What Life Was Like In Medieval Castles
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2019
- Despite what pop culture might have you believe, living in a medieval castle wasn't all that glamorous. If you were one of the lucky ruling class, you got some wine or the occasional hot bath. But with the lack of plumbing, castles smelled pretty ripe. Not to mention rats. So many rats. Today we're getting real about what living in a medieval castle was like, and it's not that pretty.
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What would be the best or worst thing about living in a Medieval castle?
The worst and best part is seeing ladies do their business right next to you
@@aaronbradley3232 Those are both valid
@@jomolololo4398 LOL!
Worst thing would be everything; small town style hierarchical (and super-superstitious) ruling, the misery index, and the depressing lack of mobility or escape.
These days we live better than those kings; All the creature comforts, mobility, information, healthcare, (relative) justice, and anonymity or fame if we really want either.
Oh and more free entertainment than we can watch lol
Excellent video! 👏👏
@@orbitaljellyfish808 Thank you!
The fact that I live a life more lavish and comfortable than nobles. Who's the peasant now?
Haha, yes
you still have no gf tho
@@noonecares5340 yeah you're right.... But I do have a boyfriend.
Surprise! This boi is a woman.
@@meisheencalsado4142 trap moment
That comment actually makes me feel pretty good 👌
You wanted to live in a palace. A castle was built mostly for defense.
This channel do shitty research
@@cancerchannel1515 no
@@cancerchannel1515 true
@@cancerchannel1515 Can you tell me more? I don't want to get wrong information.
@@misschocoholic2126 Almost all of what you heard is plain misinformation. If you'd like to learn what actual castle life was like, look up Shadiversity's video "Biggest Misconceptions of Medieval Castles and life."
“Nothing ruins a meal like having to look at poor people” lmaoo
lmfao
So true! 🥲 🤴
DEATH to the RICH
Eat the rich
Lmao
I think it's silly to assume that they just had miserable lives. When it's all you know, it's all you know! Tribes living in the jungle today without modern conveniences are said to have much lower rates of depression.
Yeah because many urban dwellers waste time on face book where people gloat about their wealth thus causing depression.
Rats
You know you're right ! I never thought of that. I've never been rich, but for 12 years I had an EXCELLENT, excellent paying job. I had a blood clot and wound up on disability. I'm very happy and content although I have considerably less things and money. Doesn't seem to make sense does it??
Shit pilled up
Stench
Cats protected people from rats, they were the pest control of the medieval times. He literally showed a picture that illustrated that point but didn't mention it.
Oh shut up no one cares 😂
He did the voiceover, not the pictures
RO speak for yourself
Perhaps the lord and lady of the manor were crazy cat people before it was cool ;)
That's why plagues and witch hunts went hand in hand. A minor epidemic happens, idiots blame witches who were typically stereotyped as having familiars in cats, cats got hunted and killed, so rats spread carrying the disease and soon you have a bloody pandemic.
Jesus, I'm SO glad to live in this century. Running water, ELECTRICITY? Come on! Heat on demand, insulation, methods to rid yourself of pests, laundry, deoderant, pizza and the goddamned internet. FFS if I ever wanted to punish someone, I'd send them back to 1347.
It wont b here 4 long what was shall b
I'm so unlucky that I'm living in this century. Living in 3019 would be better as we have downloadable food!
tubez4321 totes
SORRE 123 It was even better in 9520 BC in my hometown of Atlantis. We had actual *magic*. And then we built all this fancy technology and, well, you know the rest.
You forgot doctors that actually some idea of what they are doing and medicine that generally works.
This is all misconception based on being so far removed from that time. Living was not so far different than today. I agree there was no running water in the modern plumbing sense, but they did have pillows and comfort. Mattresses and sheets and blankets. Castles are cool in summer and warm in winter. The "peasants" who served in castles actually lived like the nobles who owned the castles. It was a rare treat to serve in the castle for this reason. They ate well, took baths, had physicians (not modern medicine) so they were as well as the nobles health-wise. This video paints a grim picture but it largely unfounded. Do research from familial memoirs of the time rather than looking at archaeology. Consider what your house would look like to someone 400 years later after you abandon it.
Good comment. I think the channel is more interested in subscriptions and views than facts from the past....
Yes, this is clearly a content farm
Castles in the 13th century are far older than 600 years, and they had stone walls with lime plaster, white paint, looked much better.
@@richardhe5973 Limes plaster might make them looks slightly nicer but it doesn't make them any less primitive.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 primitive compared to what? Lmao they were the most advanced buildings of their time
They weren’t dark places. The walls where beautifully hand painted with hand made paints. The art on castle walls was incredible.
@GO D yes?
Many also had walls covered in tapestries, as well as larger windows facing inwards, on some occasions opening into a closed courtyard.
Most castle walls were just stone but yeah there were tapestries sometimes.
Quite a number actually used wood. Wood castles were quite common in the medieval era, though not many can still be found today due to their quality of being made of wood.
Art does not equal light. Museums at night with lights off are still dark.
When I was little I always wanted to be a princess and live in a castle....
Uh yeah never mind.
It's because Disney gave us the opposite picture of Castles.
Yeah it didn't matter if you were lower or upper class back then, life was rough and castles were no luxury suites.
just as long as it has plumbing and electricity.
There is a large amount of misinformation in this video. Check out the channel Shadiversity and look at the vid talking about life in a castle. It has so much real information in it. This vid paints a very dark look at life back then that just isn’t accurate.
I mean I’d definitely rather live now, but humans knew basic hygiene and how to keep a place warm and dry! Lol that’s just logic. Humans haven’t changed much, we like our creature comforts
@@destinytroll1374 thats why they were called the dark ages.
I love this channel, but in this video is so many misconceptions.
- Stone accumulates heat in long term, so if you constantly burn fire in the winter rooms in the castle stay comfortably warm. In the summer stone works as an insulation against sun, so is confortably cold even in the hot summer.
