The abstinence during lent, meant babies wouldn't be born durning winter, makes sense when food was scarce.

The fact that this type of content which is not even avalable on netflix is available for free is really astonishing. Keep up the good work 👍

Did you also know that in order to improve their archery skills, many wins and pubs offered target for those to practice archery. When that became a bit dangerous, they suggested throwing arrows. The arrows got smaller, and we got a game of darts.

"Fear will keep the local systems in line" or in this case, the peasants. Fear has been used by governments & religious leaders to keep people down even since the dawn of human-kind. Also, thank goodness for trial by jury. Great video.

Along with the shoes. The sleeves of men's shirts kept getting longer and more ornate. A law was passed at about the same time as the Shoe Law mentioned limiting the amount of material in the sleeves based on Rank. The highest level was allowed to have 9 yards of fabric. Hence the statement "The Whole Nine Yard"

To summarize a lot of this video: Basically it was illegal for poor people to do things rich people could. Lol

I refuse to believe people didn’t think those long shoes were stupid looking back then.

There are lessons to be learned here that, although in a completely different context, some of the strategies to keep power still apply.

Could you do a list of the most ridiculous laws still on the books

Watching Weird History, blowing my nose as I'm eating a 3 course breakfast while scheduling a few tennis matches with friends, and feeling like a bad a$$ lol 🤣 🤣 🤣

I haven't watched the full vid yet but there's also those laws where animals had to testify as well. Just watched the full video, and these are exteremly weird laws. And the jokes actually got a chuckle out of me

I've never been happier to hear this voice😅 great video guys!

The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree issued by King Edward I of England on 18 July 1290 expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England. Edward advised the sheriffs of all counties he wanted all Jews expelled by no later than All Saints' Day (1 November).

I laughed way too hard at “ driving with influenza“

Meanwhile, somewhere in Medieval Europe: High Lord Thunderbutt: "My liege, the peasants are revolting!" The King: "Yes of course they are." High Lord Thunderbutt: "No sire, the peasants seek to overthrow your most splendid person from the throne." The King: "Fie! Off with their shoes!"

Fun Fact: The Term "Soccer" was invented by the British as another word for football. Its use died out in Britian, but not the US.

Thank you weird history 👍 keep em vids rolling 🏆👌

8:43 Politicians still do the same, just in less obvious ways... i.e. keep you scared of imaginary problems that they alone can "solve".

I'm no lawyer but if a law is extinct I don't think you can still break it.

No balls for yooooooou! Thank you posting this!

1:24 "And the occasional death" Good to see that not much has changed about the sport.

No sex during certian times of the year and days of the week, sounds like married life.

Maybe cover strange punishments next? I seem to remember there were all sorts of strange medieval death machines for the purpose, from stretching racks to head-crushing vices, or just putting someone in a cage in a public place and waiting until they're a skeleton.

Came for the Ludicrous Laws, stayed for the D&D Sports Trivia

I'd like to a video on how people in the past hydrated. Anywhere I go I always bring my water bottle. They didn't have that luxury. How did they hydrate on long trips?

Stretched out on a rack, pecker chopped off, being disemboweled. One way to stop all the crime happening today😂

The weirdest part, is England banning football

I love the snarky humor

This video makes me thankful to have been born in the 1980s.

Since you guys just uploaded a food video too- how about something on an old classic (and disgusting!) english meal... Jellied eels? o:

I'm sure there is a law in the UK that you can't eat mince pies before Christmas day , stuff that 🥧🥧🥧🥧😋

Imagine them trying to enforce a law about bumping uglies today

So trivial is these laws. This is something else.

I'm sure getting the lord's permission to marry was about collecting yet another fee. People still pay for a marriage license.

Ahhh, reasons. Oh how I love REASONS!!! Earth, Wind, & Fire and Beach Volleyball. lol

I love all the Medieval paintings and woodcuts. Made this vid come alive.

What about laws where Muslims lived such as Turkey? Some of those countries today have very harsh punishments such as cutting off a person's hand if caught stealing.

Some of the ordeal trials were fixed so the accused would survive. Usually in cases where it was obvious that the person was innocent. The church knew it was a load of crap, but they had to keep the fear in people.

🎶"On the 35th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....🎶 Nothin'!"

3:20 I imagine that a teenage boy was the first person to ride a horse. It probably happened because the boys had a contest where they would jump onto the horse's back and hang on as long as possible. Eventually a boy would manage to hold on long enough that the horse would stop bucking and allow the boy to ride it. The first horse race very likely took place not long after the second person to ride a horse managed to hang on long enough that the horse stopped bucking. After all, that boy had only managed to equal his friend's accomplishment. The next logical step would be who could make their horse run faster.

@ 8:27 - For the "youngsters" reading this: In 1980 or 1981 the FDA (under Reagan's guidance) classified a squirt of catsup as being the nutritional equivalent of one serving of vegetables for public school lunches. So we had the new reduced-price lunches, but we also got reduced-content lunches. It was all quite stupid, I assure you…

Number 1. Tax Evasion

I have never broke this one medieval western law: Not wearing long pointy shoes.

