The Most Violent Medieval Inventions You Won't Believe Existed Fight Book | Absolute History

In 1459, a book was written that contained images so bizarre that even 500 years later their meaning is still shrouded in mystery. It depicts improbable medieval siege engines and machines of war. Figures an extraordinary apparatus and blood-thirsty jewels. Why was this manuscript written, and who could have unlocked its full potential? This book will reveal the secrets of a medieval age far more advanced than future generations could ever imagine.
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[@tersta1]

Ah, now I understand why Europeans didn't get around to re-inventing the flush toilet (John Harington, 16th century AD!!!), first introduced in Lothal, Indus Valley (2350 BC) and Knossos, Crete (1700 BC). Men, women, and no doubt their children, were having far too much fun shitting their pants while playing vicious war games for the amusement of monarchs! That, and municipal outhouses were sources of saltpeter, necessary for the production of gunpowder. Why spoil the blood, guts and gore industry of Europe by damaging such a rich resource with something as trivial as sanitation for the masses?! Truly, I wonder IF the Dark Ages ever ended in Europe after watching this documentary.

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[@multiHappyHacker]

This is absolutely great stuff, reminds me of when the history channel was actually good.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Right?! I miss that old channel as well, the way it used to be. It is pure propaganda now, with most of it being war atrocity nonsense from World War II.

[@multiHappyHacker]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Don't know what to expect with a name like "Anti - Ethnic Cleansing". Did you just come from some Chinese propaganda channel?

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@multiHappyHacker Lol! What the fuck are you talking about? My username is about what is happening to white people across the planet, as well as the peeps in the M.E. (like the Palestinians).

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

Those were the days.......

[@brianclingenpeel5123]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 don't forget shows about logging or ice roads etc ..

[@TheRausing1]

This was super entertaining. Some of the re-enactments felt pretty risky... I felt bad for the guy who took the multiple pommel strikes to the dome..

[@laurabustos6560]

Same. Was just going to comment almost the same thing.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@Evil Pimp That part was fine… It didn’t even touch him.

[@iliketobuildthings]

And right before that he got slapped like 3 times by the host guy

[@AlliyahPerry]

@Evil Pimphe was clearly got multiple times it just didn't have a rock in it.

[@stephaniemcpherson2558]

I hope these men were well paid for the abuse they endured

[@joshrakestraw3319]

I really need this guy's enthusiasm and excitement at 22:00, rushing over there to see that obliterated plank. That's the vibe I be needing right now in life. I mean he was SOO excited he couldn't wait to get over there and tell us all about it! I bet he is super fun guy to hangout with 😂

[@raisinbrancereal582]

There really is something so joyous about listening to people talk about their passions

[@timagamer]

It's Mike Loades, he's always like that :) Believe it or not, he's about 70 at the time this video was recorded!

[@jacksmith7726]

I can't stand him

[@OwnLaneTre]

i said the same thing when he rushed over to the armor definitely the energy i needed today 😂😂😂

[@workinprogress5431]

I already had respect for HEMA practitioners in general but seeing the level they went to here in reenacting specific 1v1 scenarios really impressed me. It felt extremely visceral and real, well done!

[@f3uibeghardt522]

The crawfish array moving back and forward in channels in a castle floor looks like it came right out of a dungeon in a Legend of Zelda game.

[@jameso2290]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Fascinating that such blade trap contraptions were used to defend real castles, and armed with explosives too. These things are almost stranger than the fantasy video game contraptions.

[@daddybdpearson1]

My question is how is the fuse lit? There wasn't a person inside the device and they didn't have remote detonators. So you really can't believe all of this, besides this is how they THINK the things works.

[@jameso2290]

@@daddybdpearson1 True. My best guesses would be one of the following: 1. Fuses can be very very long. Its possible that the fuse string would be fed through a small hole that goes behind the wall where the gear operators were. And they would be instructed to light the fuse (by a watchman) in such a way as to time the detonation to line up with the invaders entering the area. 2. It's possible that there may have been some sort of "match strike pad" that created a spark or something in the tracks, so simply moving the device past a certain point would ignite the fuse inside. 3. As you said, its possible they were never actually used as explosive devices in history at all, and that the moving blades were simply designed to cut at the ankles of horses and men invading. Which, I feel, is probably pretty adequate of a defense in and of itself. Besides that, detonating such a complex hand crafted device seems like a huge waste of a skilled blacksmith's time, given that mass production wasn't feasible yet.

[@f3uibeghardt522]

@@daddybdpearson1 Oh, absolutely. I watch plenty enough documentaries, and they mostly all do the same thing. I take them all as entertainment due to just how many ridiculous, obvious, glaring inconsistencies they have. But they always try to launder and confer authority on their claims by hiding their commentary behind Ph D historians, scientists and any number of 'authoritative' sources that either don't know what they're talking about, are speculating wildly, or purposely are being misrepresented by dishonest editing that shirks critical contextual truths in pursuit of an overarching entertainment narrative.