- The myth about medieval people drinking a lot of alcohol since the water was dirty is only half of true. Most of the villages and castles was build around wells or close to the rivers with clean water. They also collected rainwater. All people in the castles has very good source of clean water, if the castle was not besieged.
To stay clean you onle few litres of water and they clean themself every day if it was possible. It is only logical since they believed that bad smell indicates desiase.
Only people who drank only alcohol was soldiers on expedition and travelers because they can not trust to foreign sources.
- People working in the castles for aristocratcy was higher sort of the society. They was not rich but they has good wealth and sources of everything above standard. If the ruler was sane working in the castle was always desireable job.
castles also werent the dark dank places people think. they were decorated with tapestries or paintings, as much bright color as could be used...and lit as well as possible with torches, lamps, etc. the castle owners were wealthy and wanted to be in comfort. what we see today are basically the bones of once lavish domiciles. its akin to thinking the great pyramid today is what it was always like, and that certainly isnt true
this video is basically "medieval castles arent what you think, now let me tell you every myth about them as if it were fact"
I like to think people who lived in those times were just like us. If they ware dirty, they would try to clean themselves. If there were rats, people would try to eliminate them, and so on... People are smart and criative.
i also want to add the when people mention laying down "rushes" they didn't mean loose straw. They used rushes to weave mats that would cover the floors like japanese tatami mats.
I mean think about it. during this time women were expected to wear long dresses and never allowed to hike them up. if the rushes were loose they'd be dragging piles of hay around. Also in no art did they depect their floors as covered in loose hay. What DID they depict? Mats.
this video makes the medieval era out to be way worse than it actually was.
You're right about some things, such as castles not being too cold as they had fires...and there would've been some decor, depending on their status and wealth. But I have to disagree with you on a couple of things. It's hard to imagine how different we were back then, remember it wasn't that long ago we enjoyed a good hanging! But the accepted way of life really was astounding. Bathing was not frequent, even the wealthy would often only bath once month. Poor, maybe 4 times a year. Some people even shat in the corridors of the castles. Everyone, everything, everywhere stank, they were used to it. Our hygiene standards now are a very new concept and we'd been used to living in filth for thousands of years!
Almost everyone DID drink beer instead of water, including young children.. but not as we know it, only about 1% alcohol. It was safer than the water, even from wells, which could have rats and shit in them.
P. S. It is said that Queen Elizabeth 1st only bathed once a year!! 🤢🤮
@84n70 Also they fail to mention that the beer/mead back then had a much lower alcohol content than the beer of today. They weren't slamming 5%'ers all day.
I live beside the River Clyde in Scotland, and I'm literally just across the road from Newark Castle, a mid 12th century castle, it's quite small, and in good condition inside. You can still see paint and patterns on bedroom rafters. You can even climb a set of tight windey steps to a parapet where you can look out from. I like to imagine what it must have been like in its prime.
Edit - it's got cellars, a kitchen, a great hall with a huge fireplace with carved stone mantelpiece, rooms with the loo cupboard with the hole, it's small, but there's a lot of history there.
you're so lucky
Damn you’re lucky
man that's just awesome, lucky lucky dude. I'm jealous, but I don't begrudge you your access to that, I'm grateful and happy for you that sounds so cool man : )
Also for what it's worth I think you deserve it, because as you mentioned you take the time to think about what it would have been like to live back then, to consider what it would have felt like to stand on the parapet when it had just been built.
The excitement of likely you and everyone you know in the village as it gets built over the years, the pride you would feel, the wonder you'd experience *especially* since you possibly wouldn't have even heard of concepts like geometry, and physics, and terms like "load-bearing" or "architecture"
Thank you all for saying I'm lucky, my area gets a bad rep just because of some people, but the river Clyde runs along the front of the castle, and you can go on the walkway and walk along the river till you get to a 'abandoned' picnic area, with benches, the bushes are all overgrown, and the path bricks are crumbly, but the tables are still there, I like to walk to one in a shaded patch of trees and read or listen to a podcast. And if you keep walking that way another few miles, you come to an area called ',the 2 tunnels, it's literally as far as you can walk along the Clyde on this side, there's always loads of swans and cygnets, next time I plan to take my metal detector, because that area has had an interesting history 😁
I'm also 10 minutes away from a cemetery, but if you go off path getting there, you're in a weird overgrown place with sets of stairs to nowhere, old lamp posts still standing, and I'm sure there's a Victorian bottle dump around there, it's been left to the wildlife as it's an important habitat, and I want to find the bottle dump if it's there, Ive seen videos of people finding all sorts of really old bottles etc, intact sometimes, it's not quite 'mudlarking', but theres a name for it. It's far too wet, mushy, dark the now in Scotland, I'm gonnae get prepared and that'll be my new year hobby 😁🤗
I just love being beside the river or in the woods lol, any excuse. 😂
@Johnny White 😂😂😂 you win at what? Living in a cesspit full of backward society and government? Delusions of grandeur at its finest. Imagine having to remortgage your house to pay for your cancer treatment or other medical bills. I could go on and on but it's Christmas and your brainwashed mind would never comprehend it. What a joke.
Scotland and Great Britain invented most of the stuff you use today by the way, you have 250 years of history and are descendents of Europeans anyway, but in some way I don't know how... you have devolved.
Merry Christmas!
We are living in the most upgraded time of history and still we are depressed!
Because there is no communion.
Humans are social animals and due to the current events that has made a lot more people depressed because we are social creatures
sounds similar to " you have so many things to be happy about why are you sad" . it has no connection. both are different things.
Just goes to show, material possessions and pleasure doesn’t make you happier, it’s your relationship with God that determines that
I dont know if I'm depressed but probably I'm not
Weird how the romans in Britain had plumbing and then we just lost all that tech.
lol most people don't understand this joke, made me lol
What joke? It's true
They probably thought the toilet was a "devil's device".