New name for the Middle Ages after watching this video: The Lawfully Dark Ages.

Trial by water - they did haul you out if you sank, at least.

A lot of sports and also specific musical instruments to this very day are mostly a wealthy person’s deal since they require money & plenty of it over a long course of time which a certain class of people unfortunately do not have…

Illegal to blow your nose………or have a fever……..🤔

No. 10. It's called soccer in Australia too

How about a similar video on Victorian laws?

May I recommend the Dark Ages and medieval content on the Northworthy Sagas and Stories channel here on KZfaq.

Great Video.

How dare he Float lol

The entire video was educational. Thank you!

"Driving under influenza" 🤣

Henry VIII was apparently pretty hot and athletic when he was younger, he just got injured and older and ate himself into obesity and gout

🎵 "...Breaking the law, breaking the law..." 🎵

We in Australia & New Zealand call soccer, soccer not football aswell

You do understand that England was first to call the game soccer right?

Yeah, I break those laws.. whattchyagonnadoaboutit? Nuthin', that's what! You'll never catch me, Copper!

Oh look. It's Bruegel!!

Using the term CE rather than AD for historical dates is a more modern ridiculous rule.

How were the laws about sex and servings enforced?

Can you PLEASE make a video on the history of fire fighting

Thank you, James Woods sounding man.

Always interesting Thank you Peace 💕🇺🇲

Legend has it that Henry VIII was playing tennis as Anne Boleyn was being executed.

I love this narrator's delivery... especially on the clown shoes!

"The peasants are having... FUN?! Nay! Nay! Ban it! Ban it ALL!"

I think it is funny that addressing witchcraft is part of the law. I follow a channel called Decoding The Unknown, and Simon Whistler often says "The past is the worst." It sounds interesting to me! I am sure I would have hated the feudal system though.

Love all your videos! Wish put out more content! Well done Tho

Horse racing goes back much further than the 1100s. It is thought to have first taken place in Kazakhstan over 4000 years ago

Wearing long shoes was considered “drip” back then, I suppose 😂 medieval yeezys

We have come along way since the middle ages.......................................................................................

When it comes to football, theres still a tradition in some villages and small towns who play annually on Shrove Tuesday

Who was running around enforcing these laws? With what? A ticket!?

Realy enjoying all the interesting facts on your channel

Been to Tennessee many times and did not _see_ anyone playing tennis even once.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I'm an elderly old woman whose looks have gone. What ever do I have to look forward to now? . . "WITCH!!"

Henry the 8th didn’t gain weight until coming down with scurvy. He was also good at the precursor of ballet. All with the size of a modern NFL linebacker.

Brilliant narration lol

One thing to take note on the subject of Sumptuary Laws and their increasing prevalence during the Late Middle Ages, is that these weren't targeted towards the poor, and it's kind of a misnomer to frame it that way. Rather, this was an attempt at curbing societal influence of the growing bourgeoisie class. As Europe progressed towards the early Modern Period, expansion of trade routes, government centralization, and a upper class eager for goods from abroad, created a growing mercantile class whose fortunes were swiftly beginning to rival the nobility. The upper classes were terrified at the prospect of being being supplanted.

Pumping the uglys hahaha. Nice one

My husband's company he worked for in the early 1980's still had a rule that guys wanting to get married had to ask the boss for permission to get married. The idea was more that the young man had to satisfy the boss that he was able to financially provide for his bride.

I love watching these videos especially when it’s the guy he makes me laugh

all of the laws are bloody stupid.

I absolutely adore your sick twisted dark sense of humor lol, great video

So if your bday was 9 months after a forbidden period you’d know you were a forbidden baby 😂

Those shoes def helped with abstinence

Fun fact, you could pick your nose but you couldn't blow it

Loving this channel

Not a surprise Henry VIII was good at tennis, dude was apparently a huge athlete and was a very active person, he didn't become the fat asshole we all know until later in life when suffered an injury that messed up his leg pretty bad.

Yay! New upload 😍 Deus benedicat tibi🙏🏻

What kind of dr. Seuss lookin goofy ahh shoes

And we all see how oppressing a people based on financial wealth can be deadly

The upper class trying to keep their hands on power - why does that sound familiar?

One that wasn't in mentioned in this video: "Droit de Signeur" or the land-owner's right to deflower a prospective bride the night before the nuptials were to be held. This cozy little arrangement was introduced into England by the way of the Norman French. If either side complained, the groom usually was castrated or beaten to death and the bride was forced to be the lord's sex slave by moving her into the manor house as a lowly servant (usually a scullery or laundry maid) and having his way with her at night until she became pregnant with his offspring. She would then either be sent back home "dis-graced" to carry the lord's seed to term; or, if her family rejected her, she and her baby were cast out to starve to death.

“Ordeal by Fire”… is that why we say to someone accused of theft: “You’ve been caught ‘red handed!’”??!?!? 🤔🤯

I suspect that horse racing existed before Twelfth Century England.

Imagine the MeToo movement in the middle ages 👀

Excellent video!!