What Was Everyday Life Like In Medieval Britain?

I thought a mercer was someone who sold livery another textiles.

I love the way Dr. Janega breaks down the aspects of common people's lives (food, clothing, work, tech, etc.). This is one of the best series I have found on life in the Middle Ages. I hope she will continue to produce these shows.

Things have not changed. Your place in society still dictates everything- what you eat, where you can go, or how educated you can be (tuition, student loans), or how long you will live (healtcare). Most people can afford only the basic costs of life.

Do you know that Scotland waz quitef diferent from England?

This is a great video, just "unfree" is a terrible euphemism.

I love the subject and her dry sense of humour.

Dr Janega's documentaries are very information rich. Some other medieval documentaries involve lots of walking around, doing some medieval activity, showing things, which is very limited in scope and doesn't give the full picture.

Thank you eleanor great video

Wow, colourful medieval pictures, as if there would be colours in that period.
In most films and German documentations about that time, there is a grey filter and dirt all over.

Very good!

Why some area didn't turn into communism?

I really don’t like stitching through double sided tape. It makes the needle almost greasy and strips off any beeswax that was making it easy to handle the needle. Don’t underestimate white glue, I use fiebings leather cement. Quick drying and easy to use. I decant it into a plastic bottle with a fine nozzle to get good accuracy. In my opinion it makes hand sewing much easier.

Was part two about the guilds ever made?

The title refers to ordinary people living in the UK today !

I really do think this is how farming should go back to, it’s much more economical and much better for the environment. We won’t have to put so many (if any) harmful chemicals back into spent soil. I know this is on the tiny scale, I make sure I plant my own “crops” on rotation. I make sure bits in the garden are kept barren to regain the nutrients and I will add organic matter (and feed) back into that.

I hope that in the future - when I can afford my own place - I will have my own garden/allotment and I will grow my own to the time of year. Yes I’ll buy produce that isn’t in time within the UK… I’ll give it a bloody good go though!

80 percent of us today are still peasants.

That's sounds like us working class people that is tired of being taxed and paying for wars, social programs and politicians salaries.

Thank you Eleanor for opening our eyes and our hearts to our ancestors lives. I'm so proud of their innovations and perseverance..they paved the road to moderniminity. In watching you, I feel like I'm sitting with a friend who is just the best story teller ever! I'm enthralled! Again..thank you!

Plenty of peasants in the UK still, it’s just that we call them left wingers these days

Thanks!

Fun fact: we have less time off than medieval peasants did. Let that sink in

The Lords and Ladies needed a large group of people who had no choice but to labor to provide for them. So... Pretty much nothing has changed to this day, right?

The 1% and the church (doesn't matter which one) have always been parasites on the working class.

Sheep, wool, milk for cheese and meat

Im literally watching this for my sims game to try make it more medieval and realistic and this is very helpful

So, this is what the governments are trying to bring back…

the rights of serfs were different in different areas. In some places serfs owned nothing but their pants and shirt and no rights to even chose their spouse. in other places a serf was able to become even rich. very fifferent rules.

Terrible

So pretty much what we have today.

It seems that the earth has always undergone climate change and the modern hysteria over climate change is unjustified

Same view told the same way every time. Borrrinng

Console gamers describe their daily activities...

Interesting. It is strange to understand why people still have Royalty. The Churches have so much of the money. The worship and admiration of today's society worship people who display great wealth. Why wars are fought and why are we still in this miserable shape. What has broken the back of the basic educational system?
Mankind seems to stay on the dwindling spiral. 🌀 Are we doomed are we at the end of this spiral?

This is a great series. She did a great job❤

It must be pointed out that Constantine IX's position was weaker than other Emperors because he was emperor only by right of marriage to his wife, Empress Zoe, who was, along with her sisters Theodora, co-heiresses of the Empire, as the daughters of Constantine VIII and therefore he was joint ruler with them.
Also the video downplays the role that Constantine played in causing the rebellions. He cut funding for the military to fund the luxurious lifestyles of himself, his wife, and his mistresses. His Mistress Maria had a brother who seduced the wife of General George Maniacus. General George was the most brilliant Roman general of his age, and his mistreatment by yhe Imperial court caused his rebellion in 1043. Another rebellion was rebellion was started by Constantine' nephew, Leo, in part inspired by Constantine's persecution of the Armenian Church.

In 2023 in the uSA and UK, it is still the case that the social position one is born into, in nearly every case, decides where you live, your education level, what you eat, what you believe, what work you do (or) do not do and how long you live.

Little changes in the human existence.

Eale or Janegas’ delivery makes this amazingly. It is great to listen to a real historian.

This is excellent!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!

The editing is amazing!

Great video! Nice reference to the Medieval Warm Period, and Little Ice Age. What caused the flooding prior to the Great Famine? There were no gasoline cars, gas boilers, coal fired power plants back then.

I wonder why that particular peasant went from being well respected and successful, to being so much in debt?

Man I'd be chilling as a peasant, this shit looks dope

Fantastic series and Eleanor Janega is such a good presenter/teacher.

Gee, they had global warming, and global cooling during the Middle Ages. Guess they were using too much fossil fuel! Stop falling for that Climate Change. B@llshiff. It’s the globalists wanting to control you..

It's dopey to keep "promising" that a "nerdy" subject is actually going to be interesting. No one was thinking otherwise. So just tell us what you know!

Serf's freedom was limited. However, it was also Medieval "social security." Serfs could NOT be evicted... even if there was a famine or the husband died and children were too young to work.