[@carolgibson-wilson4354]

This as very enlightening. Knocked some of my HS lessons out of my head! Thank you.

[@MG-ot2yr]

That's interesting because Leonardo da Vinci is credited with the earliest concepts of an armored vehicle, diving suit, the parachute, helicopter, etc, but in 1459 he would have been 7 years old, so clearly not ideas copied from him, perhaps the other way around.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Great point!

[@sanctionh2993]

Seems to me then that they were not so much copying someone else's work, but assembling a medieval equivalent of a resume.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@sanctionh2993 Good job at regurgitating what they said in the video. Lol.

[@cornelisgraper8678]

That bastard turtle is a plagiarist?!

[@khaosssssss1727]

@@cornelisgraper8678 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You genuinely got me there, I was like 'wtf'?! Noice!!

[@daniell1483]

I love this. It is like discovering that you've been using a tool the wrong way. There was so much more to medieval combat than I ever imagined. And the technical prowess of its engineers is astonishing. I can't help but wonder if men like Talhoffer and Da Vinci were perhaps more widespread than we'd originally thought? I'm glad that interest in this period of time is so high that this much energy is put into rediscovering this very different world.

[@michaelhendricks9462]

Sure... "discovering that you've been using a tool the wrong way," because someone who's been using a hammer as a screwdriver told you so.

[@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059]

Discovering that you've been using a tool the wrong way, doesn't that make you stupid.

[@michaelhendricks9462]

@@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 In fact, it makes you smart. Stupid people never realize it. ;)

[@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059]

@@michaelhendricks9462 ... No it doesn't, you just don't realize it.

[@michaelhendricks9462]

@@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you! HAHAHAHAHA!

[@WVzombie138]

Doctor Hughes is an international treasure. She's forgotten more about history than most of us will EVER know.

[@JayBirdNJ.]

Dr Hughes is really hott too.

[@denisebolton7191]

The medieval time was truly a violent time. The weapons they designed to use were amazing. Thank you for showing how they worked. Great show!!!

[@Hellsong89]

medieval times? Humanity has always been violent and will ever be. Only thing that evolves is methods of violence and increasing range, accuracy and power of weapons, while making them lighter and more expendable/cheaper, though latter being after thought on grand scale, since its usually lots of people forced to give money to government that wastes away that money and those developing said weapons know this ramping up the prices. Sadly there is not really much of a solution to this. Ether its communistic development that is inefficient and there is always corruption, or its capitalistic in nature where corporations try to make biggest possible profit, but least this system can and will outperform the another, as there is less corruption and it takes longer time to infest.

[@tatotaytoman5934]

wasn't this the beginning of the renaissance

[@Glostahdude]

Brutalistic!! Was tough living for sure. Must’ve been horrific for women!

[@bretsimpson9890]

Pritty awsum above is correct be sht for women

[@Chlo-ee]

They really shot arrows at a man in armour for demonstration purposes. How awesome is that

[@joeaverage3444]

1:41 As a footnote, Swabian is still spoken today in parts of Southwestern Germany. It has probably changed over the centuries along with standard German, but it's still alive and well, and not ancient.

[@th.burggraf7814]

@@zelgades Gruß aus Oberbayern. Ich hab Sütterlin gelernt um die Feldpost meines Großvaters zu lesen, die er von der Ostfront geschickt hat. Ging überraschend einfach. 🤙🏻

[@pamelagartner3759]

Sütterlin script was created in 1911 to replace the Kurrent, cursive script of earlier centuries, but learning Sütterlin would help you read the old manuscript

[@jd-ku3iw]

It was good to see Terry Jones again.

[@ithinkimarealboy2402]

Except you didn't really. Your comment is odd and if thought about too much it would be a bit sad. Sorry chud.

[@ithinkimarealboy2402]

@@D2.159 yep, lots of drugs.

[@ithinkimarealboy2402]

Go play with your medieval toys. Oh sorry, 'figurines.'

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@ithinkimarealboy2402 I hope that you seek help soon.

[@ithinkimarealboy2402]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 I was being facetious. I'm not on drugs. Just having a little fun with you people whom I'll never meet.

[@eh1321]

ok but that sheep skull was all dried out and dead, not like a living bone with musculature to dampen the force

[@Vikingbiznitch]

I agree. It was bleached too, which can weaken the bone and leave it porous. A real test would have been a freshly butchered pig skull. I think it was just for dramatic effect.

[@olliefoxx7165]

Well, I've just started the video and these comments seem surreal. Can't wait to see if y'all are sane or a bit off. Edit: I see know the comments made perfect sense. What was supposed to show the power of a blow really showed the fragility of the target.

