Dr. Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life – working women. But dig deep and you can find the evidence – proving the medieval period is a fascinating window into the true history of women…and work!
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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31 Comments
More commercials than show
Guilds didn't allow women to be members ……..surprising, wonder how they justified it.
The WORLD functions on women’s low paid and unpaid work. I’ve worked for 35 years as my husband’s partner in business and as an unpaid housekeeper, gardener, cook, nurse. I’ve volunteered in Hospice and Church goodwill shops, I’ve sewn costumes for ballet, musicals and school shows, I’ve driven children to games, shows, practices and other school events outside normal hours and volunteered for camps. I’ve taken reading recovery classes and craft classes. Women do billions of dollars,pounds and euros worth of unpaid work every day. They care through love and duty, social conscience and civic pride. Women are awesome. The world floats on our love and care.
This video is so great, I really love it
This is where I got milk for breakfast, the butter was churned yesterday. Butter for tomorrow was churned after breakfast.
It’s an interesting narrative…women of the African Diaspora worked the entire time of colonial occupation. However, it would be nice to see what those women did prior to that era.
How is Catholicism still around? Evil survives, like how did trump get elected then 4 years later re-elected? Evil survives and thrives and its slaves with the mark of the beast do as they are commanded.
Too many commercials
Why was jerusalem considered hostile by the english
Don’t forget the Clifford’s tower event of 1190. That certainly was worse than the treatment Jews got in London a century later.
Don’t use ai, it’s obvious and ugly. Pay real artists instead
Don’t use ai, it’s obvious and ugly. Pay real artists instead
Love how they bring up the pay gap when it doesn't exist the way they wanted to.
How many centuries is mideaval ERA
From which dates to which dates
And this kind of The life is FROM which century 🤔
النسوية جاءت كرد فعل على القسوة التي كنتم تعاملون بها كنساء غربيات، أما نحن فكانت المرأة عندنا لديها مكانة وتحكم، في شمال إفريقيا لدينا تاريخ طويل من نساء قادوا جيوشا وحاربوا، وبعدها أتى الإسلام فقسّم الحقوق بين الجنسية بالعدل لأنه منظومة إلهية لا تقوم على المساواة مثل قوانين البشر الوضعية، انما على العدل، وهو اسمى درجة كما نعلم كلنا.
لذا أردت بهذه المناسبة أن أعلمكم أن مشكلاتكم التي تعالجها النسوية لم تكن لدينا ابدا، فحتى لغتنا لديها مفردة لا توجد عندكم وهي "الانسان" وتعني؛ الرجل والمرأة او احداهما، انتم الانسان عندكم هو الرجل، فحتى لغتكم متشبعة بالذكورية، اني لأحزن عليكم ❤️🩹 ماعانيتموه حقًا صعب، عبر العصور… ولا اقول اننا نعيش في نعيم بالعكس الرجال لدينا ليسوا مثاليين ولدينا ثقافة تعنيف وتقليل شأن المرأة لازالت متواجدة لكنها لا تصل للتحقير والدونية وليست اسلوب حياة انما قوانيننا اصلا تذمها، عمومًا ان قرأتم تعليقي ارجوا ان تضعوا اعجاب كي يراه آخرون وشكرا 😊
good use of AI
Where did the yeast come from?
Love the history lessons, hate the AI slop. Support working women (including artists) 🤗
Did she say women have been working since before modern times? 😂 Is that something that really needs to be said?
You can see today's woman change the minute she start talking . You want to be a dairy maid before of softer hands
In this video I see someone family members or decents now
Why did today’s hateful women always start with the banister and never the good you don’t even end with a good stuff the blessings and then you don’t tell how hard it is for men to live with women you make it sound easy make it sound easy to do a man’s work Like this dog kind of work is good if you if you believe you’re a family as one work is just part of life. It’s a blessing. What the hell is wrong with all your haters thumbs down cause you can’t you’re not even you’re so close minded and holier than now Eyes and smiles and you just said you were righteously hate because you’re so bigoted. There’s a lot of happy women but you make your own private hell and then you blame it on someone else in this case men, and even men who love you. You throwing away paradise because your pride..
A video about highlighting the hard work, skills and craftsmanship that went into every profession and every product in the medieval ages, and still go into those professions today…… illustrated with crappy, sloppy, lazily generated AI images. Something about that is just so absurd.
Women in less developed countries still do this.
I assume just as if not more miserable than the average person, I dont think many people in general “enjoyed” living during the medieval era
Please do not use AI pictures. Commission real artists, that’s not that expensive especially for such a big channel
Brewster is the feminised job name Brewer. The fact that we have a name that survives to this day indicates the significance of Brewsters.
No AI pleasssse!
Great video❤
Makes me REALLY realize how horribly out of shape I am. Ima take a nap
Well I found absolutely nothing wrong with the artwork that was shown on this video. I think it added to the interest, whether it was AI generated or not. We are not living in medieval times and if AI is available to help put it all together, why wouldn't they? What exactly is wrong with using AI anyway. The protesting comments seem kind of petty, critical and snobby.
Great Doc but please lose the AI.