Where did POOR peasants stay when on a journey?

[@ModernKnight]

Don't forget my new novel Lord of Blackthorne, kickstarter link here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/modernknight/lord-of-blackthorne

[@metern]

There is something i have wondered about. We have many museums about our old history. But in medieval times, did they have that kind of museum? Where they interested in history at all. You sed they demolished ruins for resources. But did some of them take care of old things in medieval times?

[@mementomori771]

Have you considered sending it to youtuber book reviewers like Krimson Rouge he's a really cool dude, and im sure would be happy to read it and talk about it in a video

[@morticiaaddams7866]

Is there a blurb about the plot anywhere?

[@TheMysteryDriver]

@@morticiaaddams7866he talked about it recently in a video saying what it's about.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

@@ModernKnight My guess would be that poor peasants when on a journey would sleep in granaries or on haystacks and would be sure to be gone before the family was awake and was likely to find them. In Ireland at least there was great respect for the traveler who could actually enter the kitchen of a house and be given food and a place to stay as a matter of hospitality and common courtesy. Of course it was a different world then and people could read what other people were, and they were all the same. Now it is a very different world.

[@garrenbrooks4778]

Everyone loves learning about the big battles, the famous people, and the significant events in history. But its this kind of insight to the day to day life of people that i crave.

[@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490]

Yes, very interesting.

[@zappababe8577]

That's why I like Thomas Hardy - he wrote about the little people, farm labourers and dairymaids.

[@roastedpepper]

Same. I always thought I hated history, but then discovered this aspect.

[@Crusty_Camper]

Thomas Hardy wrote very accurate descriptions of every detail of the times. At the start of Mayor of Casterbridge he describes the sound and sight of a couple walking a chalk land footpath. Anyone who has done that will recognise the hollow sound, the heat and the white dust. My childhood!

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Jack Hargreaves in Out Of Town and Old Country often used to touch on how people lived in the very old days. Maybe not medieval, but certainly centuries back.

[@Boars78]

When I was 25 years old I walked Hadrians wall with everything I needed for an estimated 7 days travel.. I did it in 4 days.. camping out every night everything I needed was in my backpack.. tent water food..young and fit the one thing I kept running out of was water I kept stopping at pubs and asking if they could refill my canteens even knocked someone’s door and humbly asked the poor lady if she could refill my water.. Newcastle to Carlisle coast to coast.. made it but learned a valuable lesson.. water is king.. cooking drinking washing.. water is life

[@TheMysteryDriver]

So there's no water sources along the wall?

[@Boars78]

No.. we’re talking 35 years ago.. I was young and cocky thought 6 litres would carry me..a litre a day with some to spare I thought but nooo.. no tour guides no gps just my compass and a paper map.. I walked 100 miles in 4 days and I found out how important water is.. there was no internet back then so no was just a epic stomp 👍

[@EShirako]

@@Boars78 Wow, sounds like a great adventure back then, though! Frankly, I think it would STILL be an adventure to cross the land like that! Water is an amazingly-important resource which we take for granted too easily nowadays. It's good to be reminded to appreciate the guaranteed-drinkable water systems we have now. Water that won't give us dysentery or cholera (usually) that goes to each house? A wild luxury! :)

[@gwynedd8179]

you spanked it?

[@Boars78]

@ lol yeah I did.. you’ll have to excuse my grammar.. I’m from the south of England and very common.. when I say I spanked it I mean I did it much faster than expected.. init 🫡

[@runevi]

I am eternally grateful that this time traveling medieval peasant was able to set up his youtube channel and tell us all about his life!

[@xxlCortez]

Peasant? He's a knight in disguise.

[@LordButtersI]

Haven't you seen him mounted and armored? He's a knight who takes the effort to understand the commonfolk.

[@psychobartus]

@@LordButtersI I heard he drives a hovertank

[@cyqry]

@@xxlCortez Funnily enough, Jason has an actual real-world knighthood too. CBE which is the Commander or third out of five ranks in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

[@peterhumphreys9201]

Technology's wonderful these days

[@CallumFinlayson]

I'm fascinated by the KZbin algorithm's ability to not recommend a channel that's such an obvious match for me until today

[@ModernKnight]

welcome!

[@TootlesTart]

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[@bakedbeings]

You must, finally, be worthy.

[@raybanz8218]

Yeah, shame the algorithm is not good anymore. It doesn't even give proper notifications.

[@RedTail1-1]

It's more than just watching content. You have to engage as well. KZbin doesn't know what you like just because you watch a video. You have to like and comment for them to tick boxes in the algorithm. Even after finding this channel 2 weeks ago you haven't left any more comments. Just the one.

[@norarivkis2513]

My son is at university studying archaeology, and they had an entire course in landscape archaeology. One of the first things they were taught is that anywhere there's a modern road, if it's not laid out on an obvious grid but goes off in weird directions, look for the ancient road... because it will be there, underneath. People generally have reason to go roughly the same places across long stretches of time, especially if the local towns are fairly old. If there isn't an obvious reason why the modern road was put where it is, then it was almost certainly laid down right along the course of the old one, because if people had to go that way anyhow, why create a whole new road when the old one was right there anyway? Just pave over it and go on using the thing. So a lot of the roads in active use today have their roots (or their routes!) in very ancient pathways.

[@MountainDewComacho494]

@@norarivkis2513 That sounds like the entire city of Boston.

