How Did Normal Medieval People Survive Winter? | Tudor Monastery Farm | Chronicle

Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold prepare for the dark winter ahead. But, not before they celebrate their bountiful harvest with a feast, put on a play, and reflect on how the landscape of Britain and the lives of its people were forever changed by the Dissolution.
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[@Chris-ey8zf]

​@@allon33 If it's like netflix, it means it has three good shows, 1000 bad ones nobody wants to watch, and then they cancel two of the three good one after one season.

[@platynowa]

There were no black people in England in Tudor times nor guys in glasses.

[@chrisrageNJ]

Who wants Netflix for history? All the white characters would be "reimagined" as another race, children would be sexualized, and 60% of the characters would be Rainbow Mafia. Piss-poor comparison, mate

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[@diegoaespitia]

i like how the historians are actually doing the tasks rather than showing actors do it and the historians just talk

[@LordVader1094]

​@@user-qd3fm8te8oWell said. These historians lack any actual labour skills.

[@shawnd6846]

You very intelligent you pick that up very quick 😅🤔 I don't think they realize that waking up in the morning and disputing it and saying well look the data says this🌲🙏🌍😭😂😂😂😂😂

[@kateapple1]

Holy Jesus was this stupid 😂 I will just never understand white people with so much money that they gotta go dress up like people from medieval times.

[@TheNervousnation]

Exactly!

[@BrateTebra123]

Kind of a strange preference or if I dare to say fetish, but OK

[@pattidrier9593]

My dad grew up in the USA. But he was on a farm without much machinery. He told me stories about very labor intensive wheat and corn harvests. They pickled eggs in barrels because hens didn’t lay during the winter. They smoked their hams and then put them into a clean flour bag and buried it in the wheat bin. They tried to use it sparingly so as to make it last. They had one pig that had to last them the whole winter. The fat from that pig was like gold. It was used in breads pastries, to fry potatoes. And every thing that needed fat. And frying out lard is not fun. A layer of grease covers every surface in the kitchen. I watched my mom and grandmother work hours over hot pans of boiling fat. They were afraid of a pan getting spilled and the possibility of severe burns. Children were kept out of the kitchen.

[@blueneptune825]

Wonderful that the stories of those ways of living were passed to you. And very generous of you to share them here with all of us.🎶🐦✌🏼

[@johnn3542]

Full size pig makes alot of food if you use it right. Fatty meat is great for flavoring other foods.

[@daryljonesfoster4102]

I smell big cap 🧢

[@P.e.m.a.]

Real history needs to be taught in school. Life used to be far harder.

[@louisacapell]

@@daryljonesfoster4102 why? I'm only 40 and we've rendered lard here in my adult life. And use lard in cooking . We have a freezer full of half a cow in the right season, and a neighbor butchers pigs, we've bought 20lb of bacon at a time from her. What is it that you think is cap?

[@eh6623]

Ruth: “We had such a great harvest this year!🥳” Professor: “Let me tell you about one of the worst possible ways to die🙂”

[@kremesauce]

Real buzzkill

[@raflim]

Hahahahaha. Fr

[@raflim]

Hahahahaha. Fr

[@andrewroberts8959]

The way her face dropped was hilarious

[@ThoughtfulDonkey]

This was really interesting and informative.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

I love how organically they're showing how important socialization was. Much easier to keep your spirits up when you've got someone else to talk to. Imagine hating the people you're working with constantly and living with basically? Imagine LOVING them. Lol it's a beautiful, ugly, tender, rough world we live in.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Ppl work daily with ppl they hate Hopefully there are LOVED ones at home I often wonder tho- the kind of service one gets the last couple decades…not just clerks but in a Drs office or at a museum…

[@sarahwinston7828]

@@YeshuaKingMessiah It's true, society was once very much 'service oriented'. Good service, good manners, a strong follow-up and a guarantee your product would perform as promised - these were all assumed when you went out to spend your money. Now you feel like you should apologize for showing up and wasting the clerks time, and when your asian-manufactured item breaks, too bad, no one stands behind it, no Brand Company taking you seriously.

[@juliajs1752]

What I do miss is any mention on how important wool production and spinning was in every woman's life. On the way to the fields, in the kitchen, herding the sheep - the amount of work that needed to be put into a spindle in order to be able to weave enough cloth for even one garment was immense.

[@honorladone8682]

Julia it's not easy being a lady.

[@NZKiwi87]

Thank you 🙏

[@DancingQueenie]

Somebody had to make all those monks’ robes.

[@NZKiwi87]

@@DancingQueenie couldn’t possibly be the monks themselves 🙄

[@DancingQueenie]

@@NZKiwi87 Oh no no. They had all that praying to do.

[@delilahhart4398]

The diversity of skills that the historians and archaeologists on the program have developed is amazing.

[@VoidUnderTheSun]

Ruth has such a great life and enthusiasm about her whenever she is explaining something. It is a joy to watch.

[@inr63]

Hear, hear - wonderfully worded!

[@nneisler]

now I want to hear her talk about how modern life works

[@joy-to7dx]

​@@nneisler yes!

