The Luttrell Psalter - A Year in a Medieval English Village

[@CrowsEyeProductions]

A lot of people are asking about the colour choices for the clothing in the film. Here is a free article by costumier Pauline Loven about why the film looks the way it does: www.patreon.com/posts/on-luttrell-55124787

[@michaeltres]

Thank you for posting this. I remember the discussion from years ago, and I'm glad to see it here. Thank you, too, for this amazing little film.

[@Nine-Signs]

Can I give up my modern life and go live with them? it has more purpose, community, joy, and reason to live found in a day in that time than many now find in a lifetime today.

[@lisakilmer2667]

Alkanet and mulberries can produce the soft purples shown in the book (Source: Jenny Dean's Wild Colour). Fabric dyed twice with woad and madder (I've forgotten which one is first) produces rich purple. A screaming magenta purple is obtained from the lichen Ochrolechia tartaria. So purples were available, but I suspect the artist used light purples because they were pretty rather than authentic, in the same way no one is tattered or dirty.

[@selvamthiagarajan8152]

There were no toilet papers, mind you.

[@januarysson5633]

@@lisakilmer2667 I’m wondering if peasants would have been breaking the sumptuary lass of the time by wearing purple. That might have been reserved for the upper classes and clergy.

[@TheFoxFromSplashMountain]

It's a nice change to see a medieval film that doesn't focus on brutality and war. It wasn't all about knights and bloodshed, like in all the movies.

[@ladywisewolf3942]

@GaslitWorld f. Melissa B True, but in those days, wars/ combat only took place between armies and their leaders. The peasantry wasn't as effected. I read where it was a common past time for people to gather on hill tops around a battlefield to "watch the war"!

[@bullwhite9695]

Yes it is subaltern history

[@RoSario-vb8ge]

Yes, somehow very satisfying

[@Jelly_Juice2006]

Lady Wisewolf lmao peasants were sometimes drafted into military service. Hence “peasant levies”

[@qboxer]

@@Jelly_Juice2006 Quite rare by this time period. They were simply ineffective, and states made much more use of mercenaries and small standing armies formed of noble retinues. The mediaeval period was not nearly as dangerous as is popularly discussed.

[@rx500android]

Only 1350's kids will remember

[@chonddak]

That's funny!

[@jenimarai1906]

I guess Still 1850's was still the same..

[@elishevabatchanah8005]

Your comment made me laugh, thank you!

[@nick63837]

Long time dead kids

[@din4803]

hahaha

[@nyotauhura7412]

I found the illustrations of the boy stealing fruit, the ploughman, the lady spinning, the sheep pen and women with jars on their head, feeding acorns to the pigs, reaping and tying sheaves. Thank you for acting them out for us!

[@jeskvell3254]

do you remember where u saw that illustration?

[@PaynesPrairie]

just watched this film a second time, and I can't help commenting again. The visual artistry is stunning. The music is also worth notice. This was Chaucer's period. The words of the women's song seem somehow familiar yet alien at the same time. The closeup shots of nature are exquisite. We see how the villagers' lives are entwined with the natural cycle. This is history as I wish I'd learned it, the ordinary lives of regular people. Thanks to the unsung artist of the Luttrell Psalter and the makers of this film.

[@michaeltres]

I recall from the original discussion of this film that the people involved chose to copy the clothing and other details exactly as they saw them in the Psalter. They were aware that the bright colors were not correct, especially the purple cloth, but they were committed to capturing the look of the original illustrations.

[@Andrea-xw4xe]

I wonder why they did not have purple. The Bible spoke of purple, I think in the book of Esther perhaps.

[@michaeltres]

@@Andrea-xw4xe : That's a complex question. Production methods of the 3 Biblical colors-red, blue, and purple-were largely abandoned long ago. Kermes dye (derived from insects) produced red; that much is well known. Less understood is the use of Murex snails to produce both purple (dibromoindigo, the "Tyrian purple" of the ancient world) and blue (true indigo, produced when sunlight breaks the bonds between the carbon and bromine atoms in the dibromoindigo solution); the commercial process for those dyes are less understood, but engineer John Edmonds re-constructed one possible solution. In Western Europe, the trade in kermes continued into the Middle Ages, but it was prohibitively expensive; madder was more commonly used, but it was expensive, too. Woad produced indigo, and woad was available and not too expensive. A blend of madder and woad produced purple. There were, of course, many other dyes in Medieval Europe, all of them from plants, and all them accessible to ordinary people. But the high cost of red dyes meant that red and the related purple were largely out of reach for all but the richest in society. Even today, the formal dress of royalty if purple, and the formal dress of the nobility is red.

[@ElizaDolittle]

@@Andrea-xw4xe they had purple and blue - all throughout antiquity, but those were very expensive dyes - only the wealthy and royalty could afford. Peasants never had blue or purple clothing.

[@d0lph1n63]

@@ElizaDolittle you’re half correct. You could have blue and purple clothes but the shade pretty much depended on availability, how rich you were, and naturally your social status. The majority of colors peasants wore like yellow, green, brown, grey, and red were easier to access than say blue. Indeed the deeper the color of something like a coat or gown the more expensive it was as the more amount of material needed to dye it was required. An acre of woad only produced maybe 1 or 2 lbs of blue pigment (perhaps just enough to dye a 1 meter long scarf). Plus books like this one were all done by hand and thus were insanely expensive to produce (even without the pictures) as a result such books, like that of the Book of Psalms or the Book of Kells, were usually commissioned by the incredibly wealthy, royalty or the church elite up until the arrival of the printing press and thus were treated as a mark of prestige. The fact that the peasants shown within are wearing what even back then would’ve been considered their “Sunday best” while going about their daily lives and labors means that the lord who commissioned this book wanted to showcase just how rich and high up in society THEY are/were by having their peasants shown in colors that they’d never be able to afford let alone legally wear in some cases.

