Life in a Medieval Village

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During the middle ages, the majority of people lived in rural villages rather than urban cities or large towns.
But what was everyday life like in a medieval village?
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Bennett, H. S. Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400. Cambridge University Press, 1937.
Coulton, G. G. The Medieval Village. Courier Corporation, 2012.
Dyer, Christopher. Everyday Life in Medieval England. Hambledon; London: A&C Black, 2000.
Dyer, Christopher. “The English Medieval Village Community and Its Decline.” Journal of British Studies 33, no. 4 (October 1994): 407-29.
Newman, Paul B. Daily Life in the Middle Ages. McFarland, 2018.
Rosenthal, Joel T. Social Memory in Late Medieval England: Village Life and Proofs of Age. Cham, SWITZERLAND: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017.

[@punkylesh7575]

The lord would rarely be at the village, only to occasionally return home to customise his gear between quests.

[@hiimryan2388]

And to conscript soldiers for the crusade

[@jaywerner8415]

and deposit all of his loot.

[@sleepyrasta14820]

Lol

[@someguy3766]

Heh. Funny. xD

[@niallpjw4412]

and he needs to buy new things and sell his loot dude get it right

[@ijmillares9005]

Life in a medieval village revolves around collecting resources to advance to the next age, quick walling with house when their is a raid.

[@diel6755]

Fast castle age

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

It was, untill they saw the neighbouring villagers laying some strange stone foundations on the ground, in the middle of their property.

[@syntax2004]

@@unimportantcommenter4356 Castle time

[@Mark_nobody3]

Age of empires 2 theme intensified 🎼

[@rixille]

Based AOE player

[@VelocistarAnimations]

Just here to say that yes, medieval people did wash, usually in cold water in clean streams or rivers, or with a bowl of water, and many people would use soap as well. Also, they cleaned their teeth most of the time with a cloth or a stick called 'miswak'. They would also chew mint leaves to have better breath. The fact that they didn't eat loads of sugar meant they didn't have rotten teeth. So yes, they were clean!

[@leopoldkoppen9081]

If you look at medieval skeletons you can see that their teeth are pefectly fine, basically not worse than ours nowadays.

[@ronaldmessina4229]

My dear WIFE hails from a small village near the PIRINEOS , and I, UNworthy person, have been to the village on numerous occasions , and the inhabitants do maintain themselves clean and free of diseases, but in the winter months the area is quite COLD 🥶, with snow ⛄️ 😮

[@tplo1]

The misconception of filth comes from large cities where disease spreads easily

[@Matze239]

The misconception comes from victorian-era "Intellectuals", who did everything in their power to make their time look better. Unfortunantely, it was the middle ages that fell under the chopping block. Medieval cities werent filthy at all, most had sophisticated sewage systems, workers who kept the streets and latrines clean, drinking water supplies and a large number of bathhouses@@tplo1

[@liverpool2701]

As far i know they cleand ther teeth with charcoal as toothpaste.

[@weredrgn]

Peasants and serfs didn't worked all day. They started early and finished late, but they had a lot of breaks in between, so a real full day of work was considered two work days. They also had a lot of festivals and religious holidays. It was the industrial revolution that increased the average work time (to around 16 hours), as production demands increased.

[@bettabucky7975]

Do you feed your animals on this "holidays"?

[@hawkmandude8059]

They might not have worked the fiwld but considering how lots of things needed maintenance, there was likely lots of work to do

[@Eltipoquevisteayer]

The rule is: from the sunrise until the dusk

[@chrisnorton4382]

Americans don't seem to appreciate that in north Europe there are a lot more daylight hours in summer than winter. So a lot more outside work got done in June than in December. There was little illumination in winter other than a household fire and candles were expensive - so what could you do in all the dark hours? It probably helped to keep the birthrate high :)

[@stoffni]

@@chrisnorton4382 There wasn't a lot of fieldwork in Scandinavia as a whole compared to more southern areas, the land was too hard to work. One of the believed reasons why England was the focus for conquering by the Vikings. Instead you would have more focus on fishing, foraging, wildcraft and animal husbandry. That being said, just like you mentioned, the winter times meant less work hours. A lot of people today do not really understand how dark it actually gets when you do not have light pollution.