@@IlGattoGialloCucina No
@@IlGattoGialloCucina bath did exist.
...and suddenly that thatched house in the countryside doesn't look all too bad.
till you relise the condions where not much less cramped
Mr. Person Humanson The thatched hovel had even more vermin than the castle.
Just my two cents here but more rat's aside it would smell less bad if you built a out house away from the hovel then at least you wouldn't be smelling everyone's 💩💩💩 all the time. if you had cat's around the hovle the rat's would be more manageable
🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶 Trogdor was a man!
I mean, he was a dragon man!
Or, maybe, just a dragon!
Yeah out in the open vulnerable to basically any threat almost no insulation and most likely sleeping on dirt
"Septic Volcano" sounds like a hyper advanced stage of Diarrhea lol.
A few things I think should be mentioned.
- the plague was likely spread by fleas not rats.
- cats where used for catching rats en mouses.
- the townfolks paid the castle so in case of an attack they could use the castle's safety.
- compared to living in the countryside the castle was still quite fancy.
In the year 2500 they'll make a video called "what life was like in a 21st century city"...and it'll look a lot like this to the viewers.
The viewers would say things like "oh my gosh they had rubbish" or "people used to get ill". ....or they didn't have even instant food synthesisers...HOW DID THEY LIVE.
Moral of this is that the guys in the middle ages didn't mind that situation, it's all they knew.
Oh my God, they got herpies
Humanity cease to exists before this.
Or we might not make it that far
World population was estimated at one billion in 1800, 1.6 billion in 1900, 2 billion 1927, 3 billion 1960, 4 billion 1975, 5.53 billion 1990, 6 billion 1999, 7.7 billion today. If the population trends continue, by the year 2500 most of the world will be a cesspool of overpopulated peoples everywhere. More people means less resources and more poverty, more crime, more disease, more stress, smaller and more smaller homes and more pollution. Sorry but we are not progressing, quite the opposite.
I think one of the biggest differences will be in medicine. Transplants, body parts reproduction, elimination of disease...
Right, so I couldn’t get through the entire video without driving myself up a wall with how much misinformation is presented. Many of the points made here are either entirely facecious, leave out important details, or contradict themselves.
Firstly, castles and their lavatories were often situated in areas where it would drop from the battlements or even outside the keep if entirely possible. Even if they only had to make due with large pits that had no real way of being emptied, they would have access to things to cover up the hole in the lavatory to block the smell off or even some mediocre ventilation. These smells would likely be localized away from high traffic areas and not considered a major problem.
Secondly, baths were not rare. In fact the danish often washed themselves as much as, if not more often than the average person today. For people to live somewhere, there needs to be a source of water, be a well, a river, a pond, or even a stream. If you didn’t have the facilities or time to lug cold water to a bathtub you would jump in downstream and wash yourself off that way. It wasn’t all that difficult to clean yourself. Yes, soap was a little harder to come by, at least on smaller towns, but it wasn’t kept only for the rich. Also, hot or warm baths aren’t all that difficult to get. You’d fill a bath most of the way with water, fill a few porcelain containers or a cauldron if you had one and head that over a low fire. When the water was nice and hot you’d just mix the two together to get at least a lukewarm bath.
Thirdly, everyone was not constantly hammered or drunk. You were correct in saying that alcohol was a very safe bet in terms of being a safe source of potable water. But back then most of these drinks did not focus on making the consumer drunk as they do today. They would typically have a very low alcohol content if they were things such as beer and wine, with wine being the higher of the two. Also water was indeed unsafe, but it’s not like they didn’t know how to make it safe to drink. Straining water through multiple bundles of cloth and then boiling it in a pot was a known way to purify water and when the average peasant or servant could not afford to buy a beer they could resort to water. How do you think they survived when the settlement was being set up? They couldn’t buy beer for every single villager or servant and have it shipped to them, and they didn’t have their own brewery to make the beer.
Fourthly, in most instances castles did not have 100 people living in them. Not only did you contradict this point later in your video saying they were built as fortresses first and homes second, but castles were usually far too small to actively house 100 members. A typical lords castle would house the family, a small retinue that is kept raised at all times, and servants who may have a small home to live in inside the castle walls, but that was it. There simply is not enough room to house that many people. Most servants would live on the surrounding village and come in to the castle to work during the day with a very small number of on-site staff. If I were to give an actual estimate on the number of people who would actively live in the castle itself, it would number between twenty and fourty including the family, guard, and a small number of servants such as the cook, steward, and personal servants to the lord and his family. In larger castles belonging to much more powerful individuals such as viscounts there may be an upwards of 100 soldiers garrisoned in separate barracks build inside or adjacent to the castle, but not the keep itself.
Fifthly, and this is going to be the last one because otherwise I’ll be here all day, they did have ways of dealing with rats. This is where rat catchers and exterminators began to make their living and place in society, it was actually during the plague that ratcatchers became incredibly important. It was a job where you went around with a big stick and played a game of whack a mole using rodents, I imagine it could’ve been quite fun before the plague hit for the average man. They would be paid by the rat they caught, permanently removing infestations WAS difficult but it’s not like they didn’t have any form of pest control.
Regarding soap, most folks washed using only water as soap was a luxury.
Thank you, this video was incredibly painful
Not exactly effective but you got to do something.and rats eat dung so no use trying to bait them with poisons with the the dung heap nearby.they might could use it as a fuel but burning it would create even more trouble
czcams.com/video/PFC32MzqHIc/video.html. Shadiversity published a great rant specifically in response to this video. Much more accurate information here.
I was wondering if someone was going to do a comment like this. something really didn't seem right about it.
I live in the North of England and as such I have had the amazing opportunity to see so many castles, the ones that are still in good condition, you can still see the paint work on the walls, and the decorations hanging. Even some of the better pieces of furniture have remained in tact. A lot of them up here even have roman bath houses in the vicinity.
