How Did Normal Medieval People Decorate Their Homes? | Tudor Monastery Farm | Chronicle

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[@blackwolf085]

The title said "how did normal medieval people decorate their homes?" None of this video was about home decoration. It was about basic labors and chores.

[@SeymourClearly86]

Thank you!

[@tekeguy68]

This is pretty common for Chronicle/Absolute History videos. I like the content but whoever names the youtube uploads clearly doesn't screen them first before titling them. There is generally significant overlap of content across the video posts as well.

[@oliver5976]

So true

[@Mandy-nt2cs]

It is though lol This was the decorating of a medieval farm lol By decorating they meant installing a new lime floor and decorating it with handmade mats made from foliage... that was their decorating.

[@5thdimension625]

Clickbait, once again

[@ShenJones]

Thank you so much for talking more about the average person rather than the rich. I want to know more about the daily lives of people like me and what it was like for them. ❤️

[@charliekezza]

True we have so much history on them not the masses

[@VivaCubaRoja]

Quite true. Unfortunately, it seems that little has changed when it comes to social and economic class.

[@amberwillems4344]

🤠🤠 💋❤️👄👄

[@MeganVictoriaKearns]

Yes! I have always been more curious about the regular people in history than the rich and powerful. It's hard finding info on normal life.

[@johnnymcblaze]

If your daughter startled a lords horse during her play as he was riding by, that lord would order that child killed immediately. If you were getting married, the local lord would stop by and rape the wife to "consumate" the marriage, if you refused, you were both killed. This is why lords banned their peasants from owing weapons.

[@theostickle2604]

I realizing that in Tudor times there was a lot of thrashing of a lot of stuff. It was like you got up in the morning and you knew you were going to thrash something.

[@djdissi]

I thought the same thing lol

[@kittimcconnell2633]

no need for a gym membership!

[@xbrandi12345x]

In Tudor times?? What about now?? You don't get out of bed and thrash stuff now in 2022?? My day cannot start without a good thrashing. I thought everyone started their day this way.

[@debbylou5729]

Brings a whole new understanding of ‘getting a good thrashing’ as a threat

[@annieh2066]

hahhahahahhaha

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

Never heard anyone say “body lice” and “greasy dirty things” with so much love and compassion.

[@typewriterr123456789]

It's Ruth's world and we're just living in it. Thanks kindly for sharing this incredible education with us. I'm really impressed with all of the experts, and the incredible production value.

[@MeganVictoriaKearns]

Agree 💯👍

[@mortalclown3812]

Isn't she amazing? More at home 500 years ago. Makes me believe in reincarnation. :-)

[@jojobee555]

I feel like that little terrier needs more air time. What was the relationship people had with these loyal creatures in that time? So sweet. The goodest boy.

[@christinebuckingham8369]

👍💯❤️🐶 I agree!

[@williamwallace9427]

Ruth is the best. She absolutely makes the show!

[@hammondOT]

Ruth is the worst. Endless blathering.

[@LouLikestowatch]

I agreed! Love her passion.

[@Braham_the_Terror]

@@hammondOT now why would you say that?

[@majaburg6105]

Where does she know all that stuff? She is great!

[@CriminalMynd]

Agreed! she *is* the absolute best, i adore her enthusiasm and i'm always thrilled to see her in a documentary

[@mm-yt8sf]

"you're hired! we find you well beyond the temptations of the flesh" "um...thanks?" 🙂

[@atherisGAY]

"You're not sexy. You got the job." Lmao

[@Celisar1]

That struck me right away, too 😅

[@rouowward6917]

😂😂😂😂

[@susanlolamitchell]

Search for Tudor Monastery Farm, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and you can find the entire series. These were produced in the UK and (in the USA) broadcast on PBS in the 00s. There is also a French Castle and Victorian Pharmacy. And “Tales from the Green Valley” is set in Wales in 17th Century

[@BeKindToBirds]

It is also already sorted into playlists on this channel.

