Modern Things NOT Considered Appropriate in Medieval Times...

[@medievalmadnesss]

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[@zafferung4440]

*aeroplane

[@jonusaguilar8156]

I’m pretty sure if someone from the Middle Ages was transported to our present, they’d die from a panic attack just from seeing a car.

[@ardenalexa94]

They’d think it was a dragon or beast they had to fight with a sword. 😂

[@mat5267]

They weren’t retarded. They would probably just stand in wonder and amazement.

[@maggg8450]

Reminds me of a story I read one time some public figure in the early 1900’s (wanna say it was Mckinley) talked about the panic he felt riding in a car for the first time. He was like why am i in a piece of machinery going so fast rn? US presidents didnt use cars until Taft. Its just so funny to think about

[@alphinmesa-ks7st]

And vice versa

[@59spadesofalife52]

I love these videos keep them coming.

[@c.rutherford]

It seems confusing to me how there could be at least a dozen powerful medieval queens and leaders during the time including the likes of "Bloody" Mary Tudor, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joan of Arc, Theodora, Isabella of Spain and onward in such an environment that so thoroughly relegated women to second status. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) was one of the most powerful and influential figures of the Middle Ages, not to mention having a vast estate. It just makes me think that something must be missing here

[@bonkersmyboi5317]

Me being slightly inconvienced: "Oh my f***ing God!" Medieval peasant: "Your what?!"

[@Simon-1965]

That makes me a mediaeval peasant. People can swear as much as they like but using the Lord's name as a curse really grates with me.

[@rridderbusch518]

@@Simon-1965 The "LORD". 🤣🤣🤣

[@GekkeToine]

@@Simon-1965 That's god damned silly of you, jesus fucking christ

[@kevinlutz5994]

@#$%&*!! Our punctuation would be different too.

[@julius_the_python]

Your channel is really really fantastic. I like to listen to documentaries while I'm at work, I'm a mail carrier and I stumbled across your channel a couple weeks ago and have been binge-watching everything while I'm walking through our small German town, delivering the post. You obviously do your homework, your content is not only interesting and well presented, but your choice of words and vocal inflection make every episode a real treat to listen to. Educational and relaxing! Thank you so much for all your efforts, keep up the good work and I will always look forward to new videos from you. Sending love, signed a heavily tattooed middle-aged German mom. 🇩🇪 ❤

[@stevendankewitz7830]

Gruß aus Düsseldorf

[@Daughterofminerva]

Madam,I completely agree. I am an Italian ,28 year-old med student ,and I listen to his documentaries while driving to university or writing notes. I really wanted to answer because I was compelled by the image of a middle-aged heavily tattooed German mom/postwoman 😊

[@EskimoPagan]

I didn’t realize how medieval a traditional Hispanic family could be until this video

[@pamsharpe60]

I wouldn’t have lasted five minutes in Medieval times!

[@leabaker8796]

Same, I would have been burned at the stake ,hanged or drowned for having knowledge of herbs would have been charged with witch craft because of having knowledge of medicine or being able to read lmao 😂😅

[@iasmina9938]

​@@leabaker8796there were actually many medieval women working in medicine as apprentices, midwifes, nurses, etc. However it varies from country and time period, but I assure you women weren't being accused of witchcraft left and right

[@yukibelmont5767]

@@leabaker8796 Because of reading,i would not worry that much about it.The language was kinda different,old english versus modern english,same for german etc.none of us would be able to understand nor be able to read this old language unless we do learn it,plus most things was written in Latin which only the nobles and the church people could read and speak,if i recall correctly .In medieval times i would be ddefinitely a illiterate despite the fact,that i can read nowadays.

[@BarbarisII]

​@@iasmina9938right, because to believe that witches existed was heresy for much of the middle ages

[@7seaz-wh3tg]

​@@leabaker8796odds are you wouldn't have any of that knowledge

[@merlapittman5034]

Every time I see how women were treated in Medieval Europe, it makes me glad all over again that I live today. Things aren't perfect, but they're SO much better than they were back then!

[@alisonbrowning9620]

depending on the coutry where we live of course, life in 21st century Afghanistan or north Korea would be like this.

[@ChristinaTodd1970]

Women were nothing more than chattel, a possession. Zero rights.