And yes Europeans bathed, even if they didn't have access to a hot bath etc... people from all walks of life would bath in rivers and streams daily.
This misconception that medieval Europeans were all scruffy living in dingy conditions just isn't true, and this person quite obviously did absolutely no research apart from look at pop culture and myths.
Yeah people didn't even wash their hands before SURGERY until the 1860's and there's tons of evidence that people thought being too clean was bad for your health into the 1800's in Europe and the USA but I'm sure they bathed twice daily in the middle ages to spite pop culture 800 years later.
European used to believe that water was related to Satan so the church banned bathing Europe used to be the the toilet of the world it's a fact it's time for u to acknowledge it
Thank you!!! I got the same impression about this video!
England countryside is all freshwater streams and rivers, you could even bath in the rain if you needed to.
Castles as they stand today are ruins; back in their heyday they were usually dressed with white lime on the inside and painted, furnished and decorated. There's a group of historians conducting a project to build a castle using only medieval tools and methods, and they cover it pretty well.
Always thought it was strange how they had basically primitive levels of technology on everything else yet had the knowledge to build these gigantic architectural wonders
Hannibal Barca Ancient Rome had heated floors, hot water, clean running drinking water, upstairs plumbing with water pressure, and so on.
@@tikaalik this is about the dark ages, not roman era
Yes, obviously. The point is all these technologies had already existed for hundreds of years. Medieval Europeans just didn’t know about them.
Hannibal Barca there was no dark ages the only “dark age” was when the Roman Empire had left all of its subjects on their own and the brits suffered heavily because of it
@@tikaalik these types of castles were built by dark-age europeans, not the romans. My entire point was that the dark ages were a period in which they had lost all the technology and knowledge of the roman era in virtually every area, yet for some reason in the area of architecture, they retained a high level of expertise
My water had to be turned off for 2 days. Worst 2 days of my life. I can relate to the lack of plumbing
No water is worse than no electricity, I speak from experience.
I can relate. My water tank was broken and 3 days without hot water and the heater was broken. This was in the fall season.
Just two days? 😂 I lived through Hurricane Maria. My family and I were without electricity or running water for a month. And we were the lucky ones cause other more remote communities were without for many months.
I would of got a hotel
lol...first world problem. Imagine not having safe and easily accessible water for your entire life? Boiling water isn't just to make tea, you've got to or it might give you any number of ills. Any water that you do want has to be carried from a well or a river or other water source. There are still people living today that have these sorts of every day problems, and obviously, the farther back in time you go, the lack of "modern amenities" increases, so that there comes a point when even the rich don't have easy access either.
Overall, how accurate is the historical information presented by the videos of this channel? I believe that references should be included in the video description of all Weird History videos, and/or in the videos themselves. In addition, I believe that they should include dates, particular locations, and examples more. For example, in this video, it would be great if it included when and where in the Medieval Period various practices arose and typically took place (particular countries). After all, Europe was diverse and a huge part of the world, and the European Middle Ages lasted 1000 years. In summary, I want this channel to share their references (far more than what I've seen, if at all), and be more specific, particularly with regards to Europe in the Middle Ages.
P.S. I subscribed to Weird History due to my general interest in history, and the simple and entertaining (at times hilarious) presentation of these videos. However, once I started to question the accuracy of the historical information presented by this channel -- as well as the impact it would have on my perception of history -- the lack of specificity and extreme lack of references bothered me greatly. As a result, I unsubscribed from this channel.
If you want to know more about medieval stuff try Shadiversity. Though you probably already have, but just in case. :)
I’m weirdly obsessed with fun history facts and I love this channel!
You're not gonna find historical facts in this video, it's 9 minutes of shameless, grotesque lies.
Notice how the channel only hearts comments that support their findings and not the hundreds of comments pointing out all the misconceptions and generalizations
lol but of course
Its funny that those misconceptions and generalizations are mostly made by people who didn't actually do any research and only calls people wrong when it goes against what they have seen or heard
I only subscribe to kill time
@@wesleymcspadden5437 shadiversity?
@Mrs Neanderthug There were some good castle.
I’m learning more from the comments than the video itself 😂 this makes me question all the other videos from this channel now.
Stephanie Logan Bro what. I’m learning more facts from the people correcting the video than the “facts” in the video itself. Tf.
@Stephanie Logan lmaooo i just read that person's comment too
@Stephanie Logan wat.
Every video I've seen from them is incredibly wrong
this channels other videos comments have one similar theme: remarks about misconceptions stated in the videos.
I think the lack of ads is a HUGE reason why I watch this channel more than any other
Great vid... Amazing color pics and pictures of a castle interior rooms.... I had to pause this many times - to really look at each one.
I can’t imagine the stench there was in the Middle Ages.
You get used to it.
Seriously just about 100 years ago hygiene was really poor....Modern plumbing is the main reason for better hygiene before that people smelled butt holes.
john N Some people still do!!! Lol
And entire civilization of idiots choosing miserable lifestyle
You mean, all of history?
Castles being extremely dark and bland is a misconception. Nobles spent loads of money on artists to paint the walls with gorgeous paintings and elegant designs. They did their best to keep the castles lit in every definition of the word.
Geoffery George perhaps yes, after the late 1500’s. Before that, this is accurate.
There are allot of inaccuracies in this video, Bathing was normal through out most of European history, only falling out of fashion when it was believed to spread the black death.
Where did you get that from? It's not true (atleast for the big majority of castles). They are really dark, bland and cold. I've been to a lot of castles. I have never seen something different than that.
Unless those paintings glew, they wouldn't really bring any light, would they?
Had to light them up to stop mob spawning
This seems to be such an enchanting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much!
New subscriber here, just wanted to say thank you for all these video I get to enjoy everyday! 👍🏻 keep up the great content bro 😎
CASTLES WERE WARM IN WINTER AND COOL IN SUMMER, THAT IS HOW STONE WORKS
You got it exactly backwards.