[@norarivkis2513]

@MountainDewComacho494 Well, yes, except that Boston roads were laid out by earlier cows instead of by earlier humans. The humans just followed the cows. 🤣

[@petermcmillan3446]

This is very true of Cambridge, UK. When I first got here, I wondered why a street called Carlton Way suddenly became Mere Way for a few hundred yards, although it all looks like a continuous residential street. Mere Way is a surviving splinter of the Roman road that continues north into Waterbeach. It was paved over when the building was done, but they kept the name, and you can make a beeline on the map showing how it resumes north of the city. I walk the Roman roads, waterways, dykes and droves down here, and it quickly becomes obvious that the true history of Cambridge is in the travel routes; to the extent that the city begins to seem quite stagnant and dull. They're an endless source of fascination.Your son would find a great deal to write about.

[@PSDuck216]

Medieval historian and economist here. In my studies, contemporary writings suggest (hand) carts and wagons got 12-15 miles per day on highways (the old Roman roads). Foot could get perhaps 20, depending upon how laden your pack horses were, environmental conditions and state of the roads. Travel and shipping were far cheaper on water. To ship a load of timber from the Baltic area over sea cost less than shipping the same amount from the north of England to the south. Plus, overland shipping had to figure in axels and wheels breaking (potholes, etc), food and shelter for horses or drayage beasties, etc. Tolls mentioned were a bit high, but that depended upon when. I study the Early to High Middle Ages. In the 1300s, tolls were as follows: Pontage (bridge crossing) a farthing, Pavage (road tolls) the same. Horse or large farm animal, half penny. Person ahorse- a penny. Using a ferry to cross a River: person afoot- half penny; person ahorse - penny. (The tolls were subject to the lord’s whim and if he were in need of cash.) Guards would ask you “Whence and whither?” From where do you hail, and where do you go? I always watch these most informative and entertaining videos. We’ll done, Jason! Cheers!

[@goldenhawk352]

When the police pull you over, they still often ask you "whence and wither", in its modern form. Did the medieval guards also ask "Didst thou quaff flagons of meade this day?"

[@FifinatorKlon]

Can you maybe put into perspective how much a farthing, penny and whatnot is? How long would a basic labourer have to work to get that much? What else could he have bought instead?

[@worawatli8952]

@@goldenhawk352 I wonder if there was traffic rules and enforcement, like weight limit or speed limit.

[@Blaisem]

"Plus, overland shipping had to figure in axels and wheels breaking (potholes, etc), food and shelter for horses or drayage beasties, etc. " Wouldn't sea travel be susceptible to losing the boat itself? Also since it was not mentioned, were banditry or piratry not common enough to also require taking into account? Also being a toll man sounds like a good deal. Getting paid to just sit at a crossing.

[@goldenhawk352]

@@user-je8pn4up7r Much like modern police, the question "whence" was asked to check if the traveler was coming from the policeman's house. If he managed to finally catch that guy his neighbors had noticed visiting his wife in his absence, the man's "wither" would change abruptly.

[@CaptApril123]

Jason with a stick and a camera holds my attention more than a month of the History Channel.

[@Scriptorsilentum]

Hands. Down. jason and a leather bag, a walking stick, a knife and hood are endless knowledge. THC makes me cringe.

[@nicomeklrowing5935]

How can that be? This guy doesn't even mention aliens or paranormal hauntings. He is a sad excuse for a historian.

[@mrmoore2050]

It's true, he never once explained how ancient aliens carved the roads for their lay-lines to power spaceships. Is this guy even a credible historian? (sarcasm, history channel is so bad about that paranormal junk anymore and Jason is very knowledgeable)

[@sforza209]

That’s what makes the internet great for me. We are not force fed garbage from big tv. We can choose whose ever good to be successful.

[@Greg-q2r]

His videos are a great leveller.

[@Cinnder]

My first thought was that I didn't have 25 minutes to spare right now, and that I'd just watch a bit now and the rest later. But as usual, your infectious enthusiasm hooked me and I couldn't stop till I watched the whole video. Thanks, as always, for your joyous history lesson!

[@misledfortune]

I literally had the exact same experience. The depth of knowledge, the subjects he covers, and the way he talks about them are supremely entertaining.

[@JustGrowingUp84]

Yep, happened to me more than once with his videos.

[@perniciouspete4986]

Yeah, the first few minutes are free, but by then you're addicted.

[@charlesbarr3437]

Oh, but you watched.😊

[@jeannelowe480]

I am surprised that people in general could read ! In mid Evil times ,, I try never to miss. His videos always so interesting ,

[@davestier6247]

I always assumed they stayed at the seedy inn where a Fighter, Cleric, Rogue and possibly some kind of Wizard got into hijinks before venturing forth

[@AlanRPaine]

In the Atlanta History Center in Georgia USA there is a 19th century wooden farmhouse brought there by road from another site. A fascinating feature of this house is a small room by the front door where a passing traveller was welcome to spend the night, without even asking, after the family had locked up and gone to bed.

[@poisonedflowers]

@@AlanRPaine I know of at least two separate relatives several generations back that had rooms set up like that. One was just off the summer kitchen, and the other was like an attached shed

[@Chromium457]

This guy sits perfectly in the venn diagram between wholesome and super informative!

[@TheBathrobeWizard]

@Chromium457 much like Chocolate And Peanut butter go so well together in the right portion

[@Dumpspace]

My mom did not complain about an annoying voice like many KZbinrs. Heck, this guy is more soothing than James Burke.

[@Hex_tarot]

Feel like you’re new here. Buckle up its pure wholesome side quest vibes

[@stevencoardvenice]

He's the man! Walkon

[@dedsert9653]

as a peasant I can tell you I stay at travelodge or premier inn when I travel.

[@missymoon2831]

@dedsert9653 ha,ha. They are not that cheap nowadays either!