[@adsal100]

Everyone should realise how important good quality history programs are. As an audio creative in broadcasting I’m always conscious of the importance of good production values. Especially good narration/voiceovers. Sadly I’m seeing more “homemade history programs creeping in to platforms like KZbin and that frankly many of them don’t cut the mustard. So Dan Snow and all those amazing Brit history documentary makers, Thankyou and keep the tradition of great content front and centre.

[@caelidhg6261]

The US SUCKS in this regards. You have PBS and that is about it. and PBS was great.. but UK does so much better.

[@smears6039]

@@caelidhg6261that’s thanks to the slashing of publicly funded programs and services 🙄 and the current rise of rampant misinformation is the result of

[@norainnoflowers1551]

i always find older systems of life to be fascinating because of our inherent knowledge of chemistry and the relationships of all the organisms and resources in an ecosystem. It’s so cool and really makes you wonder, WHEN/HOW did they discover how to make actual lye a cleaning agent from ash, a waste byproduct? WHEN/HOW did they know that the milk had a protein to make the flooring waterproof? WHEN/HOW did they discover drying out rushes increased their tensile strength and flexibility - making it a wonderful material for lots of different things?

[@marcella8576]

Always wondered this as well. I always assumed it was a mixture of observing accidents/the world around us, as well as drawing conclusions based on what we observed about the natural world. We are good at problem solving cognitively, drawn to assumptions and pattern recognition as creatures, which would've helped us out a lot I think

[@Erin-rg3dw]

Agreed. It's like knowing which berries are edible - the amount of trial, error, and unknown science that went into how everything was done is incredible.

[@sulaimankhan1284]

I’m not 100% on this, but much of this technology and knowledge was born and passed on through the Ancient Roman civilizations, and some civilizations after that. Much of our western ways of living and thinking stem from as early as they.

[@Bcsmith333]

I enjoyed this video, thank you for sharing it. However, besides the braided rugs, this really wasn't about how they decorated. Oh well, still a fascinating inside look at Tudor life.

[@heathermason9311]

Especially when it’s calls itself Tudor Monastery Farms…a much better fitting tittle.

[@loriscook5231]

Don’t forget the floor they made and polished with milk.

[@7pines77]

What these people are doing to recreate life in these time periods is incredible.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

Sausages/Ham's Pots and pans Herbs hanging out from the sealing. This is great decoration to this Day.

[@songofseikilos8659]

aaw you beat me to this answer by 4 days ! but my answer is funnier

[@JamesTheKoopaTroopa]

That lazy dog on the rush boat was my favorite part of this video.

[@ashpal1484]

This channel is a gold mine.

[@donadon6993]

the monk looks like you've seen him in your dreams

[@willd.4808]

Love learning about the more "mundane" aspects of history, it's so fascinating to me

[@CeaseEcho]

39:39 "The key to Tudor laundry was brute force..." No wonder they wrote more about milkmaids instead of laundry ladies. XD

[@reeses_piecesblessingsbupo5309]

I wish I could get my kids to be as interested and find this as exciting as I did and still do. These shows are now almost obsolete. Ruth for what it’s worth you are absolutely not only a lovely human being but just brilliant, absolutely brilliant! I’m sure nobody can do it like Miss Ruth!

[@carriedoyne7362]

Ruth, Pete, and Tom really know their stuff! I learned a lot watching them. I do wonder at the cost of salt if poor farmers could afford to have enough to use in a multipurpose fashion.

[@voloshanca]

Yeah I've also heard that salt was an expensive thing, wonder if it's a myth.

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

@@voloshanca Depends on where you were. Anyone on the English coast could make salt just by letting some sea water dry up, so it wasn't having to be shipped too far to get to your home. If you were land-locked and had no salt mines, your country was going to pay a lot more for it.

[@voloshanca]

@K C oh makes sense, thank you.

