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  • @RealCrusadesHistory
    @RealCrusadesHistory4 жыл бұрын

    Get the music used in this video: www.amazon.com/Lit-Sky-Roman-Lion/dp/B07P53JZ7G

  • @mountainlover8167

    @mountainlover8167

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can I count this as a Catholic channel? Would really love to

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@leowoning916 The music is actually quite good.

  • @hypolyxa7207

    @hypolyxa7207

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mountainlover8167 Who cares. Just enjoy the content.

  • @scottcroce5277

    @scottcroce5277

    4 жыл бұрын

    Real Crusades History a long time ago 70’’s I knew a UCLA phd in medieval history who claimed that after some plague that decimated the population the Kings edict did proclaim Fornicate Under Command King = well you get it. That is what he claimed as progenitor of f

  • @GaveMeGrace1

    @GaveMeGrace1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Somewhere within my collection of old CDs, I have an early music collection of Crusaders songs.

  • @shinnam
    @shinnam4 жыл бұрын

    A practical reason for abstaining from sex during Lent meant babies wouldn't be born during the dead of winter, and a more likely to survive.

  • @miovicdina7706

    @miovicdina7706

    4 жыл бұрын

    Makes total sense, never thought of it before. Babies concieved in March or April would be born in the very coldest months with shortest sunlight, December and January. That goes for the Easter Lent, of course. The Christmas Lent in my opinion is more about starving any bacteria/virus you might have accumulated in your body from eating all those fatty animals and various carbs-rich foods available abundantly in the fall. Like a natural antibiotic therapy in the period of the year your organism's immunity is at it's lowest due to the sudden drop in temperatures and fruit vitimin availabilitiy. Also, the only birth control available for millennia prior to the 70s was - not having sex. Also, sometimes the only way the man your parents married you to without your will would leave you alone and stop marriage-raping you would be if his local priest told him to...Sad but true.

  • @mandyg5747

    @mandyg5747

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@miovicdina7706 Actually No. Condoms albeit called by a different name were used centuries ago. I believe that they made them from sheep intestines before the mid 1800s when they started to use rubber. Some sources say they had them in the 11 000 BC - not sure that date actually exists! Maybe they mean CE/AD? I like your theories about Lent being to aid the digestive system though.

  • @miovicdina7706

    @miovicdina7706

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mandyg5747 Indeed. I believe I have mentioned sheep intestine "condoms" in a different comment here. However, they would hardly be used between the spouses or even in unmarried relationships, as that would be an insult to the "honor" of either of the partners. It is my understanding that they would be used with prostitutes, and even so, this would still be rare. Either way, the Church considered all waste of semen a sin, including masturbation.

  • @Tugela60

    @Tugela60

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@miovicdina7706 Women were not forced to marry against their will. Marriages were arranged sometimes, but primarily among the nobility who wanted to keep their noble bloodlines noble. Peasants married whoever they wanted to, just like today. Also, women were perfectly capable of leaving an unhappy marriage and frequently did so. There were other reasons why they might choose not to, such as economic, but they could if they wanted to. The traditional method of birth control was to time fertility based on a womans period. Catholics still do it today, and if done properly it mostly works. There were also folk methods of taking "care of" unwanted pregnancies if they so chose.

  • @fridayschild722

    @fridayschild722

    4 жыл бұрын

    In the state where I was in India - Tamil Nadu, hindu marriages aren’t fixed between mid July to Mid August. They say it’s for various religious reasons etc and if someone gets married just before this season, the brides family takes her home and don’t allow her to stay in her marital home. The reason is because if they become pregnant, then the child will be born the next year during the hottest peak of summer- it even has a special name - kathri veyil. In a culture when even the wedding night is a set time based on astrology and alignment of stars, no one wants to talk to their parents about birth control, 😂

  • @Runeless
    @Runeless4 жыл бұрын

    It makes sense actually...when you abstain from anything for a while, even a short while, it increases your focus on other things and also increases your enjoyment of said thing next time you engage in it. There’s more than just spiritual reasons for abstaining. Exercising moderation has its benefits...

  • @ChristophersMum

    @ChristophersMum

    4 жыл бұрын

    Andrew W Too true....

  • @markhenryramsey9132

    @markhenryramsey9132

    4 жыл бұрын

    Andrew W Well said. One doesn't know the meaning of things until they're taken from you or abstained from.

  • @christinah.8504

    @christinah.8504

    4 жыл бұрын

    like intermittent fasting. It lowers sugars, reverses type 2 diabetes and you're extra happy when it is your time to eat.

  • @proud2bpagan
    @proud2bpagan4 жыл бұрын

    Yup,I was raised in a Southern Baptist home,and we(my brother and I) were told that if you were married,sex was nothing to be ashamed of,so long as you were faithful to each other. We were told "the marital bed is undefiled", which basically meant that you could do it swinging from the chandeliers, as long as you were married.