[@someguy350]

Ok, but it can still fuck up and kill who ever it hit

[@chesterstevens8870]

It would have been more accurate to use a ballistic model.

[@BrentWalker999]

@@chesterstevens8870 if you take a sock. Put a rock in it. And swing it at a skull, there will be a reaction...

[@lewissmith623]

1st documentary I've watched on your channel. Captivated start to finish Great work, earned a sub 👍

[@onepuffman]

What if the Crayfish was rolled down a hill into enemy formations? It seems more likely given that it would acquire a decent speed with it's weight and would slam into battle lines where the bombs would then detonate after punching through and cause extra damage to rear lines. Trying to grab it to stop it would be extremely difficult as you'd get shredded by the blades, wheels and spikes, and would take off the legs of whoever it came barreling into.

[@crashpeperami7130]

That sounds like a really valid theory actually seems like a purpose for it

[@vimla3903]

I thought the same thing

[@IntervigoFS]

I though the same thing while watching it. It has enough mass to acquire speed if the terrain allows for it and you would either harm/kill or make the enemy formations to disband temporarily in order to evade it. Either way, seems like a very situational weapon but used at the right conditions, a fearsome one indeed.

[@vimla3903]

@@IntervigoFS correct👍

[@PrincessHarmonyMoonlight]

or maybe pushed down castle stairs too

[@AsbestosMuffins]

if you were a lord or something and a ship full of bronze cannons went down in your harbor, you'd absolutely pay this guy for the secret to go under water, those cannons were worth a king's ransom

[@aymarstadler1981]

For a follow-up: Willy Ley, The Conquest of the Deep (Chap I, The Submerging Elephant) Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1938

[@hannahi9355]

Why is it that everything out of the middle ages seems to replicate some kind of exorcist nightmare? What a time to have been alive.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

What do you mean by that? What is “exorcist“ about this video?

[@hannahi9355]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 I couldn't think of a word...I just meant everything then was weird

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@hannahi9355 I don’t think anything was weird about it at all. It was awesome.

[@X-Prime123]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 you're saying people gruesomely killing each other was a plus? Lol, ooook.

[@reynardfoxx6753]

It was like medieval sci-fi. Cool.

[@masonmaxwell6687]

Gotta say extremely impressed with this, especially the bit on the pommel strike and the real life testing great work

[@Pisces-1978]

This was so interesting + cool to watch. Baffles me that people think the ancients were so incompetent. Even after all that's been discovered. We're still underestimating our ancestors. Their knowledge, skills, language...everything. It's quite obvious the people of ancient times were quite capable of things we still don't know or understand. *edited for grammar

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Absolutely! Do you know why we get taught that our ancestors were so incompetent and basic? It is because our history has not been taught to us in a way that reflects reality, and this has been intentional for a very long time now. This video will explain a lot of it to you… Be sure to read the video’s description, for it is very well written and covers extra information that wasn’t touched on in the interview with this whistleblower banker: “How the Banker Run Foundations are Shaping up the World - Norman Dodd Reece:” kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmiZY3yumdWXf5Y Don’t get discouraged by the fact that it is around an hour long, because it goes by so very fast! It is like a good book you can’t put it down because it is so refreshing to hear the truth!

[@mookie34545]

Humans have been as smart as they are now for nearly 200,000 years. At a fundamental level, we haven't changed at all except for how we understand the world and the tools we use to adapt to it.

[@jayjohn9680]

@@mookie34545 They’re getting it from the aliens! Ancient wisdom from ufos 👽 🛸🛸🛸 I am a probe survivor😳 (and im trolling you😄😄😄)

[@dylanmccallister1888]

This is why i say the egyptians were some of the most intelligent people to ever live and no aliens are involved lol Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. We still cant figure out how they cut those stones. They were pretty brilliant.

[@wickedlee664]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 wow… the hour-long run time doesn’t even phase you! That’s a real intellectual for ya’ Real truth seeker.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

hitting a long-dead sheep skull is NOT in any way comparable to hitting a living being

[@girlnextdoorgrooming]

It is to demonstrate how a woman could break a man's skull.

[@katyb2793]

It would be interesting to have an appropriate medical professional weigh in on that. I've touched sheep skulls before and they were surprisingly brittle. I haven't touched a human skull however, so really I can't draw any conclusion 😅

[@emapheonix]

They are so weak. And they are usually left outside, considering it's the UK that skull would have been damaged by water and other elements. Also there's no protection from the mass of a brain and such. It's definitely a poor example. But it was better than wasting a watermelon

[@katyb2793]

@@emapheonix 🤣🤣🤣🍉🍉🍉

[@VampcatVvvvV]

@@emapheonix the skull should protect the brain not the other way around. (I agree with the rest of your statement.) unfortunately, humans have developed a number of ways to counteract that. Just look up traumatic brain injury, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or post-concussion syndrome. .