[@docholiday7975]

Salt being some super expensive substance beyond the reach of all but the aristocracy is largely myth. Miller (1991) discusses the variation in English salt prices in the 13th to 15th centuries. For most of this time, salt was cheaper than wheat, per bushel, varying from 58% of the price of wheat (~6d) to exceeding the price of wheat in the most expensive two decades (the 1380s and 1440s). The highest prices were in the regions furthest from salt-producing areas; the highest prices were almost double the lowest prices. Scottish prices for salt were approximately the same as the price of wheat, for the 13th and 14th centuries (Gemmill and Mayhew, 1995). Where salt was expensive - where it had to be imported and transport costs were high, it could be much more expensive. For example, in Sweden, salt was about 10 times the price of grain in the late 13th century, dropping to about double the price of grain by the early 16th century due to dropping transport costs (Söderberg, 2007). Salt could also be heavily taxed such as the French Gabelle. Taxes could more than double the price in a region. Taxes like this sometimes led to great variation in prices in adjacent regions, which drove a sometimes thriving smuggling trade, in turn sometimes leading to strong attempts to suppress smuggling. Where it was cheap, it was easily affordable for a variety of purposes. Where it was expensive, it would still have been readily affordable for regular use in cooking - what might have been too expensive was the large amounts needed for salting fish or meat for preservation.

[@voornaam3191]

In the Netherlands, many carpet producers are in the regions where their ancesters used to weave mats. Just like the mats we see in this video.

[@luciditywaling]

I love this series!! Ruth is a joy to learn from! Tudor working women must have had great big mighty arms.

[@MarcoCuauhtemocMejia]

I really liked the “out of sorts” bit

[@STScott-qo4pw]

these three and their shows are frigging wonderful. Interesting as hell, full of learning being presented coherently. if we didn't have books but only a screen then this is how it should be done. I am so glad for Chronicle it absolutely makes my day to escape somewhere else with them and learn again how we lived and how we got here. btw, how's the castle coming? did it have it's house-warming feast?

[@debbylou5729]

They can even teach you how to become articulate!

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

When I was growing up our dairy barn was white washed every couple years. First all of the loose was scraped off then the new white wash was applied. I know it combined flaked limestone .....it kept the barn free from bacteria etc. My father had the cleanest barn I ever saw. When the cows were finished going in or out the floors were swept..he taught us all how to sweep without bringing dust into the air,, the sweeping went into the drops and the floor relimed. We all knew how to caste a thin layer lo lime ...maybe it was his Swedish background but I learned to appreciate this after older and saw other farms. I was looking at Amish farms to buy 30 years ago....filthy....

[@anntowle1706]

If I was young, this would be my dream experience, hard work and all. I grew up on a small farm with few modern conveniences and ran it for quite a few years as an adult, I would have loved to have the opportunity to learn the old ways.

[@stellaluna6421]

This was so lovely. Watching people joke around, tease and compliment each other, and learning new things just made it so much easier to imagine what it would be like living at this time period. "I did not drop the custard castle!" It's rare to see people just enjoying their lives in most medieval depictions.

[@janejones5362]

I've been binge-watching this morning. Entirely fascinating. And with the world's economy so shaky, I've gleaned several good tips for making do. Candle dipping I've known how to do since a child. I also learned how to make butter. The lye from ash I've learned in the past 2 or 3 years.

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

Omg, my mom has a set of those “wooden hands” I never knew they were for butter!

[@hameley12]

It's incredible isn't it when you find something and you don't know what it is for. My grandmother had the butter wooden machine piece complete with the wooden hands. and a large terracotta mortar and pedel. Later after her passing, it was passed down to my mum. Once I found the pieces and asked out them. I was in awe. It's because of my grandmum's stories that I wanted to learn more about the traditional way of cooking and serving (pre-industrialization). I'm so glad you have a piece of pre-modern history too!

[@ninifox6791]

Watching Tom lay paper reminded me of learning how to flip eggs in the restaurant. Firmly and with confidence.