[@kendrickrochelanzot2053]

I strongly believe that the reason why the priest animation repeated 3 times was so SH can flex on how smooth the animation was XD

[@stephweasenforth7891]

They’re certainly improving their quality

[@joshuaperry8729]

Where was the priest. In so baked watching it I missed it. Haha.

[@fdny4891]

Nice lens flare behind the church too

[@potats1770]

He does it in every fucking video. Animations repeated and repeated. He's just too lazy to make more

[@fyreborneblu6706]

I thought they had 3 churches with 3 aggressive walking priests

[@NotBagusCarlvito]

Hours of playing Kingdom Come has taught me all of this

[@The74th]

Good game:Kingdom

[@handlymoilp8582]

"henry has come to see us!"

[@secondlieutenan]

H m

[@mortache]

Hundreds of hours*

[@miliba]

@@handlymoilp8582 Watch out where you're going, lout!

[@The-Plaguefellow]

All I know about Medieval Village life is that it's always "almost" Harvesting Season. At least from what the peasants keep telling me before I pillage them.

[@maxdiak5954]

Ah a man of Mounts and blades I see

[@fimbul_]

Less talking, more raiding!

[@krissianvictir1291]

It’s all fun and games until the lord arrives with a +200 man army

[@AnyaKittyMeow]

Kingdom Come

[@rixille]

Based mount and blade adventurer

[@K3ntucky123]

Villagers in real time: *happy and joyful times* Villagers in movies: *depress and sadness*

[@ITSMYSTERYPLAYS69]

Villagers in minecraft: Hmmmmmmm

[@daniellap.stewart6839]

Joyful times? Lol

[@toxxc.5449]

@@ITSMYSTERYPLAYS69 I'll trade 4 blocks of glass for 1 emerald

[@harisosse6371]

@@toxxc.5449 i give you 1 emerald for my own wheat

[@plusxz821]

@@daniellap.stewart6839 Yeah, humans manage to be happy in the worst situations

[@imakebadcontent9255]

According to cliche’s, life in a medieval village also has a dragon destroying villages

[@eletrictarantula2321]

Or being raided

[@imakebadcontent9255]

@@eletrictarantula2321 with black plague included

[@jerrylim6722]

all "medieval" movie/game peasants be like "oh boi it's Dragon-o-clock and I forgot to bring my fire resistant leather clothing with me... guess I'll die"

[@nmuGame]

But if you were in a dimension were dragons all had wheel chairs you could've just installed wheel chair stoppers

[@jerrylim6722]

@@nmuGame I don't think encouraging fire breathing wheelchair bound lizards by stopping their wheelchairs to burn everything down from range, is gonna stop their chaos

[@fairysniper8386]

How convenient, I’m literally in a History lesson learning about the Medieval age

[@DataBase268]

I'm in math😩

[@riverofblood4362]

World History I?

[@fairysniper8386]

@@riverofblood4362 School lol

[@riverofblood4362]

@@fairysniper8386 I was asking if you were taking World History I at school lol

[@RB-NZ2]

@@fairysniper8386 hate to be in school right now

[@AleQuag]

Medieval times: City life is the dream! Modern times: I just wanna live a simple calm life in the country...

[@maxpowers9129]

City life was terrible back then. So many people died in the cities from disease that the cities needed a constant influx of people from the country to maintain the population.

[@gamespotlive3673]

It’s the same, what we call a country side town would’ve been the size of a city to them.

[@hungryburger1170]

"The bustling city of Hampshireshire was all dead due to a plague of Tuberculosis. All in all, the entire population of 15 people and 3 sheep succumbed."