[@joy-to7dx]

And do slavery in America

[@inr63]

Why is Ruth’s delivery always so perfect????? The ultimate Queen 👑

[@urosmarjanovic663]

She is a really lovely and knowledgable presenter, but I cannot go over how much she looks like a witch. :D

[@keithquinn5624]

Because her teeth are so yellow

[@inr63]

@@keithquinn5624 - lol and I bet you’re quite the looker. LMFAO.

[@anntowle1706]

I'm 65 and I remember the school children in Aroostic County, Maine having several weeks off in early fall to pick potatoes. That was when harvesting was done by hand instead of machines like it is now.

[@insiainutorrt259]

machines/mexicans... its all the same....

[@NickRoman]

And that wasn't really long ago. It is amazing how quickly things change and how slowly things change.

[@maplenook]

My 56 year old husband picked potatoes in Slovakia with schoolmates

[@MrSheckstr]

In 86-87 I lived with my grandparents out in the countryside in the Midwest (after growing up on the coast in suburbs) while my father’s naval ship transitioned from Atlantic to Pacific Fleet. In the fall the worked for cash for a local potato farmer , grandfather on the tractor while grandmother sorted potatoes . I would only see my grand mother in the morning before school because he would already be out on the tractor, and then he would be the first one home at night. After school both my brother and I would ride our bikes out to the field and fills a duffel bag full of potatoes and then carry the duffle bag back on a rope stretched between bikes. My grand parents would make all sorts of things with potatoes including things like candy and pastry pie shells they would baked and then freeze

[@Banananaish]

People in Germany did the same back then. After the war they had to collect potato bugs too.

[@disf5178]

This LARPing is so impressive. I'm blown away by the amount of hard work and attention to detail..the commitment to really "doing it Medival Tudor style"

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

LARP??

[@disf5178]

@@YeshuaKingMessiah Live Action Role Play

[@yeswonka]

How?

[@trainwreck420ish]

Is this necessary? They can't just tell is about it?

[@cdfdesantis699]

Love the way these "living" documentaries really get into the nuts & bolts of what ordinary people's lives were like. TELLING us how to make tiles is very different from SEEING it done. Then, the more enterprising of us can try it for ourselves. Great living history.

[@Reneelwaring]

Mom says her mother used lard to preserve meat. You half cooked the meat, then laird it in a ceramic jar with lard between the pieces of meat. This kept oxygen from getting to the meat. Keep in a cool place. No salt necessary.

[@willeel3750]

Potted meat

[@SolarNeonFlare]

I eat it like that every winter and even at spring if some is left, it s delicious

[@nickbarton3191]

I live in Eastern Europe and we keep pigs and still use the lard to preserve the meat over winter as you describe. Kept cool, it can last a year and a half, the fat is still good too. We also make smoked sausages and smoked ribs from the slaughtered pigs.

[@Habu71]

"Oh crap. I am having a party and forgot to get drinks for everyone. " Ruth - "Thats okay. Go outside and get me a bucket of bullous fruit, some salt, a cup of water, two horses eyelashes, and 14 termites. I can make beer for everyone." LOL - That woman knows some stuff man.

[@HuskyTheDog2202]

My mother, born in 1955, in her early teens plowed the fields walking behind oxen. Today I’m still using lard for cooking every day. Not all old practices may not be that old. Well done this docu!

[@ulflyng4072]

Lard is gold....good to see not everyone has fallen for the present fat-fear 👍

[@Arienrhod]

I use lard for pie crusts and flour tortillas.

[@hezmydaddyo2722]

@@ulflyng4072right? Fat’s a nutrient AND it’s delicious!

[@nancytestani1470]

Just amazing. Medieval people were ingenious working the land.Everything had to be done from the ground up. A lot of work.

[@trainwreck420ish]

What do you mean? They didn't start farming

[@farmdude2020]

Let's not forget about the outstanding work of the re-enactment and camera team. Bravo and great iob everyone!

[@voornaam3191]

Yeah, how did these Medieval people polish such complicated camera lenses? And who baked the digital chips inside their Medieval video camera's? The data flow inside such camera's is bazurkah! How did they do that? Was it the Alchemist, did he invent the Vellum Video Tape?

[@AmariLynn8]

yay everyone is special!

[@VeryEvilGM]

@@voornaam3191 Partly work of saints and gods too.

[@claylapointe88]

I agree.

[@Kevin-xi6ts]

Nobody cares

[@ethanwilliam9944]

This was a really good documentary. I especially appreciated the participants enthusiasm while performing their respective duties. This was a good one and it was very informative. Well done folks!

[@coyotysvixen]

I love these guys! This whole series is awesome!

[@a.h.6461]

There is a whole „Farm Series“.

[@cloudgoose]

I absolutely LOVE this series. Ruth and the boys are great guides, and I feel like I learnt so much the first time I watched this series. Watching a second time, my biggest criticism is how mildly the narration puts things like enclosure. When they describe the fields as being “open,” they’re not clearly expressing the idea that the fields were owned by lords or entities like the monasteries, but they were essentially public - families had their own sections of land that they could farm for subsistence, of which the monastery or landowner would take a payment in the form of a portion of that harvest. However, because the land was openly available for use by all members of the community, they could also forage and hunt on it, key to survival in this era. When enclosure began, that land that had previously been available for use by the entire community was divided up into smaller sections that were owned by wealthy individuals who no longer allowed others to use it as subsistence farmland or hunting/gathering grounds. Where before, the majority of your time might be spent farming and gathering your own food directly, enclosure meant the only way you could eat was by earning wages to buy food someone else had grown. The new landowners also prosecuted people who hunted or foraged on their land, making what was an essential element of survival illegal. It was a forced beginning of capitalism, and it was a huge cultural upheaval.