[@direfranchement]

I don't think it was just an issue of being able to afford purple---there were also sumptuary laws that prohibited non-royal or non-aristocratic persons from purchasing certain materials/colors.

[@dawnvickerstaff9148]

I said to my husband: When we retire, let's go live in a Medieval Village for a year! His answer: Sounds like a lot of work to me! Smart man.

[@sueyee8747]

First Medieval not only beautifully filmed, acted, edited, and costumes all done without blood, stabbings, or unbearable violence! Thank you!!!

[@theKATofficial2]

*unbearable violence, you're so cute :)

[@mr.tophat4643]

katt ???

[@jaspalmer1730]

Oh my goodness right? I didn't even realize it but this was so relaxing and peaceful to watch.

[@rospendragon1466]

You showed peace & togetherness in medieval era

[@samcarter2371]

Accept in Medieval Europe it was fashionable where as Islam it's forced; even if you're not Muslim, and just visiting.

[@vanessa4587]

I really like the song the two women were singing during the spinning wheel scene

[@CrowsEyeProductions]

It's called Miri It Is, and is the oldest recorded song in Middle English. We have lyrics and two versions to download as mp3s on our Patreon site: www.patreon.com/crowseye

[@christy___mc1078]

It sounded like it could've been our English but not quite

[@abbymills7416]

CrowsEyeProductions what is Middle English?

[@laurabowden5]

Abby Mills it’s the phase of which the English language went through. I can’t remember all of them but Middle English is what they’re speaking. We can understand some of what they’re saying but it hasn’t completely evolved into the English language we know today.

[@abbymills7416]

Laura Bowden Ohhhhhh, Thank you!

[@Nana-vi4rd]

I would have loved to have done that. In a way I did, when I married my first husband at the age of 16, I went from living across the inter-coastal from Palm Beach Florida to living in a house with no inside plumbing or electricity. Learned to cook on a wood burning stove, learned to make candles and use a Kerosene lamps. I loved it, tended to pigs and chickens, milked one of our two cows, drew water from a hand pump out front of the house. Took a bath in the summer on the back porch in a wooden tub or in the winter in a galvanized tub in front of the wood burning stove. Now though, with my medical problems could not deal with much of the work that has to be done.....lifting and such. But would have loved it just the same.

[@skznef]

Beautiful details! ❤️🌹

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

It's good to have a choice but I would hate to have to live in a time without antibiotics or modern medicine. Dying in childbirth was a huge risk too. Not to mention our limitations socially and financially as women.

[@MsGcentral]

The medieval version was not the nice clean idyllic reproduction shown here. More like: no antibiotics, no painkillers, no birth control, no medicine of any kind; repeated famine; life expectancy of 30 years old or so; pregnancies every year for your entire fertile period; no refrigeration (hope you like maggots and blowflies and roaches); entertainment consisting of bear-baiting and extreme violence. Sounds lovely.

[@FirstLast-po8oz]

@@MsGcentral it's not true they had no medicine, why would you think that? We have evidence of physicians and medicinal chemistry dated hundreds of years before this time period. I'm not saying they were comparable to our tools now, but there wasn't "no medicine of any kind". Someone knew abortive, sterilizing compounds, fever reducers, they understood abstinence and fertility cycles, and had a great understanding of food preservation. You can't farm without understanding how to preserve food, humans have not been eating maggot filled food up until we invented refrigeration. As far as entertainment when the work was done, there was music, dancing, story telling, singing and socializing, like what we do now. Creative activities like working with clay, felting, woodworking, or simple games(think like checkers). I can tell you from experience that while this work is hard and maybe your years are shorter, they work is 100 times more meaningful and gratifying when it's done in service of your family and community like in an agricultural town. Singing with friends while working is a borderline spiritual experience.

[@MsGcentral]

@@FirstLast-po8oz: work in service of your family and community? Uh, more like work in service of the lord on whose land you work. They understood abstinence and fertility cycles well enough for women to be burdened with pregnancies every year. People did eat rotten and maggot-filled food before preservation. Canning was not practical, and clay crocks sealed with beeswax are not the same as modern canning methods. Kings and nobles died of dysentery in those times. And you're right that "no medicine of any kind" is a bit misleading. But nearly any injury or illness was untreatable. Get a cut? No knowledge of cleaning the wound to prevent infection. Break a bone? Maybe it healed; maybe it killed you. Again, even kings and queens died of ordinary, preventable things. There is no purpose to glorifying a return to the days when pregnancy meant a very high risk of death; when women had few legal rights and women peasants had fewer; when Jews were routinely rounded up and murdered. Oh, and I have a degree in history; took classes in medieval and early modern Europe; read a lot of books about the medieval period; listen to medieval history podcasts; subscribe to magazines about the medieval period.

[@realmsunreal]

I wish people just randomly broke out into song like this still, my grandma still remembers so many songs from growing up, when families used to just sing together for entertainment

[@elgostine]

they kinda do, its usually smash mouth and stuff..or instrumental beats being hummed

[@Nyckname]

More people would if they were doing tedious, manual work without the benefit of radios/mp3 players/etc.

[@mirandamom1346]

My sisters and I used to sing rounds together. The carding/spinning scene made me think of those days.

