What Life Was Like In A 13th Century Castle | Secrets Of The Castle | Real Royalty
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 19. 04. 2021
- As their time at Guedelon Castle in France draws to an end, the team look at the castle's place in the wider medieval world.
Thirteenth-century Europe was a busy, developing, connected place, where work, trade, pilgrimages and crusades gave people the opportunity to travel across the continent and beyond.
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These are the kind of documentaries that I crave. I've learned so much in a little less than an hour!
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In this "disposable" culture we have today, it's amazing to see how much imagination and experimentation it took for those in past generations to develop and perfect the art of their crafts to pass down to us.
Ruth, Peter and Tom have such contagious enthusiasm in experiencing the amount of work and dedication these people had, how much they accomplished in their lives. I can't help but feel quite in awe of the ingenuity of such a hard working society working together to build something so grand. And I'm grateful to our hosts for bringing this history alive for us. Thanks for posting this program. Educational and enjoyable.
Hello Karen Fitzpatrick. How are you doing?
I think we're de -evolving.
I just enjoy watching these three work together. I've watched all of thier documentaries. They work together well and I learn so much from them đ
oh please they would've used the shit we have had it been available.
Ruth and her daughter getting excited when they figured out how to make the gold thread was so wholesome
What's amazing is that, as advanced as we think we are today, 99% of people today couldn't accomplish what these people did with hand tools almost 1000 years ago.
Perhaps you havenât considered that 13th century workers learned through apprenticeships, their skills werenât acquired at birth any more than reading and writing is.
but why should we? we have moved on and advanced and technology has made things more efficient.You are the sort of people who still prefer riding a horse instead of a 4WD SUV with 50 horsepower and V8 Engine like mine
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@@goldenboyi1989 Weird flex but OK.
Much respect for the people who live this life in order to teach us about the past. It's a hard lifestyle!
Pretty sure they sleep in modern homes etc, this is just a project haha though that does not detract from the admiration one should have for them :).
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Ul so slide over here and give me a moment your moves are so raw II've got to let you know you're one my kind.
@@jamesbishop5119 So I actually live near Guedelon and have been there a few times (it's a thing in France to get the children to visit the castle with their school) and I can confirm these people are allowed to go back to the XXIst century every night đ. They have modern labour law, and there are more protections around the buildings than there was in medieval times (like fences around the eight meters tall towers they're working on and so on), etc. I'm pretty sure they aren't healed the medieval way either đ
@@jamesbishop5119 It doesn't matter where they sleep. But what matter is that they have no clue, just guesses, on how it was build.
I came here to learn all the positions and jobs performed inside a fully garrisoned medieval castle. Instead, I learned how to build one.
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Not at all what I expected either
Same! Interesting but not what I came for. I stopped watching it, but saved for later.
Yup. This is supposed to be titled somewhere along the lines of how a castle was constructed or something like that. Whoever uploaded it purposely made a click bait title to seem like a new video from them in another castle.
I pretty much stopped it when I figured out which video it actually is. I've seen it already a cpl times. Its good and all, but not what i was expecting.
Amazed at how much valuable and informative content is available here for free to the viewer đ„°
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This was so interesting. The segment about making dye, who first figured that all out? So clever and innovative! Mad respect for all of them.
It was the fallen angels and nephilim who first brought knowledge ie: masonary astrology, herbalism, animal husbandry, science, laws etc etc.to mankind,
Dying fabric and linen has been around for millennia, Egypt had a very particular turquoise that we have not figured out how it was made, purple is the hardest to achieve.
@@dawnpalmby5100 I guess that's why it was a favorite of royalty.
@@lookupyourredemptiondrawsn8799 yes that is true
As a craft interpreter in an American 19th century village, I learned what plants made the dyes used.
Boiled onion skins= yellpw
cochineal= red
indigo= deep blue
walnut barkâą brown
Wow I learned so much just from this video. How wonderful people are willing to do this to teach us as well as their self how it was done in the past. Thank you for this education..
I love how mother & daughter are doing this together as real friends.
Heartwarming.
I was taught the two stitches shown herein by my older (15) when I was five during my pettipoint embroidery lessons. These stitches require a "good eye," steady hand & commitment to detail. I have taught these stitches to crossstitchers in less than 5 mins. Pat in Philly
I think I love Ruth's daughter almost as much I love Ruth.