You live in a castle? 😂
@@dandaddavi yes I did. You think people are going to live in a fridge willingly. Dont be funny. People were always innovatibe to build for comfort.
Isn't that how wood works
@@narayaumar3130 wood too
Even the most poor of us are privileged in comparison to people of this time.
It's said that middle class people live much better than the really wealthy ones in the middle ages. I can't imagine what was for the poor ones in that time.
That is because we have debt. you had to have the money to pay for whatever it was to buy with you. now we just have to push a button and something will appear at our door whether you have money or not.
@Geniecus this is something that people don't seem to get, the poor now have a worse diet and its much more from social engineering by the wealthy to keep them wealthy. while they didn't have avocados they weren't starving, and there were no obesity epidemics, opioid epidemics, food wasn't sprayed with carcinogens, etc.
people think because they have air conditioning and a cell phone they are living the life because that's what they are told to think.
The lowest classes today have the luxuries of kings and queens s
@@Gee-xb7rt but still we dont die in our 30s
I love listening to hear about history but your commentary is such a highlight!
Please,more inside info videos about ancient humans,civilizations etc! I love this narrator's personality and attitude! And such great informative content! The sarcasm ricks!
Gordon Ramsey: My kitchen is hell.
Medieval Chef: Hold mine ale, peasant
Wrong.
Who cares
A stone building is actually very pleasant as its a great insulator. It keeps a constant temperature mostly so it would feel cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
The video is not really well researched. 😅
Lol
I'f I lived in these times I'd be know as the man with a million cats
😭🥰🥰🥰
I'd be the crazy cat lady
one of us
On no, time to burn at the steak then
@Daddy Savage Gotta have them cats to eat them rats tho !
This channel is amazing! Great work!
Watch the Ruth Goodman documentaries about Gedalon castle in france which will dispell a lot of the myths that this video perpetuates. Gedelon castle is an authentic medieval caste being constructed in france using only medieval technology and building methods.
This video runs longer than the amount of time they spent researching this topic.
What are you saying?
They had more pests, way less plumbing, no one bathed, people were sick all the time bc there was no medicine, people got tortured etc etc
You mean to tell me you heard all of this before?
This guy is hustling though. He's trying to make a living so I ain't mad at him lol. But yes this is some wack bs
@@JrobAlmighty "people were sick all the time bc there was no medicine"
So just because there is no medicine you think you´re automatically going to spend your entire life being plagued by some disease?
Try check your own life. When was the latest time you did not take medicine? Have you been constantly ill since then?
Just how do your brain work when you attempt thinking about reality?
@Jamie Try watching Shadiversity, he has plenty of videos debunking bullshit like the one spoken in this video.
@Jamie There are people who work really hard to make content that is accurate and informative, not just sensationalist shit. Calm your tits and accept that even if we don't produce content, we have the right to criticize.
@Jamie why aren’t you checking other sources to see if this is accurate? He’s over generalizing & some of it is misleading. For example, nobody back then knew it was the fleas on rats that caused Bubonic plague (from the bacteria, Yersinia pestis).
3:43 how college apartments on a Saturday night be like
@Thegreatkingslayer ikr
This is the channel that i have been looking for!
No offense in case you take any, but this video is absolutely horrible. A garbage heap of inaccuracies, misconceptions, false points, and dreadful over-generalizations may I say.
I just found your channel and it's actually exactly what i was looking for
Do a video on whats life like in the chinese empire palace
This would be a awesome video
a Game of Sultans-era type place would be amusing as well in its own retardiculous way.
Oh yesss what a great idea!
Probably cleaner lol
Unlike the Europeans the Chinese Emperor would have a very large harem of wives and concubines and often would have sex with a different woman every night. The Emperor Chin (Qin Shi Huang) after whom China is named, had all of his wives murdered and placed into his famous tomb upon his own death from mercury poisoning, as he had sought out an elixir that would grant him eternal life, but instead it killed him. His wives were required to die at the same time as he did in order to accompany him into the after life.
Living in a castle? At what time? And in which state? You can't generalize in this way. Its funny you're using visuals from the the 8th century to the 18th as if it's one and the same.
Who cares...
@@Wazzupyoyoyojdog people with IQ's in the triple digits, which you clearly are lacking
the videomaker is a dumbass, people knew how to wash, clean, and get rid of rats in Medieval times. Same as they do in 2019
Adam Rose this isn’t that important tbh
NOT A COP nice one pal
As much as I like the video, there is a lot of information out there to describe what it was like inside.
Castles weren't actually as dark as you think, they had many windows and where there weren't many candles were used. Also, many of the insides of castles were very colorful, potentially painted.
"As much as I like the video"
Why?
I found my 14-15-16th GGFs were nobles and my 14th was even a judge at the final trial of Mary Queen of Scots. Nice to know they didn’t actually live better than I do now 😂
A thousand years from now someone would be making a similar video about us.
I hope the guy who'll make videos about our time will do less mistakes than this one
Lol true! Isn’t that so weird yet cool to think about?
If we have yet to be wiped out yet!
And the people watching will be wondering how we did it and thankful they weren't born in our time lol. I'm glad I grew up in the time of no cell phones, internet. A normal childhood where I played outside everyday. And then as I got older have all the technology we have now. Best of both worlds 😊
Woke
In Byzantine Empire there were toilet system and running water in all the major cities of the empire
Giorgos Sket it’s because that was a branch of the Roman Empire. The Romans actually had running water and plumbing of sorts.
thx to these times, all of the knowledge earned was either lost; destroyed and/or burned ... we'd probably be the jetsons by now without all of those losses
The Byzantine empire was ran by black kings who conquered Europe
@@lorensweatman1573
No
I will focus only on the city, not the Empire which stretched had from Sicily to Syria (that area was not dominated by black kings).