[@BioChemistryWizard]

It should be noted that peasants being always dirty is a myth. Bath houses were common in villages across Europe. And also there were many time periods where peasasnts worked less than 40 hours a week.

[@thetrollslayer3716]

Not until the start of crusades.Muslims taught Europeans the benefits of bathing. One of the distinct feature of Crusaders invading the holy lands was that they stank and rarely bathed.

[@rogersanabre1370]

@@thetrollslayer3716 Not true. Romans built many bath houses, and while a full bath was expensive (it involves getting a lot of water, a lot f wood to heat the water) people did wash themselves, way before the muslim invasions. Were the Crusaders, a group of warriors in foreign land who travelled many kilometres to fight a holy war, dirty? Probably, unfortunately portable showers hadn't been invented back then.

[@rogerroger730]

Just in big cities,and the lil' villages with a river near of it were a place full of dirtyness.

[@LA-kc7ev]

You are right, and also about half of the days of the year were festivals and no one worked. Something not generally appreciated today. Also, they went on pilgrimages to Santiago, or Jerusalem, being gone many months. Those who stood out were also educated.

[@michaelplanchunas3693]

@@LA-kc7ev Mill ponds were used as bathing and swimming holes by peasants. And they knew how to make a strong but dangerous soap from fats and ashes which turned to lye.

[@areguycole7336]

The peasants also made mud piles and were excellent philosophers on whether or not being handed a sword makes you a ruler

[@charliegarrison9688]

Just because some watery tart threw you a sword doesn't make you king ya know! 😆

[@Themanwiththeplan1899]

Help, help! Im being oppressed!

[@msamour]

Some peasants even argued the merits of democratic system versus anarcho-syndicalist system.

[@wylier]

@@Themanwiththeplan1899 Bloody peasant! :-P

[@flygirlfly]

Monty Python -- the GREATEST subversive comedy EVER!!

[@trevorslinkard31]

“Look, Henry has come to see us!”

[@bonjour621]

God be with you Henry!

[@unoyashaunoah681]

Jesus christ be praised

[@donutlarper7179]

May the lord watch over us

[@shroomie3086]

fEEl QuITe HUngARy

[@letsmessup648]

Lol the references

[@I_cant_aim]

Medieval: we are hard working and very poor Modern day: *WANNA SEE MY HIGHLY SECURED AUTOMATIC CHICKEN FARM*

[@BlueRGuy]

Minecraft in a nutshell

[@clashoclan3371]

@@BlueRGuy Minecrap

[@kevin22105]

@@clashoclan3371 growpoopia

[@I_cant_aim]

@@BlueRGuy *YES YES YES, YEZZ!!!!*

[@susakuzero]

@@I_cant_aim Yeah Automated chicken Farms the bane of every Server Admin. Its funy since you can not even get close to it since your Game will be crashing.

[@kevinnguyen3087]

Fun fact: Alchemists in the middle ages made potions of healing, potions of leaping, potions of invisibility and so on.

[@scummywizard3561]

ah yes, *meinkraft*

[@usuduwj5685]

@@scummywizard3561 meinkraft

[@miko5742]

@@usuduwj5685 meinkraft

[@hiimryan2388]

Ah yes *M I E N K A P F*

[@commissargab6181]

Retake jerusalem DEUS VULT!

[@Austrian_Butcher]

To be honest, Farm life until the 50s didn't look much different.

[@edi9892]

My grandparents lived without electricity, running water and toilet and bath wer communal! My grandfather was still a serf, or to be precise illegally employed as a child for an abusive landlord until the Wehrmacht marched in and he gladly joined them. For the first time in his life, he had a real bed, warm showers and was paid for his work, rather than given food scraps the landlord wouldn't even feed the pigs with! However, as you probably imagined, he got out of the frying pan into the fire and got shot in the outskirts of Stalingrad, sent home and recovered just in time to be sent to Normandie where he got hit by a bomb causing permanent hearing loss and loss of sense of smell and several inoperable foreign bodies... As much as I think about it, my parents had the best lives and everything before was S: war, starvation and so on...

