And "MedievalMadness" can't persuade me otherwise

I Look at the Middle Ages with Chestertonic Eyes ... · And "MedievalMadness" can't persuade me otherwise

"This guy" (James Wade) is narrating, but the thing was written by Lisa E Rawcliffe.

5:33 "1330 - 1479, average life expectancy just 24 years"

I don't believe we have that kind of stats, though the plague years were temporarily pulling them down.

Feel free to cite your sources.

Women better, 33 ... my lates sample is certainly over a privileged class and on top of that only covers married women, but the median was 48 or 49 years.

7:06 "many people died in prison due to unsanitary conditions"

Sure this was the Medieval period?

Early 19th C is more like it.

In fact, sentencing to prison, as a special punishment, seems to have been fairly rare, prison was for keeping people up to judgement, and also between judgement and execution.

7:27 "370 wars over 1000 years"

Given that most of them were pretty short and local, that was not too bad.

Between 1200 and 1700, each C. went up, starting in the 13th C. with 12 % dead in European wars, then escalating to c. 40 - 48 % in the 17th C.

Source, prologue of a book about the Thirty Years war.

7:53 "peasants had to supply military service to their liege lord on a regular basis"

You mean vassals had to do so?

Vassals and peasants are not the same thing.

Lisa E Rawcliffe doesn't know the difference between a vassal and a peasant?

Now, whether liege lord or vassal, you arguably had land and peasants, so your warriors could get recruited from the peasants, but it was not as if the peasants were to a man themselves doing military service apart from such recruitment.

8:25 30 % of the nobles died in one skirmish or another ...?

Doesn't ring quite true, and I have done some Medieval statistics from dynasties ...

8:58 The Hundred Years' War was arguably the most extensive war on European soil since the Vikings.

9:37 "cream sauces, followed by sugared desserts and fine wine"

Peacock was rare any time, on the table.

Sauces in the Middle Ages were not yet much into using cream.

Sugar was not a thing North of the Alps.

9:48 "the glazing was made from lead oxide"

For England, you have a point. Stamford Ware, since the ninth C. For 15th C Italy too.

Far from universal, though.