In the early 300's the Byzantine Empire was established by a ROMAN named Constantine who happened to be born in York England. The newly named city, Constantinople was the NEW ROME. Many powerful Romans moved to the new city to be closer to Imperial power. From Constantine, it was his descendants who were mostly GREEK (marrying into Slavs, Russian and European royal families) until 1450 when the Ottonian Empire (again, not black) conquered Constantinople.
@@lfreddub2763 I know but thanx for the info. Still tho a medieval empire that was the most developed of all Europe
you were so convincing with leaving a comment, so I thought about something. I like your approach on these themes and wonder how would you interpret the way people viewed childhood and maturity, when was the crossing between a child to an adult, and the chalenges?
Thank you for your work, you have a very lovely voice!
From what I've learned, the transition phase was of young adults to full adults through training and learning for their station in life
Do one on Veterinary Medicine!! That be interesting af!!! As a veterinary professional for the past 22+years it still blows my mind how both Vet med and Human med criss cross eachother!! Ay if ya do.. I think most ppl would be interested!!
Hollywood should start making films about Medieval cesspits.
wonder how many times the cesspit gasses exploded due to someone dropping a torch down in them to see what was there...
No they would make it like a fairy-tale. Like Disney.
They did. It was called The Other Boleyn Girl
so basically, people living in the forest were better off than a king in a castle... ironic.
Yes, much better. But the life of a rich Muslim was probably as good as the life of modern middle class people, but just without running water and eletricity.
@@nurgleGurgell idk where that came from but still very interesting..
Henri Ludwig Gustavo Lopes the fact that they don’t gave running water or netflix tells me we’ve got it a bit better hehe
@Ethan Kunz oo ok.. now thats better explained.. but either way, if you were living in the forest you were better off.. less people less diseases..
Not necessarily. A lot of the stuff here just really isn't right or isn't explained in full. I'd recommend doing a little bit of your own research because these guys just play into the popular opinion that movies gave to everyone that it was all dirty, smelly, disease ridden, and horrible back then. Of course it's not nearly as good as it is today, but it's not nearly as bad as most people make it out to be.
The Dark Ages, which was the beginning of the Middle Ages WAS actually quite terrible as a bunch of people suddenly were left out to dry when the western roman empire collapsed, but when they went into the Mid Middle and High Middle ages things did improve significantly. When the plague came through the biggest reason why people died is because most doctors back then didn't really know what they were doing. Sure it was better than NOT having a doctor, but they had no idea what bacterium or viruses were. They considered bloodletting to be a common cure-all for illnesses which only rarely relieved symptoms. That and having towns where you built up instead of out caused some problems with overcrowding.
The plumbing system is the best invention of all-time.
Change my mind.
They did NOT drink spirits , they knew nothing of distilling
Wealthy nobles for the most part didnt "live" in a castle, they lived in a palace or estate. Castles were military focused and housed garrisons of just enough people to defend it.
Yes, country houses and estates, were and are, still common.
Well... no
@@tristov6649 actually... yes.
In medieval times a palace was a castle and yes, nobles lived in it. The safest place possible for that time. And don’t forget, the chief business of the nobles was war.
@@tristov6649 That's an incredibly broad generalization that as a whole has absolutely no backing in any historic record that I am aware of, it sounds like more of a supposition than hypothesis. There is a huge variation of types of "castles", all built for specific reasons that many times changed along with the political or military climate. Either way you look at it though... A palace is not the same thing as a garrisoned military castle.
They pest control. Cats. You even showed one the moment you claimed they had no modern pest control. Cats were modern pest control then and still is in some regions.
I think in medieval Europe, cats were considered evil or something like that. I am not very sure, but I just read this somewhere..
@The Resistance coo.
My doggos are good rat catchers. My cats are scared of rats because they're half their size.
Jack Russell's are great rat catchers.
@@sudhasunder794 Not in ALL of Europe and not in ALL centuries. 1000 years and an entire continent are open to variety.
And they ended the video with. "How would you like it in a castle?" I would like it in a Proper Medieval Castle, not this poor modern adaptation of a "medieval" castle.
My little lady:
Before watching the video: i want to be a princess!
After watching the video: i need to rethink that idea...
HAHAHAHA!!!
Nonsense. Bath houses (Stews) were common until Henry VIII closed them because they were also brothels. Bloody Puritan.
Joe... absolutely. Although, due to the growing volumes of firewood being used by people of all classes, regular bathing was becoming frowned on a few generations before Henry VIII's reign. I've come across mention of the issue in documents dating from as early as the reign of Henry III.
In addition, the producer of the video also failed to mention the great difference between 'big' and 'small' beer, the latter (as undoubtedly you would concur) having virtually no alcoholic content at all.
@@cuhurun can u send me a link u got me curious now 😂
Hi Kev... here's a link for small beer, good old wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer.
As for the firewood issue, that I've come across a few times, mentioned in books amongst my rather large collection. The problem was alleviated somewhat during the mid 1300's though, due to the 'Black Death' population loss, but by the reign of Henry VIII timber depletion was again a serious problem.
So you're reducing the middle ages to England? Henry VIII has nothing to do with anyone else
Joe Turner - Characterizing Henry VIII as a “Puritan” is like calling Trump a Social Democrat.
In Middle Ages, I would prefer to be a Muslim, Hindu or Chinese member of the rulling class, those nobilities were the ones that really thrived.
chinese mostly murdered each other, I wouldn't call that thriving
Indians would have wars every time a king died
Muslims commited constant assassinations against rivals and the ottomams specially were keen on fratricide.
This video speaks for itself. Might I add all the torturing, killing and burning at the stake; during this period, during the Spanish Inquisition, and through out Europes history. I agree with you.
Can you do birthdays in medieval times?
1:27 -
God, i had no idea that Trainspotting (1996 Movie) was around in medieval times!