[@realmsunreal]

elgostine but like gathering around a piano to sing songs from a songbook

[@spacewolfcub]

Sarah : Ok, but gathering around a piano is not the same as randomly bursting into song, which was the original query. My family tends to gather and sing around a guitar player. On the other hand nobody but me wants to play board games. My bff’s family is the opposite. I think gathering around to sing relies on all participants being confident of their own musical skill. Liking board games needs something different from people. Every family is and has been different throughout history. Your grandma sounds like she had one of the singing families, that’s all. Doesn’t mean that families in general right now do not sing.

[@medmurton]

I saw my grandparents doing all these things just 20 years ago. My grandma's using a distaff and a spindle or milking the goats and cows... my grandpa's plowing the field with a pair of oxen or taking care of the horses... Those images are still vivid in my mind. Unfortunately they both passed away and we have no one to visit in my parents' hometown now, except for my uncle who has recently moved back to the village but he lives a modern life with his wife. So yeah the rural life in Kurdistan was pretty much similar just 20 years ago :)

[@rebeccanater]

Most of humanity lived similarly to this until about 100-150 years ago. My father told me his grandmother would set traps around her yard to kill crows for soup. This was in new jersey in the 1950s.

[@medmurton]

@@rebeccanater wow crow soup sounds very exotic even for someone who lives in south-east asia like me :)

[@shespeakssoftly]

That’s very cool - thank you for sharing. Blessings to your family.

[@igorvoloshin3406]

I showed this video to my old mother... and she laughed: "Why they say it's medieval? That was everyday life of rural Ukrainians up to almost 1950s. Every detail is true, just but the clothes fashion". Ah, she also said: "They're just pretending to be peasants. Too white hands, too clean clothes they have!"

[@Jelly_Juice2006]

Peasants weren’t covered in shit like they are in the movies...

[@deepalil1085]

@@Jelly_Juice2006 I think grandmother was talking about mud staining the hem and clothes look new not used.

[@tkbwanfor8098]

@@deepalil1085 As well as wearing whites, purples, and blues. If they could afford tunics, hoods, and hosen in those colours, they'd definitely have enough to buy food rather than farm for it

[@beefygains3806]

this is my childhood miss those days

[@TxcaBxbbles]

Smart lady (sorry if that’s not what your mother likes to be called or identified as)

[@emilyjewelle3301]

3:51 Yo, Jerry! Get a load of that guy playing music over there. He's playing *two* flutes, Jerry! Two flutes, at the *same! time!

[@Devin3Anthologie]

My mind went into a different direction. All I could think of was how would Tony baker do the voiceover.😆

[@googleuser7454]

@@Devin3Anthologie Someone needs to send him a clip of that

[@PardeepKumar-ik6cm]

Iss you mam

[@louise-yo7kz]

Clever

[@rudolfvalacegerna9184]

Hello emily

[@mnossy11]

Wow! What a beautiful film! I especially love the focus on nature with the spider’s webs and dew on the grass. So peaceful. The daily life portrayed, though hard, has a calm feeling with everyone doing their own work in its proper season.

[@geegnosis8888]

Brilliant. So much history is based on battles and monarchy of the time. The real history is just as much in everyday lives. The Lutrell Psalter captures that last year of medieval village rural life at it's fullest natural growth from 1066 to then... the Black Death changing the balance forever.

[@iaroslaus]

Although this might be an embellished version of how people lived in those days, I do believe their life was way more interesting and many-sided than that of a 19-century factory worker.

[@Tina06019]

Yaroslav Levchenko No joke. The 19th century factory working had all of the miseries of the past and basically none of the nice stuff. (Of course, this video is the “imagined past,” yet some of it was true.)

[@zahidnazar978]

Agree

[@shazikhan3026]

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[@kezkezooie8595]

I'd have to agree. The sheer drudgery and poor living conditions for factory workers must have been extremely disheartening, especiall if they had, like many did, come from the country originally.

[@frauleinmarlenschka6891]

true. i read somewhere that 19th century factory workers had a way lower life expectancy

[@TheLostLemurian]

That one sheep that kicks the other sheep, lol. Loved this video too - videos with voiceover are great but this was amazing, to just watch and observe the people without further information. Very peaceful.

[@spacewolfcub]

The Lost Lemurian : Pokes before facebook - sheep invention!

[@coop5329]

That's a ram, asking a ewe politely if she is in heat and wants to fool around!

[@googlethis313]

I loved that aspect of it! There’s no need for a voice over when the video is magical and speaks for itself.

[@MossyMozart]

@The Lost Lemurian - I love the scene where the little dog chases the hiker away.

[@zaingamer4060]

👍👍

[@hinachansansensei]

Y'all talking about how most people depicted here wouldn't have been able to afford purple clothing and I see you, but a quick Google search is enough to tell that the film makers were working with an institution to recreate the feel of the Psalter and not to reinterpret it. Found a blog post talking and referring specifically to the clothing in this film and it's clear that they made a deliberate choice to achieve the colors of clothing as they were shown in the source material, and also not to age the clothing as that would be a modern reinterpretation of the original work and not the purpose of this project. If you Google image search for the Psalter more than one person is wearing the softer yellows and, yes, the "purple" that many of you are commenting on here, so I'd say they were successful in that respect. Actually I'm more surprised more of you commenting on the clothing aren't interested by the spinner in the film as she's a recreation of a spinner in the source who is clothed with some means-- the deep color (which in the text is colored purple), the tailored fit and pooling hem are all details taken and recreated from the Psalter.