[@PazLeBon]

bloody luxury that

[@mcasteel2112]

I stay at the InBred Inn! Where they treat ya like Family!

[@drewschumann1]

Real peasants slept out rough or found a place in out buildings. If they travelled at all

[@centurion5210]

an advanced peasant would keep a mule at his estate.

[@Crusty_Camper]

If you look at a map of England, Wales and Lowland Scotland before motorways you see a network of roads connecting towns which were roughly 20 miles apart. The distribution made it possible for people to get to the nearest market in a day

[@PazLeBon]

a day? 5 hours id say

[@sstrongman1667]

@@PazLeBon well you could make it there and back in a day if they are 10 miles apart.

[@PazLeBon]

@@sstrongman1667 yeah sure :)

[@myparceltape1169]

@@Crusty_Camper There used to be a passenger carrying barge between Glasgow and Paisley. The Paisley Canal train station still exists. But not the canal.

[@Crusty_Camper]

@@PazLeBon There, trade and return in a day, that is.

[@Alpha_blossom]

Man I genuinely love you and your content. Makes me feel closer to my ancestors and I genuinely appreciate it.

[@jamesbridgman5138]

Three months ago I was in Spain travelling around the Santiago de Compostela area. I wasn't doing the pilgrimage but stayed at one of the "albergues", the pilgrim refuges. It wasn't a monastery but sounds pretty similar to what Jason describes. The guy who ran the place was pretty quiet, definitely didn't make any idle chat. The food was modest, cornflakes and instant coffee. People didn't hang out in the kitchen and chat, they went to bed (exhausted). It was fantastic! Really cool to see such an old tradition alive and well.

[@tomrausner8604]

In Denmark where I live, a days journey in "the days of old" was 30 km (20 miles) no matter the way you traveled. For this reason the king ordered the building of "privileged inns" every 30 km's.

[@helmaschine1885]

@tomrausner8604 Thanks for the translation into metric. When i hear mile i keep imagining the Swedish Mil lol (10km)

[@fungiplays2289]

I agree - the treatment of guests at a monastery sounds lovely in principle. To be taken care of and wished well - the heart of true charity.

[@IAMMARTICUS1470]

On the other hand, if you were a young lad, perhaps with a friend or two, even if you were poor I can imagine just the thought of sitting in silence in a monastery would make you groan. You’d always manage to cough up the coins to stay at the inn with the music, ale, lively banter and women!

[@m.maclellan7147]

One thing I wished he had mentioned was the genders of the travelers ? I would imagine travelers were mostly men,due to safety, but surely some women traveled? Either alone or as pilgrims ? What happens if a man & his wife are traveling ? Do they get separate accommodations ? Were women more likely to stay at a convent ? (Again, safety!?)

[@francesaggarwal22]

​​​@@m.maclellan7147 If you look at Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a fictional account of a pilgrimage to Canterbury, there is a great example of a female traveller in the Wife of Bath's tale. I think women would have travelled but as part of a group or accompanied for safety so they would not be mistaken for a woman of ill repute.

[@talknight2]

@@m.maclellan7147 I imagine solo-travelling women were exceptionally rare and this only happened under extreme duress

[@RelivingHistory1]

Maclelan, noone travelled alone, it was just too risky, everyone travelled in groups, men and women. But yes, the majority would've been male merchants, but women also went on pilgrims!

[@RohannvanRensburg]

People are always the same. Lessons like this are a fascinating example: -While taxes and tolls help maintain infrastructure, they're not always visibly proportionate -People try to dodge tolls when possible -People are skeptical and begrudging about taxes when maintenance is comparatively poor -Good contractors don't always get the work, and sketchy contractors did bad work for as much money as they could get away with -Regulations are an attempt to curb the former, but don't always work as intended -Highways get the most attention, and to higher degrees of quality

[@SusCalvin]

It has a patchwork nature. As you cross boundaries, local rules are not exactly the same.

[@oddball7483]

Nothing changed there then. With favoured Corporate services skimming off the public purse.

[@davidplatenkamp]

roadmen and "official" roadmen

[@RohannvanRensburg]

@@SusCalvin I don't mean "literally identical", I mean human nature is the same, broadly.

[@SusCalvin]

@@RohannvanRensburg That's the fun part, to see how very basic things could have worked.

[@Eveseptir]

I really enjoy this channel. Learning about the common folk of history makes me feel closer to them. The host is very endearing as well 😊

[@ianturton6889]

I love your insights into ordinary life. You really do bring history to life.

[@alphabravo8703]

yup

[@scottthomas3792]

As a teenager living in a rural area, I used to walk about 12 miles ( round trip) across fields to the nearest mall/theater....not exactly level or smooth, took about 3 hours each way....on rare occasion, I would drag an old two wheel movers cart. , but generally didn't buy anything heavy or bulky when walking. These " everyday life" videos are great.... people really haven't changed all that much..

[@mightisright]

Four miles an hour average is pretty good.

[@salguodrolyat2594]

​​@@mightisrightEspecially if not on level or smooth paths.🤔

[@georgeallen7667]

@scottthomas3792 today they would arrest your parents as you were obviously being neglected.

[@mindstalk]

@@mightisright 12 miles round trip, 6 miles each way, 3 hours each way, so 2 MPH. Which might seem slow... but 6 hours of walking will wear you down.

[@jamesborn-s6w]

@@georgeallen7667In the 1972 I was 15. I left a note on my parents fridge and rode my bicycle from Indianapolis into Canada. In those days no passport needed. No one said a word.