This video is erroneous on so many levels. Yes, castles were damp, cold, and drafty. But MANY castles had their toilets built over running water, effectively flushing away the effluence. Virtually NO castles had torture chambers, and every picture you presented was actually of the Spanish Inquisition, NOT individual rulers torturing their victims. Those rushes on the floor were changed a hell of a lot more frequently than, say, your carpet today is, and since eating was confined to dining halls, food was not indiscriminately strewn about, cats and dogs would do their business outside, and general fastidiousness prevailed. People drank WATERED wine and "small" beer--both containing only enough alcohol to effectively sterilize the water with which they were diluted. I could go on...and on...and on...
Thank you! God I thought I was the only one thinking this !!!
I was getting really upset how the B.S. Was piling up! They know nothing of history NOTHING!
Prickly Pear Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
the moment millenials realize their carpet has never been changed and everyone in their family has walked on it with their muddy shoes for their whole lives....
Moat castles weren't damp and drafty actually. They were actually quite warm and unexploded from the elements. And they usually weren't as big as we think of castles. Most castle keeps were anywhere from just 2 to 4 rooms. There really wasn't a lot of space that needed to be heated.
1000 years from now they will be telling the horrible tales of how people had to eat big macs and whoppers. KFC and taco bell.
*edit. I'm latino, guys. Taco bell is shit to me.
*wanted to
Hey now!...don’t talk shit on Taco Bell :/
Or be called "healthy food".
Taco Bell is life
Don't talk shit about Total!
The water thing wasn't true. They knew they needed water, so they boiled it free of impurities.
I wish these were longer. I would love to learn more and in more details, and the narration is great
I suggest watching something else, because this video got a ton of things wrong. Over-over-generalizations, ignorance of the facts, extremely poorly researched points, and more. There are some reaction videos to this, which correct some of the mistakes here, so I doubly suggest you watch those.
I lived in castle for a couple of years around 1331 A.D it wasnt so bad except for the lack of wifi outside
Your WiFi lacked strength when it came to going outside? My castle wifi was fairly strong, it could go far enough as 100 meters, which is like 343 feet. I was in my castle from 1302-1343 A.D.
My castle had 5G WiFi was never a problem
Wow, all my castle had was 2tin cans & a bit of string, but my ferrari made up for that.
Didnt have wifi in my castle. Only a nice ganja farm
I reigned in my castle in the year 996. Before wifi we had MediLink(TM), think of it as primitive wifi.
0:43 you had the perfect opportunity to say “plumbing was a pipe dream” , c’mon
😂😂😂😂U just had to! Sigh... 😉🤣😅😉
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Maybe the author is a grown up
🙄🤦♂️ haha
Adam Ristau for the win! Lolol.
I love your videos. Have you made one on EMT's or paramedics?
Loved this!
Just been to few castles in Wales and was very curious about life in them 👍
The servants did bathe in rivers.
@@hannahbg1852 but why not?
@@hannahbg1852 i dont understand, why didnt they bathed in rivers?
@@hannahbg1852 You're an idiot
Maybe in the summer. What about all winter?
@@hannahbg1852 Rivers contain water, water cleans you.
You: I disagree
Castle Funk is going to be the name of my stoner doom metal band.
This comment is gold
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GrindcoreNinja best band name ever is Betty White Tit Fuck
Ok be honest we all are addicted to this channel 🙂
This video specifically is absolute horrible - in my opinion. Mostly because almost all of it is composed of horrible misconceptions, plenty flat out lies, poorly researched points, over-over-over-generalizations, not even counting the jokes.
Nobles often drank from prestigious lead cups resulting in an early death. In modern times lead was found in their bones.
The Medieval times have been romanticized by fairy tales, romance novels and Hollywood, but they were times of oppression and hardship.
When tea was introduced from China it was considered a healthy medicinal drink. Little did they know that it was because the water was boiled.
I lived in Europe and went many of Castles and I find this all very interesting. Well explained, great video.
Inside an overcrowded poo smelling house with rat torture LMAO
He said that in the video??? You found it funny?! Woah!
Kevin Castellano lmfaooo
And while hung over😂😂😂
i want to live there
Suddenly im happy of living in 21st century
There are places in the world right now include the USA where people live in even worse conditions. I've seen people living in straw huts old campers missing walls with black mold infestation and no power or running water. Abandoned houses. Tents. Right here in Southeast Texas. In California there is skid row they live like shit as well
Daymm, my student life finally looks good.
You did a particularly good job with the medieval art as a backdrop.
9:33: "The Middle Ages were tough.. Even the best case scenario of living in a castle, was pretty much a miserable experience." While this is certainly true by today's 21st century standard, it is important to note here that when we discuss history, it is always important to view the living conditions through the eyes of a person who lived in that age and culture. The Royalty, nobility and wealthy people of the European Middle Ages, WOULD have considered themselves lucky and/or maybe blessed by God to live in the top tiers of society, compared to the short, rough and hard lives of ordinary people. But yes, even a European King's life would seem less than desireable to Modern people, who is to tell if a documentary explaining the 21st century will not draw many of the same conclusions about the current upper class? Wealthy for the time but just deceased, filthy and uncomfortable compared to the people of the Future. Every society through history ever has lived in the most "modern" and often, if not always truly, it has - to them - seemed the peak of civilization and enlightenment.
Ordinairy people were very well off too. They were richer and had more rights than we do. At least their right to their property, and ability to carry weapons was respected, unlike today. The average peasant owned more land than we do, and was probably relatively richer than we are, and happier. Lead more healthy lives too.
@@AverageAlienI wouldn't go that far though.
I’m far from a history expert but this seems like irresponsible reporting. Highly generalized. You should pick a certain type of castle from a certain area and time frame. Something more specific. Hundreds and hundreds of different castles over 1,000+ years and you just say, “this is how castles were”. I’m willing to bet there were plenty of profound differences in a German castle from 716 to a English one in 1452. (Just an example, replace country and date with any).