[@biguattipoptropica]

Something people don't seem to understand is there is actually more than one way to get a natural purple dye color. It's just not as vibrant as the color from those snails.

[@livvybrown6560]

​@@biguattipoptropica Exactly! If you use woad and madder to dye your fabric (the cheep plant dyes for blue and red respectively that were widely available at the time) you can get a range of pinkish-purple shades. Naturally they weren't nearly as vibrant or luxurious as Tyrian purple, but it could be vaguely achieved without snails. It was Tyrian purple specifically that was expensive and reserved for nobility, not all purple full-stop. People seem to just pick up the snail-dye knowledge and decide that for some reason it was the only way to get any shade of purple ever. Which just isn't true. Tyrian Purple was the only purple dye available at the time, sure, but it wasn't the only way to achieve the colour purple as an end result. (As aforementioned - using red and blue to make the fabric purple). Naturally the fabrics shown here are probably dyed with modern chemical dyes rather than naturally hand dyed as they would have been at the time, so it's not representative of the actual shades that could and would have been achieved, but that doesn't mean they're entirely incorrect of the use of the colour purple in the first place.

[@nutyyyy]

​@@biguattipoptropicaExactly. And different plants can produce different colours. Woad doesn't just create one shade of blue. It can also be used to create indigo colours. Although that requires a lot of woad.

[@TOU2AN4AL]

❤A friend of mine showed me how to use the spindle. It is fascinating the creative fabric of the people is ❤wonderfully creative. ❤ IN HIS WORD THE VIBLE SAYS IT'S GOOD TO ENJOY OUR WORK. IT'S TRUE GOOD WORK IS VERY SATISFYING AND ALSO AS PROVERBS SAYS , WHEN YOU DO A THING WELL , THE WORLD WILL BEAT A PATH TO YOUR DOOR".❤

[@squilly9978]

lovely to watch and also very calming. So peaceful. No planes, automobiles, mobile phones, earphone leakage, television, radio...just the sounds of nature

[@nadiai9974]

And bubonic plague coming soon(?

[@wriskd]

@@nadiai9974just like the one happening today, corona virus? 🙂

[@nadiai9974]

@@wriskd not exactly, cause there's not medicine at that time. Hahaha

[@chatgpt4135]

By the way, the dressing culture of women in English village of old times looks a bit similar to old arabic or islamic style, the long gown or robes , the veil style, etc. How ckme so??

[@ME-rr5jq]

I know being a medieval peasant had serious downsides, but I can't help but think that this looks awful nice.

[@floraposteschild4184]

Fifty percent less teeth, for one thing. Also, not being able to keep what you painfully produced, most of which went to the lord and/or the church.

[@muhammadalifaqsha9014]

Flora Posteschild Actually, medieval folks had relatively healthy teeth since sugar hadn't been widely available then.

[@HiAndHello-w9l]

They had great waistlines after starving through the winter

[@menchualcarazmoreno1743]

@@muhammadalifaqsha9014 they have honey. Same effects.

[@muhammadalifaqsha9014]

Menchu Alcaraz Moreno And yet they did not consume it regularly. Medieval food overall was significantly less sweet than early modern (16th-18th century) food.

[@Life_is_Awesome_Civil]

How peaceful life here

[@Special_Agent_NSB]

Until the Golden Horde shows up.

[@remilenoir1271]

​@@Special_Agent_NSB In England ?

[@amieepattison4367]

I love the sense of time and humanity you managed to get into this - there were little elements that I think everyone can relate to somewhat in there in the gestures and actions of the people here, and I love how you managed that

[@kindasorta123]

The guy yelling at the kid to essentially get off his lawn was my favorite

[@OnlyMusic16]

The subtle combination of nature and humanity is beautiful, and oh so calming to watch

[@tonyoliver2167]

It is through great masterpieces of historical life such as the Luttrell Psalter, that we can see a colourful glimpse into the past; how people lived humbly and relied on seasons and their ebbe and flow.

[@katka2258]

This was so lovely, I felt like I was there.

[@rafiqshah1305]

Nice baby

[@PaynesPrairie]

This was amazing. A video that showed the alien-ness of medieval life (compared to us) and also brought out the common humanity of medieval life (compared to us). Fantastic video. Also, have to say how grateful I am that I don't have to work SO HARD just to get a loaf of bread.

[@galland3496]

Beautifully done with a quiet peace , I don't suppose it was as peaceful as that rendered in the film, but nonetheless a nicer and more meaningful life than today's cities. Many years ago I bought the book the Lutteral village whilst on holiday and this video had a nodding acquaintance with it. Thankyou to all involved in it.

[@pelicanus4055]

Beautiful. I think just watching this lowered by blood pressure.

[@laurelanne5071]

I don't know which part was better, the one sheep poking the other sheep, or the little brat stealing the cherries

[@macman6107]

Hahaha I laughed too hard at the sheep. They reminded me of our two cats. One will just walk up behind the other and for no reason hit her. She would then runaway to then return and fight. Thankfully that doesn't happen often.

[@allisonjames2923]

The sheep for sure lol. Wonder what he was saying to the other

[@HosCreates]

interesting as the man said you theaf ! Somethings never change

[@clashncruz]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you to the creators of this and thank you to our ancestors who preserved this knowledge for posterity.

[@1337fraggzb00N]

Who is still watching this in 1665?

[@ozgurgunes1303]

1666 ;)

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

How did you manage to get in touch from that era, did God give you a supernatural futuristic power from the sky?