[@civilengineer3349]

Much of Europe and parts of the North America and South America were very similar until the 1950s. Unfortunately, many church buildings and other historic buildings were destroyed in the world wars

[@edi9892]

@@civilengineer3349 Not just that. Many castles and city walls were demolished as late as the 19th century! Try finding star-forts in Europe! They used to be everywhere. Now, there are only a few left, due to their vast size. Freiburg (literally free castle) had a medical castle and a giant star fort, but both were destroyed to the last stone. The same is true for the dozen star-forts in the area. What pains me to see is how they neglect the Fachwerk/Waddle and daub/Timberframe buildings. My old home had its wood rotten after only a decade, whereas those Fachwerk stood proud for half a millennia and now I see them rotting, or governments force them to isolate the walls for environmental reasons, which in the long term damages the structure! Also, it hides their gorgeous structure.

[@civilengineer3349]

@@edi9892 Which country is that? Assuming it was similar to feudal kingdom and that the wehrmacht marched in, was it Romania or Hungary or Yugoslavia or Albania?

[@civilengineer3349]

@@edi9892 I think some of the castles were demolished so the stones could be used to build newer forts. Sad, but not surprising.

[@Sargon484]

I used to be interested in medieval when I was younger. Used to read about castles, knights, etc. But none of those books talked about what it was like for the civilian population.

[@johnross456]

Because peasants could rarely read or write, so there isn't much written from their perspective.

[@theemeraldfalcon9184]

I live in a village that's been around since around the mid-medieval age, and a fair amount of people here still live in older houses dating as far back as the 1600's in some parts, and it still has many of the guard towers and castles in the surrounding area for the other villages and towns nearby.

[@Tonyx.yt.]

me too, my village name was mentioned for the first time in a document from early 1200 but certanly older, the castle is like a manor and was turned into a factory after ww2

[@HunterHunter93]

Where is your village located? Interesting 🤔

[@devonseamoor]

@TheEmeralsFalcon How lucky you are! These are the best places to live, I´ve ordered a book about the Cotswolds in England. Many villages are like that.

[@johnretard7275]

the village is called deez nuts

[@velvetkori]

if its as far back as 1600s then its not medieval it's renaissance

[@littlejimmy2825]

This time period interests me most. I'd love to live in a village during that time . Definitely not forever and minus the plague but it would be cool to see.

[@ILLyseOnTheBeat]

I agree

[@bettabucky7975]

What about dysentery ?

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

The smell

[@lynxcato3327]

@@JustAnotherNamelessGuy The villages were much better than cities in terms of sanitation because people were not living crammed together in a small area like in cities, the population density mixed with the lack of sewage is what made cities so dirty.

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

@@lynxcato3327 no they weren’t dude.

[@thedownfallparodist1145]

Medieval Times: Let's Make Villages Modern Times: We Are Okay

[@scgamerchannel1276]

Krebs !!!1

[@requiem037]

@@scgamerchannel1276 fish

[@kirillassasin]

Map Pervert Himself

[@scgamerchannel1276]

@@requiem037 No it's FISCH

[@smilinggeneral8870]

Fish

[@2ndhendrix631]

"Peasants were the lowest class of society, but actually made up the majority of the population." Nothing's changed

[@scribbfish]

The plague causing the lowest workers to realize they're worth more because society doesn't function without them is also happening

[@alexanderi1183]

@@scribbfish the reason why they managed to make themselves worth more was because there were very few people left to plow the fields.

[@alexanderi1183]

@@scribbfish and it is not happening today.

[@scribbfish]

@@alexanderi1183 Can anyone tell me why there was a shortage of people to work the fields and how it is similar to today? Did we not all watch the same video?

[@alexanderi1183]

@@scribbfish unemployment is really high. How is that a shortage?