[@bonniekweenie880]

I’m so glad this channel was recommended to my page, many frames just look like the vivid copies of medieval illustrations and the earthy paintings of common living scenes, and it gives back the normality and mundaneness to those people and their lives, it’s so comfortably intimate.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

This isn’t medieval though it’s tudor

[@andreabrava6899]

Watching these makes me so thankfull to be living today.

[@iasnaia-poliana]

I absolutely love this program! No better way to learn than doing things / practising.

[@christianmcdowell3052]

Okay she knew what she was doing looking at the camera like that. You know what I'm talking about. The butter.

[@cdfdesantis699]

So fascinating to really learn how ordinary people lived, & the actual "how-to's" of what they did. This is an amazingly educational series.

[@perfectperson214]

I used to set type for my father as a child. He ran a letterpress shop. It was “social media” for hundreds of yrs until computers took over.

[@4BWVan]

I am so surprised that the lady churning butter wasn't wearing a full apron to protect her outer dress from milk splatters. Her outer garment looks like wool, and that wouldn't have been laundered very often if at all. Surely a wool dress smelling like spoiled milk is not on!

[@Celisar1]

Incredibly interesting! It baffles me how much physical labor was necessary for doing just anything. No wonder people these days are suffering from lots of diseases caused by a sitting, immobile lifestyle.

[@janejones5362]

Yep. My great gramma ran beef cows in her 70s. My former landlord did also. In his 70s. I cut wood, ride my bike for miles, haul my own groceries, dig holes for fence posts. I'm 63. Old biddies peck my tail feathers, so to speak. Young girls say the biddies are jealous. My only health issues are asthma and central apnea. My bike helps with both.

[@mariahsmom9457]

I love this series! Ruth is so wonderful

[@AyyyBAyBay]

I just hope I find something that excites me in life as much as that woman was excited about churning butter.

[@grandmasgopnik9642]

This is delightful and all the presenters even those shown briefly were wonderful. Although I do love Ruth going “gotta get the boys” in reference to Tom and Pete and every time they’re referenced together in my brain I was like “oh shit, THE BOYS”

[@lknanml]

All of the Farm series docs were amazing!

[@banzy3]

36:37 Ah, so that's the origin of the expression 'out of sorts' !

[@vonsopas]

What a lovely series, so interesting. I've been a fool for the Middle Ages since I was a teenager; beautifully produced and researched.

[@Celisar1]

I always had the worst impression of the Middle Ages as a time of ignorance, foolishness, injustice and misogyny. First the video game Kingdome come Deliverance made me realize what a beautiful and idyllic world it was at least back then.

[@vonsopas]

@@Celisar1 Me too, for so long we've been educated that we needed to be entertained always and rich to be happy, and thinking the people in the Middle Ages were bored af and living under the power of the Church. I have a theory that the ego of the current culture likes to think it is the pinnacle of civilization, mostly the modern civilization with all our science and technology. People back in the day lived life, instead we that we live the lives of others through social media. People then was not rich, was wealthy (for wealth is not only measured on money)

[@ckbeep1313]

Anyone else get a good laugh watching Ruth go to town on the butter than says "you never know if it's going to be 5 seconds or 5 minutes". Lol

[@shotgunbettygaming]

Literally just finished rewatching this series yesterday LOL!!😂

[@GenXLostInTx]

I sure do enjoy Ruth and company’s videos. I really would love to see them get back together and work on some other time periods. Or maybe just different scenarios from the ones already established in video.

[@MeganVictoriaKearns]

I support this comment 100%. 👆

[@nessi777]

Agreed!

[@Faretheewell608]

Sorry. It is great. But Ruth gives me the willies

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

Cool video, loved the cast, may watch more, still don't know how normal midieval people decorated their homes.

[@13blackcatzzz]

Haha, right? I wanted to see medieval live, laugh, love signs. 🤣

[@williamwallace9427]

Ruth’s daughter is absolutely lovely!

