American Reacts Life Inside a Medieval Castle (Cross Section)

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[@crocsmart5115]

I think crocodiles in moats is probably a disney thing 😂 and never mind petrol,the Chinese had gunpowder at this time. And Caerphilly and Pembroke and hundreds of other castles are amazing.

[@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim]

Indeed. Given that medieval Britain was colder than it is now, a cold blooded creature would just not have survived. Disney castles have alligators in moats and stained glass in apertures lol.

[@Ikit1Claw]

2:08 Stone and brick are good at retaining heat, especially when castle walls were very thick, in addition to that castles had tapestries which in addition to being decorative, also performed function of thermal insulation. In general, castles had a fireplace that worked pretty much around the clock, especially in a big castle. Keep in mind central heating is an ancient invention too. 3:20 Tar was used since prehistory.

[@stemid85]

Tapestries on the walls kept some heat, burning oil has existed since ancient times at least. But it was rarely used like in movies because it was expensive. The holes in castle walls were more often used to throw rocks and shoot arrows.

[@sylvaincaron6692]

More than rarely, burning oil use to defend castle is a myth. @stemid85 as you say oil was very expensive it was a rare product kept for use as cooking... not to wasted on attackers. In medieval time they use sometime flammable liquids such as "POIX" (sorry, i'm french and don't know the word in english), anyway "POIX" is a sticky flammable liquid distilled from wood resin, far more cheaper and easy to find (create)...but most of time rocks and arrows do the job!!

[@iainjordan8930]

Crocodiles in Europe?! You've seen too many movies Connor, I know you view Braveheart as a documentary. You need to get out more and explore the world. If you ever get to visit a castle I fear you would get over excited, start digging up foundations, chipping away at brickwork and drive the tour guides mad with talk about crocodiles and gasoline. I can imagine you doing your "are you telling me? " routine.

[@paulharvey9149]

Crocodiles in moats? No - the only crocodile I ever came across in children's literature was the one who swallowd a clock in Peter Pan... It would be too cold for them to survive here anyway, I'd imagine. And anyway, moats were open sewers - there was no need to poison that water!

[@whitecompany18]

They would of had turpentine (turps) made from pine trees, also pine resin as glues for arrow heads and flights. And fatwood for starting fires (also pine)

[@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim]

Moat water would *never* be used as drinking water because it's where the castle latrines emptied into and the slops. Latrines were built on outside walls and were literally open shutes leading to the castle exterior where the effluent ran down the wall and into the moat.

[@maureenjones7222]

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[@bubee8123]

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[@JJ-of1ir]

Sometimes when I'm reading a book set in the British Isles by a foreign writer they describe a scene where animals/birds/reptiles/insects appear in the plot that are not at all part of the UK wildlife. People just assume the same creatures, common to them, live here too. I do not know what a skunk smells like, or had my dustbin assorted by a little creature wearing a bandit's mask. So I'm guessing - maybe after Captain Hook, in Disney's Peter Pan movie, was chased around his ship by a crocodile who'd swallowed a ticking clock, children began to draw crocodiles in castle moats. Gruesome but effective I would say.

[@jpatpat9360]

Beds had heavy hangings around them to keep out draughts and they had arras and tapestries on the walls. I also think they were tough in those days and probably more used to cold than we are

[@micade2518]

Though not entirely inaccurate, I've found that video a little Mickey-Mousey - the major US reference to European History being "Disney" or "Harry Potter"! As I've recommended to you before, Connor, check this - infinitely more serious and historically accurate - video on European medieval castles: "A Thousand Years of European Castles" - Best Documentary Ooops ... They don't dwell on poop management then. I'll leave it to your imagination to fill the gap ... and I doubt very much that the Medieval Europeans knew of the very existence of alligators!...

[@claregale9011]

I'd imagine they were pretty warm with those thick walls, if you look at one of the bedrooms at the Tower of london where they recreate what it would have looked like they were very well decorated and quite lavish ..I'd love you to react to a video tour of Westminster Abbey , free tours by foot is a good one . Nice video Connor 😊

[@davidgriffiths9156]

A little bit simplistic. When it said old Roman forts were the logical place for a castle, the picture showed a still standing fort being replaced by a Mott & Baily castle. In reality, the first Mott and Baily castles were not introduced into Britain until the Norman's invaded some 500 years after the Romans left. The Anglo -Saxons were not castle builders although they did have stonghold and bergs, but not a castle as we think of them.

[@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim]

Unlike the pictures of stained glass windows, castles mostly had no glass in the apertures, or parchment, scraped hides etc. The walls would have been nearly 20 feet thick so would have provided *some* insulation. But all that stone would have made them cool I imagine.

[@billyo54]

Connors obsession with alligators and s#*t is amusing. In a scene from a Monty Python sketch someone asks how he will recognise the king? That's easy came the reply, he's the only one not covered in $#*t.😂

[@user-er1ih6xt9x]

I would quit my job with the possibility of being beheaded 💀😭 8:32 I could not be a poop scooper

[@Aloh-od3ef]

Castles were not nice to live inside. They were dark, dam, surprisingly cold and filled with smoke from the fires.

[@K8E666]

From Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 It’s true - I have 5 castles near me, within 30 minutes drive !!

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

Wood paneling was popular insulation, woven rush matting on the floor and tapestries hung on the walls. Arabic and Perisan authors write about use of oil around Baku in year 200/300... But it most likely started in and around mesopatania (modern day iraq) about 4000 BC like everything else.

[@PhyllisGlassup2TheBrim]

Connor did you ever go to York? There's a motte near York Museum.

[@Ayns.L14A]

oil lamps date back to around 70,000 BC

[@aphextwin5712]

Though most back then used plant or animal-based oils and fats.

[@Janie_Morrison]

I think the bed look dumping I'm very cold

[@Thorium_Th]

I've never heard of crocodiles in moats before. Is that an American thing? But you have alligators, right?

[@rozmaster3574]

Prisoners toilets would be in the same standard, beacuse in middle ages prison was not for criminals too expensive. Criminals were brutaly punished or killed. Prison was for prisoners of war other monarch, whose families will pay great price for their beloved ones.

[@timglennon6814]

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[@user-er1ih6xt9x]

W Video 🎉

[@TheOrlandoTrustfull]

The idea of having man-eating Crocodiles living right next to you is so bizarre. In no way whatsoever would that be a great idea. What would they have done, trained the Crocodiles to only eat the enemy?

[@garyballared2077]

animal fat?

[@denissaliaj9459]

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