6 myths about the Middle Ages that everyone believes - Stephanie Honchell Smith - TED ed
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5:32. I think it goes way back before the Stone Age. It’s a sensual instinct of animals including humans. Even a dog would turn its nose up to road kill by instinct if it was rancid. Only seagulls eat literally anything I think ha. But the must have some special types of stomach 🤔
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About the no bathing myth, my city went a couple weeks without running water a while back, and while on average everyone smelled a little worse, bathing was a constant concern and a lot of time was spent figuring out a way to take your next shower. People like to be clean, we feel better, and we’re not any different from our ancestors a few hundred years ago.
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Of course its not CORRECT !!! Its kinda "racist".. IM WHITE SLAVIC MEN...Im NOT a CAUCASIAN and they dont even KNOW what CAUCASIAN MEAN.
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Explore the 6 most common misconceptions about the Middle Ages, and find out what living in medieval times was actually like.
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The term “dark ages”, when used correctly by historians, refers to a period with a paucity of written sources, which can lead to bias by contemporary commentators. The term is unfortunately popularly applied to the period in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages. But the are other dark ages thruout time and the world. Scholars actually know more about the most recent dark age in Europe than the dark age following the BronzeAge collapse.
Medieval Europe. Where unbathed, sword-wielding knights ate rotten meat, thought the Earth was flat, defended chastity-belt wearing maidens, and tortured their foes with grisly gadgets. Except… this is more fiction than fact. So, where do all the myths about the Middle Ages come from? And what were they actually like? Stephanie Honchell Smith debunks common misconceptions about the time period.
Lesson by Stephanie Honchell Smith, directed by Avi Ofer.
"Into europe throw bysantine trade routes"
So.. bysantine, pretty sure that alreddy is in europe
The Middle Ages, spanning roughly from the 5th to the 15th centuries, represents a transformative period in European history that bridges the fall of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Renaissance. This era began with the collapse of centralized Roman authority around 476 AD and was characterized by the rise of feudalism, a hierarchical system where land ownership determined social status and political power. Lords granted fiefs to vassals in exchange for military service, while serfs worked the land in a largely agricultural economy. The Catholic Church emerged as the dominant unifying force across fragmented kingdoms, wielding enormous spiritual, intellectual, and political influence. Monasteries became centers of learning, preserving classical knowledge through the Dark Ages and later fostering the Carolingian Renaissance under Charlemagne. The period witnessed significant developments including the growth of trade guilds, the establishment of universities like Bologna and Paris, and architectural marvels such as Gothic cathedrals. The High Middle Ages saw the Crusades, which opened trade routes and cultural exchange with the Islamic world, while the late medieval period was marked by challenges including the Black Death, which killed one-third of Europe's population, the Hundred Years' War, and the Great Schism that divided the Catholic Church. Despite common misconceptions about this being a "dark age," the medieval period actually saw remarkable innovations in agriculture, technology, philosophy, and art, with figures like Thomas Aquinas synthesizing Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy, and the development of scholasticism that would influence Western thought for centuries. The era concluded with the gradual decline of feudalism, the rise of centralized monarchies, and the cultural awakening that would become the Renaissance.
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Europe was freaking white in the 1980s. The added etnisity came bassically the iranian revolution and the end of the Vietnam war was when the influx started. Really prior to that, people from africa and asia that migrated was not even a thing
There was plenty of inter european migration prior. Of cauese the borders of countries shifed more than people moved. But come cold war there was quite a lot of inter europe migration.
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8:30 pretty sure the devisen on the right is for your wife to right is for your wife to stop yapping while you fullfill your marrage
@matsv201I would take anything directly saying about medieval cooking with at least a “pinch of salt.”
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ever herd of a strip wash. that is what Brits did before running water, they filled the jug with water and had a wash before they slept and after, including face, hands, back of neck behind ears, arm pits belly button and privet parts, with 2 wash cloths, sometimes it was an all over wash, but that was usually the minimum, by morning the water was room temperature, if you had a servant, you mat have warm water, at night the kettle would be left by the fire or on the cooling stove and the water was warm. there are jug and bowl sets going back to then
the pear was real, used as a punishment for gays whores and scolds, size and orifice dependent on crime.
i would wear a chastity belt as protection from assault, i would feel safer in a strange place.
apparently, there were more blacks in the middle ages than now in N. Europe, as in Britain and a couple of Scandinavian lands, they were predominantly gingers, this phenotype has breed to a tiny proportion compared to then. apparently red heads are black now, which then would have been a large majority of Brits
My first impression of the Middle Ages came from the cartoon series "The Smurfs." A part of me has always thought of the time period as consisting of colorful adventures for whimsical blue gnomes and the equally whimsical humans who were their friends and foes.
Seriously, though: Europe did become socially and politically fractured beginning in the late fifth century, with very weak central governments and not as much of a cosmopolitan atmosphere as had existed before. It took about five more centuries for the cities to increase in size again.
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@4Grace4TruthGood Lord!!!! Where does she get her facts from?!!!!?:/
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@calvinduke1553I wondered why a female American black was narrating European history as if she was an authority, but it became obvious at the end. It isn’t “your” history, it’s “our” history. Unless it’s black, then it’s exclusive.
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@gabrielc-youtubeORATORES, BELLATORES, LABORATORES The Three states of Man in the Medieval Time period.