[@debras3806]

Your comment is fascinating but difficult to believe--like how would this work, foraging being allowed but not outright theft of cultivated produce? And unless I am woefully ignorant, this WAS capitalism--both economies you mention--which is the natural state of mankind, there was no "development" of it. With such strong claims, you'd think you'd present some evidence?

[@janicem9225]

Nah, that's not capitalism. Telling people they can only do certain things as work, live certain places, and have certain things to survive, is NOT capitalism, but socialism....where only certain amounts of food, firewood, etc, is meted out to the lower classes. Come on man....Don't you know the difference between capitalism and socialism?

[@mera8785]

The lords were affiliated with the government and awarded their lands by the ruler of the day. That’s communism. Government is an insatiable beast and the fact it was allowed to go unchecked is why they decided to more tightly control land use.

[@CampingforCool41]

@@debras3806 capitalism is not the natural state of mankind what are you talking about? It’s just another economic system. How is it any more or less “natural” than any other?

[@cloudgoose]

@@debras3806 I’m not entirely sure what you mean, but you don’t need to “steal” from someone else’s farming plot when you have your own, or the forests and fields to forage from. Anyway, some “stealing” did happen…it was a practice called gleaning, where folks from the community with less took the last bits from a harvest. I imagine there was also a lot of bartering and trading, e.g. Mrs F grows carrots and Mrs S grows potatoes, so they trade with one another so they can each have both. I’m not asking you to take my word for it on any of this. Try Googling “enclosure” and “primitive accumulation,” see what you think of what you read, come to your own conclusions. You might also look into what feudalism is - the social hierarchy that existed in this region before mercantilism and capitalism.

[@susamekmek3101]

This was how my family and other villagers harvested (usually wheat) when i was a small kid (harvaster came later at our remote part of the country). Neighbours helped each other. Every one had their own land. They used the sickles (they were faster than you of course:)

[@sabrinaleedance]

I just think its so amazing that theres people out there still committed to keeping the knowledge, physically, of our amcestors as our technology makes them obsolete....we never know when we sre going to need that knowledge again

[@TheTubeDude]

Being of English heritage and having a love of Britain, fed my interest in this series. I didn't know I would enjoy it so much. In the 1950's I worked the family farm in north-eastern New Mexico for our food; both livestock and plants. No buying food from the stores.

[@Budrica]

I bet that food tasted amazing, too!

[@arthas640]

​@@Budrica yeah, back then pretty much all beef was grass today's grass fed free range organic beef.

[@anntowle1706]

I was born in '57 and grew up on a small farm. We grew all of our meat, beef, pork, and lamb. We also grew most of our vegetables. My parents worked outside the home so many of the chores were left to us kids. It was hard work but it was a good life. I raised my children on the same farm for most of their childhoods when I moved back to take care of my mother. It was good for them too and much less common in the '80s & '90s. It was good for them.

[@panninggazz5244]

We just went through an unprecedented storm here in Half Moon Bay, CA, USA I found these videos on the days we actually had Wi-Fi and power, which was dicey! These videos calmed me down big time. Not in the manner that the videos caused me to appreciate our modern era more. But to calibrate me. Thank you for these very important productions!!

[@blaisetelfer8499]

Stuff like this is what comes to mind whenever I see people on social media use the "medieval peasants only worked 20 hrs per week" talking point. Their lives were not better just because they had more down time. I don't think most people grasp how much harder life was before electricity, refrigeration, insulation, plumbing, agricultural machinery, modern medicine, etc.

[@sytxc]

I think certain parts of their lives were “better” in the sense that although they did have to do more laborious tasks, they were able to socialize while doing so. Mothers could spend more time with their daughters and fathers with their sons, or the entire family working together, even along side extended family or other members of the community. Nowadays, children are put into day care, the hands of strangers, while both of their parents work, alongside people who they only socialize w on a professional/impersonal basis. And for others like myself, I work alone, and while I do socialize w other people at work, it’s not the same. I think people connect better when they have a shared social circle. I think in modern society we have higher rates of depression/anxiety bc we have lost our sense of community/family ties. I think this is probably one of the most important things missing in our modern lives although this isn’t to say it was always perfect relations back then… there were definitely enemies/people u didn’t like but still had to be around. Oh well!

[@sytxc]

But I do agree, it’s easy for people to romanticize life back then but it was absolutely tough. I think I rather be more relatively socially isolated and work from home on a computer rather than be a medieval peasant!

[@LilBrownieD]

It's not about romanticizing their lives, it's about recognizing that they had time to attend to their own lives instead of our extra, unnecessary hours of prolonged labor

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

They will one day. 😆 History is nothing if not cyclical

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

@@LilBrownieD it helped that A LOT of labor was done right at home, with family and neighbors working together. Imagine if modern people had to go back to that? It'd be bedlam. We are so disjointed and sold on the Cosmopolis that we've neglected maintaining neighbors we trust and enjoy having. To say nothing of everyone's degenerating personalities....