[@dannyavery5578]

Amazing video, thanks so much for taking the time to create & publish it.

[@petersieben8560]

This is the very first time i see more then just one or two pics out of this book .... and the colours are so vivid ... amazing report, thank you.

[@hansjohannsen6722]

It's used in modern times for instruction of European martial arts

[@elizabethtorres6069]

Awesome video, enjoyed every minute of Talhoeffer's fighting techniques, ideas and inventions.

[@dmreddragon6]

Fascinating to someone like myself with limited knowledge of weapons of old. I think the crawfish would work effectively against the men in the leather bell.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Great point!

[@HomeDistiller]

I don't think they interpreted the drawing correctly or its use at all... Why would you waste all the time building a steel contraption just to blow it up? Hogwash.. I think they got the scale all wrong

[@HYSTERIA-we6fg]

@@HomeDistiller they didn't ow it up at either end they would've had crudely made grenade like bombs that were replaceable

[@thecocktailian2091]

@@HomeDistiller I do wonder about the scale. But as exampled, I believe they could be very effective. Being low to the ground the bell would become ineffective. Grenades were common place, building things as once use items also common place. As a last line defensive system, rarely would they ever be employed. The cost in the face of this is miniscule.

[@achyutmurari1218]

Just cannot appreciate the unequivocal efforts put in here to recreate a bizzare designs, dating back in 15th century. Yet the team proved that history needs to be 'tested' and 'understood' not just read. Awesome work !thoroughly enjoyed and engrossed in this 50 minute video. It was worth it.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

I agree thoroughly with your comment… This video is very captivating! I think you have a typo though… I’m sure you meant “tested,” and not “rested,” right?

[@ArcadiasPlanet]

I didn't even notice this was 50 minutes long

[@williamfairfaxmasonprescot9334]

Amazing documentary. What if Toalhoffa was just documenting fights he witnessed and was an engineer for medieval siege weapons?

[@johndododoe1411]

He was officially a master of the duels, but probably had some influence on weapon purchasing by his lord.

[@angiewhitlock9818]

Absolutely fascinating!! Thank you so much for enlightening us on this medieval technology

[@AsbestosMuffins]

Trial by combat is brutal, barbaric, and we should absolutely bring it back but only allow lawyers to participate in suit and tie

[@AttemptMade]

Absolutely incredible! The history channel had me believing that it was impossible to accurately depict history in an entertaining way.

[@vickiezaccardo1711]

So did public school when I was young. I learned different after high school.

[@ArcadiasPlanet]

😂 "impossible"

[@badlaamaurukehu]

This is nothing new.

[@michaelhendricks9462]

And this channel, which literally contradicts themselves in their own videos, fixed that for you?

[@michaelhendricks9462]

@Space Lizard Sure you can fix it, if you're the pleb. In the modern world, if you're ignorant the only person who can truly be to blame is you.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

I love the calm vibe of the thumbnail - “ I’m like gettin’ stabbed bro - LOL! Nicely put together documentary! Anything featuring Mike Loades is worth watching if only for his enthusiasm. Having Terry Jones is an additional bonus. 👍🏻

[@bikesbirdsandbonsai2012]

Wow! That was totally fascinating! Really well put together and delivered... this came up on my feed and I'm so glad I decided to watch it... loved it! Subscribed, of course lol

[@apk4381]

Did nobody stop snd think that maybe this "manuscript" is actually a fiction piece or written for entertainment at the time? Everyone acting like it's some sort of special book illustrating everything as factual. There doesn't seem to be much objectivity from the people who've looked at it.

[@jasonalen7459]

@@apk4381 It being fiction could be a possibility, and yes there wasn't much objectivity, but it is quite astonishing that everything they tested in the video either outright worked or is plausible. And if it is fiction, then what might the story be, if it had one?

[@Henry_the_Frenchie]

A team should be assembled to reconstruct each of these devices and machines and presented in a documentary series. I would definitely tune in!

[@rileyvandeweg9140]

Hope a medical team was on standby for the dude that took the pommel to the dome piece. Definitely got a concussion.

[@43MinutesWithJamieRose]

Wtf was that?! Dudes going to be feeling that full body, ringing sensation in his soul for a bit.

[@Mattias_Tannhauser]

He had one previously too, and didn’t tell his opponent. Kind of a goof up on his end.

[@stevespencer1570]

Amazing video beautiful narration. Subscribed and shared with all my contacts!

[@daffydaggers3156]

So fascinating and informative! The fighters were so versatile and deft in the execution of their moves! A great historical reference! Thank you!

