"Terry Jones examines the romantic notion of the Knight in Shining Armour had little interest in rescuing damsels in distress." Dear BBCWorldwide: read that sentence aloud. Then FIX IT.
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A knight is a member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe who followed a code of law called "chivalry". In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent (e.g., French chevalier and German Ritter), suggesting a connection to the knight's mode of transport.
Since antiquity a position of honour and prestige has been held by mounted warriors such as the Greek hippeus and the Roman eques, and knighthood in the Middle Ages was inextricably linked with horsemanship.
The British legend of King Arthur was popularised throughout Europe in the Middle Ages by the cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.
During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their incongruity with the reality of Cervantes' world. In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.
Today, a number of orders of knighthood continue to exist in several countries, such as the English Order of the Garter, the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. Each of these orders has its own criteria for eligibility, but knighthood is generally granted by a head of state to selected persons to recognise some meritorious achievement.
@SuperGreatSphinx Elite & professional fighters? Yes but also brutal with no mercy for their opponents and complete disdain for peasants. They weren't demons but they were bloodthirsty. Not much different from those armed militia groups you see in Somalia today serving various warlords & caring little for the welfare of the people.
@SuperGreatSphinx Well funnily enough the 'order' of the Templars was about 30k strong at its height.... but only 10% of those members were warrior knights...the rest were architects, businessmen, bankers, etc.
And it wasn't the templars military arm that ended up with all the power...eventually they got so powerful that the french petitioned the pope to disband the order...which was done in 1314 by papal bull.
They got too big for their boots and it worried the powers of the day.
Isn't the knight in the painting at 10:20 actually releasing that captured woman? It looks like his cutting the ropes she was bound with. If so, Terry could choose a better illustration.
we all know that knights were not what we can read in some reinassance literature, but also we should realize that they were not blood thirsty demons, they were elite warriors, professional fighters of their era, nothing else.
@IronCoredKnight The whole knightly system in those days was easily comparable to today's mafia. The mafia is actually based on that system. Everything to everyone who was considered at all important was a power struggle. Furthermore, the idea of military professionalism as we might know it didn't really hit until the 1400s, and that was mostly in the east. The whole knightly system was really just a bunch of thugs fighting over turf, with no higher government to get in their way.
@b15h4m0n he's referring to the double meaning of the picture. he is liberating her, but he is also strong, armoured and in a position of advantage, while she is sexually objectified, bound and helpless. and naked. so the scene represents the myth that knights were supposed to do good to all, but it also shows very obviously that they were powerful, and that women for them were sexual objects. in this context, the cutting of the ropes seems even violent.
Has anyone here read Why They Kill by Lonnie Athens? I'm not saying that he has solved the mystery of violent behaviour but I've met a few people who have gone through the 'violentization" process and they were indeed some vicious people. I'll spare you the details of what they did (and claimed to have done) but it seems to make sense to me that someone from a nice background would hardly be capable of commiting murder and other horrifically violent acts. I'm guessing medival life was brutal
@TheLoyalOfficer Most of Terry Jones' work is very well cited and sourced. I know several of the Pythons have extensive history degrees from Oxford or Cambridge, I can't remember which. I'm fairly sure Jones is one of them. In any case, the "Bolshevik, self-hating history" that you claim this is is pretty much agreed upon by most historians...including the non-Bolshevik and non-self-hating ones. Therefore, the burden of proof is on you to give credence to the contrary opinion.
well that some it up for the dark ages huh? people lets face it the middle ages was the age of darkness by not just morden scholars but a mediveal scholar himself that i forget his name call the dark ages
@americanliberal09 His name was Petrarch, and he coined the term as a sweeping criticism of Late Latin literature.....as in the post Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the "light" of classical antiquity
@siant666 thank you so much petrarch coined the term dark ages.
some medieval scholars don't want to face the facts that the middle ages was dark compared to the Renaissance even in that time period religious extremism was still around. :-(
@americanliberal09 Technically many of the people who lived in the "dark" ages didn't really see it as that bad...... for one, being free from Roman Overlords was a plus.....
@siant666 your joking right? ha ha ha ever since christianity came to power in europe they burn most of the scientific knowledge. the dark ages shut off the greco-roman knowledge then came forth the renaissance revive the scientific knowledge and still bloody religious witch hunts at the same time.
@americanliberal09 No, actually it was the Catholic Christian church that preserved much of the old Graeco-Roman knowledge. By the time of the Roman Empire's collapse, the farmers were very much interested in avoiding both the kleptocratic Roman overlords and the waves of German barbarians that would succeed them. Indeed, it would be the Catholic Church that would eventually end up sponsoring the early Renaissance.