[@crazycomet8635]

Monasteries used to be a source of accommodation for backpackers well into the 20th century

[@juton74]

Journeymen still collect stamps on their travels as proof of where you’ve been, what and where you’ve been working. I’ve traveled for 9 years as a “Wandergesellin/auf der Walz”, a tradition still followed today, mostly from craftspeople in German speaking countries. My most important and dearest possessions are the books from that journey.

[@Hrossey]

Is that your own way of announcing you’re a Freemason? 😉 Hiram and Tristmegistus the delivery man will be delighted!

[@juton74]

@@Hrosseythis has nothing to do with that. It’s all about learning more about your traditional craft.

[@Bobario1]

That sounds like an incredible experience.

[@juton74]

@@Bobario1 it really was ❤️ I had the pleasure to meet so many wonderful people, to learn so much about my craft, but also about other countries and cultures, it was really awesome!

[@Bobario1]

@@juton74 If you don't mind me asking what was your trade? We don't have anything like that in the UK.

[@stephaniehart4527]

Towns are usually, fairly consistently, 7 (shires) to 10 (if more distant rural) miles apart. I assumed that was a distance you could get a horse and cart to market leaving at first light, and back again at end of the day before last light.

[@ExtraTrstl]

Freaking love your channel. These “everyday” topics are so awesome. This type of talk really helps to connect the routine challenges we face every day with what medieval folk faced, and it’s so cool to see how they’re the, just different! Thank you so much for your efforts.

[@taurus_says_hi8404]

I like to imagine you as a person from Medieval times who was cursed by a sorcerer to be sent into the future, and you have now chosen to teach people about the time you came from.

[@Helen-cw1qs]

Unfortunately he would smell terrible to a medieval person - we are overperfuned now with everything from washing powder for clothes to our deodorant. His teeth are probably worse as well, all that sugar he ate as a child.

[@nightseertarot3337]

@@taurus_says_hi8404 🤣

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

Ah yes. Let me curse you by sending you to a time with superior medicine, technology, and general living standards!

[@MichaelCapps-b2d]

​​@@TheGreatestJediOfAllTimebut you would go mad because you know where you're from. No one would believe you, so you'd end up teaching people as a way to cope with the situation you are in as per you can't go back nor would anyone knowing benefit you in any positive way like our homie above

[@lrdisco2005]

NURSE! He has got out again.

[@AngryArchaeologist]

For those of us who think in metric, walking 10-20 miles equals about 16-32 km. That is pretty much exactly the range I generally hit when hiking the Camino de Santiago medieval pilgrimage route some years back (with a sizeable pack on my back over ~850 km). Generally, the towns and villages in northern Spain tended to be spaced at the upper level of that range when on flatter or rolling terrain, but could be at the lower end when travelling over mountains (say, 20-22 km).

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Steve Poplar, of The Poplar Report , just did that pilgrimage. He posted some videos.

[@tianikane3312]

Yep. Did that. 20 kms a day was about right, but down hill and flat, up to 30 kms per day.

[@weronikazalewska2098]

Is that trail just one religious people do?

[@hufficag]

I cycled across China on a single speed and it's about 100km a day. When the sun sets there's always a village or town with a hotel and some food.

[@AngryArchaeologist]

@@weronikazalewska2098 These days, all kinds of people walk the various camino routes - both religious and not. You can still stay overnight in some of the original medieval albergues that were put there for pilgrims. The sound of your own footsteps becomes a kind of meditation, allowing you the time and space to really think - which is something that our busy, modern lives typically don't allow for.

[@Petr75661]

Monasteries accommodate pilgrims even today. It's still lovely!

[@lisalarouge6309]

@@Petr75661 it doesn’t talk about where travelers slept until 11:00.

[@patrickhenigin4805]

@@Petr75661 I have had the honor of lodging in a monastery on several occasions. They do and did ask for funds. The California missions were spaced in a way to accommodate travelers.

[@jasonallen890]

What a really random video to appear on my feed and also so very interesting too! Thanks, I really enjoyed it.

[@GenLiu]

Mate, you're videos are such great food for thoughts to me, an inspiring author. It's funny how the everyday life of ancient history people can be a source of conflict and interesting situations, even without having to dip into the dramatics. And I'm not even writing about medieval Europe myself. The story of my book takes place in a world highly inspired by Sengoku Japan, but your videos make me curious about things I would've not thought in such details without you, so, thank you. If my book ends up being published one day, you can consider yourself in the list of people who can be thanked for that. Speaking of which, I saw you've written a book yourself. Best of luck to you, I wish you all the success. I'll definitely get a copy. If anything because I'm very curious to see the Medieval period described by someone who's has much knowledge of the ancient ways as you.

[@ModernKnight]

Making people think is part of why I do this. There are so many adventure and story ideas just from ordinary history. Good luck with the book too!

[@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410]

old guidebooks are extraordinarily useful for linguists today. People often ask how we can reconstruct older forms of language and one common answer is the comparative method, which is true, but another very important aspect that is too often missed is that _people back then wrote materials we can learn from_ It's just so useful to have texts where somebody say from France writes of how to communicate with English people at the market, for we can see some of the differences in how language has evolved over time

[@ValhallaIronworks]

That's super interesting how that was written about how to greet guests. Norse Paganism had a tradition saying to "greet travelling guests well, giving them fire and fare, for you don't know what they've endured or where they came from" and warned that Odin himself would often travel under the guise of a normal traveler, so you should be polite and welcoming just in case it's him. It also says to speak well or be silent, for the tongue is the bane of the head.

[@TopHIgnite]

@@ValhallaIronworks well met kindred spirit!

[@DesertFernweh]

Hail Vegtam the Wander.

