About the door opening: you're actually only partially correct. I mean, you show exactly why it's NOT always about heating because windows right next to it (single glazed medieval windows!) were much taller than the doors! One of the big reasons for smaller door openings is simply a way of crowd control in the event of a castle siege or riots. It would slow down invaders and force them to bend their heads when going through doorways making it a lot easier to defend room by room.

Fun fact: the Ye in Ye olde is actually The. The Y represents a no longer used letter called a thorn which made one of two TH sounds.

Wasn’t it “dark” because everyone was illiterate and there were no books and nobody recorded anything much other than religious clerics.

Were they really that dark? It depends who you were. The peasants had it hard, the nobility had it easy. Some were born to sweet delight, some were born to endless night, as Blake said. They were called the dark ages only in the modern era. And that was not so much due to there being more hardship but due to the fact that this time period was the aftermath of the fall of Europe's great civilisations, and it went into a period of social and cultural stagnation and adjustment. Some places even going backwards once Rome finally fizzled out and was diluted by peoples with less advanced civilisations. But life still went on. People still created beautiful things and art. Just not in as organised an effort as was the case in Rome, for example. It was a time of consolidation and redistribution of power, wealth and land. Tumultuous times, but not necessarily dark. There had been much darker times in the past and there were also darker times to come in the future. It just depends who you were and where you lived.

And nobody expected the inquisition! 😮

I call middle school my 'Dork Ages'.

People took baths but the streets were dirtier. As for ethnic perception, it depends on the region. England and the North was probably mostly or all white. The Mediterranean...not do much

Did the term "Dark Ages" extend to other countries on the Globe back then? Because, whenever the "The Dark Ages" is mentioned, it's usually Eurpoe that's depicted. How did Asia, Africa, The America's etc. feared during "The Dark Ages"?

Your voice is perfect for this channel. Please never leave me? lol

I feel like Simon Whistler should be quoted in this saying “the past was the worst…” somewhere

It depends on the location when it comes to how dark the "dark ages" were.

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No, Europe was not 'diverse' and filled with Africans and Middle Easterners in the Dark Ages/Middle Ages/Medieval age. Even into the Renaissance non-White people were still a rarity. These unnamed sources and studies are likely biased and engaging in rewriting history. Europe was overwhelmingly Caucasian/White. You would maybe find foreign people in ports, mostly in the Mediterranean and major cities for the purposes of trade, but for the most part a majority of people could not travel because it was prohibitively expensive, potentially dangerous, and most people simply had no reason to. Europe was 99.9% White until after WW2.

The times are dark in area that is ruled by any religious fundamentalists.

The movie Idiocracy is a warning of the coming modern era dark ages.

People were objectively shorter because of malnutrion, disease and other causes. Peasants also bathed irregularly, especially during the winter months for obvious reasons. And they didn't have as many clothes as the top of the triangle to change frequently. So they stank and were dirty, especially during those months. There were people, especially nobles, royals and church folk, who lived until their 80s or even 90s. But they were an exception. Many women (and their babies) died during child birth. Half of the children born safely were not expected to live past infancy and many adolescents and young adults died because of war and diseases. Of course that Europe had other races besides caucasian. But it is a fact that is was more likely to found them south... I seriously doubt it that England had many people from Middle East, Asia or Africa (even because of the commerce, which was a way of contact with other people from foreign lands).

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Only the time period between the fall of rome in 476 to about 1100 is considered as the "dark ages" according to most modern historians. However people like ptrarch, dante allegriari and others writing in the 1300s often used the term to refer to their own time period as well due to the nature of the time and the closer resemblance to the early ages. Niccolo machiaveli also used it to refer to the same time as i said at first.

01:20. Not only that. Noble women and abbesses had coats of arms and territorial rights. They were equal to feudal lords except in that they didn't combat, but were represented by a champion.

*Not the whole Middle Ages.* Only the Early Middle Ages have been called that, because after the fall of the Roman Empire few records were kept and that makes the work of historians way harder. It is "dark" because it is "unknown," same as "dark matter" is called that way not because it is literally or figuratively "dark," but because it is not known. Check the Wikipedia article 'Dark Ages (historiography),' and/or *ask a historian.* You can also watch the StarTalk episode in which Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks about scientific developments during the Middle Ages. It wasn't that Rome fell, everybody forgot about everything they knew, and out of nowhere rediscovered everything in the Renaissance. Knowledge had been preserved in *monastic libraries.*

I watched a video made by historia civilis showed that medieval workers had a far better work life balance than we do today.