[@r.1599]

This show was great but didn't show how they survived over the winter; it only showed the preparation up to a certain point up towards winter. I would really like to see what their lives were like over the winter period.

[@shodospring]

I wanted to see how they stayed warm.

[@r.1599]

@@shodospring Me too. And also how they kept themselves and the animals fed and watered.

[@christinehorsley]

True, quite a misleading title. So how did the Tudor age peasant survive the winter ?????

[@andeannafarnes4719]

Nobody wants to actually spend a winter that way... Just to be filmed😂

[@terrytolentino5459]

Good to know. I don't have to watch the rest.

[@painmt651]

I have been trying to preserve the old knowledge. Growing my own medicine and food crops has been an adventure. Not doing without modern things, just saving what has worked for centuries.

[@aura1298]

That is wise.

[@blueneptune825]

My hat is off to you for what you are doing. Best wishes 🎶🐦✌🏼

[@barkershill]

Sounds like you and I do much the same kinda thing . We live in a society which is becoming increasingly preoccupied with a synthetic lifestyle, and alienated not just from nature and traditional ways but even from modern methods of agriculture . I mean ,How many people watching this vid would have a clue how to grow crops or look after livestock ?

[@larryzigler6812]

Just what medicine do you grow ?

[@painmt651]

@@larryzigler6812 if I told you... you know how the line goes... Let’s just say, all kinds.

[@jeff__w]

They really put Ruth Goodman to work, binding the barley sheaves, boiling down the brine for salt, roasting the goose, whipping up that hyssop/honey mixture, and pounding the bullace to make melomel.

[@beverlyellison3911]

"Like taking an angry dog for a walk!" Lol!

[@0bzen22]

You spend the summer preparing for winter. Always been that way. Only these days we don't have to do this that much.

[@mortalclown3812]

Peter's thanks to the livestock was my favorite part of an amazing show. Best thing to pop up on my feed in ages - going to look for more Ruth and Peter series. Props to the BBC from grateful Yank.

[@Queueddd]

I just love how Ruth tells stories

[@willeel3750]

I wonder why they aren't using long handled scythes which are more efficient and easier on the back. I'm talking about the kind the Grim Reaper carries. My grandfather harvested wheat and crops with them at the turn of the century (1908) when he homesteaded. One man could do a surprising amount of work and the women could follow behind and bind the sheathes.

[@cecik5578]

That is a good question. My L4 was weeping the whole time I watched them bending over with those tiny scythes.

[@MrSheckstr]

Consider how much more tools you can make from the same amount of metal that a full sized scythe requires, and how much more complicated of a design it is. Where these tools are easier to make and maintain, also they can be used for many more tasks than a scythe

[@sanniepstein4835]

I used a heavy straight scythe as a teenager, and perhaps because of that training could not adapt to the fancier curved scythe with a longer handle. Or I may have been shorter than the intended user. The straight scythe could cut saplings up to 1" as well as grass and brush.

[@HarryJarrell]

A real grim reaper sized scythe usually had a cradle to catch the grain. You could get a sheave of wheat with 2 swipes of the scythe.

[@shaimoyed7858]

I love this way of life. It is so beautiful, so laborious, and in touch with the land and the people. I wish we could reclaim some of these older traditions throughout the centuries. I certainly believe it would bring more respect to the world around us.

[@KeenKoala115]

I agree, industrial farming is harming our health and planet at levels that may not be reversible.

[@lenny577]

Please for give me for not doing my research but whats the deal w these three? i see they built a castle and do videos abt medieval life. all awesome but do really they live like this?

[@aura1298]

Watch carefully and take notes. The way our world is going it will be useful.

[@juxtaposition7904]

How often does the “bloody flux” occur in our supposed horrible and miserable developed world? Nature is only beautiful when you don’t have to be directly subjected to it. Those people did not live a beautiful life. Hobbs described it already. Brutal and short.

[@ritaburgess6239]

Yes, the filth, odors, vermin, diseases, ceaseless grueling labor, feudalism, illiteracy, endless and brutal warring, the real good old days for sure! I am grateful every day that I was not born even 100 years ago. Romanticizing the middle ages is definitely a first-world problem.

[@roberttelarket4934]

Heaven help them in those times if there was a harvest failure, livestock devastation, salt shortages!

[@songofseikilos8659]

soylent green

[@WestVirginia1959]

@@songofseikilos8659sad that Edward G Robinson died 12 days after completion of the movie from bladder cancer.

[@simoncarlile1965]

@@WestVirginia1959 My favourite movie of all time.Gonna watch it again right now.

[@helenhoward5346]

Indeed. That's why it was urgent "no f'ing around business". People were far more powerless to forces of nature compared to us. It's crazy to imagine working so hard only to die anyways. That's why they valued the afterlife so much. It was a certainty for them.