[@Aughtel]

​@@alisonbrowning9620an improvement nonetheless

[@JackSmith-xx5mi]

Women's rights talk about regression

[@merlapittman5034]

@@alisonbrowning9620 True

[@wordytoed9887]

Interesting, I thought that suckling my right big toe would have been totally accepted back in the 1400s! What a bunch of prudes.

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

Obviously things like geography, time period, a persons rank etc would all matter. The medieval world was a big place & it took place over a very long time period.

[@jannetteberends8730]

This reminded me of the British tv series Catweazle, where a wizard from the Middle Ages appears in our time.

[@grapeshot]

One thing they would find shocking is we're not as religious as they once were plus we have this thing called Protestantism.

[@VictheChick]

And atheism...

[@juniorjames7076]

Among the upper classes and nobility they had already been questioning religious authority. This is why secret Freemason societies (and similar cults) and were popping up at that time, which you could eventually see manifesting in works of literature (Shakespeare, Chaucer), opera (Mozart), etc. The Church actually banned operas like "The Barber of Seville" because they knew it had "radical elements" in it. It was mainly the lower economic classes kept in ignorance, but if you were literate and had a brain, you "knew" something was wrong. The French Revolution was a powder keg ready to happen. Stop thinking your smarter than someone back in the 1500s. They were probably more critical of the world around them than we are today, walking around staring at our cellphones.

[@Window4503]

There were other attempts at reform besides Luther. The concept wouldn’t be completely foreign to them especially after the Great Schism

[@mintybadger6905]

I have a few books of law cases - both church and secular for a county in England in the mid 1500s (I know, not medieval). At first, it appears to be a theocratic dystopia but after a while you see humanity’s more cheeky side. It stops being funny when you see all the real you women who were knocked up and then cast out of their parents. A lot of parents got in trouble for hiding their daughters. The cuckimg stool section was also pretty horrifying, because the charges were so vague.

[@funpheonix9752]

Yeah, I’m sure even the most progressively minded person from the Middle Ages would be disgusted by at least some of these things 🤣 “I think it’s cool how this is allowed… but what is THAT?!” 🤣

[@lectorserelith]

I just love this channel!

[@iTsEfFiNsTePhh]

Great video as usual 🫶🏼☺️ I'm really into my family history and by some miracle I was able to go all the way back to the mid/late medieval period on my dad's side haha thanks in part to having ties to well known English families- my 14th great grandfather was a younger brother of Queen Catherine Parr's second husband and odds are i'm distantly related to Catherine herself too because as far as I know her father was my 14th great grandfather's and the eldest brother's cousin plus family intermarrying was pretty normal back then so odds are i'm related to a lot of people in those circles in some way, i'm connected to the Neville and Stafford families on top of many more, my direct ancestors had been living in England for centuries up until the early 1900's when my great grandmother immigrated from England to America, and just a lot of really interesting people that i'm grateful for because without them I wouldn't be here. All throughout my childhood I loved England, was fascinated with it's history especially the Tudor and medieval periods, and it wasn't until I found out later on from my dad that my great grandma came from England, when I did my genealogy, and DNA that my love made sense because I have a lot of connections to your country ❤️ I'd be insanely cool to be able to talk to and meet one of my ancestors from that time period or any time period for that matter haha probably be shocking at first but we're all human so I think once the initial shock wore off it wouldn't be any different then talking to someone from today's world 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@alisonbrowning9620]

they would have been very religious then as they didn't have the scientific knowledge we have these days to explain things, with death coming early and often and everyone knew a lot of death , wars, diseases and plauges, they would have held on dearly to the myth of heaven so they would see their loved ones again.

[@Window4503]

This is an overgeneralization. The scientific method actually came out of the Catholic Church. Cathedrals were occasionally repurposed as astronomical observatories. There have always been scientists throughout history, some simply known better than others. As for heaven, it isn’t a myth, nor was it as simple as “everyone thought they’d see their loved ones in heaven” as the Catholic Church taught Purgatory and had a different theology. It’s kinda weird that you’re talking about a religion you don’t seem to know much about.

[@anexistencethatexists]

Had to click as soon as I saw the notification.

[@emijliastarovic8524]

Same

[@bastiaanvanbeek]

Just watch at how people are in Saudi Arabia and similar countries. You will see how medieval times are still existing tehre and nothing has changed, as a matter of speaking.

