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What Was Everyday Life Like In Medieval Britain?
What Was Life Really Like For A Medieval Peasant?
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In the Medieval period, peasants made up roughly 80% of the European population. But what was life really like for a peasant during the Middle Ages? Under the feudal system, was it all backbreaking toil on the land, working for a local lord? What did it actually mean to be a peasant? And how did it differ from being a serf?
In the first episode of Going Medieval, Dr Eleanor Janega visits Denny Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery in Cambridge to explore the lives of those who devoted their lives to working the land.
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Interestingly, many Christians, particularly Black Christians, are often unaware of the true origins of the December global celebration. Previously, the celebration was variably scheduled in January, March, April, May, or September, reflecting uncertainty about the actual birthdate of Jesus.
The holidays we observe today have their roots in sacred days from ancient Kemetic or what is popularly known as Egyptian culture, where these occasions were timed with celestial events such as the alignment of stars, constellations, and the sun’s position relative to Earth.
Selected References
1. Massey, Gerald. (1883). The Natural Genesis: Second Part of a Book of the Beginnings, Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origins of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace, Volume Two. https://amzn.to/4b51Yrf
2. Massey, Gerald. (1907). Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Mysteries of Amenta. https://amzn.to/3yoRYdL
3. Budge, Wallis. (1904). The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume Two. https://amzn.to/4aeQwrL
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2. Pre-colonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop
3. Black Athena, Vol. 1 by Martin Bernal
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@c1neal
January 23, 2024 at 9:12 am
6:45 what’s the one guy doing in the back? Is he lazy or is he just Gerald? Weird Gerald from the next farm over that stuffs chickens in his tunic. You know? That guy.
@nohbuddy1
February 2, 2024 at 3:49 am
I bet it was cloudy
@kaelaleedaley
February 2, 2024 at 11:19 pm
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for this insightful series xx
@dbz9393
February 3, 2024 at 5:39 pm
wow so you're telling me that britain and europe experienced long periods of global warming and cooling? That's super interesting and relevant.
@lewiskx20
February 6, 2024 at 10:35 pm
Europe got hotter for a period of time? So that's global warming… Who the hell caused that?
@troydanielboy
February 9, 2024 at 5:04 am
A peasant might be a farmer, but a farmer is not always a peasant.
@Uffda.
February 10, 2024 at 2:29 pm
When I was a child in preschool, I saw a documentary on Ancient Egypt. Like many other kids up to that point, I was into dinosaurs. Then I saw the ancient writings, the huge constructions, the beautiful metalwork, the funerary practices, all so long ago, and I was absolutely amazed. That same year I started reading, and it was like the world opened up to me. I proclaimed in kindergarten that I wanted to be an archaeologist.
History was brought up to me, but by third or fourth grade I was able to argue why archaeology, despite its name prompting my teachers to grab the dictionary to check on the spelling (surprise! I was correct lol.)
I realized I was interested in how people have lived. What they ate, what they wore, what they slept on, how they made their goods. And that while things like kings and battlefields were enormously influential in people’s lives, they were not representative of most people’s day-to-day life. Yet most history was written about them, and most of the sources were written for them, creating a kind of feedback loop on what gets talked about and how.
So it is really, very exciting to see how much more common it is for historians now to be looking back at how to spot more of the lives of those people. And seeing more interdisciplinary research happening. Like archaeologists, medical researchers, and historians teaming up to find genetic clues about why some people were resistant to the Plague- which in turn led to them finding that same genetic mutation allows for their descendants to be resistant to things like HIV.
History is, when taught well, generally fascinating. But it is also like having a map. If you don’t know where we’ve come from, you are likely to just go in circles (those who don’t learn from history being bound to repeat it sort of thing). But it also can hold the clues not just to lessons our ancestors learned that we can try and avoid, but pieces of puzzles that we simply didn’t have the tools to understand before.
I dunno, I’m rambling on, but suffice to say that history doesn’t just have to be a cautionary tale of what to avoid, but can have real and tangible positive impacts on our lives today if we can think outside the box and work together.
@markdicristofaro904
February 11, 2024 at 8:53 pm
This is awesome. I never really understood the societal makeup of the classes of British people. In American movies, you see things, but it's a grand portrait of things that don't exist. It's sad because reality can be greater than fiction. Amazing, at the least.
@Chatsworth1979
February 11, 2024 at 11:16 pm
Fabulous. So fun!
@joerobinson1672
February 13, 2024 at 7:04 am
Refreshing !, no claims that britain had ethnic minority medieval communities as in children’s school books 👍🏻
@theveryworstluck1894
February 13, 2024 at 1:13 pm
I like this lady. Excellent hiring decision
@NathanHeadActor
February 13, 2024 at 11:18 pm
I've discovered Eleanor Janega via this channel and i love her, i can't get enough! i'm finding myself watching every vieo she's in haha 🙂
@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws
February 14, 2024 at 10:51 am
I love Eleanor's documentaries, she makes everything so interesting you remember it. I had one similar teacher, Ewan McPherson, for Social and Economic history, at college. He was the exception to the rule and, because of him, I passed my A level in the subject!
@Rdasboss
February 14, 2024 at 5:08 pm
The more things change…
@SoundSloth247
February 14, 2024 at 7:22 pm
Eleanor is great.
@FromMcDonaldsToKFC
February 15, 2024 at 5:43 pm
It must've been absolutely miserable for the peasant field worker, basic diet, cold in the winter, short life span. Nothing to do in the winter, if so in the fields soaked to the skin dreaming for the sweet end..
@terryjames548
February 16, 2024 at 12:32 am
Not sure, but I'm certain they suffered severe dental pain.
@petrabaker5412
February 16, 2024 at 3:57 am
I love listening to this story-telling! Well done and thank you for the beautiful history shared.
@theBaron0530
February 16, 2024 at 2:19 pm
@4:39 Was draining the fens truly an innovation, or was it a rediscovery of a technique the Romans had but was lost when the Western Empire collapsed?
@fumanpoo4725
February 16, 2024 at 6:19 pm
Everything still sucks for the common man.
@mikecobalt7005
February 22, 2024 at 9:54 am
🙂 Excellent, 20-30 minutes here and I learn more than 1 month of school.
@dezrtsnek9416
March 1, 2024 at 1:16 pm
Modern day peasant here (farmer), just wanted to say we still get the short end of the stick and we still (even with farm implements) put in tons and tons of hours of work for pocket change. We don't get overtime, we get treated like lowly uneducated folks and I've personally had my profession referred to as not a real job a handful of times. Without people to work the land and raise food and material from the earth, there would be no society then and now. Thank your local peasant for carrying on one of our most important trades and buy some winter greens from them
@paulm3033
March 4, 2024 at 6:28 pm
You are superb Eleanor, you know your subject , the subjects you pick are not the usual suspects and because of that, they've really interesting and your delivery is excellent.Im hooked 🖖
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March 5, 2024 at 4:08 am
I knew I knew that voice. QAA podcast quest she's awesome great video
@andrewbainbridge5573
March 10, 2024 at 1:41 am
Lay brothers formed the main workforce of Abbeys