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The night inside this same castle, hour by hour from Vespers to Lauds: https://youtu.be/24oxm6uqa0E
Life outside the walls, in the village that fed it: https://youtu.be/qAGLJKvdLec
Both, in order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIwGEK5UxaCE

Two honest notes: the line about no one leaving for months is more dramatic than the record supports — people did travel in winter, slowly and at cost. And the "asterisk" at 1:12 is a formatting slip that got read aloud. Both fixed from the next videos on.

And to everyone who wrote in to say they had it better worked out than we showed — storerooms, shutters, layers, a hearth that never went out — you're right, and it has changed how we write these.

They got asterisked to death.

49 seconds was all it took. 5 months gate didn't go up. Bollocks. They would have been out hunting. Fishing. Collecting greenery roots etc.

Cozy story.  But believing they didn't leave the castle all winter just because it was cold is silliness.

They had storerooms of food, lots of firewood and fires burned 24x7. There were shutters or wind break inserts. There were wells. Everyone wore multiple layers of clothes. There were hunters. They had it worked out.

The major mistake is to assume our ancestors were any more uncomfortable than we are today. One thousand years from now our descendants may wonder how we ever survived. Our reaction to our environment is in relation to our learned experience of the environment.

Stone collects heat, and then radiates it at night. Without the doubt castles were drafty. But I’m sure they were prepared.

Sam Kinison would scream: "Why did not you move where it's WARM!"

An early scene in the classic movie Lion in Winter showed King Henry waking in his bed chamber. He pulled an inch-thick skin of ice from the wash basin and tossed it aside before washing his face. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I live in Minnesota and love the cold. Instead of freezing it's invigorating. Ankle deep in snow is a nuisance but a foot is something else. Cold keeps the jecks out and leaves decent space to live.

I went to the Antartica twice to work on the weather base, it's a very harsh place

I would build a movable light weight room,  open at one end place at opening to fireplace and low 7 feet,  20 feet by 10.

I lived in New Hampshire. We measured cold nights by how many dogs on the bed you needed to stay warm. So “Jesus H, Ted- it was a four dogger last night”. I grew up without central heating in North Yorkshire. You just get on with life and you don’t know any different. Fires, an Aga, lots of movement and wool and thick socks. Lovely

Make a tent out of skins. No vent. Inside room. Body heat,  30 degrees warmer.

Id like a "What food was really like in medieval times". We see on shows and movies these roasted succulent glazed pigs, pheasents,goats and merry little feasts with wines and cheeses that we know darn well it was anything but.

Sounds like my childhood in Ireland!🇮🇪☘️

Amazing how in the Great White North we lived in dignity while further south in the warm comfort, the others did not, and continue to not.

Palaces were Grand. Castles were fortresses. There's a difference between the two

I would have tried to survive but I highly doubt it. Very interesting. Thank you 🇺🇸

Notice, even the host responses are also AI, the only human is the one that collects the check.