[@Icebergeification]

Something I need to clarify. Peasant meals were actually very hearty and healthy for you and often contained fish meat as well as being seasoned by garden herbs and pork would have been available in the winter months when the fish were not available

[@fyreborneblu6706]

You should do this with middle eastern, indian, southeast asian, chinese, korean, Japanese villages I am genuinely curious how their standards compared with western europe

[@jonajo9757]

@Indian Atheist Well.. sorta? I'm not sure how the peasantry of japan lived, but judging off of Edo period huds I've seen, very much like early to high medieval Europe.

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

Don't forget MesoAmerican villages too...

[@jonajo9757]

@Indian Atheist Well they brought up multiple asian villages and how they'd compare to those in western Europe.

[@jerichamesclammay3107]

according to Hollywood's historical lessons; everyone loved drab colors, dirty clothing and being all around miserable edit: how did this stupid comment get 1.5K likes? thank you

[@Simplehistory]

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[@frogglen6350]

It's a bit of an over exaggeration. Even people living in Terrible conditions can still find things to make them happy or keep them distracted

[@ArtjomKoslow]

There was a Dresscode on which Colors you could wear as a Peasant. You weren´t allowed to wear bright, nice Colors. These were a Privilege of the Nobility.

[@dude9318]

@@frogglen6350 Yes! Thank you somebody understands

[@teakettle_timmy3922]

@@Simplehistory i still want that Arditi video :)

[@mr.j2040]

I expect to see a woman with a bikini attire as armor.

[@MasonKLutz]

Tell EA about a game like that.

[@senorswordfish6019]

Women showing their ankles are enough

[@rouymalic4463]

with same stats as fully armor male

[@carlrodalegrado4104]

Albedos's full armor in Overlord is more awesome than the bikini armor

[@jaywerner8415]

That....would get you burned for haresy or something back then.

[@yanggacha6994]

Fun fact: in medieval yuan china there was a peasant guy called Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) He was a peasant but later became emperor after red turban rebellion lead by himself He removed mongol influence in china, then brought agriculture and economic prosperity He founded ming dynasty in 1368

[@RomanFialka97]

I recommend you to play Kingdome Come : Deliverance to feel how was real life in medieval times.

[@Suicide_is_cute]

" *Mount and blade peasant in nutshell* "

[@ethankaryadi37]

*”It’s almost harvesting season” intensifies*

[@thatonetroll1059]

Ah i remember the war crimes i committed

[@jaywerner8415]

@@thatonetroll1059 only if you left witnesses.

[@pubgoncrack3178]

The way he speaks just makes him interesting to listen to and keeps me focused while working.

[@corvobranco82]

Here in Portugal, in most cities church bells still mark the time. The number of strokes tells the hour, followed by a small silence than 1 stroke for quarter-of-an-hour, 2 strokes for a half-hour, 3 strokes for 3 quarters-of-an-hour. In my home town, where there is a church every quarter mile, it's a beautiful concert all day.

[@SeRgEaNt_RaNdOm]

Video ends at 7:02 but is artificially extended to get past 8mins, gotta get dem mid-roll ads

[@NebulusDerg]

Should do a series of every WW2 Operation. Gonna keep trying

[@elliejensen4035]

That would be awsome

[@billybob8257]

I’ll help you keep teying

[@Hectopath2006]

Hey Simple History! Just wanna say I've been around the channel for a few years and I'm super impressed by how you've grown, you deserve the fame. Keep up the good work!

[@toukendanshiwarrior2846]

Please do more Medieval videos! What else are there to know about like how to travel? How to carry belongings/supplies as a traveller, etc. Things like that you see in anime/manga.

[@americanhistorygeek1926]

Excellent video! I think it’d be super cool to see a more in-depth video going into the blacksmiths in medieval villages too!