[@ozgurgunes1303]

@@ProjectCreativityGuy96 we have the power of God and anime

[@kevin-cx3ro]

im watching this from the year 42656 world war cxiii just happened and it was a disaster, luckily we killed hitler xxiii by a meteor.

[@KittyGrey13]

I lost touch with it for awhile as I had a fire in 1666 in which my house burnt down and took the telly with it.

[@LynxSouth]

At 15:02 - I can't remember the name for this arrangement, but notice the globular vial of water in front of the candles (from the scribe's point of view). The water "magnified" and spread the light from the candle, creating far more light over a larger area.

[@TheSteelpony]

Thank you for the explanation! I wondered about that.

[@elxaime]

"What makes you think she is a witch?” “She turned me into a newt.” “A newt?” “Well, I got better.”

[@danielleawad4199]

The black knight always wins ❤️

[@Rhaenarys]

Lmao literally just watched that last night.

[@halftime.7502]

"Burn her anyway."

[@Madamegato]

Wonderful work! And I found myself just breathing easier watching the whole thing. The world has gotten so fast. Not that these folk didn't have their fair share of enduring - we have many conveniences they did not, but there is something to be said for a hard days work and a festive companionable evening among neighbors.

[@Orinatl]

The world tends to get faster when you can run without having to worry about tripping, scrapping you knee, and dying from infection. But yes. Agreed.

[@sophiaschier-hanson4163]

Too right. It's hard not to feel like a modern version of this would hardly be anything but people sitting at assorted computers in assorted rooms with the only seasonal cue being the gradually changing light filtering through the window. Either that or I just personally need to get out more and find a career I enjoy.

[@johnstenlund472]

@Shufei Public life is crowding out private living, as Hanna Arendt discusses

[@ianlilley2577]

@Shufei feels like most companies greatly discourage the keeping of a sabbath of any kind.

[@sirlot1917]

@Shufei your words are beautiful!

[@chrissythornhill]

Perfect viewing for a Sunday afternoon ! May all who watch have Peace and Contentment in their lives 🙏🏼

[@borgestheborg]

There is a serene quality to this video that can slow a racing heart and calm an anxious spirit.

[@aliciavquinn]

This entire channel is just stunningly beautiful. Thank you for giving us a look through the window into these lost times. I love history told through the human experience.

[@zaingamer4060]

👍👍

[@BlackJoak61]

I really love this! It's like seeing a glimpse of my ancestors!

[@Invictus357]

My Grandmother was a Luttrell, from the Australian Luttrell’s.

[@jackcutler9096]

The British countryside must have been so untouched and beautiful

[@cibojules]

Quite the opposite. It was fully maintained, including the forests.

[@pedromoreira455]

As I am starting a reenactment group in my lands, this video is a great masterpiece for studies and demonstration what is reenactment and how it works. Somehow, it touched me deeply and made me, cry of happiness and nostalgia! This is really art.

[@ljantares]

oh my goodness this is so lovely! everything about this video is amazing. Thank you!

[@louise-yo7kz]

This makes me melt. I love Medieval music

[@KatherineGreyhunter]

The little cherry thief is adorable, just as is the dog)

[@topologyrob]

Just love it - a time when you could hear yourself think. Some of the music is French, but it's possible they knew it in England. What a green and pleasant land. The cherry stealer reminds me of myself at that age when I did the same thing.

[@emr3114]

This was after the Norman conquest so there would be a fair bit of French cultural influence and exchange.

[@ajrwilde14]

@Gísiu the Saxons didn't go north they were mostly midlands, the North would have been Anglo-Celt-Norse

[@SandileNgwenya-gv7nx]

​@@emr3114this was in the 14 the century tho were every member of the nobility was speaking English and people never spoke French only English and some knew Latin

[@darushinya7295]

Does anyone know what the song the women spinning and carding wool is? It’s so beautiful and makes me feel a sense of longing. EDIT: I FOUND IT!!! It’s called Miri it is when sumer ilast “Merry it is while summer lasts”

[@suzannederringer1607]

Looks like a good Life to me. Simple and close to the Earth. And QUIET so one could really listen to the Birds, Sheep, Churchbells, Music. Thanks for this idealized view of Medieval life.

[@jampubs1]

Fleas, head lice, bed bugs, rodents, childbirth mortalities, non-existent oral health … no thanks.

[@popefrancis8153]

@@jampubs1 They had some tactics to get rid of the rodents and flees

[@popefrancis8153]

@@jampubs1 and there was no need of oral health because they never ate sugar

[@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954]

@@popefrancis8153 actually that isn't true. Tooth decay was actually very common back then, and diet was poor because most people ate very little meat (with the exception of the elite). One thing we must remember is that their diet consisted mostly of wheat, which has lots of carbs, which are sugars.

[@yathatsme132]

@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 go to school please. There's a difference between natural sugar and synthetic sugar. And consuming little meat doesn't mean poor diet

[@WaterNai]

It seems that a lot of people are missing the fact that all the people are wearing various hoods, scarves, and hats, not just the women.

[@galland3496]

You have to wear such things , it's that damned cold .

[@WaterNai]

Galland 34 Agreed! 😄 I had noticed a lot of comments about how “modest” the women were back in the day with their scarves on their heads. I wanted to point out that all the people, men and women, had various scarves and hoods for their heads for fashion and to protect themselves from the cold.