Those who Pray, Those who Fight, and those who Work.
I suspect that some of the debunks are themselves exagerated.
Before refrigeration meat was hard to keep even for a few days.
I am sure that a lot of bad meat was eaten by people thinking, hoping, "it isn't really bad yet". Still is.
Cities had bath houses. The well off had people to carry hot water up atairs. The people in villages must have been very happy when there was no longer ice in the river.
Men going on crusades to be gone for years, if they came back were obviously concerned about the chastity of their wives and daughters daughters. Many must have tried to do something about it. However to be worn for years would be unreasonably uncomfortable and any chastity belt had to have a hole in the back, which means that they did not enforce chastity.Probably most of the few chastity belts actually put on were off before the man who insisted on it was out of sight. I am saying that saying that NO chastity belts were ever worn is an exageration. Their total ineffectiveness is not
Torture was extremely common. But not to a lethal degree, usually. Loss of body parts, which is a form of torture was a common punishment since it marked the offender. I think there are still places that punish theft with the loss of a hand. Not always legally. For a very long time in many places witness by commoners was not accepted in court unless obtained by " the question" even though it is obvious that torture results in any testimony desired.
If chastity belts did exist it would have been for women to protect themselves while traveling. Not something theyd be forced to wear by a jealous husband
@ryanpeck3377There are two things that are simply wrong though some people push it. That is denying historic fact because it doesn't fit your narrative, and denying biological fact. Those two are sciences, and denying them is unscientific.
@TheEvertwI’m 51, I remember in elementary school learning that the ppl of that time thought the earth was flat. In fact, I remember a teacher telling us that Christopher Columbus came up with the theory that the earth was round. He did this by sitting at the docks watching ships sail out. The last part of the ship he could see was the top of the mast so he thought the sea was curving. Therefore he figured he could get to India by sailing west( not knowing the Americas existed). I remember this story very well. I think even other teachers said they thought the earth was flat and Christopher Columbus was the one who wanted to sail west to prove it was round and he could get to India by sailing west. That’s why they called the Bahamas the West Indies. This is honestly the first time I’ve heard the ppl of this time knew earth was round and if that’s the case, why did no one else try sailing west before Christopher Columbus, and why was it such a big deal for him to do it??
@michelesilva9491the very vast majority of people back then probably didn't think too much about the shape of Earth
@rebirth_mishapIt's funny because literally today on Twitter I had some guy try and claim that the Maori in New Zealand were some enlightened culture that had advanced knowledge that the English explorers of the time had no idea, in particular about navigating since Western civilization believed the world was flat back then. When I told him he was wrong, he simply called it fake news then followed up with, they didn't even bathe. So he's currently 2 for 6 from this video. I wonder if he can managed to get the rest of them.
@chopstyx1But Metratron......the earth IS flat
@ProtossEnjoyerOfc they spoiled good fun video with shitty propaganda =_= its tiresome and sad
and yes, caucasians is actually a terribly unfitting word, it was spread through nazi germany when they analyzed some skulls from Kavkaz mountains and declared that perfect skull form was from people of that regions...when it was mostly occupied by mountain middle-easterners, so a far cry from "perfect aryan".
Amazing video as always. Rational people who think rationally are beautiful.
@LamiNalchorI think that at one point the delusional left will attack the phrase "Dark ages" because it's discriminatory or some other bs.
Let's instead call it "intermediate ages of no origins".
Caucasian usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.
Meaning the middle easterns were Caucasian.
How do you know the Dark Ages were not dark? I know of work which points out evidence that the Dark Ages were indeed dark and investigates its theoretical cause as well. If you have no theory beyond just simply believing what you wish I would like to point out that delusion and fantasy is poor reasoning.
@scinanisern9845A slight caveat I would add is that I think a medieval person's opinion on when a food is considered spoiled is different from the modern opinion. I don't think they were eating fully rotten food, but I think they were more willing to eat what we now consider questionable food.
@history1099Yeah, I think "medieval" Japan might have different criteria for when such a change in periods begins & ends separate from Medieval Europe. Calling it Medieval Japan as a separate distinction is useful and makes sense, but they can feel free to change the name of such period(s) as is appropriate/accurate.
@jimspetdragons3737What good is winning when you can't make adjustments to history to better suit your own sensibilities? /s
@jerrymeadows5059i believe this is the second time i thought there is a german flag in the background, but it is just a light.
@shrottbott7200It's wrong to say "black" about people. If you want to discribe people living in sub-Saharan countries, you should use term:"Afro-Americans"!
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@thenomad2311Even in port cities like 99% of the population was white...Its Europe, native europeans are white.
@franciscomarques2867Thinking about it, if Japan specifically I would say feudal Japan, but for the world in general from 500-1500 I would likely say medieval times. I guess more for simplicity, regardless of any accuracy. But, in my mind, I am think numerical accuracy(the dates itself) over any literary accuracy. If that makes sense.
@DemonKingBadgerI also detest this modern acceptable racism, way that the left treats europeans which they hold to way different standards to the rest of the world.
If I had to put m name to this, i would either not do it or i would fight to ommit that racist ending about white people. This Stephanie Honchell Smith has to stand by what she said.
Less than a minute in to the video I see the that box showing the years of the medieval period and simply think “ce… cringe”
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