Thank you for your Magnificent presentation about the various knights. It was absolutely fascinating. I Love studying history from your Illustrious Professors. Thank you for increasing my wealth of knowledge.🏆♥️
Love the whole program! Just for the sake of style, "broadsword" in that particular usage isn't really what we say anymore. It's considered a rather dated term now. It's a bit like calling east Asian people "Orientals", or saying "the Ukraine". The proper term is arming sword or knightly sword, i.e. just a Medieval, one-handed, double-edged sword. These days, "broadsword" refers to the basket-hilted broadswords of the Early Modern Period (circa 1550-1800ish).
@Raymond Seger If you live your life doing something, then it becomes natural to do it. Imagine if you lived your life lying flat for 20 years and then one day you tried to walk. You would find walking extremely difficult if not impossible. Then, compared to you, a walker would be a mobility elite. Now, imagine somebody who has lived their life dressed in steel armour and carry a sword and shield and using it to train/fight as a way of life for 20 years. A bit like a tortoise carrying it's shell. Put that shell on a lizard and the lizard cannot move. It is the horses that I feel so bad for.
The modern German version for the old Germanic and then English word knight is Knecht!!! Which is essentially the word for a farm worker serving a land owner.
Gud work, templer knights were missionary fighting for church in crusades . That's why it originated in near East. They were paid handsomely by church. There was no treasure or holy grail. They controlled & supported merchants in East. hence they got protection money from them. But soon they bcome too powerful for church & it's authority. Church discarded them. Created a myth of treasure to instigate the king 👑 against them. They were decimated & persecuted. King used them to raise his popularity.
Was part of the the Templer’s rise due to a warrior society created by the Viking attempt to conquer and the build up of war materials and warriors? They would have been a threat to governments and as a result sent to enrich those who could capitalize on conquered resources.
All the different religions in the Holy Land just got along with no "friction"? Really? I love when people like this try to portray the Muslim World as a place where religious tolerance was just the order of the day, and everyone just got along all fat and happy. Umm... the Muslim governor of Jerusalem had just BURNED DOWN the Church of the Holy Sepulchre earlier in that same century! This is to say nothing of serious help that the poor Byzantine Empire needed to fend off the existential threat that was Islam! Of course, it's incredibly sad how the Byzantines allowed their own internal political corruption to trigger the sacking of the capital by "Latin" knights in 1204. However, none of this changes the fact that the Crusades were completely justified, and defensive in nature.
I gotta say that yall really messed up when you made Ancient History Lover take down the videos of yours that he uploaded to CZcams. The content is really good, but that was a big mistake. He was doing a much better job at advertising the company.
Very English centric. These guys need to get out a little more. They ought to title the video “More English history masquerading as world history.” Not a clue about Roman knights, rest of Europe, Japan etc.
Great to see attention brought to a neglected subject, and well done to the team in summarising many facets of knighthood, chivalry and its raison d'etre. However, some of the claims made by the presenters are flimsy or just plain inaccurate, for example the expense and maintenance of a knight mentioned at 8:50, then at 9:05 "only the wealthiest could become a knight". This claim is not true, poorer land owners with modest estates supported "lesser knights", a class following the precepts of chivalry but not having the full panoply of war gear, material support, or financial reserves, e.g. William Wallace of Scottish fame came from this background. And, the next claim made that knights disavowed the code of chivalry, which generally happened rarely, really should be attributed to mercenary bands of outcastes/robbers and "wanna be knights" that disgraced themselves in, for example, the chevauchee raids of the Hundred Years War lead by the Black Prince. I would suggest that you look for the roots of knighthood and for this to be successful I would recommend at least a few minutes on the mythology of the Knights of the Round-table and the Arthurian legends originating out of S.W. Wales.
Thank you for sharing these snippets from Great Courses for those of us who are unable to afford the purchase of the full ‘courses’.
P.S. Great work Wondrium. Wondrium is great.
Thank you for your Magnificent presentation about the various knights. It was absolutely fascinating. I Love studying history from your Illustrious Professors. Thank you for increasing my wealth of knowledge.🏆♥️
Love the whole program! Just for the sake of style, "broadsword" in that particular usage isn't really what we say anymore. It's considered a rather dated term now. It's a bit like calling east Asian people "Orientals", or saying "the Ukraine". The proper term is arming sword or knightly sword, i.e. just a Medieval, one-handed, double-edged sword. These days, "broadsword" refers to the basket-hilted broadswords of the Early Modern Period (circa 1550-1800ish).
