What did MEDIEVAL PEASANTS do all day?

I have 17 horses, no big deal.

Poaching rabbits? But sire, they were eating the crops !!

Hold up hold up, a 3 day work week??? Maybe feudalism wasn’t so bad 👀☠️

Peasants probably had more honey than you think if they were wise . As we have a swarm turn up every year sometimes more and my partner collects them and this year got tonnes of honey left over from a swarm that left or died . Plus mead made by the monks etc

Im currently on my phone and have been all week. I feel ripped off.
I hate this society. We'd better all untie ourselves from social media, i phones and stop isolation. I am envious of peasant life!! WTF world!!!

Hi Jason. It would be really interesting if you could do an episode about how people with disabilities were treated and got by in the middle ages. I've long wondered this.

Ah beeswax

My grandparents did teach me that yarrow and plantain could help healing wounds. It seems to me the kind of thing that's been common knowledge since time immemorial.

Ah! Back to sanity.

Please do a video on How or did, mediaeval people celebrate birthdays and Christmas?

Spare a thought for my cousin Wang Peen Lo in China. He is not able to attract a female companion as there are 40 million more men than women in China. He is forced to accept male proposals as he is lonely. He would rather live in medieval times. Please pray for his body health 🙏

Is there a channel like this regarding classical antiquity? Focusing on regular life in Greece and Rome?

Hello. This is a bit unrelated to this video but I've just been watching the one you made around 10 months ago about cloaks and hoods in the medieval period, and i was wondering how people dealt with wet weather in those days? Did they just use waxed fabrics as a waterproofing solution? Or was the wool weave on the cloak and hood just so thick it would keep most of the rain off? Or did they have some other method of dealing with it? I love the videos by the way. 😊

Another wonderful video! Thank you!

How did they deal with changes to the weather? Did they stay indoors for most of the winter?

Looking at the population today i would say they were having sex and passing on there uneducated genes.

Imagine how much fresh milk would be availble if every one had cows :)

i am NOT a merry man

Love the videos and had a great time in Atomfall.

Would you consider making a kingdom come deliverance style game?

With your passion for this period I think it would be amazing!!!

If you think about the fact your family has been peaseants forever its kinda depressing, lol like a million years not one mfer could make it out the mud gaga.

Newer generation today wouldnt know how to wash clothes without running water

They did not have strawberries the way we know them. They only had the mini wild strawberries from the woods. Modern strawberries are hybrids that were first crossed in the mid 1700s in France. Garden strawberries are Fragaria × ananassa hybrids.

This life sounds much more pleasant and relaxing than our current typical lifestyle 😊

I still find it hard to belive that peasant didn't ate meat, after all they were the ones raising the livestock. Of course not a modern barbecue but bacon and sausages (especialy from pork) would quite plausible to got used in cooking.

Feudal system never went away.

Would literally die to see a quiet little reenactment of this, no drama just living

I would guess like myself they didn’t bother with breakfast and saved it up for the afternoon and evening. Eating breakfast lags you out I find if your doing a physical ish job

This is what everybody is going to do once AI takes all the jobs.

4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie.

Second sleep, or night watch is even mention in the Psalms.

I watch,
and am as a sparrow
alone upon the house top

Did Agathan peasants or Mason Order peasants have it easier

Downsides of being a peasant was the obvious things; target of potential enlistment for wars, prone to starvation if the harvests went badly, low status.
The upsides: Simple life, low levels or responsibility, tight communities, lots of sun and fresh air, no political endangerment.

In Norwegian (and probably other Scandinavian or even Germanic languages) we still call "dinner" for "midday" by spelling it "middag". Afternoon is "ettermiddag" which translates to "after midday". I always found it strange how we ate "midday" at 6pm but "after midday" was 1pm, but now I know why!

Watching while eating my oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, raisins and little salt. I feel like a peasant from the medieval period.

I love watching these stuff before bedtime

Sounds peaceful tbh

I'm a Harleys Davisdon mechanic in RL. I'd probably repair carriages or some kind of metal working trade. I'd trade places.

He puts it all in honest perspective. If you listen carefully. It is just like today. We all just try to live and thrive and survive.

They had it better, in many ways. A stable, quiet life in general, with plenty of friends and family, and a solid routine.

I'd have ended up branded a witch - too independent, something of a loner, and not impressed by authority. Oh, and I get on well with animals including the ones that most people don't much care for.

I think most modern people are below peasant status. Because most people have little to no skills in regards to self sufficiency and working the land.

My favorite parts of all your videos are your speculations. Like about strawberries and how they probably wouldn't talk about having a cache of poached meat. Makes our Ancestors more alive

it sounded alright until you got to the bathroom part, eugh

A big thank you to @bjornbullhansen for bringing this in front of me today. Absolutely brilliant!

V/H/S and V/H/S 2. Best thriller anthology series

My great, great (continued) grandfather back in Aachen Germany, in the year 980, was a member of the (eventually Prussian) land owning nobility.

I often wonder if he imagined his lineage would spread so wide over 1,000 years later!

In Norwegian Saturday is called lørdag/laurdag, from "laugardag" meaning "washing day". The word for dinner is "middag", meaning "mid day".

Im so grateful that i was born after industrialization. The past was so utterly gross and terrible

Excellent work, I really appreciate the longform content where you explore the details of everyday life!

An additional interesting note about drying your linen clothing on shrubs, grass, etc: These plants give off oxygen as part of photosynthesis so your clothes would be whitened from above by the sun and whitened from below by essentially a natural form of an oxygen-based stain remover like OxiClean.