@DrCruel roman overlords? of course it's true that the romans did have their downfalls i have to agree with but in the early middle ages their was no scientific preservation in western europe except for the Byzantine greece that kept the knowledge. i'm not saying all medieval Christians destroy all of it but some of them did.
@americanliberal09 There were centuries of Christian monks copying works from the ancient world, by hand. Indeed, the first universities in medieval Europe were associated with the Christian Scholastic movement. Certainly they had more interest and success in preserving ancient Roman and Greek works than, say, the Goths. When scientific research came back into fashion, it would initially be church officials and people affiliated with them that would be the leaders of it.
@americanliberal09 Don't get me wrong. There could have been a better organization to preserve the knowledge of the past than Graeco-Hebrew mystics. The Muslims likewise did a pretty good job of saving old knowledge - and a better job at adding to it, at least before the Renaissance. But if there was no Catholic Church, there would have been precious left of our knowledge of the past. The barbarian invaders were not particularly interested in ancient lore, and little would have survived them.
@DrCruel the muslims??? oh please the Muslims did not preserve any knowledge, they started to attack Averroes and Avicenna for being heretics and look at the state their are in right now dictatorship, poverty and misery. they didn't change one bit throughout history. i know the byzantine empire in the middle ages already preserved the knowledge other than islam geez.
@americanliberal09 Technically the medieval Islam world wasn't as badly hit by the Dark Ages as Europe.....the reason for this is because the location of the Middle East lead for it to be a center of trade between Asia, Europe, and Africa.....a kind of gateway between Continents, as such goods and knowledge from all around the world were traded there..... Leading to preservation of knowledge as well as accumulation of knowledge.
@americanliberal09 Don't confuse the Islamic world of the 11th century with what exists today. The Muslims did destroy a great deal of ancient knowledge, but also preserved quite a bit of it as well - especially when they thought it might give them an advantage in warfare or trade.
The Muslims ultimately became conservative, which led to their present situation. But in their prime they had better doctors and better mathematicians than the Europeans, and perhaps better than the Romans.
@americanliberal09 Consider that the Muslims had the Arabic numeral system (borrowed from the Hindu world). Consider also that the Muslims also had algebra. Likewise Muslim doctors built on the Greek and Roman medicinal works (such as the works of Galen), something which the Germanic world of European Christianity had rejected.
The early Muslims may have been brutal murderers and thieves, but so was most everyone at the time. But they were also keen on science too, especially the Greek stuff.
@americanliberal09 I hope that you also agree that preserving a realistic picture of the past, although important, is not as critical as coming up with better ideas about how our world works.
I hope we're never put into the same position as that of the medieval researchers - of depending for our knowledge of the world on a great civilization of the past that was shattered. That said, it's to their credit that so much of it was saved, despite the violent and cruel politics of the times.
@DrCruel um dude what led to the present situation of "the muslims" (i assume you speak of the middle east) was mostly western colonization. but never mind, let us not take responsibility, eh! they just became conservatives, just like that! it was totally not a backlash against western imperialism!
@lauracida Um, the Armenian nation predated the rise of Islam by centuries, so did the Egyptians, so did the Sassanids - but let's assume people don't know anything about history and blame the conquest of Africans and Asians by Arab religious fanatics on European "colonists". Maybe we can get away with blaming the genocides of Islam on Germanic barbarians stuggling for their livelihood through the Dark Ages ...
Let me guess. You're the product of an American public school education.
@TheLoyalOfficer I appreciate that you have your beliefs but if the BBC is broadcasting this then I think it is safe to assume that Terry Jones has checked his facts and cited many sources for his information. You are looking for an argument just admit it. I know that it might be a leap of the imagination for you to consider that professed Christians back in the day may in fact be Christians by convenience? Many of the "Christians" in Europe were actually Pagans who were called Christians.
@bndguuurl69 Based on Terry Jones "fact checking" in his BBC Crusades series, which is a nauseating pile of steaming PC vomit, then I would imagine that the "facts" in this series are little better.
After all, this is the BBC - the British Bolshevik Commune.
Actual evidence shows that people who believe in zombie jews (jesus) still actually commit just as many crimes as those who don't.
Go to a prison, you'll find hundreds/thousands of "christians." If you believe they don't stab someone in the gut if it would benefit them, you're an idiot.
Or look into the military of western countries. Atheists don't have any higher rate of criminal misconduct than cultists.
Or hundreds of years of historical massacres committed by "Christians." Undeniable.
@HotnessTim Compared to the millions killed by statist atheism in just 60 years between Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Sung, Pol Pot and all of the other Godless statists? Please. I'll take Christianity's record any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
And you have the documents and the PROOF to show that the "vast majority" turned their backs on their holy oaths before their Lords, Kings, community, and Christ?
