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6 myths about the Middle Ages that everyone believes - Stephanie Honchell Smith

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Like most other things, it's more half true
Comment from : @thelibyanplzcomeback

this is so inaccurate, I'm from middle ages
Comment from : @themidfier6591

if I were set back to medieval the only thing I would miss is modern music (from 1970 onwards)
Comment from : @alfief1538

Loved the video ❤ , but the whole time I was waiting for someone to come out with a redbull can
Comment from : @UsuCaption

Yeah, so?
Comment from : @shobhitshukla5697

Video is too good easy to understand
Comment from : @lubna_khanfv

"stretching from the Fall of Rome in the 5th century to the Fall of Rome in the 15th" I believe you meant to say
Comment from : @100beep5

Sponsored by Catholic Church
Comment from : @DrWho123

No one ever talks about Africans during the medieval ages
Comment from : @edenmichelle4373

IM SO CONFUSED
Comment from : @disneycreations-i2p

Nah, torture devices definitely existed and were definitely used to torture people
Comment from : @sk3tchinatortv

I heard the “pear of anguish” may have been a, pleasure device of sorts
Comment from : @PapaCass5633

I am afraid you just added several other myths
Comment from : @sophiaherschel567

And this is why every country on earth should return to absolute monarchism
Comment from : @blackholeinabottle

wonder what people of year 3000 will think of us ?
Comment from : @mdm9b

And we still have people thinking the earth is flat
Comment from : @gotchaya

mmmmmgaslighting
Comment from : @SunderedSeraph

"there wasn't much debate as to its shape"brbrFlat earthers rn: 🌚
Comment from : @shokomatte

The part about torture is not accurate at all
Comment from : @WaitingfortheMeteor

So basically it's all media incited fake news :D
Comment from : @flyhardt

0:20 actually I live in Germany We got a big castle And it holds many ancient torture devicesbrbrLike rolling your guts onto a wheel while you are alivebrbrSo much about that
Comment from : @FizzleFX

Thought for a second i would hear "the strength of the middle ages in europe was diversity"
Comment from : @camerongottfried2787

I'm from Europe and I don't believe I've ever even heard anyone say even a single one of these things, except for maybe the torture devices bit Now I wonder, are these things one of those American things? Or is it just me and my country (Netherlands) perhaps? Not trying to insult you Americans btw
Comment from : @roanbohmer7434

Why does this feel like it was written by AI?
Comment from : @chaosprofile4736

citations neededbrbrthanks
Comment from : @DizzybyNature

Eh, to be honest, while the basic premise is valid, parts of the video are also guilty of severe simplifications, and could also be considered rather misleading
Comment from : @Schmitty7546

Nicely done 👍
Comment from : @battlefield_hackers_exposed

The end of the Middle Ages was the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 It has nothing to do with the Italian Renaissance, which started over a century earlier
Comment from : @MirzaAhmed89

Flat earthers finding out their canon event isn’t canon
Comment from : @jazzingpanda3190

So flat earthers are just idiots of the modern age
Comment from : @Sheenifier

I think what i hate the most some people think medieval people live like a caveman, dont know how spices works, or dont know how to preserve food, basically don't know how to do anything and thought 21st century people are superior in everyway I tend to find this in fictional stories about time traveling or transported to another world medieval period, kinda vexing
Comment from : @manikaditha6308

This looks like a red bull commercial lmao 🤣
Comment from : @Allradicalliberalsneedtodie

Well at least the dragons and unicorns were real
Comment from : @OweEyeSea

Me too
Comment from : @cwtckness

NobrbrbrbrDon’t ruin the dark ages for us
Comment from : @cryptout

Yeah, but dragons are realright? And fairies? Well wizards are real I know that much
Comment from : @thearchergravity

I think one other thing that contributes to the conception that medieval europeans did not bathe is the fact that modern europeans DO NOT BATHE It's so common to smell people in Europe that have clearly not bathed in a few days
Comment from : @jorgeestebanmendozaortiz873