[@RijackiTorment]

Schwabia is in southernish Germany, Stuttgart, Ulm, etc. and is where my great-grandfather is from, Bad Waldsee (and I still have relatives living there). I'm curious how a book written in Schwabisch got to Denmark. The book itself is fascinating, but the story of how it migrated north would be intriguing as well.

[@Kiku91]

My stepmum has family from that area. Schwäbisch Deutsch is very fascinating compared to Hoch Deutsch.

[@sudokusensei4999]

Watching from Stuttgart ;)

[@hedgehog3180]

Usually through a chain of war, marriages and trades, the book would have been owned by a noble family and would have gone where they went and then by the end of the feudal age it would just have stayed put wherever it ended up and eventually become part of the Danish national collection.

[@pamlange7289]

I can read and understand a lot of the words... The writing itself is hard to decipher... But it's awesome how few it changed over the centuries...

[@jonaswagner2349]

Schwobeseggl

[@Ilovevintage77]

I just want to say how much I appreciate the hard work of all the people who worked on this documentary. t’s really beautiful!! This book really deserves to be highlighted and have its moment to be seen. Thanks for sharing it with us. It’s incredibly constructed drawn and handwritten. The fact that the color drawings are still brilliant is lovely!!

[@Noteven0]

The image depicts Talhoffer breaking the chain. It is meant as an allegory of the book itself. Like a chain, the offensive & defensive capabilities of a castle, an Army or an individual are only as strong as its weakest link. The manuscript is intended to market Talhoffers services as not only a fight master, but as also as a master tactician. That one image transcends language and universally conveys: “Talhoffer can find the weak link and break the chain”

[@juliagalvez5633]

Tctccuh it'd do tggctt

[@kevinbaker4907]

The present forgets, that's why understanding history is so important. The chain allegory is obvious when it's realised, as are the devastating fighting techniques. Talhoffer was good at fighting because brain beats Brawn.

[@kevinbaker4907]

Are there really at least 6770 people who choose to hide under the moniker 'space lizard'. What dumb fucks...

[@sportosp-0158]

absolutely fascinating! Thank you for this

[@vanhattfield8292]

Very interesting. I've watched too many of these types of videos to count over the years as I find them very interesting. This is the first one in a long time that exposed some things I had not previously seen. Very nice...

[@moseptyagami606]

Sometimes I fear soon the channel will end due to no more history to teach, then I remember EVERYTHING has history and history won’t ever end.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

It will not happen because of history still yet to be discovered… It will end because of our history constantly being rewritten and erased as we speak due to Cultural Mar:xism. In case you haven’t noticed, there is a genocide going on. One of many clues to you should be all of the statues that have been taken down and destroyed. I will also try to post a video which discusses how our history has been intentionally rewritten for a very long time now, but I can’t include it in this post, in fear that it will cause this entire post to be auto-wiped.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Here is the video that I spoke of… Be sure to read the video’s description, for it is very well written and covers extra information that wasn’t touched on in the interview with this whistleblower banker: “How the Banker Run Foundations are Shaping up the World - Norman Dodd Reece:” kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmiZY3yumdWXf5Y Don’t get discouraged by the fact that it is around an hour long, because it goes by so very fast! It is like a good book you can’t put it down because it is so refreshing to hear the truth!

[@mayc.onaise5649]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 "anti ethnic cleansing" unless you're brown

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@mayc.onaise5649 Lol! So you assumed that my username was only about white people just because I commented about the actual subject matter of this video? So what do you have to say about the fact that my username is also about what has been happening in the M.E., with Palestinians and such? What do you have to say about the fact that my username is also about the pro-miscegenation agenda that is dead-set on mixing us all so that we no longer have distinct peoples and are just one conglomerate of people that look mostly the same? Have you even noticed all of the commercials/advertisements that have mixed couples to promote this? Funny how it always includes only one white person, by the way. What isn’t represented is mixing of other peoples (because they know that white peeps have recessive genes). Have you even noticed where mass immigration is occurring? Sit down.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@mayc.onaise5649 P.S. It is interesting that you have an English username despite what your account tells us about you. Why did you choose to represent yourself with an English username when you obviously aren’t white?

[@solcutta3661]

37m seeing the knights in genuine armour and the flexibility allowed within was astounding.. This documentary would have been a winner amongst its peers with just this alone. Truly one of the best documentaries on medieval warfare. Astonishing. Bravo.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Look up the YT video of the guy running in acurate full plate armor. It's like an 11 year old video.

[@tedvandergriff3103]

That guy was given a concussion for this video

[@trustworthydan]

Wow, very well put together and informative.

[@th.burggraf7814]

Awesome video, I really had a blast watching this. It doesn't surprise me to see all these great devices, considering that people back then were highly skilled craftsmen and far more inventive than "modern" people think they were.

[@TheEarthCreature]

Dry bone is significantly more brittle than a living skull, however that probably still would have been a fatal blow.

