wish I found this channel sooner. I really like your voice too.

  • @johnnypatrickhaus890
    @johnnypatrickhaus890 Před rokem +15

    I think that the "rule of thumb" originated in the 1600s. 🤔
    Pretty sure that the stick being no thicker than a thumb is a myth.
    If I remember correctly, the myth was so pervasive that it was actually cited as precedent in an American Court once. 😅

    • @hoorayimhelping3978
      @hoorayimhelping3978 Před 5 měsíci +4

      You're correct, from what I understand. It originated in the 1600s and was related to tradesmen using the width or length of their thumb as a way of having a consistent ratio for building things. E.g. "4 thumb lengths tall, 2 thumb lengths high, 2 thumb lengths wide." The fact that this video makes no mention of that and repeats an incorrect folk etymology and also provides no sources for its claims calls into question everything else in it.

    • @georgemoon2286
      @georgemoon2286 Před 5 měsíci

      Both of you guys are wrong. You both fell into the mandela effect

  • @jameschance6829
    @jameschance6829 Před rokem +6

    the "rule of thumb" has absolutely nothing to do with violence. That is a false origin (commonly held). The phrase dates back to the 17th century where it was used in trade where many things were quantified by the length or width of ones thumb.

  • @dylry86
    @dylry86 Před rokem +2

    That title and that thumbnail had me in tears 😂

  • @michaelmiller609
    @michaelmiller609 Před rokem

    My favorite show on CZcams!

  • @cityraildude
    @cityraildude Před 6 měsíci +7

    Please do how different types of medicines compared to each other (Byzantine vs Western Europe vs Asian vs Middle Eastern)

  • @pukalo
    @pukalo Před rokem +9

    The Byzantine Empire had a particularly brutal system of corporal punishment

  • @ThePhlegming
    @ThePhlegming Před rokem

    Good on you for working the "Medieval on your ass" into the intro

  • @sir313jonsson
    @sir313jonsson Před rokem +13

    i would love an episode about childhood

    • @LeatherCladVegan
      @LeatherCladVegan Před rokem +2

      It starts when a person is young.

    • @Ynotnow9900
      @Ynotnow9900 Před rokem +2

      Childhood only really started as a social concept when people moved away from concepts of original sin, in America in the early ish 19th century, the second great awakening

  • @frogglen6350
    @frogglen6350 Před rokem +3

    Pulp fiction quote. instant like

  • @lilbullet158
    @lilbullet158 Před rokem +31

    Exciting times. Sounds like there was never a dull moment. 😁

  • @Cubert0331
    @Cubert0331 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Look at us now, they were absolutely incredibly violent.

  • @Soils9000
    @Soils9000 Před 6 měsíci

    Intro is great

  • @ingridsouthcoast_
    @ingridsouthcoast_ Před rokem +13

    When William I married Matilda of Flanders, Flanders was a failing state due to the levels of murder. Even considering the time it was particularly bad. Impeded building infrastructure and population growth. Crazy considering how successful they became.

  • @MiguelVitorC
    @MiguelVitorC Před rokem +5

    I declare this video, gamer.

  • @heartfeltteaching
    @heartfeltteaching Před rokem +1

    I notice you’ve a very interesting cadence in your speech. When you begin a new sentence, you strain your voice for the first word or two. I don’t know why, but it makes the narration more engaging for me 🙂

  • @1000Ducks
    @1000Ducks Před 5 měsíci

    We gotta get those numbers up

  • @efrains2538
    @efrains2538 Před rokem +52

    Started watching your videos a while back and I gotta say, man this content is definitely what I would want more of on youtube. If I were to give some criticism it would be the lack of links and crediting your sources, alongside that I noticed a lot of the artwork comes from the renaissance era and 15th- 18th centuries making it awkward for me since I've dug into the artwork produced after the printing press and it makes you seem disingenious to your audience. My gripes aside these videos are great for those into history from medieval Europe.

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 Před rokem +6

      You're very trusting, even though you're quite aware of reasons you shouldn't be.
      The whole system we had for producing relatively accurate knowledge-universities and journalists with integrity operating in an atmosphere of freedom of inquiry, book publishers with highly literate and educated editors-is rapidly dissolving and being replaced by content like what you just watched. It's a collapse, and is leading to a cascade of collapses in other areas of life, because relatively accurate knowledge underpins everything.

  • @sarah82ish
    @sarah82ish Před rokem +6

    Cat swingers poor personal hygiene 😂😂. I’m watching this in McDonald’s Billy no mates on my own after a night shift. Not only did I lol my latte came out my nose

  • @Mimi-jl5ci
    @Mimi-jl5ci Před rokem

    I love this channel 😭

  • @JesusChrist8451
    @JesusChrist8451 Před 5 měsíci +1

    The only reason people today seem less violent is because it's harder to get away with it

  • @RedcoatViking_Official
    @RedcoatViking_Official Před rokem +27

    Hard times lead to hard people. Although we definitely have our fair share of problems today, we should all be thankful that we live now, not then.

