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
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A 76 year old lady here in Indiana, USA. Since I was in grammar school, I have wondered about this time period, which is not deeply covered outside of majoring in history in college. Thank you for providing so much knowledge in such an interesting way. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
25:55 sounds like a major gateway to corruption
vacation
Why are all historians ginger?
The Norse religions were heathen, not pagan. If you mean non-Abrahimic, then just use that.
People in the Middle Ages knew that the Earth was round. As early as the 4th century B.C.E., Aristotle presented arguments for a round Earth – for example, that it always casts a round shadow during lunar eclipses. A good 100 years later, the polymath Eratosthenes even calculated its circumference. Around the year 400, the Catholic saint and Church Father Augustine stated unequivocally that the Earth was a sphere.
So the medieval world view was based on these findings from antiquity. By the Middle Ages, this had been the general, unchallenged state of knowledge for centuries. People had had no time to think anything else, such as the folly that the Earth might not be round, even though it was clear that it was. Why should they have thought that again?
Flat-earthers are rather just a spawn of bored brains from oversaturated societies that have too much time on hand and not enough to do to occupy themselves with the important things day to day, so they started to question even the most mundane aspects of life. Flat-earthers are rather a figment of our time, like the adverse side effects of a medication when taken for too long.
You’ve got pounds, shillings and pence wrong. It was 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings to the pound – as recently as 1971. And they used the £.s.d abbreviations. In medieval times surely they had groats and marks.
Wonderful presentation. When I hear some "past lives" type going on I always ask them why they and their compatriots were always Princess this or Count that…. never a 14 year old peasant who died of Plague… lol
childbirth rate was higher in middle age then now, the children more often died then the woman 23:00