They were dark ages because religion ruled over Europe
Comment from : @Lollaksyotuube

Fun fact people from medieval era had a better hygiene than those from the 17th-18h century who considered water dangerous (transmitted disease)
Comment from : @Phil-ec9uf

The bubonic plague was widespread throughout midevil Erurope partly due to poor sanitaion Because of this fact, I am a bit sceptical of the public bath houses
Comment from : @andrewmckergow7814

Okay so a) in homeschool we watched a video like a news broadcast from the Middle Ages, and the one thing I remember was a commercial for pepper "Pepper: It makes it taste like the maggots aren't even there!" XDbrand b) So if future historians learn about laws against Casu Martzu, they're gonna assume that we just routinely used jumping maggots in all our cheeses?
Comment from : @Arkylie

I recently finished a book on a 15th-century inquisitor, and most of it was him telling people that the guys and women, treating diseases and performing scientific experiments, were not witches and Satan worshippers
Comment from : @mercuryspeed5023

Isolated white christians ??? Europe is as by your american understanding white brah we are the natives here 😂 sooo defiantly not isolated mybe you mean isolated in Europe that could make some sense 😂
Comment from : @Tatkovi-px7mx

Mouth wash? Mouth hygiene? Aint no way
Comment from : @psyduck9422

I blame Vincent Price
Comment from : @2TrackMind-c6i

Torture was a real thing, especially once the Inquisition began But you don’t need fancy devices to cause another person agony; all you need is to render the person helpless (for example, by tying them with ropes), and use any object, or just your hands and feet, to cause pain brSo many of the elaborate “instruments of torture” are modern inventions Two that were real, though, were the rack and the wheel There are ample records of them being used in the Middle Ages and before
Comment from : @censusgary

It’s true that not everyone was illiterate, but the majority of Europeans could not read or write from the early Middle Ages until the Modern era brbrIt’s also true that scholarship gradually improved For example, the Ancient Greek language was largely lost in the West until about the 13th century, so Medieval scholars did not read Greek writings, except those available in Latin translations But there was a Greek revival in the later Middle Ages, when Western Europeans read Greek philosophers, poets, and historians again brbrAnother step forward was the increased availability of Arabic texts, once they were translated into Latin European thinking about science, medicine, and mathematics were strongly influenced by Arabic writers
Comment from : @censusgary

I want to know how that 15th-century invisibility gadget worked
Comment from : @censusgary

Humans from any time period) always tend to think, because of their technology at the time of their life, that they are the peak of humanity & all those before them must have been brutes & idiots becausethey didn't have the tech they have, never thinking it's because those humans in the past created and learned new things that progressed society
Comment from : @bobholly3843

The Catherine Wheel? Drowning witches until they confessed? The speaker here may want to read "Diary of an Executioner: Master Franz Schmidt" Seems a bit of a whitewash on medieval torture here to me I'll give her a D for effort
Comment from : @glennsimonsen8421

All accurate except the subtle implication that medieval Europe was not White when, as a matter of fact, it mostly was
Comment from : @claudiomonteverdi7126

I wouldn't use this video because of the mention of chastity belts Completely going to derail a class of grade 8s Consider that audience in future videos
Comment from : @gabrieldavid3158

I like this narrator She's pleasant to listen to
Comment from : @BaumisMagicalWorld

Holy cow! Did i just learn somwthing feom youtube? Figures it would be TedTalks doing the teaching❤
Comment from : @chriskelso723

Myth 7, the middle ages were not in the middle!
Comment from : @michaelmcleary8566

A common misconception I've heard both irl and online is that peasants ate loaves of bread and sometimes butter Both of those things were luxuries Medieval European peasants would mostly eat millet or porridge as a staple (depending on the region)
Comment from : @syedrafiqkazim448

One of the other myths about the middle ages is regarding dental hygiene especially of the poor who lived in the country In spite of depictions in movies, these country people were healthy and sometimes had better dental hygiene than the rich because of the lack of heavy sugary diets They ate mostly a diet of breads, fruits, veggies and sometimes fish or meat While the wealthy had these too, they were also eating a lot of cookies, cakes, sweet rolls and candies
Comment from : @Polska699c