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 Před rokem

      The murder rate in Mexico is on par with these numbers today.

    • @shelbyspeaks3287
      @shelbyspeaks3287 Před rokem +2

      Depending on where you lived it was pretty f**** violent in the 1930's (depending on where you lived of course), that's why i think it's really important to create hard people before its too late.

  • @Whiterun_Gaurd
    @Whiterun_Gaurd Před rokem +5

    Even tho they were less sofisticated. Their hand writing was alot better.

  • @PortmanRd
    @PortmanRd Před 5 měsíci +1

    Intro-pic.
    "Don't move! There's a wasp on your head."

  • @MeBallerman
    @MeBallerman Před 5 měsíci +2

    So the answer is YES, they were much more violent than today.

  • @cheeseman417
    @cheeseman417 Před rokem +6

    When analyzing the medieval era and before, you have to wonder, .. life expectancy was soo short to begin with, that one would think somewhere , among the generations of people, there'd be some wish to preserve and value human life to any degree, but no, it was all just.. "let's stick an iron pike up this ones arse or !"... lets decapicate some peasants for stealing some corn!", or " lets draw and quater some guy who was accused of blasphemy!.. it's just sick!

  • @RaymondBCrisp
    @RaymondBCrisp Před rokem +11

    There is a reason the phrase "cruel and unusual punishment" appears in the US Constitution...

  • @ArtypNk
    @ArtypNk Před 5 měsíci +2

    Medieval be like "Good morning!"
    Yea, that's 2 days of dungeon pain for you, morning officially ended 4 minutes ago

  • @ellaeadig263
    @ellaeadig263 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I could barely get through this video, these stories were truly disturbing.

  • @Jeepsteve1982
    @Jeepsteve1982 Před rokem +5

    Being hit with a dead and rotting cat is about as good a justification for murder as I've ever heard.

  • @brianoneil9662
    @brianoneil9662 Před rokem +22

    That needs to be the channel name. "Medieval On Your Ass Madness" It's PERFECT!

    • @realityshotgun
      @realityshotgun Před rokem

      Damn i just commented this too you beat me 😭

  • @warringtonfaust1088
    @warringtonfaust1088 Před rokem +3

    "Rule of Thumb "the explanation offered here has long been discredited.

  • @harrish619
    @harrish619 Před rokem

    Haha there is channel for just medival gore info love it

  • @danielfritts854
    @danielfritts854 Před rokem +1

    I would imagine from that long ago, like news today you just get the highlights .

  • @jackbudgen8858
    @jackbudgen8858 Před rokem +5

    Men.
    Men never change.

  • @gameplayerabe4248
    @gameplayerabe4248 Před rokem +5

    It seems that they would want to avoid violence, and if not the scale was quite literally 1 or 100.

  • @amphibianoverlord3411
    @amphibianoverlord3411 Před rokem +1

    Bro a kid and I used to say this was a misnomer and that it was actually worse today but the brutalism and extremity of it was more complicated and easier to cover

  • @JoeyVol
    @JoeyVol Před 5 měsíci +2

    They HAD to be very strict when they were able to catch a criminal because it was so damn hard to catch and convict a person, if they weren't so strict crime would have been even more rampant.

    • @JoeyVol
      @JoeyVol Před 5 měsíci

      There was not a police force with a detective showing up, let's put it that way.

  • @SuitAndTieGuy88
    @SuitAndTieGuy88 Před rokem +3

    The cat swinger had it coming

  • @ZecaPinto1
    @ZecaPinto1 Před rokem +3

    I really liked this painting here 10:50
    Whats its title?

  • @SpamMouse
    @SpamMouse Před rokem +1

    Thank you team. (It's because there was no laws banning axes nor Netflix on tap.)

  • @mattias969
    @mattias969 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Especially here in Scandinavia you have no idea how we perfected the art of picking eachother apart

  • @memolano100
    @memolano100 Před rokem +16

    As a medieval person myself, I can confirm that the middle ages were that violent.

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz Před 6 měsíci +1

      A truly medieval person wouldn't call themself medieval though 🤔

  • @jessepacheco6020
    @jessepacheco6020 Před rokem +5

    I mean 40k does get almost all it's lore from Medieval times. Just in space..

    • @waltonsimons9082
      @waltonsimons9082 Před rokem

      Well yeah, because the Warhammer (non 40k) lore is a high fantasy setting...

  • @marcosmota1094
    @marcosmota1094 Před rokem

    We are ALL sick, we clicked AFTER we saw the thumbnail!