  • @Thorston_the_Just

    @Thorston_the_Just

    Жыл бұрын

    @@justchilling704 What does it say?

  • @thefarmgirl30
    @thefarmgirl304 жыл бұрын

    It also says in the Bible (essentially) that abstaining from sex with your spouse for an agreed-upon time frame can be good for rekindling the desire for each other throughout the relationship.

  • @redheadedneighbor

    @redheadedneighbor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Abstaining for an agreed upon time, for prayer and fasting, then come back together again to avoid temptation.

  • @redheadedneighbor

    @redheadedneighbor

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mudkipx9052 ok

  • @Emperor_Atlantis
    @Emperor_Atlantis4 жыл бұрын

    This non war content you have been putting out recently is truely facinating. Keep up the good work I would say!

  • @nokiepruitt7715
    @nokiepruitt77154 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos love taking in all the great information.

  • @CarlosCruz-mw4hp
    @CarlosCruz-mw4hp4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. People of the past were just like us. There were cultural differences, but the people were the same as us now. Keep it up.

  • @PontoLyone

    @PontoLyone

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can't be further from the truth. You think the american standard for sexual morality like the hook up culture would be acceptable to them? No. They valued sex within the confines of marriage l, anything out of that is inherently sinful and would send their soul to hell, which terrified people back then, not so much now a days because people either dont believe in hell or think it's empty. Google modernism and compare it to any Catholic culture before the 1960s, you'll see an enormous difference my friend.

  • @alexandrub8786

    @alexandrub8786

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@PontoLyone i think he was refering to the fact that persons treated sex differently not what the mainstream view on sex is, then there was a minority who is like the mainstream and now the old mainstream view on sex is the minority.

  • @kimberleysmith818

    @kimberleysmith818

    4 жыл бұрын

    BigHausDawg not always, it depends on which era and where. Of course there were differences, we can’t put our modern views on history as it rarely fits but then there are some parallels. It’s all very fascinating though which is why I bloody love history!

  • @Rhaenarys

    @Rhaenarys

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@PontoLyone not exactly far from the truth. People back then WERE like us today. They gave into urges just like we do. The difference is is because of the high scrutiny the woman would face, and the harm the guy might receive if the woman was higher in status than him, is that they kept it hush-hush. If you might be condemned for simply being human, why would you announce it? Oh, and after the act, yes, they'd feel guilty. That's what confession is for. Priest cant exactly condemn you with the oath of confidentiality for one, and for two, for seeking absolution for your sins you feel so guilty about. People seem to forget confession was seen by many as a get out of jail free type card.

  • @kimberleysmith818

    @kimberleysmith818

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ruby Hypatia no I agree with you, what I mean is it can be hard to judge people from the past against ourselves as things are very different. We don’t actually know what it was like to embedded in those societies. Does that make sense? I agree in the sense we can judge them as we are more enlightened we certainly don’t blame everything on a group of people and women who live alone are not witches!

  • @uverpro3598
    @uverpro35984 жыл бұрын

    You deny yourself such things not because they are bad but because they are so good. It’s a recognition of the wonder in the world God has created for our pleasure.

  • @htoodoh5770

    @htoodoh5770

    4 жыл бұрын

    Who said that?

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@htoodoh5770 The one the only Cory Pedigo (I do not know who that is)!

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gixxerpwns I assume God as in The Holy Trinity One God. Ya know Capital G God.

  • @htoodoh5770

    @htoodoh5770

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gixxerpwns yes

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gixxerpwns Holy Trinity One God. I stress the one part. There is only one God not three.

  • @donnafelzke7751
    @donnafelzke77514 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely beautifully taught and wonderful to know! Thank you!

  • @mgtowp.l.7756
    @mgtowp.l.77564 жыл бұрын

    A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing..

  • @erikgranqvist3680
    @erikgranqvist36804 жыл бұрын

    I think one reason to abstain from sex during certain occasions also has to do with the idea that you showed that sex didnt ruled your life - you had the power to "hold it in place".

  • @deadparrot5953

    @deadparrot5953

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wish someone had told me that as a teenager!

  • @jimevans4582

    @jimevans4582

    4 жыл бұрын

    Abstaining from sex during certain periods is one that was taken from Jews. Jews abstaining from sex during certain periods and certain holidays.

  • @revolvingworld2676

    @revolvingworld2676

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@deadparrot5953 Well teenagers cant "hold it in" anymore

  • @superfluffyshmoopy299

    @superfluffyshmoopy299

    4 жыл бұрын

    We call it no nut november

  • @superfluffyshmoopy299

    @superfluffyshmoopy299

    4 жыл бұрын

    RevolvingWorld Apparently you aren’t as hip with the kids as you think

  • @nona104
    @nona1044 жыл бұрын

    In the Traditional Catholic world the Feast day of St Bernard is on 8/20, just a note since you mentioned him.