It was fairly redundant too. (Smelly, bathroom logistics, lords above servants)
Just feel like we should demand more from people claiming to teach history.
CE4891 spreading false history is dangerous!
The title said medieval times idiot
The title said medieval times idiot
thats at least 600 years dumbass
@@marktristanbacho4859 ye he means when in the medieval period
We live in the middle of forest and we have those toilets they are actually good
Castles were white washed, and covered w/ tapestries. Lime was used on human waste, and dogs and cats were used for rat control. They also had a special bred dog (now extenct) to turn meat on spits.
10am: church - 11am: torture
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Thats how roman works lmao
The most important parts to anyones day
10 am: talk about freedom and democracy
11 am: bomb a country
@@julit7304 👏
Where on earth did u get these facts I only see misconceptions
it wasn't all feces.
I thought the same. Maybe he is talking about a particular castle or he researched about only a few and in a certain area
Yeah I mean it wasn’t that extremely bad but yeah
He's talking Bullshit! Just created for dumbasses with nothing to do but watch this shit.
Times were different back then all around the world. Conquering armies such as the The Huns, Mongolian Hoards & the Ottoman Empire were slaughtering groups of peoples to include Europeans up until approximately 1500 A.D. People who fought and were loyal to the conquering European class received lands to manage. Much like the more successful entrepreneurs of our time, these people had the jobs. They needed guards, soldiers, cooks & chambermaids for the castles, & husbandmen to till the land as they slowly regained the upper hand from other oppressors. These were prestigious positions of the times. Much like working for Corporations, Millionaires, Politicians or Hollywood elites is today. There were also tradesmen in the small communities and they still exist as small businesses today. These civilizations grew & improved under the peace brought in by Christianity that swept up from Rome & the Middle East until now here sits Western Civilization. There will always be good & bad employers/managers, governments, & citizens. The worst are always the godless.
Love your channel
When people complain about their life, show them this video
Why? It doesn't delegitimize their complaints.
Fun fact, that I learned while stationed in Germany: Castle names ending in 'berg' are in mountainous regions and are not necessarily fortified; castle names ending in 'burg' are fortified castles. Those two name endings are pronounced much differently in German than here in America. Germany is so amazingly beautiful!
@Yasmin E. Yes, they can as long as we overlook the trolls. I learn new things about my own country and state (Texas) all the time. It is easy to miss things when you grow up in your own culture. Schoenes tag!
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@@BK-qp8zp Yeah, screw those guys. "the state, requires money, for passage over this route". Oh, that's tolls!
@Yasmin E. yes. I am learning economix in comments
I live on an iceberg
I crapped in a castle and the toilet was crazy. You hear your stuff fall waaaay down and then hit the bottom.
JB Townsend lmao I was taking a shit when reading this and lolled
crap breaks down.
Wat castle??
"So someone told me this pit was bottomless"
"One way to find out"
I’m takin a shit now I swear on my life 😂
this channel has made me really understand that indoor plumbing is the greatest human invention
Very interesting and informative video! :-) And a narrator that has a good script and speaks in a way that doesn't irritate. :-)
Please don’t actually believe this mess of inaccuracies, misconceptions, flat out false points, and horrible over-generalizations.
It’s true, I spent a year living in a shack with 12 other construction workers, there wasn’t anything else available. Man I was wasted drunk all of my time off, only way to keep it going.
sounds rough bro nice that you've made it
I think your portrayal of medieval life in the castle is way over simplified.
Barry Hornby totally agree, these videos seem really dull and the constant little “funny comments” get old very fast. It just feels like they are trying to stretch it to the 10 minute mark so they can get ads...
It doesn't seem meant to be a whole overview, it's just refuting the idea that castles are glamorous
Sam Schaefer he didn’t even make it ten mins so your point is invalid
+Barry Hornby Agreed.
@@daveed467 but who has ever made that assertion?
Great video,keep it up!🚰🚮
My history teacher back in 1972 told me that Cleopatra had a running water toilet in her egyptian castle. He said that a toilet seat with a hole in it and placed over a hole in the floor that was in a room built over a stream that ran underneath the castle before exiting out of the castle. So you basically did your business, and it fell down into the stream and was swept away by the running water. She actually, in a way, had an automatic flushing toilet.
I will never complain about my plumbing again 🙏🏿🙌🏾
Currently i am living semi Victorian as my washing machine is broken and the new one isn't installed yet i am hand washing everything all my food is cooked from scratch and since I live with the joys of shared boilers in my building most of my baths are made up of water boiled on pots and kettles the only modern "convenience" I have that works is my phone which is on its last legs as it is an older model. I can relate to medieval times at the moment I'd better stock up on candles just in case my electric is cut off.
En Steve what the fuck is this. How triggered are you right now. Fucking fragile ass racists these days.
@@angelofdeath275 yeah, what we need is less triggered racists 😤👊 #gobacktoafricabytoto
En Steve aww someone is triggered
@En Steve u dumb fuck yes I'm black and proud and American so i'm already home dummy.. And you are hiding behind a keyboard 👍🏿 .😂😂😂😂.. Go outside and talk that shit to one of my fellow black folk and see your be eating that very keyboard 🙌🏿
Been to see many castles around the UK and this video is not accurate. The internal walls were covered in lime plaster with decorations, they went to great lengths to keep everything clean and orderly.
Those are palaces, not castles - as it was stated in the video, castles were built to be fortresses. And you can try to keep things clean, but rats and living in a literal cess pit isn't going to change with a bit of sweeping
@@Nocturne22 Bullshit. Castles were decorated on the inside. Do some research before writing stupid comments.
@ Tom Bombadil castles translates to protect as they were built to protect people while palaces were built to show off wealth I know this from studying the Middle Ages
@@londonmason6129....
@@Nocturne22 yes but castle also sometime served as the Lord Manor where they live.
Guess the reason all castles had a chapel is because they were praying they would just simply survive till the next day!