  • @BattleAxe1345
    @BattleAxe1345 Před rokem +2

    I like how the guy getting his head done in the thumbnail is like, "Could you like, not, right now?".

  • @Frosty_tha_Snowman
    @Frosty_tha_Snowman Před rokem +6

    *Yes. Yes it was.*

  • @AfricanLionBat
    @AfricanLionBat Před rokem +2

    Can you do a video on medieval marriage? Unless you already did and I haven't come across that yet.

  • @howtosober
    @howtosober Před rokem +2

    I've searched multiple times to find a single video on why medieval people thought executions were fun and entertaining, and all that comes up is stuff about executioners or stuff like this. Please address that topic! It's so essential even to the subject of this video, yet not included here.

  • @martryan2060
    @martryan2060 Před rokem +5

    What about Infantacide ?
    Very common not a crime till 1913
    Came across hundreds of cases
    Reading a court ledger in one month from 1745

    • @floridaman318
      @floridaman318 Před rokem +4

      Infanticide was definitely a crime lmao

    • @martryan2060
      @martryan2060 Před rokem

      @@floridaman318 actually it was classified as a mental illness
      The argument is what sane women would kill her child.
      In Ireland alone in 1910 I one rural area 13 cases came before a judge

  • @carausiuscaesar5672
    @carausiuscaesar5672 Před rokem +3

    Did they bury that poor dead cat?!

  • @piggypoo
    @piggypoo Před rokem +2

    Maxican Cartel: hold my cervesa...

  • @kevinjones8745
    @kevinjones8745 Před rokem +1

    LOVE your channel.... PLEASE keep up the GREAT WORK you do..... NO QUARTER ASKED, NONE GIVEN

  • @Spectonimous
    @Spectonimous Před rokem +2

    Yes. According to some statistics about the homicide rate of the time that I've read in books, they would be among the most violent countries in the world today.

  • @moomyung9231
    @moomyung9231 Před rokem +8

    Strange that before 1485 the women involved in crimes aren't mentioned by name. All of the crimes in England I've looked at during the Tudor period have the woman's full name, or even the small child's full name. Maybe England was different and most of the crimes here were on the continent, or that the officials decided to be more thorough and exact in the legal system. There's clearly something different going on.

    • @floridaman318
      @floridaman318 Před rokem +5

      Female privilege?

    • @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa
      @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa Před rokem +1

      Finally, my titties would be useful back before 1485 for something other than being a breeding cow! Time to create a time machine so I can finally start my medieval criminal empire in complete anonymity.

    • @gabrokkerhun
      @gabrokkerhun Před rokem +11

      @@floridaman318 You might as well give them that when they were worth 1/3 of a man at best.

    • @floridaman318
      @floridaman318 Před rokem +1

      @@gabrokkerhun ok Arab.

    • @lolas.7024
      @lolas.7024 Před rokem +1

      @@floridaman318 if you think getting raped and murdered by men as a privilege ? Oh wait you do lmfao

  • @easttowest7839
    @easttowest7839 Před rokem +14

    I once read a book about the Anglo-Scottish border reivers, and it had a part describing how local villagers would get so bored and were so starved for stimulation that they would entertain themselves by rounding up stray cats and lighting them on fire.

    • @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874
      @LETS_TALK_ON_TELEEGRAM874 Před rokem

      Quickly Write me up I have something for you ❤️❤️

    • @missbraindamage
      @missbraindamage Před rokem +1

      I thought they killed stray cats because they were thought to be the devil or demons in disguise and minions /familars to witches or sometimes witches themselves

    • @easttowest7839
      @easttowest7839 Před rokem +4

      @@missbraindamage two birds one stone, I guess

    • @pauls3204
      @pauls3204 Před rokem +1

      Stray English folk they cooked

    • @pinkpugginz
      @pinkpugginz Před rokem +2

      a tradition still held today by most trailer parks

  • @etiennesharp
    @etiennesharp Před rokem

    Good video! Froissart wasn't a 'native Frenchman' though. He was from the County of Hainaut.

  • @phillawrence5148
    @phillawrence5148 Před 5 měsíci

    I often wonder what their every conversations were like and did they have a similar sense of humour.

  • @Ned-nw6ge
    @Ned-nw6ge Před rokem +3

    I think it’s kind of funny that a guy would just go to a different place to escape a crime back in the Middle Ages. Up till the 11th or 12th century the death penalty was unspoken of (in the Netherlands, but it counted for the entirety of early medieval western Europe if I’m believing my uni). For capital crimes you would be banished for either a number of years or life, so back then you were kind of supposed to escape to another place after killing somebody.

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz Před 6 měsíci +2

      Back then being banished was serious business, so don't think they got off easily