How did medieval people wipe their a**? What was the weather like in the Middle Ages? How much was medieval money worth?
Medieval historian and co-host of the Gone Medieval Podcast Matt Lewis answers Google’s most searched questions about life in the Middle Ages.
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00:00 Introduction
00:41 Did medieval children go to school?
01:34 Were there medieval universities?
03:00 How old were medieval people when they started working?
03:23 Were there apprenticeships in the medieval period?
04:22 What was the weather like in the medieval period?
05:31 Where did medieval people sleep?
06:48 What hairstyles were popular in the medieval era?
08:21 How did medieval people wipe their a**?
09:33 Did medieval people wear underwear?
10:11 What music did medieval people listen to?
11:05 What was the average height of an adult in the medieval era?
11:58 Did medieval people brush their teeth?
12:46 How did medieval people hear about news?
13:33 Which medieval country was the best to live in?
14:07 Did medieval people go on holiday?
15:13 What were the existing religions in the middle ages?
16:37 How diverse was medieval England?
17:46 How did medieval people tell the time?
19:07 What did the average day look like for a peasant, priest or king?
20:59 How likely were you to die of the plague?
21:33 What was the plague cycle?
22:10 How likely were women to die in childbirth?
23:07 How much was medieval money worth?
24:16 What was the average lifespan in the middle ages?
24:41 Was there a judicial system in the middle ages?
26:32 How did medieval people entertain themselves?
27:12 How did people share stories in the middle ages?
28:31 Were medieval people flat-earthers?
29:03 Did medieval monks party?
29:40 Conclusion








99% of trumpians know less than these ppl in medieval times.
12:46 Hi! I’m a shoutyman!
8 or 9k calories a day?!?!? that is a crazy claim and seems unlikely.
Anyone else think this guy looks like a young DDP? Hmmm….
LOL, seems to me a lot of those questions just didn't matter when you where working 12 hour plus days to survive.
How did they entertain themselves? Drinking beer and telling bullshit stories was as popular then as it is now.
I thought second sleep was partly to keep the fire going, especially during long cold winter nights
i thought that was DDP in the thumbnail.
There weren't Ethiopians walking around everywhere in the medieval period. England wasn't diverse fifty years ago let alone in the middle ages.
I'm going to start quoting "Joe is probably not going to school because Joe is a little peasant boy and he needs to get in the fields and do a bit of work." religiously