[@nancypine9952]

The tradition of a god traveling as a human and asking for food or shelter even goes back to the ancient Greeks. Throughout Medieval Europe there was a tradition of the Christ child arriving in a town as a beggar child, knocking on doors and begging for help, and in the stories the rich and powerful always turned him away, and it would be a poor widow or elderly crippled man who would take the child in and help him. Martin Luther would read such stories from the pulpit, and then point to certain individuals in the congregation and say, "and you would have turned him away, and you would have rejected him! Yes, you!" I suppose it was a reminder to people that kindness was always required, because you never knew what the results might be.

[@viceb7]

Love these

[@Zayphar]

US cavalry practice was: ride your horse at walking pace for an hour, dismount then walk beside the horse for an hour, remount and ride at a walking pace for an hour, etc., etc. The rate of long distance speed of cavalry was not faster than walking troops(about 10-20miles a day depending on terrain). But this method allowed Calvary to travel LONGER than infantry. More hours in a day traveled without becoming tired. Thus, cavalry could make about twice the distance as infantry(20-40 miles a day; once again depending on terrain).

[@garyfrancis6193]

You mean “ Cavalry”.

[@Zayphar]

@@garyfrancis6193 'Cavalry' is a specific type of unit with a specific OOB & TOE. OTOH, cavalry is general description of several quite different types of mounted units.

[@shaunvduke]

Tell that to Montrose....

[@Zayphar]

@@shaunvduke I would think the Civil War battles in Scotland proves my point. Does it not?

[@raraavis7782]

Interesting, I didn't know that. Makes total sense, though.

[@onaraisedbeach]

Brilliant as always! I'm just back from walking a stretch of Dere Street in southern Scotland, built by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago. Some parts are totally overgrown, but others still have obvious raised centres, drainage ditches, and stones marking their edges. Parts of Dere Street are better preserved than many 18th century military roads! The specific stretch I walked just now was over the Cheviots past the hillfort of Woden Law and onwards to Jedburgh by way of the Pennymuir Marching Camps. 10/10 would definitely recommend for budding adventurers!

[@ModernKnight]

I'll have to look that up now, sounds great.

[@stevencoardvenice]

I'm from California. We don't have anything like that. Everything is from the 50s basically. It'd totally mindblowing how rome founded Paris AND London. And taught you brits how to read and bathe, and built roads, 2000 YEARS AGO. And the structures remain

[@ModernKnight]

They may have founded London, or built it up on a small native settlement perhaps, but they didn't teach the Britons to bathe, soap was in use by the celtic peoples, perhaps more so than in the roman society. Nor did they teach writing either, the britons has writing on their coins before the roman invasion in 43. Many roman roads were built on top of the existing roads too, and greenways predate the romans by millenia, the ridgeway dates back to 3000BC at least with predates the foundation of rome itself in 750BC

[@onaraisedbeach]

@@stevencoardvenice I appreciate your enthusiasm, but Romans did not introduce bathing or roads to Britain. Even with literacy, that was largely confined to the army and senior officials and wouldn't become common in Britain until well after Christianisation. Many Roman roads were built along the line of native roads which existed for centuries, they just weren't paved or metalled like Roman roads. Iron Age Britons weren't half-naked screaming savages who lived in mud huts, they had a sophisticated material culture including bronze jewellery, megalithic structures, sprawling hilltop settlements, intensive agriculture, international connections across the seaways, and much more. The whole "Rome taught the barbarians how to be civilised" is an extremely outdated framing originating from mostly English, pro-Empire historians in the 19th and early to mid 20th c. and is not supported at all by archaeology.

[@stevencoardvenice]

@@ModernKnight really??? The native Brits had literacy?? Ivd never heard that. And I mean the Bath house culture U neee to collaborate with Metatron. He's a Roman chauvinist. Spqr

[@jeromethiel4323]

One time, in high school, i ran a 10k race. Through several miscommunications, i ended up stranded at the race, and had to walk home. So not only did i run 6 miles or so, then i had to walk about 20 miles to get home. I was in very good shape, being a distance runner, and that wore me out. I didn't move the next day other than to eat and use the rest room. So yeah, 10-15 miles a day would be a sustainable pace if you were going any distance at all and didn't want to wear yourself out. Especially if you needed to forage or hunt along the way.

[@TheLaughingPanda]

The idea of collecting stamps while on a pilgrimage sounds just like 御朱印 (goshuin) in Japan! You can still go to temples and shrines today and collect them.

[@newgabe09]

Same on the Camino de Santiago

[@birdandcatlover5597]

Im imagining an annoyed farmer snapping a bush out of the way, as he went along, therefore helping clear the road I enjoy listening to you present infomation. You have a good voice and speech manner for it

[@SusCalvin]

On a local level they do regulate which farmer is supposed to repair which fence or hedge. And how to fine people when they don't.

[@theharper1]

If you travel the ohenro pilgrimage in Japan, you can get an official record of your visit to each of the 88 temples. You can buy a blank book at the first temple, and put the official record for each temple on each numbered page. The record consists of a special stamp (or several stamps) and a hand-written prayer using ink and a brush. They are quite beautiful and worth collecting.

[@saxoncrow2500]

Same for the camino de santiago pilgrimage walk.😊

[@asha4736]

I saw a lovely video recently of a little card that got stamped at each stop on a tour of Japan, and by the end of the tour, each stamp had added layer upon layer onto the card and it created a little piece of artwork- Mt. Fuji I think it was.

[@merphul]

​@@saxoncrow2500there is a dual pilgrimage book to collect stamps on the Camino de Santiago and the Kumano Kodo trail. Not a bad way to visit both Spain and Japan.

