Life in a Medieval Palace

[@purplepeoplreater1]

Professor Salisbury is a masterful storyteller. I feel like I've learned and will probably retain more from listening to her than normally. I could listen to her for hours!

[@susanmorgan8833]

She is excellent. As a history student, I found her enchanting.

[@kristinessTX]

I have read, listened to, and watched history recounts daily for three decades now. She is an excellent story teller and her knowledge is vast. She is one of the best I have encountered. I could listen to her all day.

[@neilchisholm8376]

I too could listen to her for hours.

[@StephiSensei26]

I feel as though I've been imparted some great truth or truths, simply by listening to this teacher speak. Thank you so much for this opportunity to be exposed to such a fine speaker. Terrific Video! This is how our young people should be taught. A half hour with this teacher is worth a semester with many others.

[@youssefrochdi1994]

She speaks like how a good writer would write. That is a fascinating skill

[@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609]

So do I, but I doubt that Vikings did not have wood. Anyone who has been to Sweden and Norway (Denmark not as much) knows that the countries consist mainly of large forests, some of which have been there for millennia. Concerning forests and forestry. Domänverket (instituted in the 17th century to manage the state's forests) planted oak trees for shipbuilding for the Marine in 1831 on the island Visingsö. In 1975(!), the director of Domänverket sent a letter to the Marines that the first oaks were ready. (The oak forest still stands on Visingsö.) skogshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/%C3%85rsskrift-2009-s-62-65-Lars-Hansson-Skogen-v%C3%A5r-framtid.pdf

[@StephiSensei26]

@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 Well, I'm a bit confused. You are absolutely correct about the forests of Skandinavia. I've lived there for many years and I can attest to the fact that the trees are there! Anyway, what do some people think the Vikings sailed around in? Inflatable Rubber Boats? No, their wonderful Viking ships were built from the forests of Scandinavia. Tack så mycket!

[@michailiamichailia5493]

Great video, very good speaker who makes easy to understand by non native speakers of the english language without missing one single word! Thank you!!!

[@binhoangchannel8538]

Damn. What a great lecture. This lady has got it together

[@samanthajohnson6323]

Very well narrated. I thoroughly enjoyed the video.

[@TheStormyReport]

Best use of 30 minutes I’ve spent in a very long time! Just Wow!

[@highfive7689]

Professor Salisbury I loved your concise yet lavish lecture. It's coverage extended away beyond the restrictive Eurocentric boundaries most historians cover on the subject. Thank you, for your presentation.

[@neilchisholm8376]

Great vlog. Loved it. Had me thinking deeply about many issues she brought up. Looking forward to more vlogs like this. Subscribed and liked!

[@TheGreatCourses]

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[@brenmanock]

Great lecture Thanks professor. I learned a lot

[@cheralgeen3214]

Thank you Professor Salisbury, so very interesting, I have learnt a great deal listening to you. Your voice and the way you impart your knowledge are a joy. Shame the adverts have to cut in. The way you presented the Alhambra, brought back wonderful memories of my time there. I did shudder at the list of animals consumed. Again thank you for imparting your great knowledge, from Castles to life lived inside them.

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[@bonnielucas153]

Very nice presentation. She would be a fine teacher with whom to take a class

[@Souljahna]

This is a wonderfully educational talk. She not only describes the lifestyles of the past but the reasoning behind them. It gives you a wider perspective on history, makes strange customs and behaviour more comprehensible, and show you however much we change, we stay the same.

[@TheGreatCourses]

Thank you for watching!

[@kathy2929]

I love history! Thank you for this video!

[@nelled6240]

Thank you for your excellent teaching

[@richardwaugaman1505]

"Shakespeare" was close to Queen Elizabeth, and wrote plays for her that included veiled topical references to her, her court--and her father. So I wonder if the scene in King Lear that takes place at Dover may have contained some hitherto unrecognized allusion to her father, King Henry VIII.

[@patriciafaison9164]

Very good lecture. Would listen to her anytime. 💝

[@SmokeyTreats]

@Wonderium. Thanks much for this vid! Joyce Salisbury is amazing! I hope she has more vids.

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@faithhowe6170]

Very informative and enjoyable to listen to. Thank you.

[@TheGreatCourses]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@judithmacfadzen9516]

I loved this. Thank you.

[@andreagrimaud9288]

Very interesting. I like how she talks about and compares the different parts of the world.

[@carolynhoff7668]

Brilliant content and presentation!! 🌺

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I thoroughly enjoyed your lecture.