Absolutely love this episode. A great glimpse at the past. Really brings a new appreciation to how people lived and how we live now. đđŒđđŒđđŒ
You should rename this as "How to build a castle"
I thought this, but then realized that nobody's gonna watch that. Whoever's behind this channel knows how to attract a CZcams audience.
@@krdiaz8026 brilliant!...
I am looking at this program and being thankful that I wasn't around during this time. I have so much respect for the ppl that made everything possible back then. I don't think I would have survived a week.
You would have been just fine. Haha hope you are feeling blessed and loved.
Oh come on, this would have been an amazing time to live. Sure hard work but its also rewarding. I think its amazing.
@@lostamericanhistory2536 I am a tailor, trust me making clothes all by hand ( no sewing machine) ain't that much amazing.
@@lostamericanhistory2536 also the near constant issue of infection would have been normal to them but still really unpleasant. Especially the virus, so many (the plague- "the Black Death" or as they referred to it - The Great Mortality). That stuff is horrifying & there's been nothing like it since the "Spanish Flu" that I'm aware of since that time (1348+).
Not to be to grim.....âș
@@davidrustylouis6818 that is true, medical would be one thing that would be hard to give up. The things that killed so easily is nothing to us now. A lot of their ways seemed so primitive to us but my family has been trying to get back to that (growing 100% own food, self sufficient) for years now. We really underestimate how much they knew just to survive. It takes years to get good at gardening, know when its going to frost, what to grow and how to grow it. These people had it down pat. What I've found, the further my family gets from mainstream way of life, the closer and happy we are though.
For the first time in 60 years as an historian I am getting a glimpse through my computer at master craftsmen at work in the 13th century. I almost expected to hear Middle English. Ladies and Gents, you're awesome.
There were 5 episodes in this series 'Secrets of the Castle' with Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and
Tom Pinfold (2014)--Narrator Paul McGann (8th Dr. Who & Holby City). Excellent historical
documentary:
1. Why Build a Castle
2. Defending the Castle (Drew the highest UK viewers of the series-11/24/2014)
3. Inside the Castle
4. The Castle's Community of Skills
5. Beyond the Castle Walls
Castles are mindblowingly amazing to visit in person. The imagination they provoke makes my brain smile from lobe to lobe. If you ever have the chance to visit one in person, the memories will lest your lifetime!
This was one of the most amazing free video I have ever watched on the internet.
Many thanks from Brasil
You donât realize how labor intensive it was to make anything back in those days. It really does give one a new found appreciation for the people of the past.
Very moving. Brought me to tears.
Yes i think the main host guy is so simple, straightforward and friendly he was the mortar to this documentary bringing it all together.
Ruth is fascinated by all of the very early home methods and the messier the better to her.
yes i shivered when she started using hands, i thought that's a british reflex that you would not find in continental europe.
Amazing how similar the masonry technique is to modern day masonry. I worked as a mason for 10 years most of our stone is pre shaped but we still have to do all the things they show to finish and mate the stone because nothings perfect from factory and modern plans.
Are you saying it's impossible for a modern mason to be outdone by factory manufacturing of stone? Quality items that would be smithed form the same time are being mass produced. I mean you're basically saying they could comunicate just as well if you were a master then and now. It's just wrong. We've vastly increased processing and understanding of minerals and architecture since then.
I could always imagine the hard and delicate work that these magnificent buildings required but when I actually see how all the work was done, I feel a much bigger appreciation and awe! đ
I adored this marvelous series. Iâve always been fascinated with castles and medieval life particularly weapons. How in the world they managed to contrive so much with so little only shows their ingeniousness. They dealt with inadequate food, shelter and pretty much non-existent health care. Itâs little wonder life expectancy was only to mid-30âs. Excellent series I highly recommend it. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hello Susan Schmitt. How are you doing?
Yea, there is something fishy about that particular piece of narrative. We are expected to believe that these master stonecutters traveled from country to country bc their marking were followed. It takes a long time to become a mĂĄster, also each castle, also traveling to other countries between castles ... kind of hard to all that before 30.
