Apologies for the sound in this one. Still figuring out what I should do with my boom mic when I’m wearing a hat.
The final quote is from the 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon in his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”.
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Sources and further reading:
Cooper, M. L. 2018. Publicmedievalist.com. Just the Good Wife? Death and Legacy of Noblewomen in the Middle Ages. https://publicmedievalist.com/death-good-wife/
Dutchak, P. M. (2008). The Church and Slavery in Anglo-Saxon England. Past Imperfect, 9. https://doi.org/10.21971/P7859X
Lacey, R. & Danziger, D. 1999. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like At The Turn Of The First Millennium.
Leyser, H. 2005. Medieval Women: Social History Of Women In England 450-1500
Morris, J. 1982. Londinium.
Rautanen, S., et al. “Sanitation, Water and Health.” Environment and History, vol. 16, no. 2, 2010, pp. 173–194. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20723775, quoting Hlavinek, P. “New/ old ways for storm water: learning from the history”
Seale, Y. 2018. My Fair Lady? How We Think About Medieval Women. https://www.publicmedievalist.com/my-fair-lady/
Wells, S. 2008. Barbarians To Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered.
Werner, A. 1998. London Bodies.
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"We have Philosophy Tube at home"
How has nobody mentioned the fact you have an alcohol globe. With Monster energy in instead. Truly iconic Tbh.
Medieval advancements > roman
The potato sack dress is an avante garde masterpiece. Gorgeous!💜
TIL my height is the average Roman woman's height
The Romans united a good chunk of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. By force, yes, but it worked.
We haven't been close since then.
Thats why Romans are Chads and Medieval people are simply not.
if I were in your tour group, I'd 100% be down for an educational essay to be yelled at me.
Now there's a video idea. Find an essay you wrote, and yell it at us on camera xD
Great stuff!
Great show! Many thanks.
Did you seriously just pop a peach Monster?
Just for the record, some museum goers are looking for the whole essay, but we also don’t want to take up your lunch break making you give a lecture that’s not actually part of your job or schedule. 😬
I always pictured it as the same type of situation as we see in developing countries today: educated ruling class who would’ve known say, the earth was round and revolves around the sun, a populous peasantry that had no access to this knowledge but made do anyway at least half the time.
I've always wanted to say as an American I thoroughly enjoy the rich history of the land you fine folk get to walk on. The idea of hundreds of years of history potentially being buried under the average persons home fills me with a wonder I can't even properly explain. So, thank you, to this channel, and to all the wonderful historians willing to take their time to dig through the horrifically managed historical documents to figure out the truth or as close to it as possible.
Facts and logic. THOSE HAVE NO PLACE IN MODERN SOCIETY! WE WANT OUR MYTHS!
The Virgin & Chad bullshit belongs to the right-winger fascists.
Don't join the shit hole just because you're desperate for clicks.
Medieval people had to put up with islam same as now
You may be incredibly toasty in that outfit but you look amazing!
The camera lens is dirty
If Italians hadn't forgotten how to sail to India,who knows how much longer for Europeans to find the Americas.
Medieval people getting rid of slaves… did you forget about serfs, or don't they count?
That energy drink thing completely threw me off, those things are the bane of my existence.
Even when I think about the taste and feeling they give me my body shudders lol.
In archaeology it's known as the hippy epoch as its the point people leave underfloor heating to live in a swamp and the material culture goes rubbish.
Look, you getting that Moster drink out of that exquisite globe-bar that I've been searching my whole life to find… it really offends my soul.
Looking at a villa and saying Roman’s were so advanced is like going to Beverly Hills and saying “wow, I can’t believe every American lives in a mansion like this, what a country!”
Assume you were being paid for the Monster product placements?
"Don't you want to live longer???" Do I, J? Do I?!?
Just heard a joke from Mary Beard today. "How many Romans left Britain when the empire left? Five"
😅
Shirley Manson energy
Meanwhile, the Mayans had ceramic water filters.
It's almost as if the collapse of major institutions can have reverberating effects and it may take some time for people to recover from it.
Rock Paper Scissor
To me, the end of the Medieval was with the end of the "divine" right of kings, i.e., the Magna Carta. And the Magna Carta to me, together with the return of Marco Polo from China, were the sparks that became the Rennaisance. (Thereafter Poggio Bracciolini's recovery of the sole surviving copy of De Rerum Natura was clearly the spark of the Enlightenment.)
Furthermore, looking more broadly than just Britain, to me, Christendom's rise starting with Commodus, and Christendom's fall, starting with the Magna Carta, are a far more useful bracket for understanding Western history than "Roman vs. Medieval."
This isn't to join in on the medieval dogpile, the point of this video is clear, but I just see a clear break in the imperial trajectory and "Imperial lifestyle" at Commodus and a clear continuum between the post-Commodian and medieval.
I would be interested in someone (I wonder who…) attempting to make a video comparing pre-Roman to Pax Roman and then post-Roman. I think that might prove (more?) useful in one's assessment of the Empire.
As a Persian, we were one of those lucky nations that has never experienced a Roman era. In fact for hundreds of years, Persia and Rome were the two superpowers of the world who fought with each other for many years.
Apparently mud huts are vastly superior when it comes to insulation so I'm not sure why stone is considered such an advancement. Sure it's great for grand buildings such as cathedrals but not so much for common dwellings