1:02 SPONGEBOB REFERENCE??
Comment from : @xxx_smiley_xxx

clickbait title moment
Comment from : @Grayson-tk5hn

I thought this was going to be a video of my mid-life crisis But I'm glad I learned something new
Comment from : @johnmatthewlow88

Speaking of hygiene, what about the idea that they use to throw their filth out the second story window?
Comment from : @priscillajimenez27

00:45 causing many to believe that myth of ancient people
Comment from : @priscillajimenez27

Imagine if modern records get lost and the only thing they’re able to recover is skits from The Onion
Comment from : @ladyalicent705

with respect most of this video servers as "true information" is wrong
Comment from : @bigbadcatbigbcy2933

Maybe there are more flat earthers alive today than at any other point in history combined
Comment from : @aboomination897

IbrAm the center of the universe brIt's all about perspective, babies😜
Comment from : @gandalfstormcrow8439

Most likely and possibly doesn't give your video much weight
Comment from : @Scorpio-tn4vy

The longest Red Bull ad ever
Comment from : @denizzengin8245

Avi Ofer is so fluffing cool, omg
Comment from : @mrsgingernoisette

CE and BCE don't exist
Comment from : @richdorak1547

The fact that none of these legends are present in my country, makes me happy
Comment from : @emmanymphalie2240

A lot of things came out of this period but people don’t realize it If anyone is reading this with a pair of eye glasses you have the Middle Ages to thank for that Love collecting hard cover books? Thank Middle Ages for the advent of the codex, which allowed literature to be bound in book form rather than rolled in long scrolls
Comment from : @Lvestfold4143

We all know 1 vampire mf is watching this video and prolly grinning like a mf Bruh bite me
Comment from : @KnightsTempura

So the witchers never existed?
Comment from : @christianfelixgalvez6450

Nice lies and whitewash The fact that some people were literate (much smaller than in Roman times!) doesn't mean people in general were literate, especially seeing they were locked away from society in cloisters and monasteries making the state of things even worse And yes, tiny minority knew Earth was round So? Vast majority believed it was flat, frakking bible even says it's flat, has corners, and grandpa from above makes wind by blowing really hard! Same with bathhouses, that was true for tiny part of dark ages, for 90 of it they literally didn't exist, and even in times they were present it was tiny fraction of public hygiene and infrastructure of Roman (or modern) times Please, stop lying and whitewashing!
Comment from : @KuK137

Actually everybody sharing a pool for bath is totally unhygienic
Comment from : @jackprescott9652

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Comment from : @DAURA9999

لمینیت سرامیکی یک راه حل معتبر و موثر برای بهبود ظاهر دندان‌هاست که با کمک دندان‌پزشکان ماهر مانند دکتر علی ممتازی، می‌تواند به شما کمک کند تا دندان‌هایی روشن و زیبا داشته باشید با رعایت مراقبت‌های لازم، می‌توانید از نتایج دلخواه خود برخوردار شوید و از زیبایی دندان‌هایتان لذت ببریدbrbrبا استفاده از لمینیت سرامیکی، زیبایی دندان‌ها در دسترس هر کسی قرار می‌گیرد که به دنبال یک لبخند خوشایند و اعتماد به نفس بالا است
Comment from : @پخشتزییناتمن

I like the real version of middle ages way more than the fictional
Comment from : @WTSD850

fab
Comment from : @perfectbreakfast

Only 1100s kids will remember…
Comment from : @TovarishshVillaleks

Does anyone know what this was created/animated with? What program?
Comment from : @FORG3D-STOIC

Sometimes they need a village, but get a City, or they potrait the 12th century with buildings from the 16th century Or a place in denmark is used to portrait rural romania, transsilvania to make a Dracula movie Finally we don't know if something is a historic movie or a fantasy or a ferry tale Everything is allowed
Comment from : @holger_p