[@breakingames7772]

Nevermind when your tummy ached from bacteria you went to see the barber surgeon who'd tell you that there is a demon or your balance was off and needed a blood letting. A entire large bowl was drained from you for no reason at all. Scary shit dude

[@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague]

This shits actually really interesting I was just thinking the other day, how people made it through winter before modern times.

[@songofseikilos8659]

destiny

[@dsnodgrass4843]

The short version: they prepared for 4-5 months beforehand, and hoped that it would last them through until spring.

[@lamarravery4094]

​@@dsnodgrass4843People live like this right now in the US. Homesteaders in Alaska, for an example. The Amish in the northeast have been living like that for hundreds of yrs.

[@medina__anidem]

We all need to be happy that our ancestors survived all of that and were able to give birth to us so we can be here and watch these videos😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheWolverine01]

It's full circle

[@fitthickchic6732]

Many things could go backwards of gas is too expensive lol

[@dellananjo4379]

hahaha

[@louiseyvette2261]

That's how I feel! 😂

[@kremesauce]

I hope this group does another series. They’re so passionate

[@kieranh2005]

About the tools needing sharpening vs plants... I have used tungsten carbide router bits on a Black Beech, a NZ native timber. It is quite high in silica, and carving out one rifle stock blunted the router bit. Another NZ native, Puriri, is known for eating chainsaw chains, for the same reason. Very abrasive.

[@MsBizzyGurl]

Wow!

[@dumo2276]

I love this channel - thank you for the great documentaries/chronicles

[@AlphaSniperAcademy]

Ruth a such a G in the history world and LOVES demonstrating

[@MsBizzyGurl]

Don't forget that the beasts were housed on the first floor, families on the floor (loft) above. Heat rises. Q: how much lead ended up in that salt?

[@SunRabbit]

Not a whole lot. Pure lead doesn't leach out easily unless the water is acidic and/or the lead is oxidised.

[@steazymccheesy2649]

One of the huge upsides to loving history, is to really appreciate how good some of us have it in the modern age. I know there's people in 3rd world countries having to struggle just as hard as medieval peasants and i feel for them. But i just wanna say how thankfull i am to have a nice appartment a fridge full of food and extra time to spend on hobbies, life has never been more convenient.

[@boobalooba5786]

Convenience is a disease, a sickness. The evidence is abundant, the "easier" our lives become the more we get fat and depressed and bitter and angry. The world is hell now because of "convenience" and it will only get worse as our "technology" grows.

[@steazymccheesy2649]

@@boobalooba5786 Sounds like a fight club quote bruh

[@steazymccheesy2649]

@@boobalooba5786 True you gotta maintain control but i rather have this than be a medieval peasant ant get fcked over and over.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Some of us don’t have all the abundance of items/time you do. But I wish all people would be more appreciative of just having electricity. That is a huge difference in the level we live at now compared to then.

[@shodospring]

I think I follow them in preparation for the collapse of civilization. We're way overdue.

[@ExoticTerrain]

Just loved this series, hope there’s more to come!

[@3880Tom]

Unfortunately the series is almost 10 years old, unless they release those, I doubt there will be :(

[@lknanml]

Victorian Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, 4 episodes (2010) Secrets of the Castle at Guédelon Castle, 5 episodes (2014) Victorian Bakers at Blists Hill Victorian Town, 4 episodes (2016) Full Steam Ahead courtesy of British Rail, 6 episodes (2016) That's the end of the line. Can't even find any interviews where they talked about another series.

[@hankhardisty9433]

This is a fabulous presentation. A lot was lost with the dissolution.

[@Benni777]

As someone who’s writing a mystery musical, it was very fascinating to learn what mystery plays were like in Tudor England! I love the teamwork and community effort that was put in back then! Bravo to them!

[@MsFall82]

Oo

[@lapoose325]

im straight, white and unvaccinated 🤍

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

@@lapoose325 Ok, no one asked.

[@lapoose325]

@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 Congratulate me before I start feeling offended. Hurry up bigot.

[@lapoose325]

@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 🙂

[@cindygillespie5750]

Wonderful series! Thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@lnstall_Wizard]

Truly amazing show. You really feel like you are there in those times. I'm very impressed with the production. Well done.

[@chrismiksworld]

I LOVE this so much. it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling to watch.

[@thatrugreallytiedtheroomto4537]

This video was awesome. Thank you! It was suggested randomly and not something I would typically find myself watching, but one of the best things I’ve watched on KZbin lately 🤘 thnxthnx

[@CampingforCool41]

These documentaries are so fantastic, I love the three leads

[@Steve-qt9ce]

Very nice, enjoyed the production and the insights. I live off grid in 🇺🇸 and folks have no idea what people did just to survive in the pre industrial days.👍❤

[@AndreasMadsen]

Wonderfully well made documentary. Great "actors" and overall content. Thanks for making this knowledge available for the world to see.

[@martinsullivan]

Just randomly found this. Well done everyone. This was great!

[@annemaria5126]

I came to the same conlusion for the Netherlands. By biking through the middle of Utrecht province, and watching the land and pittoresque villages, later looking all up on google to learn the early history (after year o) up to the year 1000. A huge amount of hard labour lays in these fields. Sacrifice, hunger, but also the evolving society and agriculture, though slowly, whilst the secular and religious landlords fought their wars over their heads. And...the climate changed then as well as now. Causing drought, floods, cold, heat, storms, failed crops, mice and rats, flees, etc.. People adapted to changing circumstances. Asked, demanded the rulers to take action, which they reluctendly did after a long time of 'debating'. As nowadays. Not much changed.