[@bluesloverz]

Who is Ruth's daughter?

[@ianmedium]

@@bluesloverz the bookbinder.

[@greghester7640]

So very great ....strong people...with no nonsense ways of living ....I love it ❤

[@plaguedoct0r]

The detail they go in to is astonishing! A thousand times, thank you for these videos!

[@elizabeths4371]

@31:41 "And unto every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given EVERY GREEN PLANT for FOOD." Hooray for Tree Hay!

[@haileyespinosa8400]

Please make a channel like this for the regency era

[@dayamitrasaraswati6276]

I love these series! I have them all. Tudor Farm, Victorian Farm, Victorian pharmacy, Edwardian farm, Wartime farm. I also have Ruth's books. Wonderful reading!

[@AveMaria82100]

That was a very interesting documentary. I've always had a strong interest in Medieval Europe.

[@galeocean4182]

love seeing how my ancestors lived! hard work an lots of group effort. (they were not the rich ones shown at the end)

[@MartinGraham]

this is the best history docu i have ever seen and I watch a lot. so many facts, so well presented, and beautifully illustrated and explained. thank you so much.

[@saltycreole2673]

These three of this series has this American wishing he were Tudor English. I truly believe I'm of another time and place. No wonder I retired to my own remote farm and ranch. I only hope I have time left to finish my goals. So many ideas, so little time.

[@davidniedjaco9869]

I truly believe the same thing, except all my family hails from eastern europe

[@juliejanesmith57]

Except for the hundreds of ways to die that we can walk into any convenience store to remedy before they even become an issue today, the lack of running water, clean water, complete lack of understanding of diseases, the odds you wouldn’t even have survived past age 2, and would certainly experience the death of some number of your own young children if you did live ling enough to reproduce… Don’t get me wrong, I find this sanitized revisiting of history in order to focus on specific aspects to be thoroughly enjoyable and informative, but romanticizing the very real and painful hardships of the past on the a large scale can tend to lead people to not only not appreciate progress, but begin the blame it for the ills of the present (look at how half of America romanticizes the 1950s and fear progress), when often the ills of the present have nothing to do with progress but have ALWAYS been general ills of the human condition caused by age old “sins” of greed, gluttony, avarice, etc.

[@saltycreole2673]

@@juliejanesmith57 I agree. There are at least 2 times in my life where antibiotics saved my life. Let me amend my comment: I am so fricking glad I live in the country, experiencing a hint of Tudor Life with the sure knowledge that the VA hospital et al are but a lifeflight away. Dying miserably from a scratch from a rusty nail is not in my future. You have humbled me with fact and truth.

[@Alizudo]

@@saltycreole2673 A man who can appreciate where he's mistaken, but can still be optimistic about his ideas, is a man that can be appreciated tremendously. Bravo!

[@jessa5388]

I like antibiotics and the right to own property and patent your own ideas though

[@draganjagodic4056]

Such a beautiful serial. Such a beautiful serial 💖

[@takethepowerback83]

15:15 wow that’s a proper camp fire

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

I love all aspects of history,I love learning about the everyday life of people,instead of just wealthy people. Life wasn’t easy for people back then. Think about all of our modern conveniences. They had to do everything without electricity,but they were quite clever to make their lives productive and comfortable.

[@notsharingwithyoutube]

I love this video. Thanks for making it.

[@lostfound8112]

Love her voice and delivery

[@winonadavies9201]

Wonderful! Only one question, was there not cold water available for washing the butter as my mother always did as the final step before salting to help the butter store longer? I love learning about how things were before the industrial revolution changed our lives so dramatically.

[@zeldamorgan9260]

I thought the same, my mother always washed the butter

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

I wonder if it’s because water wasn’t always safe to drink so they wouldn’t want it to touch food at that stage either. There’s a reason people mostly drank beer and wine at this period in history.

[@LeahHa8]

So much ingenuity seen in all of these tasks! Impressive.