[@lunarcalendar368]

@@WaterNai it's was not only a fashion statement. fathers and even sisters in churches wear scarves, for religious reasons. It's not surprising to see the public follow it. Especially nuns even wear veils to cover their faces. I remember seeing a conversation with an Australian nun who wore a veil. After all they had influence from middle East. It's not like Jesus pbuh was a blond blue eyed man from London.

[@lunarcalendar368]

@@galland3496 I wonder whether the kids and others who didn't wear it wasn't feeling the cold

[@WaterNai]

lunar calendar Kids often like to run off without their scarves and mittens, or they misplace them. 😄

[@mattgpdx1123]

Imagine how clean the air was. The biodiversity was so lush and diverse. The times before fossil fuels and technology. Wish we could bring our planet back to this level of richness. :(

[@aliasgharkhoyee9501]

Was the air clean? I would've thought burning wood for energy (cooking, heating, lighting, etc) would mean smoke everywhere.

[@mattgpdx1123]

@@aliasgharkhoyee9501 No? Just step away from populated areas making fires.

[@philipmcniel4908]

@@aliasgharkhoyee9501 I've heard that London had recorded pollution problems as early as the 14th century, around the time this was set.

[@ajrwilde14]

@@philipmcniel4908 this is a village tho, the houses were more spread out

[@philipmcniel4908]

@@ajrwilde14 That's definitely true, but it's also true in rural areas to this day. I live in a small town, and I can vouch that the surroundings are every bit as clean and lush as depicted in that video. There are a few cars here and there on the road, but if you go out in the forest you won't notice them.

[@TL_oS]

This is like a beautiful dream, what a lovely film🥂🌟

[@passionatesingle]

Headwear has been worn for thousands of years and for many reasons...protection against the elements, religious reasons,modesty and fashion etc. It's only in the last 60years really that people in the western world have stopped wearing headwear in a manner that was part of the dress standards of the times.

[@bangguyraj]

Many Muslim women maintain such modesty!

[@shoaibakther1453]

@@bangguyraj I'm glad.

[@arsalanzaidi15]

@@bangguyraj yes bro

[@muhammadzishan7606]

How lovely n respectable they looking😊 .... Wearing head scarf adds beauty n dignity to women.

[@juliphukan5107]

Then you men also used to wear headgears so medieval rule does not fit in today's scientific world so please don't try to impose your rules on us you selfish menfolk.

[@AbigailPoirier]

Wow! That had to be a huge undertaking! Very interesting, and helps me appreciate the luxurious life I have now. Also, when it comes to history, I'm used to thinking of the tools from the 1800's and tend to forget how much more primitive things were for so much of history.

[@piccalillipit9211]

99.9% of human history.

[@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954]

One interesting fact is that the Romans, who came before the time depicted here, were actually more advanced. There is some Roman technology that we still do not understand, such as their flamethrower. The other thing is that some technology which started to become popular at about the time this film depicts, such as windmills for grinding grain, are not shown here. The windmill is another Roman invention.

[@davidniedjaco9869]

@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 yes, but there are so many things invented specifically from this period that we still have and take for granted today..a lot of which came directly from the Catholic Church

[@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954]

@MrSomebody I mean more technologically advanced, not better quality of life. It is pretty well documented that there was a technological regression at the start of the middle ages and much Roman technology was lost. Nanotechnology was just one of them which was recently discovered.

[@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954]

@@piccalillipit9211 most of human history was even less advanced than what is shown here. The people in the time period depicted here had waterwheels and windmills for grinding flour. They also had agriculture and a plow that was the most complex of its kind. Most of human history, like 99.9 percent of it, was spent as nomadic hunter-gatherers who spent most of their time either hunting, making tools to hunt with, gathering wood to cook the food, and migrating with prey. They likely created very little art as evidenced by the fact that today's hunter-gatherers rarely create art.

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

What a truly remarkable show! I could have watched it for hours! Thank you

[@whiteprisms3123]

I love it!! The dedication and attention to authentic detail in this video has got my respect... Very well done, and very respectable to keep one's heritage alive and well

[@attilathehen1555]

A beautiful and atmospheric film and you got the squirrel right! I really wish you made tv programmes!

[@celiahaddon4087]

This is stunningly beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️. I can’t express how much I enjoyed it. I will be watching it over and over again. Thank you.

[@hedgemist691]

Me too.

[@mariamrezki1261]

Hey the ladies wearing head scarf..so lovely...

[@ADeeSHUPA]

Mari am Rezki Indonesian

[@samirahsamir6930]

Mari am Rezki I thought they are Muslim but I remembered hijab is not only in the Quran but in Bible too like here Bible 1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.

[@johnbrinabeen5206]

Mary mother of jesus she wear hijab

[@miabir4148]

@@johnbrinabeen5206 right

[@mariamrezki1261]

@A B oh..that is why all these vanished by the time..it was not about religious..All being naked..🤣🤣..

[@karenlm9062]

When I see this I am in awe; even the bad people. Without them I wonder how advanced we would actually be. So many things we take for granted actually had to be tried out first and learned through hard, difficult and tragic outcomes. Every day was truly dangerous in every possible way (physical, emotional, social). Today nobody really worries that anything cannot be fixed, saved, or repaired. Any illness, injury, or condition can be treated or maintained. But back then people truly suffered. I am grateful to have been born in this time because of our ancestors. Thank you for the post.

[@coffemuse]

This is the England of our imagination, I think. As in, when we think of England as an idea, we think of something like this. I love it so much, I'm going to watch this whenever I feel down. In fact I've just finished binge-watching your whole channel and I'm in total awe. Nothing else of this quality is offered free of charge anywhere. Thank you thank you. Long may you continue here ❤️ p.s. I checked out the clothing link specifically because I was curious about the purple!