  • @suzanparrish3560
    @suzanparrish35604 жыл бұрын

    Very informative... always enjoy your videos!

  • @yvonnewilkinson9855
    @yvonnewilkinson98554 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating facts. I am really enjoying your videos. Hello from New Zealand

  • @kellymurphy7444
    @kellymurphy74444 жыл бұрын

    I've been enjoying your videos, thank you!

  • @rt-oc8ff
    @rt-oc8ff4 жыл бұрын

    actually enjoyed this. thanks!

  • @BikeVermont71
    @BikeVermont712 жыл бұрын

    Your comments are well-weighed and well-worded. Thanks for doing your homework (and mine) for me.

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @tm502010
    @tm5020104 жыл бұрын

    Well done. It’s good to see historians in action...

  • @erinrising2799
    @erinrising27994 жыл бұрын

    also if one conceived during lent, you would give birth in the depths of winter. Which would probably be the worst time. Like the midwife might not be able to make it and then you die in childbirth. Just saying abstaining during lent might have had a practical reason too

  • @mangot589

    @mangot589

    4 жыл бұрын

    Erin Rising 🤔. Food for thought.

  • @Mike-ey8ce
    @Mike-ey8ce4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thanks!

  • @RebeccaJeanPrescott
    @RebeccaJeanPrescott4 жыл бұрын

    Mmkay love your content and love videos of you instead of all pictures even more :) I like the longer videos better but love these little snippets too.

  • @cecilyerker
    @cecilyerker4 жыл бұрын

    Considering that married couples abstained during Lent or high holidays it was probably a relief to women who were constantly popping out babies or breastfeeding young children before birth control

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    The days before people messed up themselves and the environment with excesses of chemical concoctions. The days of the pure, beautiful joys of family life and child-rearing.

  • @miovicdina7706

    @miovicdina7706

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RealCrusadesHistory I don't know about blissful family life... It is my understanding that, while many were indeed married with the one they fancied, probably also the only one + or - 10 years within their own age with all good limbs and teeth in the 30 km (10miles) range from their village (hence the gratitude and staying with them), still majority would be married against their will, or at least without them having a say in it. I guess their parents would make a (verbal) contract, for economic and land property reasons among other. Especially true for women, but young men too. So many girls jumped off a bridge into their own death or young dissatisfied men hurried to wars just to be away from a spouse they resented. I imagine them being thankful to the local priest for insisting on no sex for weeks on end, several times a year.

  • @floodgates182

    @floodgates182

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, firstly, you'll only have one every two years, anyway. Because breastfeeding makes you infertile for about a year (exceptions exist) Second, you'd have more nutritious food than today, makes a big difference to how performant you are. Thirdly, you'd have a wide support system around you, mothers, sisters, cousins, whom you'd be working with and who'd also help looking after the kids. Not all that exhausting, in the end.

  • @derpderpson8803

    @derpderpson8803

    4 жыл бұрын

    People weren't always popping out babies, they had silliphiam back then. Until crusaders burned it to extinction with all the herbalists and apothicaries alike. And any "witches" using herbs for abortion purposes.

  • @floodgates182

    @floodgates182

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@derpderpson8803 Uhm... Your knowledge of mediaeval history is severely lacking. No crusaders involved, at all. Timeline not even matching.

  • @failingdisciple938
    @failingdisciple9384 жыл бұрын

    Protestant here. Excellent video. Love the insight cuz I’m fascinated with that time period. Subbed.

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks glad you enjoyed it.

  • @muradshah3076
    @muradshah30764 жыл бұрын

    It was the Victorian era that stuffed everything

  • @lindavalentine2717
    @lindavalentine27174 жыл бұрын

    i genuinely appreciate your videos. Just sitting there teaching me what I want to know. Few pictures (which are usually stock pictures anyway) is truly a treat for me. The only thing I would ask is that you tone down the music. I came to hear you. I can get music easily from most anywhere. Good information is not that easily gotten. I want to hear it.

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you like the videos. In the newest videos I've been turning the music way down.