Do you have a SHRED of proof as to this? Or is it just some secularist, anti-Christian fantasy?
@TheLoyalOfficer You're living in a fantasy land. I wouldn't be surprised if you still believed in "divine right", dragons, and, the inquisition for witches.
So there were NO knights at all who REALLY believed in the oaths that the took before God, when they were totally aware of the consequences of failing them?
Quite the contrary - there were THOUSANDS of noble knights who defended the weak and lived good Christian lives. The atheist self-haters only focus on those who failed so they can advance their anti-Christian agenda.
Shame on Terry Jones and the rest of the secularist bastards at the BBC.
@TheLoyalOfficer You are aware that the historical view you're taking is straight out of Victorian age romanticism right? The fact of the matter is, that knighthood in the middle ages, was equal to modern day "Generals".
The public relations schemes are designed to glorify them, when in actually, the facts differ vastly from what they had written about themselves. The same thing then, is the same thing we see now. A false record of history, to justify their deeds and alter their image.
@SunBeamsan Ah, so all of these warriors went on bended knees, having been inculcated since birth in DAILY MASS about the Gospel and the Scriptures, straight from the teachings of Jesus and the New Testament, and just IGNORED what they had been taught for all of those years and went on murderous, raping rampages?
Yeah, that is EXACTLY what the self-haters want you to believe, so that you surrender your very being to their statist agenda.
@TheLoyalOfficer Do you have to polarize the debate so much so as to say that i'm saying NO knights ever lived decent lives? There is no way of objectively knowing that because quite simply, i wasn't around to attest to it. But lets not kid ourselves. Knights are like politicians. They have an exterior of being good honest virtuosoes, but when you dig a little deeper, you find out they're a gaggle of liars, twisting truth at their gain. Sure there were Kennedy's.,and Adams, but thats a minority.
That's a bit extreme to be honest. Knights weren't constructed of a purely homogeneous stock. They came in numerous different colors, and the Medieval world had a...very different culture from the one we have today. There were dirt poor knights, extremely wealthy knights, and the truth is probably that they, like the rest of the population, came in all manner of characters both good and bad.
@TheLoyalOfficer Dude, from the very start you're arguing from a false premise. Nothing in the actual oaths they actually swore forbade robbery and rapine. Those were part of their job. Warriors - which is to say professional robbers and racketeers - in all places and all times have been fairly similar. If you want to see the closest thing to a modern version of real chivalry, look to gangbangers or the mafia (or to a lesser degree, cops). Unromantic, uninspiring, uncool... as reality often is.
@fakej "Reverent and generous. Shield of the weak. Obedient to my liege-lord. Foremost in battle. Courteous at all times. Champion of the right and the good. Thus SWEAR I."
Where is rape and robbery in there? You need to drop your red brainwashing. Plenty of knights did not live up to the oath, but many millions did. Hardly "gangbangers."
Read some non-Bolshevik, non-PC, non-self-hating history, then get back to me.
@TheLoyalOfficer Technically, most knights weren't really interested in "rape or robbery" or even "protecting Christendom" and chivalry. The majority of them were simply just interested in attaining land and wealth, they only entered military service just to get rewarded with land or money. However, it would be unfair to say that there weren't a fair number of them that were sociopaths along with heroes. But the majority of them were just soldiers of fortune plain and simple....
@TheLoyalOfficer How did you come to discover his historical facts are misleading? How do you know he is anti christian? These are amazing discoveries! Have you had contact with him in the 'real' world?
@emilshere No, I have just seen many of his self-hating, anti-Christian, anti-Western "documentaries" and find them completely biased and wallowing in PC nonsense. I don't have to meet him in the real world to see that. His "documentary" on the Crusades was particularly nauseating.
Hmm, I didn't know that the word Knights actually started as knigit. So literally the Python quotes of "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts" may have actually been said in the real world at some point. Who'd have thought that one day we would be quoting the historicity of Monty Python...
Great program, though I'd like to point out how scholastically dangerous it is to paint all knights with the same warmongering brush. They had propensity to be good men just as any Soldier or police officer has today.
Also remember that knights were frequently propped up by their own mythos. In following the idealistic tales of their day, they often made the idealism as real as they could. The same way we use great deeds to inspire us to better lives today.
I find infuriating that the commercial at the beginning of this plays with out a hitch. When the program starts though, it stops for buffering 4 times within the first minute.
I find it endlessly amusing that dressage is now a pretty form of equine ballet set to music yet is a direct descendant of knight's war horse training.
some people on youtube are so retarded; how could anyone take what I said seriously?
LOL
"jerk" types are more cowardly than I thought, if they are afraid of a mere THREAT, by a youtuber no less, that a nice guy will stand up to them and beat the shit out of them.