[@aborgeshonorato]

Because is harmonious

[@muhrad8690]

Emily Barclay really !! I always think about beautiful countryside I’m not British tho 🤣✌🏽

[@JohnyG29]

@@muhrad8690 I'm British and you are correct.

[@georgiangelov13]

Since when? I thought everyone thought of the Victorian era when thinking of England: the steam-powered locomotives, the tea, the top hats, everything. And this isn’t just me saying this because I am stubborn to admit, literally. All the ‘traditional Christmas’ traditions we think of originated or got popularised in 1800s England, the most famous example proving my point is how Dickens’ Christmas Carol is centre to Christmas traditions within England

[@romanticlady8157]

@@georgiangelov13 I think that would be when people think about Britain. Those are different things. British things tend to be more Victorians whereas England is very much the beautiful green countryside. Interesting how British and English percepfions differs.

[@BeingJapan]

There was a lot of work that went into this video. As a medieval-era fan, I appreciate this very much. Thank you for all the effort!

[@Vesnicie]

Totally entrancing! Such fascination in the simplest things. I really didn't want it to end. Excellent work!

[@alkfs137a]

This is truly breathtaking. Nice work on portraying how life looked like in the medieval times. I feel like i was there; my mind and my body immersed with the video.

[@imclaer]

this is my favorite youtube video of all time. i’ll put it on repeat the background while i’m working, doing yoga, or will sometimes just sit and focus on it peacefully. evokes something indescribable.

[@HAngeli]

This is my favorite video ever. I will watch it everyday 😍 😳

[@ttta-s3r]

You want comeback to the past

[@DaisiesInMercury]

Beautiful video! Really amazing how to see! Love learning about every day life in other times!

[@ttta-s3r]

Hi how are you

[@lupinus139]

watching a documentary about anglo-saxons and then this, centuries after the norman conquest, was very interesting! thanks for a great video!

[@timbukdrew4262]

That was great. I loved the happy ending with the harvest celebration. Looks like how I always envisioned it whenever I read about it. Thank you for the honest portrayal of peasants. Hollywood has done an repairable amount of damage. I can only hope that the ignorance of the 21st century person can get past the ideas given to them by movies someday.

[@youxarexmyxsunshine]

This video is really beautiful. I love how simple it is back then. Every routine is faced with nature and animals. Fun, with songs and music. Ahh, today’s society is so stressful.

[@idolwrecker]

Scarf is symbol of Elegance..

[@ADeeSHUPA]

idolwrecker uP

[@WorthToBuyy]

If they are muslim: Scarf is symbol of oppressing what a hypocrite

[@fifi28597]

@@WorthToBuyy exactly today's society baffles me.. But we don't know @idolwrecker could support us Muslims or be a Muslim himself

[@paterfamiliasgeminusiv4623]

fuck off man I like my idols.

[@AyeshaKhan-uy2io]

Yes it is..no wonder muslim women look like precious gems...dignified and modestly covered.

[@thegreenmage6956]

Well, you know, I truly felt the most enjoyable thing for me personally from this lovely piece of film was all the music! It has givne me much material to follow up on

[@TomorrowWeLive]

I like how much attention the animals got in this, given how important a role they played in rural life.

[@kimjongun505]

We live in a period

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@doorman ... *Fascist

[@andreiarruda6814]

It's awesome that these recordings lasted for seven centuries. Thanks for sharing such a relic!

[@GarouLady]

This reminds me so much of the Documentary series, Tales from the Green Valley. And Tudor Monestary Farm series.

[@homesteadtotable2921]

I was honestly looking for Ruth to pop out at any moment and provide insightful and enthusiastic commentary about what's going on in the scenes.

[@Cassxowary]

GarouLady monastery* but yes

[@elinor1968]

I doubt the farmers would wear purple, that was a very expensive dye.

[@MyNameHere101]

I think it was actually a red or brown, but post editing gave it a purple tinge

[@Plantsandtoyhorses]

Yes the people depicted here would be the ones who had the nasty job of extracting the purple dye from snails, so that the rich people could wear purple cloths.

[@AlexandraLynch1]

Not PURPLE. But you can get interesting effects overdying indigo with madder root. I was gratified to see a lot of blue, because indigo was prevalent and cheap and so a lot of peasants wore blue, in addition to the range of olives and drabs that you get with herbal dyes.

[@AlexandraLynch1]

@@Plantsandtoyhorses No, the mollusk that produces Tyrian purple isn't found in English waters. Only Mediterranean.

[@Plantsandtoyhorses]

@@AlexandraLynch1 True, the shellfish you mention of course would have been imported from the Mediterranean. It really does produce purple dye, but the process is disgusting. link is to a clip from Tony Robinson's "Worst Jobs in History" on making the purple dye. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYmmaYd3Zrh9Y6M

[@buffplums]

That was the most beautiful film I have watched ever....such magnificent colours and light amazing videography.

[@Yuruia]

So beautiful!! This is so full of life, humans and nature living together

[@AhmedAhmed-uq3kb]

I always watch. To get more and more peace. AWESOME. So Natural, WOW. Amazing, thank you,Sir.

[@Tv-im4nz]

This is Islamic England..u can see women with hizab

[@lindamclean8809]

Beautifully filmed.......wonderful music..an absolute joy. Thank you. ❤️❤️

[@VickieV1333]

Finally, Time travel! Thank you, amazing journey!