[@tomstieve]

This is an excellent series.

[@adamkassemtv]

Anything with Ruth is an automatic 5 stars! ❤

[@Osirus1156]

Ugh it's so idyllic. Makes me want to live in this little village.

[@katyc.8663]

My mom grew up drinking milk from her family's cows. She would occasionally bite into cream clods in her cereal. That's why she doesn't like milk very much to this day. That cleaning routine for the dairy tools is pretty good. I would feel comfortable using it today if I didn't have soap. I didn't know about the woven mats for the floors. There is that in common with the Japanese tatami. The bowing lessons were amusing. The amount of food eaten surprising? If they were to come to an American Thanksgiving dinner, it would be comparable. XD It is weird not seeing foods from the Columbian Exchange.

[@frigusoris]

to tell the truth, I love Ruth. Shes an absolute saint

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Not yet, she has to die first, then be canonized by the church.

[@ferdi5407]

Have watched this many times over, and each time I hear or learn something different. Outstanding !

[@buttturd236]

i L💖VE RUTH!!! She is an inspiration & a true role model for women. Thank You Ruth! God Bless all & God's Will Be Done!!!

[@rosemesser4712]

I watched every bit of this series. I loved every bit of it!! I would love to see more…

[@JustanOlGuy]

I thoroughly enjoyed this and learned quite a bit, As I always do when watching your shows.

[@Sammy200655294]

I always wonder how people knew about stuff like the right temperature for the limestones or that sour milk will bind it - how did they find out as early as roman times?

[@djmanley27]

They learned by doing

[@Sammy200655294]

@@djmanley27 I mean yeah, but how do you come up with the idea to try and do very specific things. Using berries as a dye for example, is one thing - easy and kind of obvious, but what is shown in the documentary is often quite specific.

[@djmanley27]

@@Sammy200655294 We can only speculate. I often feel my way through a process and often find unique ways to the end goal.

[@Dusty_Den]

@@Sammy200655294 I feel like someone probably accidently let the milk curdle, and instead of pouring it down the drain they just tried mixing it with something. When you don't waste things, you have to find uses for them. Otherwise you're just a hoarder lol

[@civilengineer3349]

Its a mix of trial and error over thousands of years by millions of people as well as experiments by the elite in the monasteries and the universities

[@themyceliumnetwork]

seems to be nothing at all in this video about how medieval people decorated their homes ! rated 100% clickbait!

[@isayahsnow2767]

Did you actually watch the video? They talk about things that go inside of the homes more than once.

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

@@isayahsnow2767 They talk about basic hygene/comfort strategies for a total of like two minutes between other tasks, but the title implied we would find out about optional things done for fun and show. Seasonal decorations, or the organization of things in small homes. As much as I ended up liking the video, I came here wondering what regular, poor people with access to more nature but less money than me, did to make their homes more homey. Having finished the video, I'd still like to know. 100% clickbait.

[@isayahsnow2767]

@@generatoralignmentdevalue They actually mention rushes being used for rugs, mattresses, pillows, etc. They also discuss flooring, basic items kept for daily life, books, usage of herbs and flowers, even "wooden hands". In big likelihood, poor people of the time wouldn't be able to just have a bunch of "stuff" sitting around like we do in modern times as well. It was a time of function over appearance for lower class to poor folk. It's likely some personal items were kept for sure, but it would vary between people and if you need extra cash, you are probably going to sell the item that has no "purpose". Most peasant houses wouldn't even have glass windows due to how expensive glass was. Further, I don't think there is even an abundance of information regarding the personal items of peasants because well....who cared about the personal lives of peasants? Probably not the educated folk recording the history of people in such times. To say the video is 100% clickbait isn't true at all. You DID learn some things that would decorate an internal space, just not as much or as personal as you wanted.