[@thecocktailian2091]

Fatal or not, the recipient would become stunned at the very least, and the second blow would put an end to the matter.

[@Seancloudsss]

The enthusiasm of the participants in this is unmatched. Bravo 👏 👏 👏

[@VexxJam]

This was so well done!! 👏

[@dullahan7677]

I've always said that there's no way everyone who lived back then were just sitting around and saying: "Well, this is the Dark Ages." I'm sure they thought they were on the cutting edge of technology and medicine, just as we do now.

[@youtubesucks2821]

It was only "dark" in greece where their great civilization simply disappeared. Earthquakes and volcanoes are the most commonly held assumptions as to why it vanished so quickly. Europe on the other hand was called the MIDDLE ages and were by no means cruel and ignorant savages as portrayed by modern pseudo intelligentsia

[@Whitehorse_crimefighter]

I'm sure a lot of them were praying that they dont die from drinking water. It's funny that with all the technology and medicine we are almost back to the point of "I hope I don't die from drinking water"

[@cheapskatepanic]

Already I look back and see how far we've come since I was a kid in the 80s. Nintendo was cutting edge. Lol

[@davidelliott5843]

The medieval warm period lasted 900AD to 1300AD. The climate allowed vikings to reach Newfoundland vis Iceland and Greenland. They actually had colonies on Greenland. That all stopped when the world turned cold again.

[@whatsit2ya247]

@cheapskatepanic So, you're implying there's better technology now?? 🤣 Me thinkist not.

[@SuperFriendBFG]

The Medieval Tank is an interesting one, especially the one depicted in the book. For something like that to function, it would need to be able to transmit the massive pressure caused by the weight into its wheels. I don't think such a carriage would function with just 4 wheels, may may just sink in the ground and get stuck. I wonder if medieval wainwrights were in the business of creating doubled wheel sets, similar to modern semi trucks. Still, I'm not certain how useful these would be on softer grassland, if at all. They'd perhaps work on a dirt / stone path so long as the weather is dry enough. Fortunately, at the time, these wagons would have most likely been used on the Roman Road network, which were likely still usable as a "network" of roads at the time. If we are to assume that post-roman defenses followed a similar pattern to roman forts wherein a main road will run straight through a fort, or very near to, we can imagine that certain skilled engineers at the time may have created vehicles like these to control roads, or help break down fortifications along these roads. There is precedence for skilled war engineers making all sorts of unique contraptions to tackle specific situations such as during sieges.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

From my recollection, “paved” roads with the stones were common _WELL[ before the middle ages in the Roman empire, so I’m sure that wouldn’t have been an issue at all.

[@Civerius]

There are people right now doing stuff that will land in a video like this one day.

[@SuperFriendBFG]

It was the Roman Empire that introduced Paved Roads across much of Europe. Some cultures may have had paved roads beforehand, but none did what Romans did before the Romans did, which was build a continental scale paved road system. Most of their contemporaries used packed dirt / stone roads. It wasn't until much later that roads of similar or better quality became common. Truth is, after the Western Roman Empire fell, many of those roads fell into disrepair. There are still a few functional originally built roman roads, however they've been worn so much by horse drawn carriages and other wheeled vehicles that massive grooves exist throughout the paved / stone surface. Britain's first paved road network was Roman, same is true for much of Europe, and gradually they fell into disrepair in the Dark Ages / Byzantine Era.

[@chronicawareness9986]

They could have used rails like a train maybe

[@sammarino7357]

@@chronicawareness9986 like in ww1 that would have greatly limited its effectiveness in offensives being relegated to specific locations my guess is it’s like the early ww1 tanks meant to be a breakthrough weapon but were slow. But when they became mobile gun emplacements when they were deployed.

[@philliptroy9082]

Always love a good shot of history straight to the dome

[@srbaruchi]

One of the best videos I've seen on YT ... and I've seen a LOT of videos!

[@jeremiahgabriel5709]

This video was fucking awesome, and reminded me there is so much of history…..we still don’t know (which I’d forgotten) and potentially may never know. Absolutely wild that we got to learn more. Thanks so much for sharing this. Made my day!

[@robinm3524]

I love learning about this kind of stuff.. it's amazing!!

[@squidious1662]

This was epic. I will be sharing. More please!

[@christoffermogensen6018]

Brillant Channel. So Happy I found it

[@AchillesWrath1]

20:47 Now i know why they call it the "barrel" of a gun. Thank you.

[@desertdragon2397]

Dazed, confused, hyperventilating, nauseated 🤢. My guess is the guy that just got pummeled twice has a concussion and at least soft tissue damage in his cervical vertebrae. Get him to a medic. None of them around when you need one in medieval trial by combat. Thank you for the video. Grizzly but enlightening.