[@madeline6048]

Well this video just made my day! It was so pleasant and relaxing to watch. You did an amazing job!!👏

[@manjitsoni9676]

ਬੁਹਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਲੱਗੀ ਇਹ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਜੀ ਸਭ ਪਾਸੇ ਕੁਦਰਤ ਹੈ ਕਿਨਾਂ ਵਧੀਆ ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼ ਹੈ ਨਾ ਕੋਈ ਸ਼ੋਰ ਸ਼ਰਾਬਾ ਨਾ ਮੋਟਰ ਗੱਡੀਆਂ ਨਾ ਪ੍ਰਦੂਸ਼ਣ ਤਾਜੀ ਤੇ ਸ਼ੁਧ ਹਵਾ ਇਕ ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਸੋਮਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਨਿੱਘੀ ਗੋਦ ਵਿਚ ਇਕ ਆਰਾਮ ਦਾਰ ਜਿੰਦਗੀ ਪੰਛੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਚੂ ਚਾੰ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਤਰੀਕੇ ਨਾਲ ਜਿੰਦਗੀ ਦੇ ਪਲ ਬਤੀਤ ਕਰ ਰਹੇ ਨੇ ਸਾਰੇ ਜਾਣੇ ਇਸ ਮਿੱਠੀ ਤੇ ਨਿੱਘੀ ਯਾਦ ਦੇ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਲਈ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਜੀ

[@susiethomas6909]

This is absolutely lovely! I felt transported back in time. 😍

[@mastersadvocate]

Wonderful video! I love the costumes, and everything made to make the medieval village so accurate! It's like peeking into a magic time machine! Thanks so much for sharing this!!! ~Janet in Canada

[@juliesheard2122]

Fabulous! Thankyou for this super re-enactment

[@MY_PLAYGROUND1010]

Thank you for allowing me to see and experience as well as being able to open my eyes. Usually I just read books and can only imagine what it was like. In Thailand where I live. In the Middle Ages of Asia (the same period as the Middle Ages in Europe) it was a very different period and I can imagine what the Middle Ages was in my homeland. But for Medieval Europe I am fascinated. It has a certain charm that attracts me. i like history And Medieval Europe is another thing that I fell in love with. There is something to study There is always something attractive. this is charm These are all my views on the Middle Ages in Europe.

[@kuribo1]

The final scene of the sun setting over the land, that hit me....what it would have been like to just wander and travel. Seeing the world and taking every day in. Beautiful life, and proves that medieval Europe was not all the blood, death and disease that is constantly perpetuated. Though one criticism, the video ended to soon and we did not get to see the wizard arrive at the village....

[@annellewellyn3950]

Well done. Thank you. To tell such a good story without commentary.

[@davidayarra3129]

I love the accuracy of this, this video really brings an average medieval day into life, something that we have yet succesfully seen in movies. One small inaccuracy would be the language as here it sounds as tho they speak english or esrly modern english at the very least, and the pronounciations of words when singing Miri It Is While Summer Ilast are a bit off but then again from a small studio you cant really expect actors to go home and learn middle english overnight. Lovely video keep it up

[@cmhughes8057]

Beautiful, and it shows that while life was hard, it still was a good life at this time. A tight knit community here that worked well together, and the clothes, they were beautiful.

[@hedgemist691]

This is wonderful. Going straight in my favourites, I think it will be re-visited many more times. Thank you.

[@greenbean1169]

The double flute thing sounds like a high quality meme

[@dyhiaa7563]

This is the best thing I've read in so long

[@ADeeSHUPA]

Green bean hmm

[@vanessa4587]

This is really pretty. Thank you for sharing

[@Special_Agent_NSB]

A beautifully shot and fascinating film. Thank you!

[@rubendelarosa1258]

I'm an absolute fan of all medieval things and this video truly inspires me.

[@emmamushroom257]

That was magic! Thankyou for sharing!

[@TOU2AN4AL]

❤LUTTRELLS ARE IN MY GENEOLOGY . STUMBLED ON THIS.VERY. NICELY DONE AND PLEASANTLY ENJOYABLE.

[@bobcropf5069]

it all looks so serene and placid but disease and early death lurked just around the corner in everyday life. That being said, very artful depiction and beautifully filmed.

[@nutyyyy]

Well the Luttrell Psalter was started the year before the black death arrived in England. So yes, it was on the eve of a massive plague. The 14th century was much rougher compared to the earlier centuries. Due to climactic changes, which caused famine, as well as the spread of diseases, and obviously the arrival of the plague, which hadn't been present in Europe since late Antiquity. But generally infant mortality was very high, perhaps half of children didn't reach adulthood. But if you did reach adulthood, your life expectancy was a lot higher. Comparable to the early 20th century in a lot of cases.

[@mariahallynwhite9427]

I don't know about everyone else but I would love to go back and live like this but just with improved health and medical conditions. This is like my favorite thing ever.

[@hazzaandlou2731]

Mariah White phonestly I want to wear the simple dresses like that

[@Nyckname]

@@hazzaandlou2731 Google "Society for Creative Anachronisms". You can at least do it on the weekends.

[@Nyckname]

When I win the lottery you're welcome to come and join me on the land I'm going to buy.

[@Makingstuffanddoingthings]

Wow. This film beautifully captures the essence of the pictures it was based off of.

[@amroziachand1850]

Such modest woman.... looking elegant

[@amroziachand1850]

Auditour ok it's your mentality.. but I really like them 😊

[@amroziachand1850]

Ok I have mental problem.... now be happy 😊