[@deborahdean8867]

You're right, its very interesting and the whole series great, but nothing about decorating the house outside of floor Matt's, etc, and I wouldnt count that as decoration. I thought maybe they'd hang crosses or flowers or something, but I think actual decorating was done more on clothing and linens , possibly furniture

[@cyrex686]

Yeah, I think their Christmas stuff has the most about decorating.

[@katiewray2525]

This programme was excellent!! It made me so appreciate not having to work so hard for the basic essentials of life, and how good we really have it! Can't call in a sick day lol! Also I feel well lazy in comparison 😊

[@andrewthompson6192]

Yes, but I want to know how Abnormal Medieval People decorated their homes .. sigh .. lol

[@joshbruns7403]

The abnormal ones probably got burned at the stake

[@Leelee...]

This was fascinating!

[@nayauru]

This is so brilliant. I'm currently reading Ruth Goodman's book about everyday Victorians. I guess the one about Tudor life is next in line.

[@meganhoward8820]

I want to go there and try each of these jobs lol i am intrigued with the set-up and there is something magical about castles. You can feel the history in them. This show is incredible. ❤

[@roberttelarket4934]

Excellent info!!!

[@baberoot1998]

These guys are amazing. Being American, a born and bred Texan, of Scotch-Irish, and English stock, I thoroughly enjoyed learning how my ancestors lived. (maybe even the early American ones as well, to some degree). Ruth is a breath of fresh air. She is a hard worker, very knowledgeable, and her always pleasant demeanor, is simply joyous to watch. I love this KZbin clip. It is so very surreal, to realize that just 500 years ago...this was the norm in the lives of the people. The technological advancements we have today, are, I believe, taken for granted by many in our generation. It is safe to say, I believe, that "regular folks", of today, live a much more opulent lifestyle than even royalty did back then. Running water. Electricity. Vehicles. Central air conditioning/heating. Markets with already prepared foods. We have it all. I will never complain about having to do the laundry again...just knowing what a true chore it really was for the Tudors in their time. And the bathing...ohhhh my...the bathing. To be able to take a daily hot shower, is just something I would have a hard time readjusting to, were it to disappear. Of course...they, in that time, just didn't know any different...so I am sure it was not as big of a deal. But yeah...being able to shower daily, comfortably...is truly something, that could be called, "royalty".

[@megb9700]

Now I’m curious about how medieval people from other places, like Italy, would have lived. Would they have the same natural resources like rushes, quick lime, lots of local water?

[@wot1fan885]

Renaming the same documentaries I already watched is really annoyong . At least have the title not be a complete lie .

[@timw6928]

Fascinating insights

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

When I was a kid we'd buy raw milk and store it in the basement fridge in big glass jars. We'd skim off most of the cream, put it in a jar, and shake it while watching TV to make butter.

[@jodiknight2820]

Absolutely fascinating.

[@nataliya2641]

Thank you. Subscribed.

[@TheOnly1brenna]

This was wonderful to learn about. I'd like to also know the time frame of all these tasks they did. Surely they didn't do the laundry, lay a floor, make mats, and serve food all in one day.

[@aWiseCoder]

48:00 Monks are keeping an eye on the kitchen to prevent anyone from stealing food.

[@BlessedForever888]

This was so interesting!

[@Thedegu]

Fun etymology lesson this episode "watermark", "out-of-sorts", "(give it a good) threshing" and "spirits (alcohol)" had no idea!

[@mariebroyles6874]

very enjoyable ❤️

[@kimyeahph]

this is so cool I love it💖💖💖💖

[@silviahannak3213]

Since i've seen Ruth for the first time i thought...wow that is fantastic..living History. May it be the Christmas during WW 2 or other Areas..its just cool. I wonder if they have been in France where they are building a Castle.

[@trotinezth]

the moonshine gramps is my favourite

[@TheQueerTailor]

Bring back common land who’s with me!

[@patriciaduncan6523]

Looks like fun!

[@TrueFork]

0:30 this is modern dwarf wheat isn't it? It would be nice to see reenactments with the Medieval wheats that grew as tall as a man.