What Life Was Really Like in a Medieval Village (1300)

The year is 1300. You wake in the dark, in a single room you share with your family and your animals, to the smell of wood smoke and the sound of the cockerel. There are no shops, no hospitals, no police, and not a single written word to your name. Step inside an ordinary medieval village and live one full year of it — the plough, the harvest, the manor court, the church, the festival, the failed harvest that could end everything. This is what it was really like. ▶ Watch next — What Life Was Really Like Inside a Medieval Castle in Winter (1200s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4S5rXfMjk New immersive history every week. 00:00 Waking in the dark 01:15 The village and its fields 02:26 The house you live in 03:36 The open fields 04:00 The plough and the harvest 05:25 The lord and the manor court 06:35 What you actually ate 07:50 When the harvest fails 08:16 The church at the centre 09:55 Festivals, ale and neighbours 11:07 Sickness, death and the churchyard 12:29 One year, and the year after