  • @const6610
    @const66104 жыл бұрын

    an important fact is that a smaller number of babies were born 9 month after Lent's fast

  • @vilwarin5635

    @vilwarin5635

    4 жыл бұрын

    which is around the worst part of winter. I wonder if this tradition came from pagan times, when people were encouraged to have sex in certain festivities so the baby would be born in spring or summer

  • @const6610

    @const6610

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vilwarin5635 Interesting, but I can't be sure if it came from pagan times... At least it shows that people respected the christian religion even when no one was looking at them

  • @cecilyerker

    @cecilyerker

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nesseire It probably was just an evolutionary adaptation from long before organized religion because early humans figured out pretty quick that their newborn babies died in winter if they couldn’t find enough food

  • @GaveMeGrace1
    @GaveMeGrace14 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @jamesmartello1
    @jamesmartello14 жыл бұрын

    EXTREMELY well done! Thank you.

  • @thecrusaderhistorian9820
    @thecrusaderhistorian98203 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for an informative video!

  • @EYECRAFTVideo
    @EYECRAFTVideo4 жыл бұрын

    GREAT VIDEO - Thanks - Australia

  • @margaretdavis96
    @margaretdavis964 жыл бұрын

    Would love to take classes with this gentleman.

  • @ambitiousamerikaner9861
    @ambitiousamerikaner98614 жыл бұрын

    An excellent channel!

  • @PapaPhilip
    @PapaPhilip4 жыл бұрын

    This is still the teaching of the Orthodox Christian Church.

  • @luciusrex22
    @luciusrex222 жыл бұрын

    The Orthodox Church still asks married couples to abstain during fasts.

  • @erichusayn
    @erichusayn4 жыл бұрын

    I like this new video style. Good to finally put a face with the voice. Lol.

  • @EdDueim
    @EdDueim4 жыл бұрын

    Just found this channel. Subscribed.

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Welcome

  • @keithlauderjr1691
    @keithlauderjr16914 жыл бұрын

    Lean and mean baby! ❤ Interesting lesson! 😆

  • @TheChristianFairy
    @TheChristianFairy4 жыл бұрын

    Sacrifice is fortifying and very often puts things in perspective. Abstinence also has emotional and physical benefits. But sex was much more a part of life back then. I am very grateful for the perspective that this video gives.

  • @pieceofschmidtgames6389
    @pieceofschmidtgames63894 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see your channel growing

  • @CalicoRegent
    @CalicoRegent4 жыл бұрын

    Armies fasting before a battle, ingenious utilization of hangry.

  • @AveChristusRex

    @AveChristusRex

    4 жыл бұрын

    Haha.

  • @lotstolearn5350

    @lotstolearn5350

    4 жыл бұрын

    Peak performance rather than being in the food coma, which makes people feel indifferent to the objective.

  • @thertis580

    @thertis580

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeh, it might be tricky if you wanted to slope off and use the John or even make out you wanted to.

  • @willbe4946

    @willbe4946

    4 жыл бұрын

    Never underestimate a hungry warrior. A full stomache will just emcumber a warrior in a battle thus reducing mobility and focus.

  • @creatifetudes8553
    @creatifetudes85534 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for telling the truth. Because everyone ATTACK medieval times.

  • @DedicatedSpartan
    @DedicatedSpartan4 жыл бұрын

    Dude you look great but extremely different, great video as always.

  • @Avoloch
    @Avoloch4 жыл бұрын

    im in love with this channel

  • @germanmarcinkowski7131
    @germanmarcinkowski71314 жыл бұрын

    Fasting is a good thing, ramadan or lent. When you have always food on your table, due to massive and well organised society, it's good to abstain from eating from time to time.

  • @rachelb2231

    @rachelb2231

    4 жыл бұрын

    The bad part of month long ramandan is the nightly gorging, very unhealthy. Lent is not fasting is it? No meat, fish instead, no sweets. That's the way my family has always observed it.

  • @germanmarcinkowski7131

    @germanmarcinkowski7131

    4 жыл бұрын

    Both Muslims nad Christians are cheating with fasting.

  • @lotstolearn5350

    @lotstolearn5350

    4 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the traditional Ramadan avoided sweets. Nowadays the consumption of confectionery during Ramadan, especially drinking soda, completely nullifies any health benefits. It's turned into night time food indulgence.

  • @renejackson7652
    @renejackson76524 жыл бұрын

    I am guessing that December and January and babies were frowned upon.

  • @magdaw3123
    @magdaw31234 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video. This misconception about the church's position regarding sex by folks today is similar to the misunderstanding of ORIGINAL SIN.

  • @m_d1905

    @m_d1905

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wonder also if it may come from the Puritan beliefs? At least maybe here in the states as many early settlers here we're of that stripe. Just a random thought.