@@wendymoran6759 This is the common misconception with Medieval life expectancy. When calculating life expectancy you look at a number of deaths and the ages at which those people died. Add them all up, then divide by the number of deaths examined to retrieve an average. The problem with this formula is that infant mortality was very, very high during the medieval period. The number of infant deaths drags the life expectancy down, when in reality if you lived passed infancy, living to your 50s or 60s was not at all uncommon!
@@michaelaw555: past. Good points though! đđœ
This series is so fascinating. These three people have done other ones, they are worth searching out!
every documentary with ruth goodman is the best !
I love these series soooo much I wish they could do more!
What an interesting program . Havent found something this interesting on youtube in quite some time .
My grandmother and grandfather used to run a cotton loom dye business. I remember my mother telling me how colourful our balcony would be from all the dyed loom
How beautiful that stonework is, what amazing craftsmanship. I hope young people keep training in it.
Hello Kimberly Perrotis. How are you doing?
Already watched this on timeline world history and its a great series đ ill watch it again đ đ
How amazing is this experience! Wow! And Ruth, we love to see you and the way you explain things in such intricate ways.
Love watching these three work together.
Hunterston Castle in Scotland is 13th Century, 1263, in excellent condition.
You get that kind of satisfaction from pretty much anything you create by hand over a long period of time. A lot of the lessons learned are still learned today when you do an apprenticeship for pretty much any craft. It always teaches technique and patience. I'm thankful I learned metal working from the ground up and while I never went into that field of work, I still benefit from what I learned some 40 years ago. When most people go like "uhh, I'll just buy a new one" I go "how can I fix this" - and more often than not there's a way to do it.
This was so interesting! Thanks for posting this video! ~ Anastacia in Cleveland
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This is just amazing..
Imagine if someone from the future found these ruins and thought "ahhh, authentic historic ruins from eons ago" when in fact it was an experiment in very recent history...
Or in the future they believed we, in 2000s, lived in castles like this.
Leave a Plack or corner stone!
Lol they better test the age of the wood, like how we do now.
Archeologists in the 31st century would be wondering what happened in that part of France that it reverted to a feudal system. đ€
@@jefferyindorf699 Right?! Lol
Thank you for teaching us about our roots and keeping our history! How quickly we forget in this modern age! -United States:)
Whatâd you expect? You have lowly educated 22 year olds becoming teachers these days, owned by teachersâ unions. Itâs ridiculous.
Ruth Goodman is so wonderful. All her documentaries bring the past to life, with dignity and appreciation.
History is AMAZING I am so grateful for this content â€â€â€â€
This is so amazing! Much respect to everyone doing this!
I love this narrator!
Absolutely like a visionary outlook. Thank you for posting historical content.âš
What a terrific experiment . Itâs no wonder these castles lasted hundreds of years !
My mom's side are McNamara's builders of castle's and monasteries, from research I've done theres still a few standing... if we ever get out of our current predicament I'd love to visit them!
OUR ANCESTORS WERE AMAZING
Amazing, Amazing,Amazing... I want to Thank you so much for this video.
They were more worldly people then, than they are now.
This is just an incredible journey your on, I hope there's more. â€ïž
Hello Debbie D. How are you doing?
Love these programs. It makes me grateful for what whe have now.
I loved the mother, and daughter working together.
Kudos to the team of Royal Realty for showing us everything in so much detail and much respect for their first hand experience practice of everything. This brought a smile on my face đ
Never in your LIFE have you seen the expression "from SCRATCH" illustrated so graphically and literally đ€ŁđȘđ
Except for when I saw this comment and clawed my intestines out of where my now severed testicles once lie dormant.
This is absolutely amazing! The people were very committed and disciplined. The blue dye was simply fascinating! The garments would be very expensive of course.
The best part about this project is seeing Brits & French working together â€
Very interesting and very informative, the amount of labour went into a creation in the medieval aga was overwhelming, I will never again look at a historical monument the same way again, I will always be thinking about the workers and their marvellous work.
That man,s voice is so good.
This is what you call real woodworking, sculptural, beautiful stone work with arches and tremendous Mason work with heart and soul put into it. God bless you all. What a tremendous job you all did. That's painstaking but worth it. God truly in the past and even now as you work hard at it has gifted all of you and c those in past ancient to medieval times with talents, knowledge and skills to do all this.