[@whozyourdaddy]

Only now your rulers are going to use climate change as an excuse to turn the rest of humanity into cattle. They'll tell you what you can eat, own all of the valuable land, make your healthcare decisions for you, tell you where you can live and how, limit your energy consumption, regulate every industry...one small group of unelected elites to save the planet. And like the kings of old, they'll of course be exempt from the rules they enforce on others. Like you said, not much has changed. Just as always, they've convinced common people that the people in power need to remain in power for your soul to be saved.

[@TravisCruise-ns4rs]

Wish I could have been on that bike ride.😁

[@annemaria5126]

@@TravisCruise-ns4rs it is a wonderfully beautyfull part of the netherlands: exactly the middle. With lovely 1ooo and more years old tiny villages ('buurtschappen'....'lint-dorpen'), where houses still have a 'human-size'...so...tiny but big enough. Well-kept bike-lanes...t or a he old roads...just to walk, with a small chart (kruiwagen, or when rich: with a big goat, or small horse to pull. To bring products to the town-markets, to sell and buy stuff for at home. Or by boat, because small rivers and dug-out waterways are abundant (in principle to create dry safe land to live and work on). The first ways were allways everywhere on earth waterways, because the land used to be a wildernis. What we see nowadays is the hard persistent work of our ancestors to create liveable land. Nowhere the landscape is 'natural', but allways 'cultural'. So...in my non-scientific opinion, 'wild plants' used to be 'cultivated plants' until the very very ancient 'farmers' left for some reason and the land plus the vegetation on it bewildered. Like in the Amazone-rainforest.

[@TravisCruise-ns4rs]

@@annemaria5126 yeah? That's cool! Greetings from the U.S..

[@Myamirah]

Archaeologists have the most cool job in the the world. Especially when you can practice experimental archaeology like this. They have defied time and space and transported themselves back to living in a totally different age. Time Travelers.

[@RichardinSiam]

This woman really shows you how important the tasks they did in the old days. Hard all around. That is a keeper!

[@harmoniabalanza]

When you're that tired you get into less trouble.

[@courtneyh.3084]

I always thought Bloody Flux was a type of dysentery! I've heard it referred to with well poisoning cases as well in the 1600's. So cool to see how our ancestors live! Thanks for continuing to post amazing and educational content :)

[@raindegrey9429]

I had to do research myself after hearing him so...enthusiastically talk about the bloody Flux being starvation so severe your intestines bleed out and...I can't find anything of the sort. The bloody Flux is dysentery and it is caused by bacterial or parasitic infections. I can't find a single reference to bloody Flux as extreme starvation resulting in one's guts falling out. Did you see the look on Ruth's face as that fellow was gushing about intestines falling out?? Unless there is some research I am missing, that expert is incorrect.

[@andrewroberts8959]

​​@@raindegrey9429I found that you can get bloody dysentery because of starvation. And that it was the main cause of bloody diarrhea in one study in East Africa. So this was probably what he was referring to.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

@@raindegrey9429yeah I would need some evidence of that guts bleeding out claim

[@mislux]

Yea I couldn't find anything like flux being a starvation symptom in my searches.

[@Lee-jh6cr]

I've heard of this starvation symptom occuring in third world countries from several sources. Can't remember what it's called, but not bloody flux. Maybe prolapse from immaciation.

[@Tyrian777]

Marvelous video I've enjoyed a lot. Thank you from Ukraine!

[@annazukowska8170]

As a child I used to take part in harvesting the barley. The method was the same, but we used the scythes. I am a bit surprised that nothing was said about the awns... :)

[@Gerberos]

I wondered the same thing, maybe it’s just to make work to seems more “back egging”.

[@mikev4621]

what are awns?

[@annazukowska8170]

@@mikev4621 The parts of barley ears. The awns grow from the barley ear. They look like silky hair, but they are sharp, like small fish bones or bristle. They tend to get into your clothes and skin and it takes hours to remove them.

[@mikev4621]

@@annazukowska8170 thank-you : )

[@mikev4621]

@@annazukowska8170 Perhaps you can answer another question: Why do they cut the barley at ground level when the only bit they need is at the top of the stalk?

[@juliajaeger8175]

I have NEVER seen how salt is made before!!! That was quite a treat!

[@DORVALFAGUNDES]

I'm a Brazilian guy. I loved it. It's a brilliant work and a smart idea. The history classes should be like it. Congratulations.

[@Feldspar__]

These guys are setting a whole new level for cosplay.

[@noelmaher2301]

Very well made programme and very interesting.

[@sevenspaulding123]

This brought such a smile to my face 🪵🛖🏘

[@catelynr5222]

This is just absolutely fascinating. I am loving the bit about making salt!

[@CarolineVigneron71]

I'm quite curious about the lead salt pans. Does anybody have information on how toxic that could have been?

[@raraavis7782]

Yeah, I was like 👀, when she said 'lead pan'.

