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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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.
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In response to the debauchery of Roman baths, the early Christian church frequently discouraged cleanliness. “To those that are well, and especially to the young,” Saint Benedict in the sixth century commanded, “bathing shall seldom be permitted.” It was considered a sin.
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Another myth, the retoric of the Dark Ages is quite Eurocentric, 'cause in the rest of the world there was a lot going on. A lot of knowledge
I can’t express how frustrating it is that I had a test 4 hours ago and one of the questions asked what was not true. This video pointed out al the truths in the first minute being: People didn’t think the earth was flat, growing literacy (they mentioned monasteries, meaning they probably wrote scientific texts alongside religious texts), and that Greek and Roman texts were not lost.
The false one was that Arabic nations continued the work of a Greeks after the fall of the aromas empire, or something along those lines.
Except for the fact that knights DID play a large part in medieval warfare, this is probably reasonably accurate. But knights did not go on quests or silly things like that. But they did form the backbone of feudalism and feudal armies.
Excellent video
Rotten meat is delicious, really!
Course it was a British book. I think that’s just what the British ate lol
who believes any of this? i knew when i clicked it would be things long debunked and/or never generally believed. clickbait title is clickbait
Hearing the word Byzantine in a video with this title is comical
The term "Dark Ages” refers to the early half of the Middle Ages.
I think your wrong with the pair of anquish it was definitely used in torture. It didn't look like scissors. It had a corkscrew when turned which opened the petals slowly. It was to be put inside a women and opened which later was put in people's mouth and screwed open shattering their jaw and teeth and possibly killing them. "A shoe stretcher"? Possible but how often were people getting new shoes in need of stretching and who had the money for such a novelty
btw it did not take much to be considered guilty of treason, your little cartoon does not make the dark ages any less dark.
The animations are nice, but the ideas here are arbitrary, for exemple Knights were a strong part in warfare, so much as there were many knightly orders. Some exist to this day.
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this video is a cartoon myth, no tangible evidence at all. They could test the ancient torture devices for having any human blood on them if they have their doubts.
genocide euphemizers! Treason was just questioning the government!
When future historians find out about TikTok they will call our time the Dark Ages.
Yeah, but fantisy is cooler, sooooooooo…….
Yes, peasants and commoners were known for their adequate level of hygiene, they certainly had the time and resources to groom on a regular basis.
Against many misconceptions, in that period science actually flourished under the Golden age of Muslims. 6 centuries of science and civil development that all started from books translation movement of Greek and ancient sciences to then advance and develop methodological science. It's in that period that Chemistry, Trigonometry, Algebra, and early Modern Medicine have been founded, in addition to major advancements in astronomy, engineering and agriculture. This leap of science and Muslims spread of books paved the way toward the advancement of Europe in the 17th century, especially after the fall of Al-Andalus.
Why, then WHY is this mistaught in American public schools? Seriously?
“isolated white christian societies”… yeah because that’s the culture the european medieval period belonged to.
Is this story about the Middle Ages more accurate than the others? I mean it is on you tube
Seeing a lot of callouts against the mention that “knights played a minimal role in medieval warfare.“ While that may be an oversimplification, I think what it meant is that knights themselves made up a relatively small portion of some medieval armies. Maintaining the armor, weapons, and other accoutrements of a knight was very expensive, and common soldiers who couldn’t foot that bill were often armed with much cruder equipment.
how could insane inventions be invented like the printing press in an age of no development?