[@v.g.r.l.4072]

What a pleasant presence the host has and how interesting what she says is. The understanding of history is axial for everyone to appraise what life endows us with. Thanks.

[@moreengover6033]

I loved this. So interesting.

[@penelopemiller1908]

A well expressed narrative thank you.

[@webbmechannel5235]

pigs water could heal snake bite wounds was an interesting remedy. The women with bound feet being carried around as they couldn’t walk and being a turn on of sorts pretty interesting too. I enjoyed the presenting of all of this information though.

[@harryedwards9391]

Thanks your made for this Great story teller and reader

[@anndaley4001]

Oh I have learnt so much.......Thank you

[@NurseryEnterprises]

Their water was cleaner than ours?!? Even with their sewage running into it?!?

[@margemenner4073]

Thank you, great teacher!!!!

[@patriciadean5320]

Very interesting-thank you

[@sandragruhle6288]

Outstanding!

[@danijeljovic2270]

I think this woman could direct some epic medieval movie, series

[@marieviljoen3195]

Thank you.

[@johnlewis3891]

My chair is a barbarian couch, LOL!

[@PieterBreda]

Very interesting video.

[@georgejcking]

Very interesting!!!!!

[@dennisanderson5862]

Thank you!

[@MaroonedInDub]

Very interesting

[@Diane2403]

Thankyou so much. | learned a lot from your talk. especially as there was no awful background 'music' 💙

[@roxannamiguel7291]

AWESOME!

[@leoperidot482]

Who would want to live in a castle during the middle ages. I can imagine the place stunk to high heaven!

[@kenmcdaniel6913]

Also cold and drafty!!!!!!!

[@leoperidot482]

@@kenmcdaniel6913 You can always layer up. Sit by the fire during the cold season. But in the sweltering heat, you can only take so much off. Sweat and body odor would permeate throughout the castle considering people weren't known to take baths, practice hygiene, or wash their clothes. It's be like living in some trailer park in Florida.

[@pipfox7834]

regarding b.o and hygeine: yes, your description is pretty accurate. However, people -especially courting couples - were aware of the need to be sweet smelling and spent money, if they had it, on perfumes from the east. Fresh rushes were daily strewn on the banquet hall floors, or sawdust, to help absorb spills and the old rushes taken outside to the muck heaps or put on the fields as fertiliser. Even a poor peasant could perfume their home or their person with freshly picked flowers of the field.

[@crewrangergaming9582]

$10 million pounds for such a big palace is quite low.. but who knows how many people were underpaid or not paid at all and the cost involved just the materials

[@MachaMongRuad]

He already owned all the quarries and forests, so I imagine cost of materials was quite low.

[@sciencerscientifico310]

Well, that depends. There weren't strict labor laws in those days. Not to mention the kings could use their royal power to take whatever they wanted, the "royal discount" if you will.

[@sciencerscientifico310]

Don't they mean "CASTLES"? In the medieval era, most castles were hardly palatial. Now the Alhambra is palatial! As is Warwick and Windsor Castles, although their more palatial decorations are 17th to 19th century decor, the original medieval decoration of these castles was far plainer. Original castle decor varied but the baroque style decor didn't even exist yet.

[@sandragruhle6288]

As “are” Warwick and Windsor Castle(s) is the correct verb, since there are two of them.🤫

[@joelgottfried5849]

strange no mention of Africa? They couldve mentioned Ethiopia, kilwa kiswani, Mali or many of the swahili city states

[@nicolaslalonde2807]

I second that, would be amazing to get a historically accurate picture.

[@khaldebrahim8790]

They only care for Africa as source of raw materials for their factories and workers for industry. This is the ugly face of the western civilization

[@starcapture3040]

these places too far from the trade routes so they never affected each other

[@TheMogregory]

@@starcapture3040 I don't know how they connected the more densely populated areas but there were important trade routes throughout Africa - gold, salt, books and silks etc. Although I don't know how many older buildings (equivalent to palaces) still exist. It would make an interesting topic.

[@juliairzyk]

She does in the other lectures in this series. This is a great series. Truly global. Unfortunately you are only seeing one episode.

[@elainebrooksbank5281]

Despite the pipe roles outlining the cost of Henry II’s remodelling of Dover Castle there are contemporary records of it being viewed as “old-fashioned” as it was being constructed. There were no fireplaces built in and yet the Tower of London, built over 100 years earlier, had several. Obviously the use of braziers were still required in Dover Castle creating smoke which the small windows set high in the walls would have done very little to clear. Those small windows which let in very little light in and let very little smoke out were left unglazed. And yet several cathedrals had been constructed with huge, elaborately stained glass windows at the time. So, according to those same pipe rolls Henry II, spent a huge fortune on erecting an old fashioned, draughty, chilly, smoke filled castle when the technology had been around to create an innovative building for years. It might have made sense to support tradition over progress to him but, apparently, not to the majority of his contemporaries. Excellent lecture.