[@chrpchrp7808]

No idea 🤔

[@silasread]

It tends to be okay unless you add an acidic ingredient. I've heard that Europeans initially thought tomatoes from the New World were poisonous, but it turns out they were cooking them on lead pans causing acute lead poisoning.

[@Valchrist1313]

I'm guessing the sodium chloride would combine with lead to make lead chloride, and you'd probably get lead oxide/oxate, too. But if it were corroding the pan too significantly they'd have used something else. I'm thinking the leads were very bound up inside other elements in the salt, as well as the meat it spent months soaking in to. They probably didn't absorb too much of it. I personally think the tomato/lead plate thing is a myth. "Botony was the science of the day", the video said, and tomatoes are in the Belladonna/Deadly nightshade family. I doubt many ever plated enough tomatoes to cause that much exposure. However, a sauce prepared in a lead pot is a different matter. This is describing 'lead acetate', which tastes sweet. That's why kids used to eat paint chips. They tasted like candy. People also used it to flavor wine during various periods. Causation/correlation wasn't really worked out then. But most assuredly, the majority of deaths from lead had nothing to do with tomatoes! And so if a few got blamed on tomatoes, it was probably a mis-attribution.

[@ladygrey8706]

@@silasread Thanks for the answer! I was wondering the same thing.

[@user-ic2og7bj7b]

❤ I really enjoyed this history account and the historians did the actual recreations and characters of the time!❤

[@gabrielvdenton]

Thank you so much ❤

[@kremesauce]

Ruth is phenomenal

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

I never knew masonry was seasonal, that stone could be so different. I wonder what they did when they weren’t carving?

[@arthas640]

craftsmen often built and maintained all their own tools, and in medieval time it wasnt unusual for even middle class people to do all their own construction work like mainting their house, making their own brooms, harvesting their own fuel, etc.

[@Digitaaliklosetti]

Once I put 4 raw hens eggs up my arse without breaking them

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Like lawncare becoming snowplowing up North in the US, I would be interested to know what their occupation transitioned into during the cold months. Maybe they actually made enough during the season to not work in the off mos? Ppl do that too, once they make enough (my son did this once he got into commercial contracts, he did go into commercial plowing tho as he got bored in winters lol)

[@alexandraathay]

Great video, just a shame about the number of advert interruptions.

[@believeinpeace]

This was excellent! Thank you!!

[@wills2379]

these are genuinely great documentaries

[@stephaniefrazee3955]

I enjoyed seeing Ronald Hutton appearing and narrating during the feast. He is an English historian and the author of many books including The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. It's a fascinating and incredibly researched book that I highly recommend for any history buff and esp. those who might be interested in modern religions or modern occultism and their historical influences. It has a focus on modern witchcraft specifically British Traditional Wicca as promulgated by Dr. Gerald Gardner.

[@TheOtto3663]

Great documentary! Did anyone else wonder how these people survived eating "brine water" salt boiled to the heavens in a giant lead pan? How did they not keel over from lead poisoning? How fantastic is the housewife? She is some of the best casting I have ever seen in any doc production and I know she's more of an historian than a documentary performer. Lazy people need not apply. Good grief they toiled.

[@carawestgate]

I was wondering the same!

[@aliceh5289]

What pulls the lead out is acidity, for example in tomatoes. They used lead for tons of dishware. And when people died from eating tomatoes served on lead, they assumed it was the tomatoes, because nothing else had killed them like that up until then.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Methinks perhaps lead isn’t quite as bad as we ve been told either…

[@danieltikusis5239]

I was thinking the same, however, maybe a thick lead oxide layer combined with mineral deposits prevented any significant lead contamination. Also, the brine could have been alkaline. Lead poisoning was more likely due to wine making (acidic)and lead cups.

[@PRETTINGTON]

@@YeshuaKingMessiah …or maybe the symptoms are considered a normal part of life when everyone has them.

[@1977alo]

such a good documentary. great job guys. cheers from italy

[@wenchology]

This is freaking awesome as a series.

[@roberthead2408]

It’s always interesting to see these reenactments. I cannot image that ordinary people were ever overweight in the Middle Ages.

[@carolschlismann7558]

Friar Tuck?

[@ktraschko6553]

@@carolschlismann7558 yeah, but he was a friar, so part of the monasteries. His days were supposed to be devoted to prayer; not nearly so active as the tenant farmers.

[@Lela-plants]

@Nobody Important Genetic changes take longer than that. We are fat now because we live a sedentary lifestyle, eat high calorie, processed foods made with engineered flavors and substances to make them more appealing and addictive. We didn’t start getting fat until after the 1980s when more people started working and eating out more frequently. People used to not eat out; it was a treat maybe once a week or so. Very few frozen foods as most food was cooked in the home. Now there are fast food places on every corner and no one really cooks family meals much. Hence, we are fatter.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

@@Lela-plants agreed in almost every regard. "Fat" people still existed then, but were generally someone with a REAL genetic issue amongst the populace (usually more a modern "husky" than truly obese) or a spoiled AF medieval "foody" like more than a few royals over the years.

[@janejones5362]

@@Lela-plants Yep. And sugar is in almost EVERYTHING. Read labels at the store. I've even seen sugar added to cartons of salt.