  • @agentofchaos2750
    @agentofchaos27504 жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see this touched upon, and I'll admit, this conception of the church has always confused me somewhat. It seems me as though one of the best ways to understand the nuances of Roman Catholicism is to understand the heresies, and it is well documented that many of such heresies, such as the Cathars and the Albigensians, were very vocal in the sinfullness of worldly pleasures, sex in particular. One needs not delve particularly deep into Christian Doctrine or Scripture to see evidence of at minimum a neutral stance, and likely a fairly positive one; Genesis 1, as said to the first Man and Woman- be fruitful and increase in number. Granted, the old testament is not particularly comparable to Medieval Ethics, at least, not as important as the New testament. Regardless, it's in interesting fact on abstinence in holy seasons. It makes sense, at least, and is one of those fun tidbits that brings a little bit more perspective on the time, thank you for the video.

  • @Delgen1951

    @Delgen1951

    4 жыл бұрын

    Read the song of Songs, like wine the bible has a high view of marriage and marred sex. The veiw that sex was bad come form Greek Philosophers who felt that the body was evil while spirits were good.

  • @London_miss234

    @London_miss234

    4 жыл бұрын

    Delgen1951 Gnostics.

  • @London_miss234

    @London_miss234

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agent of Chaos Double Monastery-very popular. Monks and nuns, lived side by side, especially the heresies, and would be together, right under the nose of the Church. Some churches, unawares.

  • @justchilling704

    @justchilling704

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Bible is pro sex what are you talking about? It condemns fornication sure, that doesn’t mean the view on sex is “neutral” though. Paul specifically told married couples that it’s not good to be in a sexless marriage.

  • @fCLEF007
    @fCLEF0074 жыл бұрын

    I like how you are not down on their religion like other similar channels, eg how their attitude reflected the medieval ideas about sacrifice and how it was 'part of the rhythm of their society'.

  • @thephotoandthestory
    @thephotoandthestory2 жыл бұрын

    As Catholics, when we prep for marriage and take our vows to love and honor each other and be open to life in our sexual lives. It's not much different from the Middle Ages. I think there's wisdom in it.

  • @baltichammer6162
    @baltichammer61624 жыл бұрын

    Augustine of Hippo/St. Augustine had a big influence on sexual attitudes adopted by the Church. He got a lot of his influence from his years being heavily involved in Manichean Gnosticism.....flesh or fleshly desires is bad/evil.....spirit is good. There were different variants of Gnosticism but they shared common ideas like flesh = bad.

  • @VictorLepanto
    @VictorLepanto4 жыл бұрын

    No one ever fasted from broccoli. A fast implies a good. You can only fast from something which is an intrinsic good. It is interesting that Buddhism scorns the concept of fasting & describes a time when the Buddha made a mistake on his way to enlightenment by excessively fasting. The Buddhist notion of the middle path doesn't leave much room for fasting as such. Abstaining from certain things on ethical grounds IS important in Buddhism. Eating meat b/c of reincarnation is important in Buddhism. I've always wondered what ethical vegetarians might say to this question. Why should the life of animals be privileged over plants? How is killing an animal to eat it more obnoxious morally then killing a carrot? What is the criterion of moral distinction?

  • @slayerhuh404
    @slayerhuh4044 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know you were friends with Baldr, very cool! Hope you had fun in Venice!

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was a great trip!

  • @nxtaaa

    @nxtaaa

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hah I was very surprised and very not surprised at the same time

  • @allymkbay
    @allymkbay4 жыл бұрын

    Hi thank you for providing this content. I'm really enjoying it. However could you please lower the background music it kind of distracts from what you're saying. I can't really hear you. Thanks again.

  • @johnrooney507
    @johnrooney5074 жыл бұрын

    Catholic couples were( and still) not to contracept and replace the natural with unnatural acts.

  • @rachelb2231

    @rachelb2231

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't know how you post such a suggestion! Not approved for sure.

  • @frankezane583

    @frankezane583

    4 жыл бұрын

    John Rooney what do you mean ?

  • @johnrooney507

    @johnrooney507

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@frankezane583 This is teaching that goes back to the middle age, and before for married Catholics.

  • @frankezane583

    @frankezane583

    4 жыл бұрын

    John Rooney what’s unnatural ? Am I being naive, sorry

  • @johnrooney507

    @johnrooney507

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@frankezane583 Not to get too detailed but acts done that have zero potential for conception.

  • @mawg7598
    @mawg75984 жыл бұрын

    When a married person is fasting, they were said to abstain from marital relations. God blessed sex between husband n wife. Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it. God bless u n urs. In Jesus Name Margie from So MS

  • @johnwilliamscoffin
    @johnwilliamscoffin4 жыл бұрын

    That's what we need more in our age: sacrifice the desires of the flesh in order to get closer to God

  • @carmensavu5122

    @carmensavu5122

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nope.

  • @lonesomeonrymean9216
    @lonesomeonrymean92164 жыл бұрын

    I’m looking for good reading about the Crusades, any suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks!!

  • @lukegehring8331
    @lukegehring83314 жыл бұрын

    The Orthodox Church today still proscibes abstinence during fasting periods.

