What Was Life Really Like For Medieval Peasant Women? | History Hit
Published 2024-05-01
Eleanor takes on the jobs and businesses of real medieval women, from Domina Agnes Ramsey, a highly skilled stonemason with a flourishing business making royal tombs, to Katherine of Bury, a blacksmith plying her trade inside the Tower of London during the Hundred Years' War.
And Eleanor gets hands on in the medieval kitchen with experiential archaeologist Caroline Nicolay to explore the jobs of country women, from dairymaids to cheese-sellers to bakers, uncovering some crooked practices along the way...
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All Comments (21)
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Every time someone says "That job was too physically demanding for women in medieval times" and claims they couldn't have done it, I argue that they need to watch Ruth Goodman kneading huge mounds of dough, doing laundry, and then helping in the fields in all the Farm series of vids (Tudor Farm, Edwardian Farm, Victorian Farm). What she is doing is every bit as back-breaking as what the boys are doing.
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I loved seeing all these strong beautiful women telling the histories of our ancestor mothers and sisters. Thank you so much!
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I could appreciate that despite using some AI images, they did take the time and effort to put together a set, wear the clothes and do the actual manual tasks too. Its far from youtubers who just narrate auto generated research text over a completely AI art slideshow.
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I think of the common people a lot. The unspoken heroes of humanity.
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I love this kind of topic. Real life. And especially women. The people usually erased from history.
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My grandmother had a bread trough like that. My sister took it when the estate was being dispersed by my aunt.
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The fact that BABIES who are born of sex workers are considered “slightly sinful” is wild to me.
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My daughter was in the Peace corps in Ethiopia. The way of life that she described in the village she was in was so interesting. A had life but she said they were Happy
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Digesting all the research and scripting it into something somewhat comprehensible for the somewhat intelligent viewer must have involved Herculean effort by everyone involved with its presentation. I am awed and offer a hearty “thank you” for all your work.
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I love these documentaries, and really do appreciate all the work that goes into them - that we can enjoy for free... But the frequent use of AI images was really, really jarring! I would have been happy with stock images of rural England or a snippet from a medieval manuscript...
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Been there, done that! I grew up on two small farms and milked two cows all through high school, so I KNOW! :))
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Such a fun and informative documentary; thank you!
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Loved your book and love these History HIT videos with you. I’m here for whatever material you create. I appreciate your authentic and factual sharing of what life as a woman was and what is has meant to be female in different time periods and how it impacts what it means to be female now
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I have been waiting for something like this for ages! Thank you!!
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Wonderful! Thank you Dr. Janega!
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So very informative, thank you very much for this excellent quality history lesson!
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Wonderful, educative documentary🙌
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I'm subscribed to this and the other affiliated HH channels as I've been excited by history since I can remember myself. And when I discovered YT, I felt so grateful for the access to information. However, now I am getting increasingly weary of these kind of 'new' YT videos with false click-bait titles consisting of discombobulated mash-up of existing videos.. And now they have added the AI images to make these videos even longer.. It's just sad and disappointing.
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Really great new information!
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Very informative,,loved it
