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
You ignored that all cities and probably most towns had churches with churchbells which rang at the very least the Angelus at dawn, noon, and dusk and probably rang for matins and vespers, so people often knew the approximate time. There were businesses, etc, in the medieval period when time did make a difference. Women died less in childbirth in the medieval period than they did in the 18th and 19th centuries when childbirth started being done in hospitals, where cross-contamination caused infection to spread, which caused maternal death to spike.
After thinking about the subject of your clip, and specifically about the ways in which we can learn from history, I have come to the conclusion that I am in favour of introducing the flat earth model together with some (preferably extreme) form of creationism to the US curriculum. And forbid anything else to be taught. That will finally free these poor americans from the stranglehold of so-called scientists with their strange ideas about the universe, the solar system, and the history of evolution. Let us wholeheartedly support the US in its determined attempt to regress to the Middle Ages. They are already getting rid of anyone who has a brain and has been acting in any formal capacity anyway. A firm decision to ignore the way of science and common sense (formalized as suggested above) should be easy to pass into law, and can only benefit the rest of the world. The isolationism of the US, its brainless veneration of grossly outdated religiously inspired concepts about society, and its general descent into madness, stupidity and ignorance provides the implosion needed for the rest of humanity to make the world a better place. The toxic (religiously fuelled, dehumanizing and racist) ideas peddled by the current US government will be stifled as they go down economically, and regress to a feudal society entirely focussed on themselves, barely connected to the www. It will create an opportunity to finally make some progress among civilized nations while the US are consumed by the idea of destroying themselves. So, even as a scientist, I am totally into the idea of a flat earth! The only thing missing is that it does not obviously resonate with religious fanatics. It would be easier to introduce a new world order if it did. Some creative spinning is definitely required to make this work.
It’s so sad to know that people today are actually dumber than people during the medieval times.
A shilling was 12d. A pound was 20s.
I love the way pounds, shillings and pence are being explained as though it's something from the 13th century😀.
Yes! Recognising how age data is skewed by infant mortality – give that man a prize!
I thought Poland had the world's oldest university?
2:40 students vs townies, tale old as time 😂😂
So did 214 silver d actually weigh 1 lb. in troy ounces? Seems reasonable as the origin of the name…
I wish we didn't just learn about medieval European history because this seemed very eurocentric. The first university was in Fez Morocco I believe, long before any European medieval universities.
(I say this as a European person who wants to know what was happening in medieval africa!)