What a Winter Night in a Medieval Tavern Was Really Like (1200s)

It is a winter evening in the twelve hundreds, and the warmest room for miles is not the castle on the hill. It is a house at the bottom of the village with a pole and a bush hung over the door, which means the woman inside has finished brewing and the ale is ready. The same winter, inside the castle, the year the bread ran out (1315): https://youtu.be/Sqi8mZjR3HY This is what one night in that room was really like: who brewed the ale and why it had no hops, why the price in your cup was fixed by law and not by the woman who made it, who sat where on the benches, what you ate, what you played, what happened when the curfew bell rang, and where you slept if you could not get home through the snow. The castle on the hill, in the same winter: https://youtu.be/qB4S5rXfMjk The night inside it, hour by hour: https://youtu.be/24oxm6uqa0E The winter England almost lost: https://youtu.be/XytvUPZGaKY Inside a Medieval Castle, in order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIwGEK5UxaCE New immersive history every week. Chapters: 0:00 The Door 1:08 The Bush Over the Door 2:50 Why Winter 4:33 The Woman Who Made It 6:37 What Is Actually in the Cup 8:44 The Law in Your Ale 10:52 What It Costs and How You Pay 12:42 Who Is in the Room 14:38 The Same Hour, Up on the Hill 16:17 The Fire and What You Eat 18:05 What You Do All Night 20:07 The Church and the Alehouse 21:48 When It Goes Wrong 23:21 The Bell 24:51 Where You Sleep 26:17 The First Sleep and the Second 28:01 The Hours Before Light 28:53 What We Kept