[@gianthunger610]

Medieval village exists Black death: I'm about to end this village whole population

[@Giuseppetheboxer]

Hi

[@tur3xpa475]

Plague Doctor: Allow me to introduce myself

[@catmagedsproductions1998]

People:ight ima die out

[@deleted3471]

Imma bout to end this whole village career

[@secondlieutenan]

Hahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@axelbruce2685]

SIMPLEHISTORY can you make a video on why ottoman empire didn't join allies during ww1 and why it join central powers

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Cause it didn't had great relationship with Europe so I'm sure they became Germany ally which wasn't good

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@@your_averageboi9083 but they're a historical channel?

[@wtfbros5110]

Because Russia If Russia allies with Germany then they'll ally with the Entente

[@lasombra1469]

Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Saladin's tomb which was in Ottoman territory and he gave funds to restore the place

[@johnrandolph1989]

I'd be the village drunkard at the bottom of the well after staggering out of the local tavern.

[@jonik320]

Lol

[@ishidamitsunari5653]

Man,it's better to learn from KZbin than online classes,I'ma quit school and watch you

[@p8101]

This is nothing like monty pythons version of medieval times.

[@unidentifiedleiviathan7250]

"We're an anarchocyndiclist commune!"

[@OfftoShambala]

They were able to defend themselves by directing their farts.

[@redbaronproductions8610]

Thank you for making this! Can you maybe make a town video. Have not seen a medieval video in your channel for a while your amazing!

[@tygrenvoltaris4782]

Thank you soo much, I'm currently building a medieval village with a castle on the mountain and needed details and stuff for animating and this helped ty

[@hashimahmed6829]

I know medieval village life practically made up more than half the populations lifestyle but I would like to see a video on the lifestyle of the medieval nobility. What was it like being at the top of society at the time. Was there a code of chivalry everyone had to follow, were the children sent to become knights from a young age, and what was the education system like.

[@baha3alshamari152]

Nobles were the military leaders and standard soldiers unlike the peasants who had voluntarily military service and weren't obliged to fight wars

[@fruitpatrol6847]

love ur vids. they are so informative

[@justinweisberg1634]

I thought is said “life in a Minecraft village” 😂😂.

[@saulgoodman4871]

There is a video for that if you want it

[@civilengineer3349]

Someone should make a parody simple history video of that

[@chesterkendrickromero2561]

Thank you for giving me that one, simple history. I really appreciate it!

[@kickinwings420]

Great work simple history, love your content. I’d love it if you did one of these on the Battle of Ia Drang

[@fuzzlenutberry]

The speech at the end was beautiful and inspiring

[@TheBeatboxHitmanTwo]

I always enjoy watching videos like these 👌🏾 kind of has nostalgic feels back in elementary times with the chill animations 😎

[@shadowrunner2510]

It's so cool to see how far yalls animation has come. Keep it up guys!

[@landlordrolph3262]

I loved the ambient part at the end!

[@BucketListBadass]

Those were the times when NPC used to say: "I Used To Be An Adventurer Like You, Then I Took An Arrow In The Knee"

[@AzamatoTheGreat]

Kingdom Come Deliverance's village life was a good depiction of it I think.

[@JazzJaRa]

Yes but KCD plays already in a rather late stage of the medieval.

[@jeffhom1736]

Love it so much that I watch it over and over again very entrusting.

[@AlmostCoolGuys]

It's nice to see different stories on this channel.

[@pliskenx51mm83]

Its all fun and games until the teenager in all Green with a sword and shield smashes all the pots in the village taking all the money.

[@muhammadyudhi1338]

Meanwhile Medieval Village in Desert: It's good idea if you want to be Nomad Bedouin, because you can travelling the world with your loyally Camel

[@tahsinsameer6393]

Thr animation got better than the last time i watched your vids man its good to be back.

[@juleslachie1751]

Thanks this video really helped for my hass assessment

[@theravingtimes9582]

Simple History forgot to mention that there's always one village that is burned down by the empire after a group of teenagers briefly left to explore a small dungeon with a dragon that gave one of them the Sword of Fate.