He makes the salient point that the main advantage of archers was to disable the horses of the armored cavalry. A peasant was still no match for a dismounted knight, but 6 or 7 of them were.
More knights were killed or disabled by the mallets and misericordes of the archers than by their arrows.
(Even at that, it was more the appallingly poor tactics on the part of the French that doomed them, especially at Agincourt. No battle in history where one side did so much to their own disadvantage).
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StellandBlood 3 days ago
The Maciejowski-Bible animations are hilarious!
Protherium 1 week ago
"Give her a battleaxe!" :D
Ralfast 1 week ago
"Terry Jones examines the romantic notion of the Knight in Shining Armour had little interest in rescuing damsels in distress." Dear BBCWorldwide: read that sentence aloud. Then FIX IT.
mikrotuber 3 weeks ago
awww his coat of arms was awesome lol
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Xiaolian7 1 month ago
this looks fun!
Judasisac 1 month ago
why would you dislike this video theres no point he knows like 100x more than you...
mamamia947 2 months ago in playlist Season 1
Love how the f-ing video keeps getting interrupted by lame commercials.
onefastr6 2 months ago
Heh heh,,, he forgot to say he also slaughters innocent dragons... but seriously couldn't stop chuckling at the intro... loved the intro.
DravenWolfe 3 months ago
A knight is a member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe who followed a code of law called "chivalry". In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent (e.g., French chevalier and German Ritter), suggesting a connection to the knight's mode of transport.
SuperGreatSphinx 4 months ago 3
Since antiquity a position of honour and prestige has been held by mounted warriors such as the Greek hippeus and the Roman eques, and knighthood in the Middle Ages was inextricably linked with horsemanship.
SuperGreatSphinx 4 months ago 3
The British legend of King Arthur was popularised throughout Europe in the Middle Ages by the cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.
SuperGreatSphinx 4 months ago 3
During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their incongruity with the reality of Cervantes' world. In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.
SuperGreatSphinx 4 months ago 4
Some orders of knighthood, such as the Knights Templar, have themselves become the object of legend; others have disappeared into obscurity.
SuperGreatSphinx 4 months ago 2
Today, a number of orders of knighthood continue to exist in several countries, such as the English Order of the Garter, the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. Each of these orders has its own criteria for eligibility, but knighthood is generally granted by a head of state to selected persons to recognise some meritorious achievement.
SuperGreatSphinx 4 months ago 2
@SuperGreatSphinx Elite & professional fighters? Yes but also brutal with no mercy for their opponents and complete disdain for peasants. They weren't demons but they were bloodthirsty. Not much different from those armed militia groups you see in Somalia today serving various warlords & caring little for the welfare of the people.
AlternityGM 1 month ago
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@AlternityGM WOW WOW WOW! LOL I would not say they are like those armed militia groups in Somalia...
xxTeutonicKnightxx 1 month ago
@AlternityGM
Exactly,Africa still lives in the feudal age.
StellandBlood 3 days ago
@SuperGreatSphinx Well funnily enough the 'order' of the Templars was about 30k strong at its height.... but only 10% of those members were warrior knights...the rest were architects, businessmen, bankers, etc.
And it wasn't the templars military arm that ended up with all the power...eventually they got so powerful that the french petitioned the pope to disband the order...which was done in 1314 by papal bull.
They got too big for their boots and it worried the powers of the day.
MumblingMickey 3 months ago
That horse walks retarded.
powerpats 4 months ago
does anyone know the title of the artwork presented during 9:39
occurance22 4 months ago
Isn't the knight in the painting at 10:20 actually releasing that captured woman? It looks like his cutting the ropes she was bound with. If so, Terry could choose a better illustration.
b15h4m0n 5 months ago
@b15h4m0n
yes he is cutting the ropes...
we all know that knights were not what we can read in some reinassance literature, but also we should realize that they were not blood thirsty demons, they were elite warriors, professional fighters of their era, nothing else.
IronCoredKnight 3 months ago
@IronCoredKnight The whole knightly system in those days was easily comparable to today's mafia. The mafia is actually based on that system. Everything to everyone who was considered at all important was a power struggle. Furthermore, the idea of military professionalism as we might know it didn't really hit until the 1400s, and that was mostly in the east. The whole knightly system was really just a bunch of thugs fighting over turf, with no higher government to get in their way.
YWKMNITLWILMVAT 3 months ago 4
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ok think whatever u want, i have no intention to discuss with you...
IronCoredKnight 3 months ago
@YWKMNITLWILMVAT since the King was basically the Don of the Knight orders... heh heh, well said my friend.