[@Briannalangland]

Mid evil Arabia was significantly more advanced in these European mid evil countries. Woman had more rights, there was more justice to commoners, and hygiene was better. Specifically the woman had rights that western women still don’t have in 2024.

[@moniquelucas5862]

​@@Briannalangland*medieval

[@_Minos]

​@@BriannalanglandTrue, they were far more advanced than stinky medieval Europe. I still cant comprehand how foolish those english and french were, like they both reeked and bathed just once in their lifetime (cause water by the westerners was seen as an evil sent from the devil lmao),but they still accused eachother for STD's.

[@_Minos]

​​@@Briannalangland True, and they knew medicine even inthose ages. True medicine, not some herbs from a meadow.

[@KingRumar]

There’s also the weapon carrying laws we would have to consider seeing that back then it was encouraged to bring a sword with you for self defense against bandits on the roads in wooded areas, carry one as a symbol, etc. today, we need a permit/registration for the weapons we own minus swords and daggers, bows and arrows. Of course, a man in the past would want to see how we defend ourselves from foreign invaders and see the military, wish to see our version of royalty/government, etc.

[@tigernotwoods914]

Not to mention modern English versus English from back then. Once you go back far enough, it’s a totally different language, and nothing would be understood. If that person is educated, they probably know Latin or Greek and that would be a way to communicate.

[@Window4503]

Or you could just learn Middle English. It’s actually not very hard once you get the pronunciations and of course some vocab

[@tigernotwoods914]

@@Window4503 old English is closer to its Germanic roots than it is to English at all

[@galloe8933]

10:00 The swaddled baby on the left has very sharp features for an infant... When did our babies stop being so pointy? Also, "Swaddled" is not the right word, that baby is rapped with pretty well with cord, and then to his/her right that lady with the white cloth looks like she is there to lay someone down to rest. They may all be guys as well, not that that matters, but it makes you wonder why so many guys are around a well cinched baby. Whatever is about to happen in that picture, that baby seems pretty cool with it, like if a baby could look you in the eyes, and give a nod, that's what's going on. Bury Manly Dave, he is a Devil spawn, with his rugged baby jaw, and nursery eyes!

[@basedlord88]

I wanna go back in time and show a midevil peasant Cardi B

[@tiffanynajberg5177]

Medieval life would have been great, unless one happened to be a woman, or lgbt, or non hyperreligious, or poor…

[@joecoastie99]

It was fine……if you knew your place. 😂

[@alisonbrowning9620]

some of the Kings were openly gay. Poor old Edward the 2nd, killed by a red hot poker because he had male lovers.

[@tiffanynajberg5177]

@@alisonbrowning9620wow they left that one out of school

[@mirrorblue100]

Also "neggs" and "napples."

[@Telthecelt]

These video are fascinating. A window into the past and who doesn't like that. I know about 'noranges' but not 'naprons' etc. I love little-known facts like that. But what was that picture all about!! the one with woman having her left breast groped and giving two fingers to the person doing it!! All very strange indeed.

[@Ned-nw6ge]

I got MyHeritage a few years ago and did this ancestry heritage DNA test. My family and I are Dutch and have (mostly) been for over three centuries (tracing back our names) but the first guess of the DNA test was that I’d be mostly English (yes, specifically English). My family tree points to low German nobility, a Frisian man of French descent and to a soldier who came along with Napoleons army, but no English folks anywhere. We got a good laugh out of that, it turns out that their family tree archive program is more believable than their ancestry DNA program.

[@dan13ljks0n]

Wondering if a midieval european visitor would identify more with the taliban (with the exception of their religion) in how people and religion were treated.

[@VictheChick]

Why, specifically, the _taliban?_

[@dan13ljks0n]

While I cannot deny that I might be confusing things, aren't they one of the most restrictive religion-based groups out there these days (especially when it comes to the treatment of women)?@@VictheChick

[@tomlxyz]

I don't think so. The Taliban have their origin in rebellion, something that the average medieval peasant probably wouldn't like. Other than conservatism which on its own is very abstract I don't see a connection.

[@davidd6171]

Ragnoc Saggy Britches!! Lol, that had me laughing! Great video as always!