There are misleading inaccuracies. The non White in Medieval Europe, outside of Southern Spain that was occupied by an Arab Army, black people were a small number, about 200 people in England during the middle ages or 1 in 20000 people. Height was shorter it was about 10cm-20cm shorter than today but it varied in good times the average height for a man was 1.70 cm born in good times and 1.60cm born in bad times of famine. People did live shorter lives lots of women died in childbirth, 1/3 of men would receive a violent death and whilst it's true that if a person lived to 18 would expect to live to their 50s or 60s its not like 75-80 like in Europe today. The crusades were religious in nature but also there were a lot of young men who were second born and not inheriting land and needed to fight for lands. The Popes thought if people were fighting Muslims it would spare Europe from an invasion and it worked. Once Constantinople fell in 1453, South west Europe was invaded and occupied for 450 years by Turkish forces.

5:11 it is absolutely true that many people in centuries past lived for decades beyond 30 yrs of age. I’ve been working on my family tree and am back to the early 1200s and both sides have a VAST number of people that lived into their 80s and even 90s.

Fun fact: The European intellectual elite in the medieval era were well aware that the Earth was spherical. There were even books that explained why the Earth was spherical and not flat, so any literate European living during the era would have known. Even Dante Alighieri's classic 'The Divine Comedy' even briefly explore the affects of gravity at the center of the Earth as Dante travelled through Hell in a spherical Earth.

-"And those 'Old Spice' ads wouldn't start airing for a few hundred years." So, what "Weird History" is saying is that the world is far darker and horrific now than it was then.

Bring back timeline that is what i would like to hear about

I would like to learn about the first red scare after WW1, I feel like it doesn’t get the justice it deserves. Reportedly it was way worse than the second under Joseph McCarthy.

7:20 It was not. In fact it was way less diverse than people think nowadays, stop listening to modern scientists and historians, the ones Netflix listened to to make Anne Boleyn and Cleopatra movies (which Disney was sued by Egypt for the latter)

The Roman Empire could be brutal, but there was at least a semblance of rights, secular government, and the rule of law. All of those things vanished in the dark ages.

These videos are amazing! Please do a video about 'The Terror' in revolutionary France.

Early 50 years of 1900 is darker on a certain point of view

Would I survive? Absolutely not! I would have not passed the duck test. 😂

Very interesting subject thanks.

A woman who can brew me beer, i couldn’t get to the jewelry shop fast enough.

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It's always a good day whenever Weird History uploads

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” - Maya Angelou

If they had a better publicist, they could have come up with a better name.... 😁

I was watching some videos about world war II aircraft dog fights. You should do a video about the farmers and civilians that were on the ground while bullets were being sprayed everywhere.

I've always just thought that there was problem with candle and/or match production

I don't care how much heat it saves, I'm not making my door 1 foot shorter for me to bang into every time I walk through it. Probably doesn't save that much heat anyway

The “castle” you showed at 2:11 is the Citadelle Laferiere in Haiti 🇭🇹

Anyone else have to rewind and rewatch the part where (3:01 or so) the woman was walking on the high ledge? I’m sure she wasn’t in danger and it was just made to look that way but I was holding my breath lol 😮

So glad we live in this time.😊

Can you do videos on the ice ages?

I was in the Canary Islands and their old buildings had huge doors! Wide and tall! But it doesn't get all that cold there.

No electricity and candles only burned with 1 lumen. Duh! 🥴

What is the name of the platform that does historical recipes?

IF it's possible I'd like a video about what was going on during Rome and Greece from between the fall of the Roman Empire to just before 15 hundreds ( around the time America was discovered ) . Wanna see how the ancient civilisations that brought us Colosseum fights and philosophy progressed to what we have today . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺

Interesting stuff

(2:12) .. Is that real? Where is that?

Rod Bennet has put together a really good history collection of what was going on during this time. It is religion related but still historical facts nonetheless. The book is called “The Apostasy that wasn’t” - Rod Bennet.

I had thought they never were clean

The 'Dung Ages'

If they had to boil their water, it was just the same to make beer out of it.

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The Catholic Church sponsored quite a few scientific experiments 😐

Ah….the past

Just in western europe...

For being a history channel you not knowing what the crusades were about is sad.

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I really enjoy this narrator for the videos the other ones that narrate not so much... They just don't have the right voices in my opinion...