DravenWolfe 3 months ago
@b15h4m0n he's referring to the double meaning of the picture. he is liberating her, but he is also strong, armoured and in a position of advantage, while she is sexually objectified, bound and helpless. and naked. so the scene represents the myth that knights were supposed to do good to all, but it also shows very obviously that they were powerful, and that women for them were sexual objects. in this context, the cutting of the ropes seems even violent.
lauracida 1 month ago
Has anyone here read Why They Kill by Lonnie Athens? I'm not saying that he has solved the mystery of violent behaviour but I've met a few people who have gone through the 'violentization" process and they were indeed some vicious people. I'll spare you the details of what they did (and claimed to have done) but it seems to make sense to me that someone from a nice background would hardly be capable of commiting murder and other horrifically violent acts. I'm guessing medival life was brutal
Glozey 7 months ago
@TheLoyalOfficer Most of Terry Jones' work is very well cited and sourced. I know several of the Pythons have extensive history degrees from Oxford or Cambridge, I can't remember which. I'm fairly sure Jones is one of them. In any case, the "Bolshevik, self-hating history" that you claim this is is pretty much agreed upon by most historians...including the non-Bolshevik and non-self-hating ones. Therefore, the burden of proof is on you to give credence to the contrary opinion.
nikkneurosis 7 months ago
well that some it up for the dark ages huh? people lets face it the middle ages was the age of darkness by not just morden scholars but a mediveal scholar himself that i forget his name call the dark ages
americanliberal09 10 months ago
@americanliberal09 His name was Petrarch, and he coined the term as a sweeping criticism of Late Latin literature.....as in the post Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the "light" of classical antiquity
siant666 7 months ago
@siant666 thank you so much petrarch coined the term dark ages.
some medieval scholars don't want to face the facts that the middle ages was dark compared to the Renaissance even in that time period religious extremism was still around. :-(
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 Technically many of the people who lived in the "dark" ages didn't really see it as that bad...... for one, being free from Roman Overlords was a plus.....
siant666 7 months ago
@siant666 your joking right? ha ha ha ever since christianity came to power in europe they burn most of the scientific knowledge. the dark ages shut off the greco-roman knowledge then came forth the renaissance revive the scientific knowledge and still bloody religious witch hunts at the same time.
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 No, actually it was the Catholic Christian church that preserved much of the old Graeco-Roman knowledge. By the time of the Roman Empire's collapse, the farmers were very much interested in avoiding both the kleptocratic Roman overlords and the waves of German barbarians that would succeed them. Indeed, it would be the Catholic Church that would eventually end up sponsoring the early Renaissance.
DrCruel 7 months ago
@DrCruel roman overlords? of course it's true that the romans did have their downfalls i have to agree with but in the early middle ages their was no scientific preservation in western europe except for the Byzantine greece that kept the knowledge. i'm not saying all medieval Christians destroy all of it but some of them did.
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 There were centuries of Christian monks copying works from the ancient world, by hand. Indeed, the first universities in medieval Europe were associated with the Christian Scholastic movement. Certainly they had more interest and success in preserving ancient Roman and Greek works than, say, the Goths. When scientific research came back into fashion, it would initially be church officials and people affiliated with them that would be the leaders of it.
DrCruel 7 months ago
@DrCruel hmmm o'k i see the facts
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 Don't get me wrong. There could have been a better organization to preserve the knowledge of the past than Graeco-Hebrew mystics. The Muslims likewise did a pretty good job of saving old knowledge - and a better job at adding to it, at least before the Renaissance. But if there was no Catholic Church, there would have been precious left of our knowledge of the past. The barbarian invaders were not particularly interested in ancient lore, and little would have survived them.
DrCruel 7 months ago
@DrCruel the muslims??? oh please the Muslims did not preserve any knowledge, they started to attack Averroes and Avicenna for being heretics and look at the state their are in right now dictatorship, poverty and misery. they didn't change one bit throughout history. i know the byzantine empire in the middle ages already preserved the knowledge other than islam geez.
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 Technically the medieval Islam world wasn't as badly hit by the Dark Ages as Europe.....the reason for this is because the location of the Middle East lead for it to be a center of trade between Asia, Europe, and Africa.....a kind of gateway between Continents, as such goods and knowledge from all around the world were traded there..... Leading to preservation of knowledge as well as accumulation of knowledge.
siant666 7 months ago
@siant666 hmm right sure they do
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 Don't confuse the Islamic world of the 11th century with what exists today. The Muslims did destroy a great deal of ancient knowledge, but also preserved quite a bit of it as well - especially when they thought it might give them an advantage in warfare or trade.
The Muslims ultimately became conservative, which led to their present situation. But in their prime they had better doctors and better mathematicians than the Europeans, and perhaps better than the Romans.