The Longbow is still a symbol of pride for we English. And you don't "fire" one, you shoot it or loose an arrow from it.
Starting it from Middle Ages in EU is like ignoring all the knights in Persian, Parthian empires and many other empires from centuries beforehand…
Were the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights more skilled in combat than other Knights?
Mostly. They were the elites. They had life-long training both on and off the battlefields.
@@MaroonedInDub Awesome! Thanks!
@Raymond Seger If you live your life doing something, then it becomes natural to do it.
Imagine if you lived your life lying flat for 20 years and then one day you tried to walk. You would find walking extremely difficult if not impossible.
Then, compared to you, a walker would be a mobility elite.
Now, imagine somebody who has lived their life dressed in steel armour and carry a sword and shield and using it to train/fight as a way of life for 20 years. A bit like a tortoise carrying it's shell. Put that shell on a lizard and the lizard cannot move.
It is the horses that I feel so bad for.
Continue this is the best job in information all the time congratulation
Specimen, lol. That was funny. Very good show. Thanks.
Peace and agap'e
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The modern German version for the old Germanic and then English word knight is Knecht!!! Which is essentially the word for a farm worker serving a land owner.
I need a video on adventures of king Arthur.. Is he a fiction or reality?
Gud work, templer knights were missionary fighting for church in crusades . That's why it originated in near East. They were paid handsomely by church. There was no treasure or holy grail. They controlled & supported merchants in East. hence they got protection money from them. But soon they bcome too powerful for church & it's authority. Church discarded them. Created a myth of treasure to instigate the king 👑 against them. They were decimated & persecuted. King used them to raise his popularity.
Was part of the the Templer’s rise due to a warrior society created by the Viking attempt to conquer and the build up of war materials and warriors?
They would have been a threat to governments and as a result sent to enrich those who could capitalize on conquered resources.
All the different religions in the Holy Land just got along with no "friction"? Really? I love when people like this try to portray the Muslim World as a place where religious tolerance was just the order of the day, and everyone just got along all fat and happy. Umm... the Muslim governor of Jerusalem had just BURNED DOWN the Church of the Holy Sepulchre earlier in that same century! This is to say nothing of serious help that the poor Byzantine Empire needed to fend off the existential threat that was Islam! Of course, it's incredibly sad how the Byzantines allowed their own internal political corruption to trigger the sacking of the capital by "Latin" knights in 1204. However, none of this changes the fact that the Crusades were completely justified, and defensive in nature.
I gotta say that yall really messed up when you made Ancient History Lover take down the videos of yours that he uploaded to CZcams. The content is really good, but that was a big mistake. He was doing a much better job at advertising the company.
@Raymond Seger you picked the wrong house foo
Very English centric. These guys need to get out a little more. They ought to title the video “More English history masquerading as world history.” Not a clue about Roman knights, rest of Europe, Japan etc.
Give a class on feudalism.
Great to see attention brought to a neglected subject, and well done to the team in summarising many facets of knighthood, chivalry and its raison d'etre. However, some of the claims made by the presenters are flimsy or just plain inaccurate, for example the expense and maintenance of a knight mentioned at 8:50, then at 9:05 "only the wealthiest could become a knight". This claim is not true, poorer land owners with modest estates supported "lesser knights", a class following the precepts of chivalry but not having the full panoply of war gear, material support, or financial reserves, e.g. William Wallace of Scottish fame came from this background. And, the next claim made that knights disavowed the code of chivalry, which generally happened rarely, really should be attributed to mercenary bands of outcastes/robbers and "wanna be knights" that disgraced themselves in, for example, the chevauchee raids of the Hundred Years War lead by the Black Prince. I would suggest that you look for the roots of knighthood and for this to be successful I would recommend at least a few minutes on the mythology of the Knights of the Round-table and the Arthurian legends originating out of S.W. Wales.
Wondrium has gotten progressively worse. This was utterly terrible and on some points, completely non-factual. Goodbye
Boarish.
I'm British. I am fascinated with medieval times. Wondrium has done a good job here.
You are wrong.
@@MaroonedInDub yes your name sounds British
@@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg I live in Thailand. 23 years.
@@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg It says Andrew
Seems overworked. Too many hand & body moves. Sorry to say. Good content.