How To Build A 13th Century Castle | Secrets Of The Castle | Absolute History
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Channel: Absolute History
Views: 2,738,533
Rating: 4.9221148 out of 5
Keywords: history documentaries, quirky history, world history, ridiculous history, castles, geometry, Medieval Documentary, Tom Pinfold, stories, stonemasons, Channel 4 documentary, Documentaries, medieval castle, Britain, France, Documentary, 13th century, history documentary, Documentary Movies - Topic, build, archaeologists, BBC documentary, medieval, Full Documentary, hand-carved, Peter Ginn, real, Secrets, Staircases, Historian, documentary history, History, TV Shows - Topic, Ruth Goodman, construct
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Length: 58min 49sec (3529 seconds)
Published: Thu May 14 2020
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I came across this documentary today and I thought it was an excellent glimpse into the 13th century life of a castle builder. Everyone has a different job and set of skills and they all contributed to the construction. This group really goes all in. This is great for anyone who is interested. Itβs cool to see the parallels in modern society when constructing a building.
Clicked on this thinking, 'wow this will be cool!' First minute, I see Ruth, Peter, and Tom from the "historical farm" series! I am so excited to watch this now, those three are amazing! I've watched all that have been broadcast here in Canada. For clarity: it's a historian and two archaeologists, and they spend around a year at a historically correct farm (Victorian, Edwardian, WW2, and Tudor Monastery) and perform the daily tasks with age appropriate equipment, clothing, food, and housing. Not just the 'farming' either. Sheep auctions, a beach day for Victorians, making bricks... I found it endlessly fascinating. I will watch anything with these three. (Well, four, actually. Most of the series' have Alex Langlands instead of Tom, but love all four!) Sincerely, as I did not know about this series, and have looked for more from this team, thank you!
The people making the castle have an excellent YouTube channel where they explain all the different aspects of construction.
They are still working away at it too...
https://www.guedelon.fr/en/
The chapel looks like it is finished so it's cool to see the progress.
They even have some YouTube videos. They are in French but with subtitles.
I've been putting them all in a playlist in case anyone wants to go through them chronologically.
Ayyyy, i live pretty close to the site and i visit the place every 2/3 years to see how things are advancing.
FYI itβs in France (for the lazy)
I went there last week with my family. Iβve been telling everyone and their dog to go visit it since. Itβs really awesome for kids and for adults.
This is called Experimental Archaeology and it helps archeologists understand exactly how people accomplished tasks, whether or not we understand their tool use strategies, and the social organization of tool & labor use.