DrCruel 7 months ago
@DrCruel better than the Romans?????!!!!!! wow i just can't believe what your saying bro
are you expecting me too believe this?
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 Consider that the Muslims had the Arabic numeral system (borrowed from the Hindu world). Consider also that the Muslims also had algebra. Likewise Muslim doctors built on the Greek and Roman medicinal works (such as the works of Galen), something which the Germanic world of European Christianity had rejected.
The early Muslims may have been brutal murderers and thieves, but so was most everyone at the time. But they were also keen on science too, especially the Greek stuff.
DrCruel 7 months ago 2
@DrCruel alright i can see your point which is good i agree with you on everybody was like that back then.
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@americanliberal09 I hope that you also agree that preserving a realistic picture of the past, although important, is not as critical as coming up with better ideas about how our world works.
I hope we're never put into the same position as that of the medieval researchers - of depending for our knowledge of the world on a great civilization of the past that was shattered. That said, it's to their credit that so much of it was saved, despite the violent and cruel politics of the times.
DrCruel 7 months ago
@DrCruel well that's true thanx for the insight bro.
americanliberal09 7 months ago
@DrCruel um dude what led to the present situation of "the muslims" (i assume you speak of the middle east) was mostly western colonization. but never mind, let us not take responsibility, eh! they just became conservatives, just like that! it was totally not a backlash against western imperialism!
lauracida 1 month ago
@lauracida Um, the Armenian nation predated the rise of Islam by centuries, so did the Egyptians, so did the Sassanids - but let's assume people don't know anything about history and blame the conquest of Africans and Asians by Arab religious fanatics on European "colonists". Maybe we can get away with blaming the genocides of Islam on Germanic barbarians stuggling for their livelihood through the Dark Ages ...
Let me guess. You're the product of an American public school education.
DrCruel 1 month ago 2
@TheLoyalOfficer I appreciate that you have your beliefs but if the BBC is broadcasting this then I think it is safe to assume that Terry Jones has checked his facts and cited many sources for his information. You are looking for an argument just admit it. I know that it might be a leap of the imagination for you to consider that professed Christians back in the day may in fact be Christians by convenience? Many of the "Christians" in Europe were actually Pagans who were called Christians.
bndguuurl69 11 months ago
@bndguuurl69 Based on Terry Jones "fact checking" in his BBC Crusades series, which is a nauseating pile of steaming PC vomit, then I would imagine that the "facts" in this series are little better.
After all, this is the BBC - the British Bolshevik Commune.
TheLoyalOfficer 11 months ago
@bndguuurl69 All too true and thank goodness for that!
effigytormented 10 months ago
@bndguuurl69 oh really? if so then why they abolished paganism and forced to converted Christianity?
americanliberal09 7 months ago
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bndguuurl69 11 months ago
this makes knights even more bad ass
kittylactose 1 year ago
Actual evidence shows that people who believe in zombie jews (jesus) still actually commit just as many crimes as those who don't.
Go to a prison, you'll find hundreds/thousands of "christians." If you believe they don't stab someone in the gut if it would benefit them, you're an idiot.
Or look into the military of western countries. Atheists don't have any higher rate of criminal misconduct than cultists.
Or hundreds of years of historical massacres committed by "Christians." Undeniable.
HotnessTim 1 year ago
@HotnessTim Compared to the millions killed by statist atheism in just 60 years between Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Sung, Pol Pot and all of the other Godless statists? Please. I'll take Christianity's record any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
And you have the documents and the PROOF to show that the "vast majority" turned their backs on their holy oaths before their Lords, Kings, community, and Christ?
Do you have a SHRED of proof as to this? Or is it just some secularist, anti-Christian fantasy?
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
Terry Jones is an anti-Western, anti-Christian, self-hating bastard who should be taken out and beaten.
His "documentary" on the Crusades was a particular disgrace.
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
@TheLoyalOfficer You're living in a fantasy land. I wouldn't be surprised if you still believed in "divine right", dragons, and, the inquisition for witches.
SunBeamsan 1 year ago
@SunBeamsan Ah, really?
So there were NO knights at all who REALLY believed in the oaths that the took before God, when they were totally aware of the consequences of failing them?
Quite the contrary - there were THOUSANDS of noble knights who defended the weak and lived good Christian lives. The atheist self-haters only focus on those who failed so they can advance their anti-Christian agenda.
Shame on Terry Jones and the rest of the secularist bastards at the BBC.
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
@TheLoyalOfficer You are aware that the historical view you're taking is straight out of Victorian age romanticism right? The fact of the matter is, that knighthood in the middle ages, was equal to modern day "Generals".