[@CreatorCade]

My thoughts exactly and was probably how battles were won back then even though they didn’t understand how it worked.

[@katyb2793]

I know right? That's not worth it. They shouldn't use people as guinea pigs. The guy who did it also suspected it would happen. What was he thinking? I feel sorry for the one hit.

[@asdf2593]

It makes me wonder how me, some dweeb watching youtube videos, immediately thought he had a concussion. But these combat experts had no inkling...well maybe they did and just dealt with it off camera, which would still be pretty irresponsible of them

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@asdf2593 I wouldn’t be surprised if the person that was the “guinea pig“ was someone that is a professional in the industry, like an MMA fighter, which is used to being paid good money for taking blows that harm them.

[@Poodleinacan]

That was filmed a couple years ago... so whatever happened has happened.

[@pietervandermerwe4235]

Thank you Great video This is quite surprising information about that age

[@johnhance5868]

absolutely amazing this is a truly enlightening documentary

[@floridaboiwoody]

Bettany Hughes has such a great voice. I could listen to her narration every day, even if I was not very interested in the video she was in. And I really enjoy every documentary she is in.

[@deacongowan909]

Sounds like crappy British English to me.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@deacongowan909 You must be anti-white. Seek help.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@deacongowan909 Funny how there isn’t any cool inventions videos for where you came from. Hell… Even the wheel was too difficult of a challenge for your peeps. Lmao.

[@starby1243]

She's kinda hot

[@peterszar]

Man, to me this is one heck of an interesting video very cool. The image plates are so vivid in their colors you'd think it was created recently. Or were they??? ha ha. Those fight pro's were really going at it, they must be crazy, geezus.

[@robertkcisaw7528]

This is the coolest doc I've watched in years. High quality stuff. I feel bad for the suited knight though!

[@cdfdesantis699]

Huge history buff here - how have I never heard of this incredible book before? Great stuff!

[@tjm3900]

To me this book is not a manual. It is a sales brochure. Years ago I worked in the marketing dept of an industrial company. I produced brochures that indicated the services and equipment our company could offer. Not everything in the brochure had always actually been done, nor did it show details. But it was more 'a teaser' to show our expertise, in the hope we could gain a contract. Such brochures were expensive to produce, they were made to impress an give the impression we were a company of substance, that might give credibility to some of our more 'ambitious' ideas. I believe Leonardo DaVinci did much the same with his illustrations.

[@hugocervantes1934]

Just makes me realize we have so much to learn about our past. It’s incredible , but if they knew about this book why wouldn’t they say something sooner? Could be used in our history books. I would like to know who found the book and how??? Super interesting

[@ptanstaafl]

Thoroughly enjoyable, thanks.

[@pattif192]

Excellent presentation! ❤

[@heatherbishop6526]

Wow! Love this! I’ve never heard of this book before. So glad I found a documentary different from the rest

[@TNT-km2eg]

Wrld is teeming with such banalities , crowned by diletante drawings . How bored (and not only bored ) must one be , to spend his time with such morbid , useless activities ?

[@Randgalf]

That trunk diving suit is the stuff of nightmares

[@n.w.flannel3463]

Right. Strangely reminds me of a witch doctor's mask...crossed with an elephant's trunk. Yeugh.

[@Pureimagination200]

I love everything medieval and Tudor. Love this channel

[@stevekravcik609]

Amazing. Thank you.

[@TheTarrMan]

This was really great. It reminds me of the History or Discovery channel before they went full in with reality TV. Please keep it up!

[@johndododoe1411]

The segment introducing the book sounded too much like an "ancient aliens" segment on those disgraced channels. But I battled through that obstacle to enjoy the rest.

[@nickjackson748]

It was originally on the History or Discovery Channel back in about 2010/11. I recorded it from Sky TV, and it was still on my old STB till a year ago, it had been there for over 10 years. I've watched it a few times over the years. I'm glad it's on KZbin now, I can link it to my younger re-enactor friends who never saw it. Some good presenters with some real credibility too - Dr Bethany Hughes, Mike Loades, Terry Jones are all respected historians/presenters, and John Clements is a renowned HEMA instructor and author. Some of it was filmed at Cosmeston Medieval Village, and Jamie, the armoured guy who carried the "bomb" against the archer, used to be an armourer and weaponsmith there, and the leather siege bell was at Cosmeston too. We used it as part of a medieval re-enactment skirmish back in about 2011. Me and my wife often talked about doing the judicial duel between the woman and the man in the pit. Or the "rock in the sock" fight as we called it 😁

[@NathanLeeAnimations]

37:37 whole documentary worth watching just for this

[@MontyDotharl]

dark souls roll confirmed

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@MontyDotharl Hah!!! 😂😂😂

[@Faze-2]

There are so many memes and gifs in this video

[@tee1up785]

That’s was really a great video! 👍👍👍

[@garylsmith4575]

I agree that this is as exciting as early History Channel

[@annika5893]

Before I started watching, I thought this would be about Voynich manuscript. But I'm glad to get to know a new strange book from centuries ago. 😊

[@LathropLdST]

Nope, I knew it was not because of the drawing style. Remember the images from the Voynich book were much more Linneo-style as topic,and medieval in appearance. These look more Gothic/early Rennaissance.