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Hello Cheryl Callahan. How are you doing?
EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY!ââââđđđđ±đ·
Well ordinary people couldn't travel better but yes actually is quite probably traveled more isn't it? Fascinating!!
This was a beautifully done documentary đ„°
Congratulations for filming this. You did a great job!
Thank you so much for your guide through the labor and skill the medieval builders developed as they built their stone edifices. The buildings had my admiration before, and now I've gained admiration, intense admiration, for the builders.
Iâm deeply impressed by amazing buildings all over the world, always with a thought to their craftsmen. By this series Iâm from now on even more in woooow by the skills by our forefathers. This was so eye opening - the teamwork - the knowledge and learning from natureâs material - listening to the stones, I loved when that was said â€ïž Thank you to all of you, - from DenmarkâŠ
Truly incredible. Great job, amazing skills.
Such an old series. Thanks for the re-upload. Do you have the entire series I wonder
Paul McGann is by far my favorite narrator.
I love seeing stuff like this with all respect to those who have worked so hard at this.
I believe the medieval stone masons, architect and fine stone carvers are actually decades into that job, they're not pretending anymore, its their lives to be medieval artisans in the 21st century.
This was fantastic!
Amazing!
Thankyou so very much for this insight of history and in general how we arrived at recieving materials for daily living nessesities to manage our needs.
Hello Barbara Hurren. How are you doing?
I've seen this before. A while ago, but found myself watching it again. Lovely.
Wow! no word to express my feeling of appreciation is great , with all their hard work , genius art and ways in doing such wonderful nature design by hand .
Amazing Job Well Done
Love this video.
Loved to see what work it took to die clothes, to build...
Grate content;
Thank you
I love it. Thank you for your hard work. It was very interesting.
I would like to see someone remake Gobekli Tepe with the tools that were available at that time period in which it was made. And some of the other mysterious sites that seem impossible to make.
Well very cool idea for ppl to get together and do.a lot of talented ppl here...very awesome đ
Maybe our modern day developers could take note! Apartment construction springs to mind. Because some of the work is pretty shoddy.
I just find this so awsome and amazing.
I love Ruth - nothing can stop her, including her age! But my favorite thing is Peter's dreamy eyes!! đ
Her age?! -The womanâs not yet sixty! Where I come from, thatâs barely teething age...
Hello Antoinette Marlow. How are you doing?
Wow!! Wonderfully done, and I learned so much!! I wanted this to never end!đđđâ€đŻ
Please share more of your work and adventures with this project.đđŻ
Hello Shannon. How are you doing?
@@wilsonwalker1181 you know damn well if she's not someone you know personally she's either really old or really young and you need to lay off. @Shannon we understand you without the emojis. You explained thoroughly your point without all that đŻđŻđŻđŻđŻđđ€źđ€§đ€đ€đ”
enjoyed every video from you guys great work
I would love to visit this castle !!!!
What an extremely interesting doco.
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Royalty you are not. Did a Google search just to be sure. Lol
Love this !
Yes! Ruth, Peter and Tom are back!!
Lol I saw all those ads and just immediately scrolled straight to the end and restarted. Good lord. Can we get some video with those ads?!
Every three minutes, thatâs pretty excessive.
Itâs the reason I gave in and paid for no ads. Itâs not that much a month and it really is a lot less irritating! I knew the ads were getting to me when Iâd be watching something and just when something was about to happen, AD came on and I wanted to throw my phone! It gets REALLY old after a while.
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This has been fascinating and I enjoyed it. Now I want to learn more. Thank you for starting me on my endeavor to learn much more about life in the Middle Ages.
Really enjoyed this video beautiful very sad to see I'm falling so much history thank you for this video
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Brillianr series, thank you
Hello Catherine Gamaroff. How are you doing?
Great job...
Gotta love that ambition exceeded what tools dictated to reach what they _believed_ ought to be possible. That's why I never doubt what ancients achieved even if we don't know the minutiae of how they did it.
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OMG amasing fork!!!
Respect !
I love artisanal work.
Way more solid and stable then new buildingd and/or new furniture too.
Tysm for uploading these!!đđđ
look forward to visiting this place one day
while to see such hard work see these castles amazing just to think about history wow