The public relations schemes are designed to glorify them, when in actually, the facts differ vastly from what they had written about themselves. The same thing then, is the same thing we see now. A false record of history, to justify their deeds and alter their image.
SunBeamsan 1 year ago 2
@SunBeamsan Ah, so all of these warriors went on bended knees, having been inculcated since birth in DAILY MASS about the Gospel and the Scriptures, straight from the teachings of Jesus and the New Testament, and just IGNORED what they had been taught for all of those years and went on murderous, raping rampages?
Yeah, that is EXACTLY what the self-haters want you to believe, so that you surrender your very being to their statist agenda.
Ridiculous. (cont)
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
@SunBeamsan (cont)
So they all just broke their oaths, out of greed and rapine?
NONE of them followed their holy words, when they were faced by the horrific consequences of Hell by which you condemn them as "superstitious?"
Do you not see the rank hypocrisy of this view?
How DARE you judge them? Are you so much better than they were?
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
@TheLoyalOfficer Do you have to polarize the debate so much so as to say that i'm saying NO knights ever lived decent lives? There is no way of objectively knowing that because quite simply, i wasn't around to attest to it. But lets not kid ourselves. Knights are like politicians. They have an exterior of being good honest virtuosoes, but when you dig a little deeper, you find out they're a gaggle of liars, twisting truth at their gain. Sure there were Kennedy's.,and Adams, but thats a minority.
SunBeamsan 1 year ago
@SunBeamsan
That's a bit extreme to be honest. Knights weren't constructed of a purely homogeneous stock. They came in numerous different colors, and the Medieval world had a...very different culture from the one we have today. There were dirt poor knights, extremely wealthy knights, and the truth is probably that they, like the rest of the population, came in all manner of characters both good and bad.
Caliburnis 1 year ago
@TheLoyalOfficer Dude, from the very start you're arguing from a false premise. Nothing in the actual oaths they actually swore forbade robbery and rapine. Those were part of their job. Warriors - which is to say professional robbers and racketeers - in all places and all times have been fairly similar. If you want to see the closest thing to a modern version of real chivalry, look to gangbangers or the mafia (or to a lesser degree, cops). Unromantic, uninspiring, uncool... as reality often is.
fakejohnwilkesbooth 10 months ago
@fakej "Reverent and generous. Shield of the weak. Obedient to my liege-lord. Foremost in battle. Courteous at all times. Champion of the right and the good. Thus SWEAR I."
Where is rape and robbery in there? You need to drop your red brainwashing. Plenty of knights did not live up to the oath, but many millions did. Hardly "gangbangers."
Read some non-Bolshevik, non-PC, non-self-hating history, then get back to me.
TheLoyalOfficer 10 months ago
@TheLoyalOfficer Technically, most knights weren't really interested in "rape or robbery" or even "protecting Christendom" and chivalry. The majority of them were simply just interested in attaining land and wealth, they only entered military service just to get rewarded with land or money. However, it would be unfair to say that there weren't a fair number of them that were sociopaths along with heroes. But the majority of them were just soldiers of fortune plain and simple....
siant666 7 months ago
@TheLoyalOfficer How did you come to discover his historical facts are misleading? How do you know he is anti christian? These are amazing discoveries! Have you had contact with him in the 'real' world?
emilshere 1 year ago
@emilshere No, I have just seen many of his self-hating, anti-Christian, anti-Western "documentaries" and find them completely biased and wallowing in PC nonsense. I don't have to meet him in the real world to see that. His "documentary" on the Crusades was particularly nauseating.
TheLoyalOfficer 1 year ago
@TheLoyalOfficer Im gonna have to check that doc out I havent seen it!
emilshere 1 year ago
Oh Terry Jones, I love you!
Non bias telling of history and it's always insightful.
kattaylordesign 1 year ago
I imagine knights as rather similar to 1% motorcycle gangsters.
1st503rdSGT 1 year ago
lol my last name is knight
paultheknight 1 year ago
Run away,run away!
teufelstaub 1 year ago
The knight was a dirty oversexed ubermale who liked killing. Not unlike the Army.
ccipollini1984 1 year ago
Brilliant!
andyanyd 1 year ago
Hmm, I didn't know that the word Knights actually started as knigit. So literally the Python quotes of "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts" may have actually been said in the real world at some point. Who'd have thought that one day we would be quoting the historicity of Monty Python...
imnoromeo 1 year ago
23:40....omg! Cortona! :)
altezzza 2 years ago 2
Great program, though I'd like to point out how scholastically dangerous it is to paint all knights with the same warmongering brush. They had propensity to be good men just as any Soldier or police officer has today.