04:32. Some of that survived, mixed with the religious art. You just take a look at the manuscripts, paintings and sculptures, and you'll see plenty of representation of daily life, often with a whimsical sense of humor. If you go to a medieval church, look whether the seats the monks used (the choir) can be lifted. If so, it's likely there are a "misericord" there, a bump on which the monk could support himself. Given their use and location (lol) sometimes they were carved with mythological or humorous designs. Also, check the history and meaning of the Carmina Burana songs. They are *not* pious.

Speaking of x files. Could do episodes of the real story on some episodes. Or so called real. Monster of the week episodes alot of times had some foot in history

10:00. Food was not *that* scarce, just less varied than it is nowadays. People didn't forget how to grow grain and veggies and fruits, and keep farm animals and hunt/fish when the Roman Empire fell. Recommendation: the channel Tasting History recreates historical recipes; it has made a bunch of tasty ones from the Middle Ages. Enjoy!

A+ video! LOVE IT! What it would be to live in that age!

Be very careful trusting this video, well it fun & KZfaq. Do ur own research many things wrong.

It was called the dark ages because there was a lack of written records, unlimited historical documentation during this time

People think science just stopped

One error to note here: the crusades happened after the dark ages, so the argument of "religious fervor" shouldn't be used as an example.

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I don't know why people keep harping about the crusades...we still fight over religion, besides I like hearing about the crusades. Richard the Lionheart and all that jazz are really my cup of tea. Wars were pretty common in those days. King's didn't need anyone's permission or vote lol

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If you're at least halfway well versed in medieval historie or anthropology;the "dark ages is a controversial/outdated term if you listen to what most alot of historians would say. Sounds pretty pro roman empire bias if anything.

Wouldn’t prehistory be the only dark age? Thousands upon thousands of years where humans were developing and expanding across the globe with no major writing or other forms of records/evidence?

No Roman Empire, Barbaric Gauls claiming to be Emperors, and you’re only allowed to practice one religion? If that ain’t a dark age I don’t know what is

Somebody said that the dark ages were not very dark, because they were illuminated by the fires of the inquisition.

You’ve made this video like 5 times, I’ve been watching since before Covid and I’ve definitely seen this topic more than once

The point about the catholic church is very cherry picked. They may have funded scientific research but only if it benefitted the religion. Any findings they didnt like were heresy.

I thought they were 'dark' because of a (relative) lack of documentation

I knew times were dark…but not that dark…

The nonsense about a diverse dark ages Europe is exactly that and throws all your credit right out the window.

0:01 Speaking of dark ages...it hardly gets any darker than the film Melancholia! For Kirsten Dunst's birthday on April 30th I am going to watch her films The Power of the Dog and Meloncholia (both on Netflix). April 30th is also the birthday of both directors of the films (Lars Van Trier and Jane Campion).

I just can’t get over that there was a medieval time lol 😂 just like Wild West

Am I the the only one that feels they have transitioned to AI for the visuals ?

Depends on who u ask For the Muslims? No The west? Yes

Too much stock footage .. really boring. More actual historic imagery please.

A quick jaunt down the reddit aisle tells me chastity belts were probably useful with how these women behave.

It's called the dark ages because people didnt write history for that era. So its dark. As in not much known.

What happened to narrator jr.?? He should do a few episodes as well. The original narrator is awesome, but I liked the other narrator as well. It’s sad how people hate on him.

Europe was still overwhelmingly white as it is today it was very rare actually to see a sub Saharan African or Asian. Yes there’s different ethnicities like today but the overwhelming majority was white, it was very rare not to be.

It’s called the middle ages

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Daily showering is a very modern thing, like post WW2. If you don't count roman bathhouses, but historically everyone kind of always smelled funny, you giant modern babies, I've seen roommates have a full on crisis because the shower was broken, like the next step must be scurvy.

So something that was supposed to "enlighten" actually caused it to be dark? Hum, who would have thought religion would cause slower progress. Kind of like today?

I most certainly would have not. I thank god for my life i know he has no real control of actions but he gave me a life many dead queens did just not have the accommodations i have always had to my immediate demand for that i am very grateful 1980 is ok with me. ❤💅🏾☺️

The chastity belt was also used to protect women from being raped. It was not something women would ware all the time. But that was one of the main uses of it. I also imagine that women would use them because they just like them. Not terribly long ago, a British man in South Africa bought a diamond encrusted chastity belt for his wife as a gift. If people are getting chastity belts now because they like the aesthetics, it wouldn’t be a stretch that people did the same in the Dark Ages

It was the dark age cause no one but the church could read the Bible 😊

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