  • @esmeraldagreen1992

    @esmeraldagreen1992

    4 жыл бұрын

    Luke you mean prescribes. Proscribe means the opposite it means to forbid or to exile. In this case a vowel makes all the difference, this is why you get a prescription from you doctor and not a proscription because if you did it would mean that you were banned from the doctor's office.

  • @_robustus_
    @_robustus_4 жыл бұрын

    Time Machine bucket List: Crosses off ancient Rome

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ha!

  • @susansinsua5583

    @susansinsua5583

    4 жыл бұрын

    Only if it's I'm the original Middle English I hate the translations

  • @dubrequenash3144
    @dubrequenash31444 жыл бұрын

    That was when Augustus became emperor did sexual morality became a this he built good Roman family values and he banished his mother and sister for not upholding to those valus

  • @Skadi609

    @Skadi609

    4 жыл бұрын

    He literally exiled them. He wasn't fooling around.

  • @TyranyFighterPatriot

    @TyranyFighterPatriot

    Жыл бұрын

    ​​@@Skadi609 My kind of Emperor! :)

  • @samiiM-hm2oo
    @samiiM-hm2oo4 жыл бұрын

    It is still like that in the Orthodox Church, every lent, apostles fast, dormition fast etc and every wednesday(the day of the betrayal of Christ) and every friday(day of the crucifixion) is fast days where you abstain from sex and animal foods. To get closer to God by disciplining the flesh, and so doing working with the Holy Spirit to restore the proper order, God - soul -body. Abstention from sex during set times, is a wise thing, because it prevents adultery, because you will never get tired of your wife, when you dont have sex all the time.

  • @rexmundi3108
    @rexmundi31084 жыл бұрын

    Europe during the Black Death: Party Time.

  • @unkownoflife5959
    @unkownoflife59594 жыл бұрын

    So pretty much no sex during religious holidays. Sounds reasonable. Also the church promoted sex in what way exactly?

  • @lynncw9202

    @lynncw9202

    4 жыл бұрын

    'Go forth and multiply'. Instruction from God so obviously the Church encourages intercourse in marriage to 'multiply'. The Church has never discouraged that.

  • @albertatrafficante4261

    @albertatrafficante4261

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lent is a penatential season not a holiday. It precedes a holiday which is Easter. The season of penance is followed by a season of celebration each lasting 40 days

  • @albertatrafficante4261

    @albertatrafficante4261

    4 жыл бұрын

    Church did not promote "sex". They promoted marriage whose primary end is to form a family for which sex is necessary and to restore the right relationship between men and women. Women were neither to be a baby factory nor a sex toy.

  • @vilwarin5635

    @vilwarin5635

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@albertatrafficante4261 It seems to me that prevent sex around Easter would prevent also giving birth in the worst part of winter... I wonder how many of these traditions came from pagan times (when people were encouraged to have sex in certain festivities so the baby would be born in spring or summer, so there was more food around and warm weather)

  • @albertatrafficante4261

    @albertatrafficante4261

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@vilwarin5635 It's hard to say. There is a natural rhythm in nature designed by God and recognized by the pagans. I do know that the Ember days are "baptized" agricultural pagan festivals that take place at the equinoxes and solices. Easter and Passover is also lunar based holidays. I think when to abstain from sex in the early Church was during the penatential seasons of Advent and Lent and I think as well the 14 days before the feast of the Dormition of Our Lady as well as on Saturday as a preparation for Sunday's Divine Service. The issue with the early Church was not so much as curbing the number of children but more to curbing lustful desires. The problem that has arose since the Fall if Adam and Eve, men and women (and especially men) want to have sex more often than they are willing to have children. Before the advent of the pill, it was a more obvious that people were having more children than they can handle because they (usually the man) is irresponsible. The pill and its backup, abortion, now makes it possible to run after lusty desires without fear of giving birth.

  • @stuartalexander2657
    @stuartalexander26574 жыл бұрын

    Yet another great job! Say.....didn't realize you're a fellow guitar slinger. Go to Facebook and search on Guitar Players Group A-Z; that's my group (a closed group) rapidly approaching 17K members from literally around the world. You'd fit right in. :)

  • @Peristerygr
    @Peristerygr4 жыл бұрын

    Do you consider talk about work and labour employer-employee relationships etc in the middle ages? I would like to hear your opinion and see the reaction of your subscribers. ;)

  • @baltichammer6162

    @baltichammer6162

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Hanseatic League was large powerful merchant "union" in northern Europe. IMHO they wielded power equal or greater than a lot of kingdoms at the time. They were around a long time and involved in wars and controlling trade. So its a big study.