[@VictorMTaveras]

I could totally listen to you talk about the life of midevil people for hours, especially the ordinary folks. One of my new favorite youtube channels 🖖

[@jasonr7968]

What a lovely and well presented video. Thank you.

[@ModernKnight]

Our pleasure!

[@TheGrimReaper1]

@@ModernKnight yes i have just come across your channel due to the mystery of the KZbin algorithm no doubt. Just want second the letter written above, very clear and concise.

[@wilkothewilkoman]

One of my favourite channels, whenever there's a new video I always go ..."Oooooh!"

[@maryrosetran5109]

When I was a kid, we used to visit our grandmother in the mountains during summer. The signpost in town says 18km to the village. We'll leave at around 7 or 8am and reach her house before noon. And that was uphill with our packs. The adults carried the heavier stuff, like babies and cans of food and baskets of fruit. Much faster on the return trip.

[@AdDewaard-hu3xk]

Uphill both ways.

[@GonzoTehGreat]

Where was this? 18 km is 11. 25 miles, so if you walked at 2.5 mph (4 kmph) you could walk the distance in 4.5hrs.

[@maryrosetran5109]

@@GonzoTehGreat The village name is Lon-Oy. The starting town is San Gabriel. Province of La Union, Philippines.

[@maryrosetran5109]

@AdDewaard-hu3xk Funilly enough this is half correct. Lol. You can follow the road uphill from the village, and the about 3/4 of the way, the road goes very steep downhill. You eventually end up where you started in town.

[@joncaulkett5198]

In some parts of England there were small, unattended huts by the roadside for travellers to shelter in. They were called "cold huts" or cal cots, which was modernized to my famlly name: Caulkett

[@gunnar6674]

There are some free emergency huts for public use in the mountains in Norway too. However most other communal huts require a membership in the tourist association.

[@sirwi11iam]

​@gunnar6674 we have them in the UK too, in mountainous regions/National Parks. We call them Bothy's and they are usually free for all.

[@Dogtagnan]

Like many thousands of others I've been on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, had my pilgrimage passport stamped along the way and stayed in cheap hostels. This video brought home strongly the sense of having walked in the footsteps of our ancestors.

[@amcguigan2389]

Fascinating. So well done. You "lecture" really well and it's so conversational and interesting, one cannot stop listening. Thank you! And you look great in the appropriate attire.

[@lizherrick6945]

Wow it's amazing how little has changed since medieval times. My friend recently completed a pilgrimage on the Camino De Santiago. Just like you mentioned she had to stamp her paperwork along the way to prove that she had done the pilgrimage. Once she had a certain number of them she qualified to get a certificate, proving she had completed the pilgrimage. Thank you for a very interesting video 😊

[@m.maclellan7147]

Read a book about this pilgrimage. Was very interesting! Of course, I am forgetting the name ! It was about a father & son doing it.

[@ChorltonBrook]

I remember during my travels in the Indian Himalayas that there were places to stay all along the mountain paths at roughly a days journey in those hills. Be it a temple (where chai with dahl and rice was freely given) or a cave floored with straw, sometimes even a huge hollowed tree stump with a roof & door added. These are used even today by the Indian people, especially the goatherds & village merchants. I imagine similar things happened in Europe years ago.

[@wadejustanamerican1201]

I truly appreciate the amount of research and effort to bring this episode to all of us. Many thanks.

[@todhannigan8779]

I just love this channel! Your ability to bring life to history, and break it down to how regular people acted and lived on a daily basis is a rare gift! I always learn something new, and I love the passion and top notch research! Thank you good sir.

[@jw3797]

Shout out to the other fantasy authors tuning in for inspiration 🙌 This is so informative, thank you!!

[@stuartwithers8755]

I never thought about this question before, but now I’m glad I know.

[@iansinclair521]

Fun detail... at least in the central belt of Scotland, villages and market towns averaged about 8 miles apart. Which... is the distance you could go and return in a day.

[@Ne1vaan]

This pattern repeats the world over. Anywhere that's good habitat for humans.

[@m.maclellan7147]

As a "want to be" tourist, that is helpful knowledge! Would love to take a walking tour of Scotland!

[@JohnDoe-gc1pm]

Outside the mountainous Highlands, the pattern repeats - places like Nairn, Banff, Clackmannan, Kinross, Forfar, Kincardine, and Wigtown were county towns,

[@avrilwynnedavies]

Irvine to Edinburgh in 1576 - anyone know what the route would be? Which towns and how long /how far might the journey be for a woman prisoner under escort?

[@carolinejames7257]

​@Ne1vaan I don't doubt that this pattern is very common. However, some places (like my own country, Australia), it's quite uncommon. Our country is so large and our population so small that most of the country isn't like that. Yes, some densely populated (relatively) areas on coastal strips have some of that, but where I grew up it wasn't like that. I find such differences fascinating, and they cause me to ponder how those differences affect people's everyday lives. 😊

[@TheArchaos]

Laying cobblestone was a nice insight into how one would build roads. From my experience as a landscaper, river rocks were excellent for two reasons: 1) If the pointy end goes upwards, the road was meant more for carriages as distributed the weight better into the foundation. 2) If the fat end is upwards, it was meant for foot traffic with the larger surface area being more comfortable to walk upon. Slab rock would obviously be more ideal but given the materials had be hauled by cart or basket I suspect local materials took precedence rather than more far away sources.

[@cj407.7]

This man’s channel covers things I day dream about at work 😅😂 🍻

[@LaneLibra]

More videos like this please!!! This is food for my soul!