[@annmorgana2848]

this is the third time ive watched this series, and ive watched the series of the other eras as well at least once. i utterly engage with this old world. i am grateful for modern convenience of course, but from my experience you appreciate the little things more when you are deeply involved in the process and dependant on the results. why does it feel like 2020 was the start of the new medieval age.. oh right.. because it is. the land barons have risen again, the digital serfs are clueless and the new church overlord is the church of science. taking notes, thanks ruth and co, some of this might become useful this decade coming.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Mite? Decade? The time is now, the possibility is etched in stone. It’s 2 *seconds* to midnite. U are aware, as unlucky as I. We won’t be caught unawares (& mentally will be able while others crumble) but we have started grieving several yrs before the masses. And that steals our remaining time of normalcy. Cyclops truly was cursed.

[@Arienrhod]

1 hour video, I don’t have time for that………. Uh, watched the whole thing. Thank you for something fascinating!

[@kween410]

I love your Chanel. Thank you for existing 🥰🥰🥰

[@alexwieland-ducher8792]

I would love to see a crossover of these guys with John Townsends

[@judithweiss6727]

seconded

[@karenglenn2329]

👍agree

[@larapalma3744]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@marcboblee1863]

As an Anglo Saxon, and farmer I feel very connected to my fellow Saxons watching this excellent video. A heartfelt thanks for posting this video.....

[@marcboblee1863]

@fspg3207 Indeed, as a man who is also of Welsh, Scottish descent, I understand your sentiment. History is however history...I celebrate all my ancestral roots...appreciate the comment.

[@maxasaurus3008]

That is a beautiful salt cone, I’m really very impressed with Ruth.

[@BruceThomson]

Lovely video, 'made me grateful, and also envious of the strong meaning in their work and precarious life.

[@stevekirkby6570]

..."Botany was the science of the day" (30:20) and so it should be today. Amazing stuff.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Unfortunately, it is IT. Yet here I sit, conversing with you; if not for IT, it would never happen. I still think it was better off before IT when botany wasn’t twisted but furthering humanity.

[@thomasjohnson6665]

Preservation of meat is vital for anyone to do thru winter

[@skeptigal4626]

Vegans would probably not have made it through the winter.

[@millsrickman7703]

Vegans would be an additional meat source

[@lulunaseva6371]

Aku sangat suka konten sejarah ini... Hiburan yang edukatif.

[@whiskyngeets]

I enjoyed this so much. Thank you. Cheers from Atlanta 🍻

[@ReZerO100]

Michaelmas seems quite similar to Canadian Thanksgiving, our thanksgiving isn't related to the American thanksgiving (even though it has a lot of similarities), ours is a celebration of the harvest, held on the 2nd Monday of October every year, we do eat turkey instead of a goose, but I think we do need to slim down goose numbers so maybe we should change that tradition.

[@harmoniabalanza]

Believe it or not, the big main park in San Francisco is overrun with geese! Poop everywhere. They are happy.

[@reeses_piecesblessingsbupo5309]

If the world goes to shit in the midst of another WW or in the event of an apocalypse I need to have Ruth on my team! She is one heck of a woman!

[@camillapalmer82]

Loved watching this.

[@luminyam6145]

This so interesting, thank you.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

The rod to close the upper window? We were using those in the 13 colonies right through to the 1800's. A few other items also survived the Middle Ages and came to America and lasted until the 1700's, early 1820's and 1830's until better technology supplanted them.

[@alanaitcheson9403]

I love history documentaries and this one is brilliant. But also I will watch it to see how to survive a winter with energy bills soring....!

[@Iburn247]

History is so fascinating

[@casio4067]

I love pat. Ive been watching these videos for a few years without knowing who the content is released by. But i always recognize pat

[@joyhanson8654]

nice documentary, but what about how to survive winter? I'm seeing what they're doing when it's not winter.I was expecting to see what they do during the winter. 1)I see mead like drink, 2) gunpowder 3) Tile making, 4) Masonry... This is Fall Havest... not winter.

[@woodspirit98]

Work hard or it's the bloody flux. Either way you're fluxed.

[@P.e.m.a.]

Yeah, i noticed this too. Not one single sbowflake! 😂

[@larryzigler6812]

They did not want to show them sleeping with their animals and dealing with flies and fleas all night

[@joyhanson8654]

@@larryzigler6812 Thank you for the insight. I'm such a curious cat I'm going to go down the wrong rabbit hole!

[@larryzigler6812]

@@joyhanson8654 Might be a bit warmer in a rabbit hole

[@JL-tm3rc]

in the future they will make documentaries on how Europeans survive this coming winter

[@pollypurree1834]

And the northern United States

[@friedrichjunzt]

Ah, my daily russian troll. ❤️ off to the conscription Office with you, to the front a let some Ukranians show you, how superior russians really are.

[@rebekahlikesmusic2723]

Currently watching this without power, it's 14 degrees outside, -3 with the windchill lol

[@friedrichjunzt]

@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 still here, ruSSian troll? Go and fight for Mother russia, coward!

[@rebekahlikesmusic2723]

@Marcus you win haha damn. Yall must be tough as hell against the cold

[@Chaosproscho]

Taking notes here for this winter