  • @Peristerygr

    @Peristerygr

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@baltichammer6162 Νοt really what I am saying. Unless we have informations about saliaries for example.

  • @baltichammer6162

    @baltichammer6162

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Peristerygr That is doubtful but one never knows what forgotten dusty archives may surface.

  • @williamkilmer6299
    @williamkilmer62994 жыл бұрын

    IIRC the Sundays during Lent are not considered part of the 40 day fast. Sunday always being a celebration of the day of the Resurrection. Does this mean that the fasts of Lent, including the sexual fast would be in abeyance on Sunday?

  • @michaelbaughman8910

    @michaelbaughman8910

    4 жыл бұрын

    YES

  • @josephnardone1250
    @josephnardone12504 жыл бұрын

    To Jude Evans, the idea of not eating meat on Friday was to commemorate the death of Christ which occured on Good Friday. It was to remind Catholics of the sacrifice of Christ and to participate in that sacrifice in a small way. The same is true of the Sacrament of Confession which drives non-Catholics crazy. It purpose is to teach individual responsibility for one's personal behavior. There is nothing mysterious nor magic nor subversive about anything. It was to teach church members how to live a life of Christian charity. Don't all ways believe what you read or hear. Do your own research.

  • @gabrieleghut1344
    @gabrieleghut13442 жыл бұрын

    Hildegard of Bingen a German Benedictine abbess (died in 1179) wrote about the sign of female orgasm. So the middle ages and the church was not against sexual intercourse.

  • @abrahemsamander3967
    @abrahemsamander39674 жыл бұрын

    That’s neat the way they fasted and abstained, they must’ve been really dedicated. No doubt there were screw ups here and there but you can tell they took it very seriously as a culture, compared to some claims of a sex crazed Middle Ages.

  • @azeema74
    @azeema744 жыл бұрын

    Good vedio

  • @historicalminds6812
    @historicalminds68124 жыл бұрын

    A discussion between you and Richard Carrier on this topic and Christianity in general would be quite interesting.

  • @charachoppel3116
    @charachoppel31164 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't follow the story due to lack of texting. And do not understand Italian that well. What were they forbidden to do, please?

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Italian?

  • @charachoppel3116

    @charachoppel3116

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RealCrusadesHistory The autogenerated text is in Italian, it says, but in fact No text. When changing to English text, no text there either.

  • @femalelovewarrior7786
    @femalelovewarrior77864 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting ❤💏❤

  • @13gladius28
    @13gladius284 жыл бұрын

    The ancient non-christian ideals were translated to Christian

  • @cecilyerker

    @cecilyerker

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is literally the case and it’s actually an amazing area of study

  • @anitahendricks
    @anitahendricks4 жыл бұрын

  • @LadyCoyKoi
    @LadyCoyKoi2 жыл бұрын

    It would be nice to note that much of the misunderstandings of Medieval sexuality and sex came from the restrictive and virgin obsessed minds of the Victorians. They saw Medieval times as more innocent and pure... of course the Victorians were just projecting their own views and values of womanhood and sanity of marriage onto a different time period which there was little information about. If only the Victorians knew that Medieval people believed that women were the hypersexual beings who could hold titles and properties, as well as fend themselves in such things... on top of that picked up their own husbands as hostages. The whole Damsel in distressed was an over-exaggerated invention by the Victorians.

  • @grahamparr4710
    @grahamparr47104 жыл бұрын

    Bernie sounds like a good guy😉

  • @johngurlides9157
    @johngurlides91574 жыл бұрын

    Why did the Catholic church need to attack those Cathars? Since the latter didn't believe in sex, wouldn't they die out on their own?

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can you think of another way their numbers might increase?

  • @Tugela60

    @Tugela60

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because their idea of god was fundamentally different. They also had certain fundamentalst ideas that saw the church establishment as corrupted, and since their teachings resonated with the peasants, they were a very real immediate threat to the church and state hierachy, in much the same way as later protestants were. So it was in the interests of the those people to get rid of them.

  • @gnpsbm
    @gnpsbm4 жыл бұрын

    OK so people haven't changed that much, but I'm none the wiser as to what was specially not allowed.

  • @InquisitorJack

    @InquisitorJack

    4 жыл бұрын

    Historically or Biblically? Because I might be able to help answer the second question, but I’m just an amateur.

  • @tanya292
    @tanya2924 жыл бұрын

    This is a really weird question. But if people lived and slept communally then did couples have privacy during sex?

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to address this very question in a video either tomorrow or Monday.

  • @JonQuixote-pb8rg
    @JonQuixote-pb8rg29 күн бұрын

    Just a helpful comment, it would help if you stressed, that prior to the protestant revolt, medieval Europe was TOTALLY Catholic.