[@EZ-viewing.]

I love how the combatants never forgot to include the cross as their choice for decoration. So much for a forgiving, loving god - the lamb of peace!

[@JLYVE89]

What an awesome recreation of the crayfish. The skill, patience and creativity bringing together in 3d something from the 2d medieval pages. Thank you sir👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@evelynharber6077]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@naturelovingfroggy6348]

I wish this type of content was taught when I was at school because I would have been so much more interested in learning! I am going to get my kids to watch this as well! Very interesting, informative and engaging, have subscribed to your channel. Thank you for teaching an old dog new information 😂

[@EDW-atrocirella]

So many books like this! Wish they would do this for a lot more

[@maryjanegreen8607]

Absolutely Entertaining!

[@Clarkillustrations]

this was super cool. I had no idea how much artistry and engineering existed back then.

[@MinaOmega]

This is incredibly interesting. Very cool. Wouldn't it be something to write such a book and our future generation should find it and do the same?

[@johnathansaegal3156]

Back in the 70s when I was in 7th grade, my Ancient World History class teacher showed us copies of documents and even old letters written/graffiti scrawled on tables... it showed that the people from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages were no different in mentality than people of today. Same off-colored sex jokes to the same concerns for loved ones. One particular bit of carved graffiti in a preserved bar table was "Alexander the Innkeeper's wife is a pig" followed by someone else correcting it by inscribing below, "No, she's a slut". The same type of juvenile scrawling one could find in a bathroom stall or on the wall of a public establishment.

[@vhall244]

That 50 mins past quickly. So interesting and informative.

[@esomethingoranother3718]

I love these types of documentaries

[@000bullets]

The picture of him holding the girl upside down in the hole looks hilarious.

[@___LC___]

It looks terrifying

[@chrishelton1600]

extremely interesting. makes me wonder how much technology existed that we arent aware of in modern times. as well as what technology we have that could be improved upon based on ancient engineering.

[@Olafleflibustier]

Really great video ! But at 33:21, the archer uses blunt arrows, i'd like to see the efficiency of the leather bell with bodkin arrow heads...

[@joshrakestraw3319]

44:00... *BONK* Knight- "Aight Ima head out." 🤣

[@VideoAssaultSaturday]

I just want to applaud these dudes for their very real fighting (and possibly to the, actual, death), for science! 🤣 homeboy definitely got a concussion from that pommel blow... this show's insane, I can't believe they did that. I did notice the arrows fired earlier didn't have true tips, but still, these guys got balls, or just crazy, walking right into arrows fired at them from an 80 lb pull bow! 😂

[@EarthSurferUSA]

You can't applaud science with out applauding the minds that it came from, and the minds who share it to the next generations. Pervert those minds, and you pervert science. That is where our schools are today. They call it "progress". The just never tell us what we are actually regressing back into. "I don't know what weapons will be used in WW3, but in WW4, it will be sticks and stones." Albert Einstein I found that morbidly interesting, from a man of science.

[@ericyoung5184]

I was thinking the same thing. If you feel sick to your stomach after getting hit in the head you are concussed.

[@nickolasphillips3776]

@@ericyoung5184 I was surprised that the way he used the sword to make it bend to land the strike with the pummel

[@natalyst]

blunted arrows would be pretty bad too, a hit to the head with one of those would give you a concussion just as bad or worse than that pommel hit i instantly subscribed the second i saw that pommel duel, this channel is great

[@bonkers1987]

Making me sick and dizzy thinking about it :/

[@aerial11]

Talhoffer, coming back to life after centuries: Oh! I see you found my book of memes!

[@Quick-Silver206]

I love the enthusiasm of that guy in the purple shirt talking about the Crayfish about half way through.

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

Wow..amazing docu !!!!

[@mydogbullwinkle]

It's fascinating how the designer of that armored wagon arranged its cannon into broadside batteries. I wonder if this had any direct influence on the development of the naval broadside which developed about a century later.

[@bjerrings]

Haven't seen this episode yet but 2:19 minutes in and you have said the magic world... Denmark... My home country in relation to some history I haven't yet heard of(i don't think) which isn't easy, so the expectations are high at this point... Please don't let me down 🤞

[@AyaneOfDeath]

Great documentary

[@Pureimagination200]

Brilliant video 😊