[@mrmoc7616]

Why is this so much more interesting than the history lesson i have online, while I have the same topic in school

[@LATOHOUSTON]

Love this content

[@mariomikula4541]

Would you please make video of medieval mining ? Mining cities - how miners work , etc.

[@Mangoes1245]

Cool! I've always wondered what living in the medieval period was like.

[@bazh1n210]

Merry christmas XD

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

Lmao.

[@weezydope8104]

@@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 Lmao.

[@drenaso2280]

@@weezydope8104 Lmao.

[@matthewmann8969]

The windmills, water wheels, horse wheels, and hay cart wheels were what came in handy

[@stephaniepage-leskovansky3070]

I am so facilitated with this era! It’s so cool

[@austinreed5805]

The beginnings of our cities.

[@albertbarese4170]

Insightful stuff!

[@prakashghumaliya2002]

Thank you for video sir 💐💐💐💐

[@Angie2343]

I love the music that's used.

[@bob9396]

I love how much the animation has grown keep it up!

[@Uberdude6666]

Hey, great work! Also thanks for putting the source material you used in the description, that helps a ton with credibility :) So what usually happened if a serf attempted to move away from the land he was bound to?

[@microwave324]

probably arrested and sent to the gallows, or thrown into a dungeon. ya gotta remember these were times when publuc executions were seen as like what we’d see something like the county fair

[@chrisnorton4382]

No point killing an escaped serf, you want them to work for you after all and a dead serf is no use! Punishments would probably include something like branding for a first offence. People weren't imprisoned for offences in the medieval period, that costs money. Jails were just holding pens before trial. Punishments could thus be fines, branding or other mutilation (ears cut off etc) or hanging, not imprisonment.

[@siphyx2739]

Love the vids

[@CenturionMkXIII]

Finally you made this Video!

[@oliversherman4648]

Life in a medieval village in a nutshell: Small towns raided by dragons and wizards

[@antwan1357]

i love you , you love me where a happy cartoon family. thanks for making this

[@francoisbouchard1099]

only for suggestion , I really need to see a Simple History version of the berserker at stamford bridge.. I will be so happy if you do this.

[@Abel-vr5zy]

Love your videos

[@inhocsignovinces7713]

May I ask why you portrayed them with few/rotten teeth? This is severe misinformation as the medieval peasants actually had pretty healthy teeth. It wasnt before the widespread introduction of sugar that teeth started falling out/getting rotten.

[@seanmessick9330]

That is how Peasants are generally depicted. That’s all.

[@matthewwilson6888]

Nice video simple history, maybe you could do one on life in a 19th century city, I just thought it would be an interesting contrast given that the 1800s was when the majority of western populations began living in urban areas

[@notreallyalec]

Currently researching this because of a future AD&D 2e campaign I wish to run that's semi realistic. Thanks for uploading.

[@mohammedkhaliedrafsan3547]

Wow I love it video thank you very so much

[@bkarnhem874]

I still think that medieval villagers had better lives than we think. Most villages had acces to clean water and people didn't work that much, because crops dont require that much attention every day after sowing. They had much leisure time and they played games and had hobbies and they did errands for Esch other

[@kennethchou4384]

You have no idea what farming is like.

[@bkarnhem874]

@@kennethchou4384 well, i kinda dont, but i do know that wheat requires a lot of work with sowing and harvesting, but in between its kind of low maintenance. The cattle would require a lot of attention, but most farmers didn't have that much capacity for a large amount

[@maxgrozema1093]

If you didn't have anything to do your local lord would've made sure there was some unpaid work for you

[@bkarnhem874]

@@maxgrozema1093 i dont think he would bother to go to the village. As long as the villagers came to his Manor at his request and when the deadlines are met, they could just chill

[@inpognito_6293]

*Miedival village exists* Vikings,mobs,raiders, and British chaps: its free real estate Edit: And also cumans thanks De_Britishman :D

[@d4rkpr1nc39]

Ahh Yes. Miedival

[@secondlieutenan]

We’ll Be *e*

[@unoyashaunoah681]

Triads are chinese mafia what do they have to do with the medieval ages?