[@janne639]

I love this narrator's voice! I have a trained ear and am VERY sensitive to voice qualities -- sybiant Ss, sticky mouth and mouth-smacky sounds drive me up a wall, as do women who affect little girl voices and people who use pressured speech to command attention. I would listen to more documentaries and audio books if more narrators sounded as pleasant as this woman.

[@mikecobalt7005]

:) Very Good.

[@silvanafioretti7133]

Strangely it's not mentioned Swabian king Frederick II, called "Stupor Mundi" (wonder of the world); a charismatic figure of his time (13th century); man of great culture (he spoke six languages including fluent arabic), fond in art, literature, architecture, techniques of falconry, anatomy and more; furthermore excellent diplomatic and politician! Check on yt: "Frederick II liked a strange, mysteriuos geometry"

[@pipfox7834]

are any of his castles or palaces still around? this is mainly what the lecture was about. How and why these large imposing structures functioned, and which ones are still around to day. Thanks for mentioning the Swabian king, will look it up.

[@pipfox7834]

the vlog also developed a good contrast between the two very different cultures of the pre eminent powers of the time.

[@pipfox7834]

woops, I meant to say: THREE pre eminent powers (not to forget China) i was cooking dinner and listening as well, so i missed a few bits!

[@pipfox7834]

woops, I meant to say: THREE pre eminent powers (not to forget China) i was cooking dinner and listening as well, so i missed a few bits!

[@silvanafioretti7133]

@@pipfox7834 Amazing medieval castles: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWqQinqLds-IbZo

[@TreyCapnerhurst]

THANK YOU for pointing out the bizarre myth that they drank ale because water wasn't safe to drink. Were they polluting water more than the rest of Europe? Was their tech that different? Why wasn't ale drinking of that quantity a Thing anywhere else then? And how would they know that? It's simultaneously giving them credit for too much tech knowledge and not enough.

[@pipfox7834]

if you want a great medieval read, try A Distant Mirror. Across this whole era we see many wars, followed by drought and crop failures, followed by plague and population crashes. Typhoid and bubonic plague kept recurring in the wake of all the upheavals each few decades. So yes, city water supplies could easily carry bacterial contamination. Even large towns would have been affected, unless you kept the latrines away from ground water by putting your well on higher ground, perhaps.

[@zhoubaidinh403]

I'd be pissed off if a peasant during medieval times,

[@franciscojose6496]

Interesting channel in information congratulation Marvel channel

[@EdmundSkye]

we love tipsy water

[@patrickdillon-h1o]

Was it not possible to put the teleprompter for her directly below the camera,it was distracting to watch her looking off into space, it made the whole thing look very amateurish

[@melanoidmarkus]

👍🏾👌🏾

[@peterolbrisch1653]

It sucked. No modern plumbing so that means no toilets, no washing machines, no water from a tap, medical care was drilling a hole in your head, no air conditioning, and no wi fi.

[@sciencerscientifico310]

It would be cool living in a modern castle though! One that includes the mod cons.

[@peterolbrisch1653]

@@sciencerscientifico310 It has to have a dungeon.

[@joseesteller1556]

Tabaco in the Middle Ages ?

[@davidarundel6187]

It came from the Americas , to Europe , and would have been traded in the region , it came from , used primarily in ceremonial purposes .

[@jordanbuuck5934]

@@davidarundel6187 but not in the Middle Ages

[@marieviljoen3195]

ENGLISH SUBTITLES?

[@TheGreatCourses]

Hi Marie! You can change the subtitle language by using the settings gear at the bottom right of the video.

[@DCfred]

Too many ads!

[@janetwiatrek3644]

Wish I had speakers in college like this one. I would have listened more closely. So interesting.

[@nithqueen]

''vikings had no wood'' aight that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard. norway has exported wood for 1000s of years, we've got nothing if not wood

[@debrawoodrick2889]

It's the opposite. The Jews didn't eat pork. That set them apart not vice versa. Weird comment.

[@keepitsimple4629]

I'd prefer to see more pictures of the medieval people and palaces than seeing the narrator in 99% of the frames. Seeing her face is totally unnecessary.

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Caste system

[@L_Train]

I can't stand Dan hausen. not in a heel kind of way either. And I darn sure wouldn't call him a "star" even in the little niche aew bubble