[@Shernickyholmes221]

Could you please do one on medieval Islam to see the progression, for our time travelers? I would ❤️ to know what they would think of us westerners. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@roseoftheenglish9127]

Who wants to tell him?

[@dredeth]

a rhetorical question?

[@Briannalangland]

They think westerns are barbaric and corrupt lol

[@greendragon4058]

This is where a lot of my religious trauma comes from. My grandmother was born in the wrong century she would practice these things from the Middle Ages I dreaded spending Summers with her I'm doing this wrong I'm doing that wrong this is not what you're supposed to do in church she lived by these old rules. Today I don't attend church at all

[@Andrea-rw9tf]

I would have been burned at rhe stake, as a bi atheist that takes the lords name in vain all the gosh darn time.

[@sarahcollinge3608]

I wonder what they would have thought about our Internet porn?!

[@swatson1190]

I am 5 foot tall and 118 lbs. So much for growing taller.

[@swatson1190]

My mother taught me very good manners and I find people who do all of those things in city very rude.

[@swatson1190]

I am Catholic and I attend at least twice during the week and always on Sunday or evening Saturday. BTW, there is absolutely no evidence for clothes being hung in the garderobe. You might want to actually research the medieval period which was for around a thousand years. Things change in just 10 years so how much would they change in the course of a thousand years. A lot.

[@katherinemysteries4973]

What ever they thought it was right , at least they had morals and ethics

[@ThatGuy-mu2rr]

If I lived back in that era, I would stay out in the countryside.

[@coolhandphilip]

4:16? Wren's St. Paul's is quite the anachronism! (This, a painting of La Belle Sauvage Inn Ludgate Hill in London, c.1885.) You're usually really good at avoiding such. What happened?

[@TextileGeorge]

Sounds like better time to me, boo me if you want

[@danielhooper502]

A society fit for incels

[@freyaMcPhilli]

You know , if you showed a medieval person any KZbin video about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift they would probably die from shock at the affection

[@Monatio79]

So in other words, a medieval person would feel at home in somewhere like modern day North Korea. The state dictates what hairstyle/clothing is/isn't allowed. "Blasphemy" against the Kim family results in a one way ticket to a forced labor camp.

[@user-wv7qg4ts70]

nope they would not. north korea hates religion

[@ankhpom9296]

Have you considered doing medieval for other civilizations other than Europe?

[@xsleep1]

OMFG!

[@ankhpom9296]

In regards to females, the repressive attitudes of today are no different than back then.

[@teodorugabriel2175]

wonderful was life in the middle ages

[@Chickenblaster78]

I like ur videos please don’t die

[@DallingerM]

Who goes bowling on sundays?

[@johnmurdoch8534]

God i wish it was the middle ages

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

2:22 Who _wouldn't_ want to be more Ragnar Shaggy Britches than William of Orange? I'll bet RSB had serious FUN! 😂

[@sheyanne9332]

i’ve seen that image of the pregnant lady with the circle at 7:34 before and i’m curious if anyone knows what it is? is there any purpose to the big ring?

[@a.d.clarke4990]

11:00 wtf!? 😂😂😂

[@kissedbysun2517]

*sex was hardly discussed* LMAO. Sure it wasn't. 😂

[@seasons1650]

Are you just making this shit up?

[@MichaelLevine-n6y]

Move to 2:50 to skip the irritating commercial plug.

[@linin3288]

I agree with all the midle age sexual values.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

I think it is ironic how we criticize other religions for being so harsh on women when we were being just as harsh a while ago

[@HVS-gk7oo]

The difference is that Christianity reformed. Islam still hold medieval values.

[@grungeisdead8998]

Christianity has diverged a lot from the “original word of god” medieval Christianity and modern christianity might as well be classified as different religions

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

@@HVS-gk7oo I had muslim friends that are pretty chill. Maybe if we stop bombing their cities, we might find some pretty reasonable people there. There are some very crazy christians as well. We both know it.

[@heh6731]

The funny thing is that half of the people going on about how everyone else is medieval are the type to rant about western women being too promiscuous just because they get to sleep with who they like now.@@HVS-gk7oo

[@debrabarnhardt1103]

Jesus welcomed women. Once the Church was organized by "Saint" Paul it was right back to an inferior and secondary place for women.