[@aidenmartin6674]

They rode on Shanks Mare. A term you don’t hear anymore meaning, your legs were your horse.

[@yogibear5995]

I know it as Shank's pony

[@Qrulez]

Interesting! In Dutch the term is ‘benenwagen’ (legs cart). I wasn't aware other places have similar concept.

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

​@@Qrulez I've never heard the Dutch version! people across countries and centuries have the same dry humor apparently.

[@dulciemidwinter1925]

@@yogibear5995 So do I. My Nanna used to say she was going on Shanks pony if she was walking somewhere.

[@suzanneperron549]

So many interesting details that most of us would never learn of but for your passion on the subject and willingness to share it. Thank you. 😊

[@StacyL.]

I DO love these medieval posts! I've been watching for a couple years now, and they never get old. You tell it so beautifully!

[@erickingsbury7193]

Thanks!

[@Atom-Phyr]

Love the every day stuff this channel delves into. The normal men and women living their lives. I read a novel a while back about some pilgrims in medieval England. People selling fake relics was apparently a big thing. Thanks Jason

[@joshuakarr-BibleMan]

1:45 I like that you called the motivating technique for soldiers, "to hassle."

[@daemonharper3928]

Always nice to have a video from Jason. I'm not remotely religious but it's a long standing ambition to walk the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route, from our home in Lincolnshire all the way to the finish. The idea of my wife, myself and the dogs just walking and enjoying new places for a few months sounds like perfection - unfortunately it sounds like a nightmare to my wife 😂🤣

[@k9six185]

@@daemonharper3928 who knows…if you make the trip you my find salvation at the end….sounds like a worthy endeavor eh?

[@TheSkyHive]

@@daemonharper3928 Sounds incredible, I'll do it with you!

[@rumourhats]

Honestly. Love the format of these delves into little niches of history. Thank you.

[@robert-m6u7d]

During school I never enjoyed the history classes, but now I find this content fascinating. Thank you!

[@ersikillian]

When I was a young man, I used the various youth hostels to stay in. At the time, each one had a distinctive stamp which, when asked, they would stamp your little travel diary which a lot of travelers like myself carried.

[@TacetCat]

Imagine getting such a bad review that people still know about it centuries later.

[@Ne1vaan]

Some of the earliest found writing is a complaint about poor quality merchandise. A guy named Ea Nasir sold some guy named Nanni some shitty copper 3800 years ago and the stone tablet he sent to request the quality he paid for survived until found in the 1930s.

[@sandrosliske]

@Ne1vaan I remember the first time I heard of that. I couldn't stop laughing at the fact that one of the oldest recorded writings in human history was a complaint.

[@jamesandrews8698]

and it wasn't just one dissatisfied customer, Ea Nasir was a menace lol

[@kildeer]

​@@jamesandrews8698actually i read something interesting earlier this year! i cannot for the life of me find it again so you'll just have to take my word for it unless you look for it yourself I'm sorry to say 😅 basically, a common practice among merchants like Nasir was to sell the best quality stuff to the local government/military as they paid well. this would then leave a fair bit of poorer quality goods, which would then be sold at a discount and usually with a disclaimer. essentially, if i'm remembering right, the Nasir complaint tablet is instead the first recorded instance we have of a customer being self righteous after ignoring what they were told when buying 😄

[@wolfie9593]

Paying to have roads 'less bad' is a concept that Manitoba adopted wholeheartedly 😂. I love these videos of yours. Very interesting about the buffer zones near bush areas.

[@carlettoburacco9235]

The area of ​​north-west Italy where I was born was the transit area for pilgrimages to Rome from half of Europe: as a result small towns and even villages had convents and religious buildings of outsized dimensions. From even earlier times it was the transit area of ​​the "salt road" that brought people from central France and southern Germany to the Ligurian coast and northern Tuscany: quite a few salt traders apparently dressed up as pilgrims and hid their cargoes before entering the city for a free meal and shelter. The pilgrim police had to work double shifts.

[@jamesofallthings3684]

You mean the place where neither Germans or Italians can understand them?

[@carlettoburacco9235]

@@jamesofallthings3684 🤣😂 No, not that. (By the way, even the French don't understand them.) Further south in the middle of nowhere just in between Milan and Turin.

[@marka4891]

Paving was a point of pride in the twentieth century as well. I went to school in a town that had paved itself around a hundred years ago with bricks. You could still see many of them when I was still there 20-odd years ago.

[@helenwood1]

This is such a good channel. So much research and emphasis on presentation to make it authentic. Thank you and well done.

[@pauldogon2578]

This is fascinating, we take travel for granted today but I imagine a simple trip today of 100km would have been a major undertaking back in the day. I would like to see an episode on the outlaw trails that must have existed

[@hukko8749]

loveeee this channel. Very high quality and LOTS OF SOUL

[@LuxisAlukard]

Great video! I prefer these about peasants and commoners, rather than those about nobility - because it's more relatable for me :-) Cheers!

[@RonRay]

I love hearing you explain life in medieval times.. it opens a "door" in my mind on that distant world. I can see the rigors of a recent illness on your face.. I pray you are restored to full health soon.

[@m.maclellan7147]

I thought he looked tired ! Rest, Sir Knight !

[@daviddesert3132]

I love the historic words.. On the Dole was a gem. Thanks.

[@dinger40]

The Hospital of St Cross in Winchester you can still get the dole. Bread an beer when you depart when you depart at the porters lodge.

[@janemc7146]

A letter excavated from a Roman Camp on Hadrians wall complains about the state or the roads, making journeys difficult.

[@s1xto]

ultimate ASMR content with mountains of useful info, Mr. Kingsley you are a gem!