[@inpognito_6293]

@@unoyashaunoah681 just don't ruin it :D

[@Real_British]

And cumans

[@bryanthardin8481]

WOW y'all are getting pretty good at this style of animation

[@oliversherman4648]

Great content as usual although I’m still waiting on the Sinking of the Britannic video I requested last time.

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Hey Simple History. Here's a great suggestion: Ioan Sion, the general who took on a Soviet T-34 tank all by himself with just a satchel of grenades (& the only Romanian general to die in action during WW2). And also another one: The Romanian comissar Eugen Alimănescu who eliminated crimes with bullets in 1930's Romania.

[@humorsue8548]

I think we've all been waiting for something like this to be made.

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

Would it be possible to do a video on life in baroque colonies, cities and villages?

[@Wufei22]

great video

[@achtunger5528]

Finally, a video that isn't about war.

[@cristianzavala7150]

Yeah it gets pretty stale after a while

[@oscarorta9152]

I love war

[@jonhstonk7998]

as always great video, just to add a few things and interresting facts for the history buffs that may wish to know and maybe even you boys at simplehistory might want to make a video on these subjects in the future in greater detail - contrary to popular belief the peasant population wasnt really as iliterate as they are made out to be, they were considered uneducated for not knowing how to read and write in latin the churchs religious language in the west or greek the orthodox church religious language in the east, we have a lot of evidence to support the claim that the peasants actually could read and write quite well in their own native languages, this is shown by peasants writing letters on tree bark and leather to eachother, some peasants and commoners wrote books on the most diverse subjects from farming to wrestling and so on, in england the orders placed in the city square were read out loud by a spokesman and then nailed to a board...in english for all who wished to read it...well were in england right that would make sense? no! beacuse the court and nobilitys language in england was medieval norman and later medieval french...so that indicates that the commoners in the street knew how to read in english! otherwise the official paper would have been adressed only to nobleman and therefore be in the courts languages! truly fascinating, the way the writing was taught is that the parents would teach their kids to read,write, the basics of mathematics and the father would teach the boy to fight and the mother would teach a girl how to do womanly chores, therefore bassically homeschooling on steroids. -soldiers life wasnt only for nobles, although it was certainly easier if you were a noble but any peasant with fighting skill could enlist in a mercenary band, an example would be the landsknecht bands (would love to see how their daily lives were like in a video in detail) these bands were all arround the HRE fighting petty wars and making fortunes for themselves, a uncommon number of peasants actually mannaged to get enobled through military careers in these bands, all commoners owned his lord generally arround 90 days of military service a year if called uppon to serve, it was called a ¨levy militia¨ and the commoners and peasants brought their own equipment, they did however trained in their own way for the battles in the form of the daily manual labours they performed and the fact that ammong young male peasants sports like boxing,wrestling and archery were pretty common i think that fencing with woden practice swords wouldnt be too far off in a peasants free time sport, in wales every saturday the men were said to practice the longbow ever since they were very young, at one point it was said to be a training enforced by law, other sports that were funny and started during the middle ages include the arlington ball game,colf(ancestor of golf), hammer throwing,horseshoes and of course...jousting tournaments

[@buchan448]

that porridge soup thing sounds quite good might make it one day to try

[@muhammadfahad6278]

Very Interesting. thanks, Regards.

[@LeonardoRodriguez041]

so glad im awake right now

[@hiimryan2388]

Its a lawless land actually, they would shout "you are violating my rights!" If king arthur comes

[@Avenxe]

Hi , can you make a video about the trail of tears please? i really dont understand what it is, plus i have a project about it in school and i want to know more about it. and you seem really good at explaining. pretty please?

[@Nick22K]

Interesting Video!!