[@Lemmon714_]

No one knows what suffering is until they are called by the wrong pronoun.

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

😂

[@thekerr8728]

It was a better time to be sure

[@nazlsenay7312]

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[@GaryYork-tk2ow]

My late Dad swore like crazy when i was coming up, but as I grew up and he got older, he quit using the Lords name in vain and told me to stop if he heard me doing it. He also got more involved in church. Now that I'm nearing the final quarter of my life, I'm starting to do the same. I have a quick temper like my Dad, but I pull back from cursing using the Lords name. We all have to stand before the Lord one day and answer for our sins.

[@sp3ctr0ph0bia]

get well soon, mentally illness is treatable nowadays

[@Shernickyholmes221]

Now do one on Islam.

[@M167A1]

​@@sp3ctr0ph0biaand why would you say something so astonishingly inflammatory? Do you enjoy being a jerk?

[@h0rriphic]

Yeah…except that’s not actually what the meaning of “taking the lord’s name in vain” actually means…the “10 Commandments”isn’t even correctly translated…a more accurate English translation is “the 10 sayings” not commandments, a very different meaning. By “taking the lord’s name in vain” the original writer was referring to more of claiming something came from the mouth of God when it didn’t- which is basically all that modern Christian Muslim Judeao religions tend to do these days anyhow 💀 …meaning y’all are constantly “taking the lord’s name in vain” anyhow 😂

[@deeperinsider2544]

goddamn that sucks

[@Lemmon714_]

They would get a real wake up when they saw a man in a dress and called him a man.

[@martryan2060]

Are so called freedoms of modern society are in some respect a chain around our necks as the majority of people can't afford the freedoms . If a man is starving Be he be a vegetarian, vegan or omnivore is academic😮🙄🤗

[@jamest2401]

Now I’m a gay man, so I’m not going to lament the change of that particular norm. But as far as both, the ideal of monogamous marriage, and the ideal of restricting child bearing to remain within its bonds; not all old ideas are bad ideas.

[@TheSound0fLegends]

Anybody think that returning to these values might in fact save our world?

[@daniellekennedy8118]

I'm sure a lot of people would disagree, but a little more going to Church and the reflecting on the word of God all day on Sunday, and a little less everything else would do modern culture a world of good.

[@thatoneguyfromthatoneplace9515]

No, fuck that. Like it or not, the western world is a secular society.

[@tonimaxwell1898]

Took nearly 4 minutes to get to the point

[@jingles123456789ify]

Gotta get that ad in

[@SewardWriter]

You didn't even mention how freaked out they'd be upon seeing a synagogue or mosque!

[@refereeLK]

Sometimes certain laws shouldn't have been eradicated, maybe society would be more orderly

[@rheverend]

Well the unsaved have to do that. The believer’s sin is remembered no more for Christ answered for that sin on the cross and His blood covers those who believe

[@myjoyhs]

I cant wait to make this for my Dad! Thank you

[@jingles123456789ify]

It's already been made - it can't be made again

[@RoomerJ]

Did you start dating a feminist or something?

[@lilyw.719]

It's still not acceptable to say OMG and use God's holy name like a curse word. Because that's what people are doing. They can substitute any four-letter curse word in the place of OMG and not change the meaning of the sentence a bit.

[@leahdengler2483]

literally no one cares if you say oh my god so it is acceptable… oh my god

[@user-wv7qg4ts70]

@@leahdengler2483 its not brother.

[@internetpolification]

A more sincere style of narration would improve this channel, imo.

[@ThatGuy-mu2rr]

Seems they had a lot of right ideas regarding women.

[@sinnermihaela425]

I usually don't comment, sorry for that I guess, but I always make sure to watch all your videos. Your videos are so usefull, I learn so much more from them, I'm so glad that chanell like this exist. I was wandreing if you could make a video about peasant farming year, I wish to know how different it was back then. Like how did they work, what they used, how did it go and was there a time or year like time before Easter when they didn't work. You already made a lot of videos that touched this theme, but I would like to know details. Thanks in advence 🫶🏻

[@Scenebitch2]

Imagine if a medieval person sees goth and emos 💀 they would be so afraid

[@mhunt8957]

Saying "Bruh" "bro" or any of the disgusting variations of this word should carry a capital punishment