[@amylees1718]

This is the YT channel I've needed my whole life 😊 thank you!

[@ModernKnight]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@supersonictumbleweed]

Imagine talking into a tiny cube quite far away (a camera) while talking about and being period accurate dressed for medieval times, out and about too! Thank you for doing this!

[@sarysa]

The early parts of this video, a question and a comment: - How rampant was banditry? It's one of the top cliches in fiction after all but it also seems impractical to have been that bad. - 200 feet of sight is more than the total width of many modern interstates. That's both a lot of clearcutting but also gives a sense that conversion to modern roads had one less issue to deal with.

[@Legolas66709]

My favorite channel, every video is carefully crafted by a person who has a love and passion for history. There's not one that isn't worth watching! Thank you for putting your all into everything you do!

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Very interesting, I've often pondered this very subject. I found a sliver gilt pilgrims badge while metal detecting about ten years ago, it was St George slaying the dragon, it now resides in the Dorchester museum. It's finds like that that really get me thinking about the day to day lives of people back then. Thanks for the info.😊

[@hardver8855]

@@DomingoDeSantaClara from which era was that silver badge? I admire finds like these. I am also a metal detectorist from Bosnia

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

@@hardver8855 sorry, just saw your comment...its from 12-1300s, can't put an exact date on it.

[@Finding457]

This sort of social history is absolutely golden to me, l love learning about the common man and their everyday lives. You have a wonderful narrating voice, l could listen to you for hours. And l fully intend to! Thank you for this, utube at it’s very best 👍🏻

[@felixVanDiemen]

Superbly researched and presented, a joy to watch. Thank you!

[@ModernKnight]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

That was fascinating! It’s wonderful that some of the roads are still used today. I just assumed in the Middle Ages, poor people camped out like they do now. I learned something today. Thanks 🤗❤️🐝

[@vorynrosethorn903]

Meanwhile in western Russia winter travel was preferable as the swamps, streams and mud froze over, indeed armies campaigned in the winter, which was not the accepted practice in many other places, shows how bad the conditions for travel was when winters of such severity were preferred.

[@mdevries209]

@@vorynrosethorn903 In Holland periode used to visit each other on skates when the waters were frozen. On ice skates you can easily do about 50 km a day. Maybe a bit less then, as the skates were not as good as the modern ones.

[@mahna_mahna]

This was a lovely video, Jason. I always appreciate these little snapshots of ordinary medieval life.

[@deepoole820]

These videos are like a glimpse back in time. Thank you Jason. We all need some perspective in today's world.

[@jergarmar]

AMAZING video, loved it! It honestly makes me want to go on a "walking tour" of old roads and ruins in Britain.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

10:15 "Perhaps when the King was about to go by, they charged out there and cut the undergrowth down" In northern Canada there's a long tradition of asking a member of the Royal Family to visit, then squeezing money out of the federal government to fix the roads the royals will be travelling on during that visit. Naturally they choose different roads for the royals to travel on every time, which means eventually all the roads in Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Inuvik, etc. end up getting repaired without local government needing to dip into property tax moneys. Plus ça change...

[@JenniferBECKETT-py8vl]

I heard that the royals believe that the world smells like newly moon grass and fresh paint ...

[@roverboat2503]

That's like when a Royal visits an Army base. EVERYTHING gets painted (sometimes the grass too!) There's a saying that the Royal Family must think all Army bases smell of paint. However, emergency painting costs more than programmed painting so the base won't get painted again for decades.

[@JakubWasikiewicz]

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co rien de neuf sous le soleil

[@donnaj9964]

Also a bit like hosting the Olympics...lots of new construction and fancification there too!

[@CorvusNumber6]

So that's how Trip Advisor started! 🤣

[@reneeugrin7037]

Somewhere in my art history research, and as a printmaker, I learned that pilgrims, and probably regular travellers would stitch a small woodblock print on the interior of their cloak, for luck in their travels. The information you've shared today gives me the idea that these prints could have also been, 'passports', or protection from the pilgrim police(?). Thank you for the enjoyable ramble through the middle age journeys. I love the idea of hospitality from Cluny. Thanks again.

[@robinhooduk8255]

the A10 the great cambridge rd is a roman road i travel on all the time. goes from the bishops-gate of the city of london all the way to cambridge

[@Flypidge]

Brilliant narration, i love watching someone talk about a hobby that they are passionate about. Hope for more 😊

[@MsZeeZed]

Monastery dinning rules : No idle chit-chat No ribald jokes No Chaucer!

[@kohakuaiko]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@ren-uz2mz]

But you may have a small beer👍👍👍

[@Egilhelmson]

Aren’t the last two redundant?

[@eloquentsarcasm]

Fandabi Dozi has a wealth of videos about "living rough" in the old days, in Scotland. This dovetails perfectly with his stuff, as peasants often had to make do with whatever they had or could throw together if more comfortable accommodations were unavailable/unaffordable for them.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

One thing to note is that the highlands would have had a much higher population density than now and within your clan territory or that of allied clans you would probably be be a guest in someone's house for the night. Indeed this is what most people did historically and why concepts like guest right were seen as sacred. Everyone who travelled (so most people (or men at least in societies without strong traditions of pilgrimage) at one point or another) relied on the social norms of hospitality, so it was important that the standards around that be actively maintained for the common good.

[@jurakarok3343]

7:14 Sounds like people have been unhappy with roadworks for as long as there have been roadworks. Some things really do not change.

[@marlondegnan3524]

@@jurakarok3343 right ! 🤣

[@joeowen2286]

Great video your enthusiasm is really appreciated x