Also remember that knights were frequently propped up by their own mythos. In following the idealistic tales of their day, they often made the idealism as real as they could. The same way we use great deeds to inspire us to better lives today.
iwhisperwolf 2 years ago
That Coat of Arms they made for him is the most awesome thing ever.
troodon311 2 years ago 11
I love this stuff! Thanks for posting these videos... Great information with a little Monty Python animation. I love going to renaissance fairs. :~)
marciamallow 2 years ago 6
"Once a King, always a King...but once a Knight is enough!"!
hqyth 2 years ago 5
wait wait They were honestly called Kah-Nig-its.
Awesome!
poopsickl3 2 years ago 9
@poopsickl3 makes me wanna know if back then maybe they fell down and scraped their kah-nee? lmao. I agree with you, that is awesome.
windbeamproductions 1 year ago
@poopsickl3 Those ones were the knights who said 'Ni!'
MumblingMickey 3 months ago
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sound and vid badly out of sync here
wblakews 2 years ago
I find infuriating that the commercial at the beginning of this plays with out a hitch. When the program starts though, it stops for buffering 4 times within the first minute.
stdeclan 2 years ago
I find it endlessly amusing that dressage is now a pretty form of equine ballet set to music yet is a direct descendant of knight's war horse training.
NoadiArt 2 years ago 5
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LOL
some people on youtube are so retarded; how could anyone take what I said seriously?
LOL
"jerk" types are more cowardly than I thought, if they are afraid of a mere THREAT, by a youtuber no less, that a nice guy will stand up to them and beat the shit out of them.
LMFAO.
stardingo747 2 years ago
Il vostro cervello è microscopico!!
billyysands 2 years ago 2
He makes the salient point that the main advantage of archers was to disable the horses of the armored cavalry. A peasant was still no match for a dismounted knight, but 6 or 7 of them were.
More knights were killed or disabled by the mallets and misericordes of the archers than by their arrows.
(Even at that, it was more the appallingly poor tactics on the part of the French that doomed them, especially at Agincourt. No battle in history where one side did so much to their own disadvantage).
StevoDog21 2 years ago 2
wait what about agincourt wasnt the secret to that victory archers with logbows?
billyysands 2 years ago
As a 'Brit; I moved to the USA 18 yrs ago (age 50 now), the thing is 'challenge a jerk' and you go to jail...kill them silently!!-LOL
remeclerk 2 years ago
"he could then challenge the knight to combat, take his lady and do with her whatever he so pleased......."
here in america they need to make it legal for "nice guys" to challenge "jerks" to a fight.
so often did I think about using boxing to take some asshole's woman.
I actually thought about it.
sadly, i'm a bit too 21st century.
stardingo747 2 years ago
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your an idiot, do have lawyers?
an uncle that works for the FBI a stock portfolio
in my family you go after one of us you take on everyone
and you might just have like some kind of accident
kipish?capisca
fight a guy for his girl?
grow up
man what part of america do you live in?
youd be looking over your shoulder the rest of your life on the east side
billyysands 2 years ago
so, if you just wanted someone else's girl, you could just kick his ass?
"damn it! why is she dating that jerk!....
i hate how nice guys finish last. To arms!!!!!"
lol.
stardingo747 2 years ago 3
haha, women want what they can;t get
FearAcademy 2 years ago
you must have meant "men."
and yes you're right; I want Claudia Lynx but see, she's got a bit too much class to date an American "jerk" type.
food for thought.
stardingo747 2 years ago
as a Knight in Europe I'd have done my job.
I would have abused my position to force myself on the occasional wench, but, I'd have done my job.
"you owe me your life woman...... I killed that Frenchman for you................ come on now be nice to me.............."
stardingo747 2 years ago
frankly though, don't know if I'm tough enough (or strong for that matter) to have 80 lbs of crap on me.
60 lbs I can handle just fine; 80 lbs though, forget it.
stardingo747 2 years ago
Support our troops my ass!
precoz22 2 years ago
when it got to dangerous for a rich Knight... it was time to fine a sucker to stand in for you...Like the underlinges classes
clnmyjts 2 years ago
true wish we had more
2stonedritenow 2 years ago
Quality is great!! Love this series and wish we had more like it.
gmaureen 2 years ago 5
Awesome series, I like the re-enactments in particular ... hilarious :-)
relroyastro 2 years ago 7
Where are the Ka-Nigets?
nonbeliever225 2 years ago 8
We are the knights that say "NI"! lol
sergiolopezOU 2 years ago 10
Good quality!
fragleshmit 2 years ago 3
I love this series@!!!
omvtube 2 years ago 26
We need more insightful television shows like this.
Oathaniel 2 years ago 46
^^^ THIS!!! ^^^
(More Terry Jones series especially!)
Brammimonde 2 years ago 7