  • @C.I.B.onTV.
    @C.I.B.onTV.4 жыл бұрын

    I like a KZread guy harald baldr he just posted a vid saying he's staying in same place as you ha 2 great KZreadrs doing opposite work kinda ;) Brilliant try get him on brother for the craic

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, we got together in Venice with a group of you tubers. Great time. Harald is a solid individual.

  • @C.I.B.onTV.

    @C.I.B.onTV.

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Real Crusades History brilliant I'd say it was a good laugh. Yea he seems a genuine guy. And he is definitely a utube crusader he reps it on his travels 🙈😂🕀 but great for entertainment travel on the tube here 👍 Thanks for reply and you're great work God bless from south east ireland ☩

  • @C.I.B.onTV.

    @C.I.B.onTV.

    4 жыл бұрын

    Craic agus ceol lol ' fun and music '

  • @C.I.B.onTV.

    @C.I.B.onTV.

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Michael Fox cool fair play it is a crazy language God forgive me for saying but I haven't learnt it since school tbh but I never understood the value of having it when I was young pity but alot of younger generation are learning it again properly 👊☘ keep trying brother you probably know more than me now ha where u living

  • @fawadahmedshaikh718

    @fawadahmedshaikh718

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RealCrusadesHistory vts Venice like

  • @MichaelAndersxq28guy
    @MichaelAndersxq28guy4 жыл бұрын

    Great, interesting, videos. Cool music, but turn down the music's volume, please. It'd be fine to hear in the background, but it's not. It's overwhelming the talk. I understand that you're proud of your great band, but, again, it's underwhelming.

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    I do think I got the volume wrong in this video. If you check out the others, the music is at a lower volume.

  • @VictorLepanto
    @VictorLepanto4 жыл бұрын

    So, what happened when a wife turned up giving birth exactly 9mos. after Lent?

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nothing.

  • @VictorLepanto

    @VictorLepanto

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RealCrusadesHistory "Nothing?" People would certainly have talked.

  • @RealCrusadesHistory

    @RealCrusadesHistory

    4 жыл бұрын

    Some people may have, sure. But I get the impression that this was a rule that was frequently broken. I don't think it would've raised many eyebrows. But I'm not positive.

  • @VictorLepanto

    @VictorLepanto

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RealCrusadesHistory On reflection I recall St. Paul's principle that it is better to marry then to burn. If it is better to marry if you could not live contentedly in celibacy, then it is better to come together in marriage then to strain your marriage if abstinence proves too trying. Still, we know human nature, tongues would wag.

  • @maryellenrose4812
    @maryellenrose48124 жыл бұрын

    Fasting

  • @jacobitewiseman3696
    @jacobitewiseman36963 жыл бұрын

    The woman on thumbnail looks plump for a time when fasting occured. Wouldn't they have been late 20th century early 21 skinny because of it. I mean isn't fasting when you go a day without eating? She's not overweight just voluptuous.

  • @dustinparker3573
    @dustinparker35734 жыл бұрын

    Yeah that's one thing I dislike, many people believe ancient times were fully of these sex crazed people but it's just not the truth, you can look at statues of naked men and you will see that in most cases they do not show a large or aroused...package and that's because they viewed that stuff as immoral. You can look this up, also no homo. XD

  • @Tugela60

    @Tugela60

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol...in Roman times penis symbols were everywhere. They had morals but were not prudish in the modern sense. Sex was more a normal part of life, and not elevated into the sort of taboo/obsession that modern people see it. They would have considered our view to be either repressed or the product of that repression, and both extremes would have been thought of as deviant and odd.

  • @bla2220
    @bla22204 жыл бұрын

    I'm 45. I don't remember when I read it but I read it You didn't mean many years ago. But there was a time when some priest would actually teach their parents that it was immoral to not give your husband or and wife an orgasm. It was sad and believed that the orgasm was what made the egg fertilize in the womb. And that the orgasm benchlink forced to sperm into the woman's womb.

  • @ronaldowens5025

    @ronaldowens5025

    4 жыл бұрын

    So when a woman organisms her cervix dips to the bottom, toward the anis. Right where seman pools. So there is that.

  • @jeanfish7
    @jeanfish74 жыл бұрын

    Saul had serious problems with women

  • @jeanfish7
    @jeanfish74 жыл бұрын

    Well if you don't talk, anything is possible:)

  • @YOSUP315
    @YOSUP3154 жыл бұрын

    This is like rapid-fire myth dispulsion!

  • @YOSUP315

    @YOSUP315

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gixxerpwns that's kind of a bizarre [standard], why do you say that?

  • @randomvagaries5140

    @randomvagaries5140

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nexus Wrath , how pitiful.

  • @YOSUP315

    @YOSUP315

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Captain Cook this is true. We've got to start taking pride in our history again.