The Deadly Job Of A Medieval Knight | Fight Club

The life of a medieval knight was no picnic, fighting for glory and honour in 15th century England. Follow the journey of a knight as they prepare for a tournament and see how armor evolved to prevent the countless deaths occurring while allowing mobility, a delicate balance between defense and agility.
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  • @daylonskaflestad7965
    @daylonskaflestad7965Ай бұрын

    No way they got Sean F’ing Bean to narrate this! Absolutely amazing!!!

  • @gffrycole

    @gffrycole

    26 күн бұрын

    And he didn't die!

  • @sharioverend1618

    @sharioverend1618

    5 күн бұрын

    He played Ned Stark

  • @dynjarren5454
    @dynjarren5454Ай бұрын

    Sean Bean, Baromir...the voice! Bravo 🤘

  • @spencerstevens2175
    @spencerstevens2175Ай бұрын

    Hey babe, new Chronicle just dropped. Holy crap, a celebrity narrator.😊

  • @MesaperProductions

    @MesaperProductions

    Ай бұрын

    I was like, "Wait, Ned Stark, is that you?!" 😆

  • @joe51576
    @joe51576Ай бұрын

    They got Ned Stark to do the voice over 🤌

  • @skyhigh1154

    @skyhigh1154

    Ай бұрын

    Knight Stark?

  • @simonilton9831

    @simonilton9831

    Ай бұрын

    And he didn't die

  • @Comicsluvr
    @Comicsluvr15 күн бұрын

    I've been binging on Chronicle all day but this is the one that earned my Sub.

  • @herrings36
    @herrings36Ай бұрын

    My absolute favorite place on the internet is here with Chronicle!

  • @valiantredneck

    @valiantredneck

    Ай бұрын

    Have you thought about getting off yer bum and actually seeing and experiencing the real world…? Commenting about actual Men and their virtues from a keyboard is quite sad. But,that’s something that only you a change. Now, Stop pissin’ about and get on with it.

  • @briankirchhoff2772

    @briankirchhoff2772

    Ай бұрын

    Try point hub

  • @briankirchhoff2772

    @briankirchhoff2772

    Ай бұрын

    Try poorn hub*

  • @MysticChronicles712
    @MysticChronicles712Ай бұрын

    Immerse yourself in the exciting and sometimes dangerous world of mediaeval battle in this gripping video. The courage and horror of these events are vividly brought to life by the historical insights and detailed descriptions offered here. Great job on the interesting and well-written analysis of this period in medieval history!

  • @leslietarkin5705
    @leslietarkin5705Ай бұрын

    One does not simply put on a suit of armor and walk into Mordor.

  • @dervolkstribun6240
    @dervolkstribun6240Ай бұрын

    Sharps drawl, splendid indeed!

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn5461Ай бұрын

    Excellent short treatment of amor and fighting during a brief period of history.

  • @geoffroydegodefroy2374
    @geoffroydegodefroy2374Ай бұрын

    I unavoidably recommend Schwerpunkt's arms&armor and also Medieval violence playlists on the topic

  • @NicholasNappi

    @NicholasNappi

    Ай бұрын

    Yes yeah definitely

  • @metoo7557
    @metoo7557Ай бұрын

    Is that narrated by Sean Bean..? He's like Morgan Freeman, he could read the ingredients off of grocery products and you'd still sit and listen.

  • @Soonergriff26

    @Soonergriff26

    Ай бұрын

    David Attenborough too.

  • @mmanu6126

    @mmanu6126

    Ай бұрын

    @@Soonergriff26 Attenborough is so damn overrated. His voice is so damn annoying compared to smoothness of someone like Sean Bean

  • @user-km5fb5ji7w
    @user-km5fb5ji7wАй бұрын

    Speaks to his performance that despite only being in one season, we all knew exactly who it was.

  • @taylorlibby7642
    @taylorlibby7642Ай бұрын

    Speaking only from my own personal experiences as a combat veteran, amateur boxer, and amateur mma fighter I don't and didn't obsess too greatly about a fight right before the fight. All of the fear was generally worked through during training and my primary anxiety was to just get on with it, more like a racehorse at the gate that's anxious to start racing than anything else.

  • @ButchLotus1
    @ButchLotus1Ай бұрын

    Ned? Is that you?

  • @Thescharmduo
    @ThescharmduoАй бұрын

    So cool to have Bilbo Baggins narrating!

  • @cliftongaither6642

    @cliftongaither6642

    29 күн бұрын

    no, Boromir ... actor Sean Bean.

  • @guswulf6865
    @guswulf6865Ай бұрын

    He is Breaking The 1st Rule of FIGHT CLUB 😮

  • @briankirchhoff2772

    @briankirchhoff2772

    Ай бұрын

    Wear rubber gloves?

  • @bloodwulf90
    @bloodwulf90Ай бұрын

    Pretty sure the narrator is Sean Bean. It sure sounds a heck of a lot like him. Although admittedly, having celebrities as narrators - particularly those with eloquent voices - makes sense from a logical point of view, as well as it is to be expected as such: given you're probably substantially more likely to remember said information & the source from which it was obtained with a familiar voice disseminating the information/stories.

  • @Lord_RFAS
    @Lord_RFAS20 күн бұрын

    Sean, m'boy, Is that you? Here's hoping they don't kill you in the first season/movie!

  • @TheMeJustMe75
    @TheMeJustMe75Ай бұрын

    Samurai interest me more than European Knights. The Samurai's armor is much more complex in how it was constructed. The face masks also was believed to hold special powers for the Samurai who wore it. I find the idea of Bushido very interesting. The Samurai could be very brutal to civilians though that they protected.

  • @shaolinshoppe

    @shaolinshoppe

    28 күн бұрын

    ok weeb

  • @albertenriquecrowleybeastc217
    @albertenriquecrowleybeastc217Ай бұрын

    Imagine the carnage and the horror of the warfare then face to face in these suits trying to bash or slash or stab your opponent, when will man stop fighting and unite together to help one another?

  • @worstvlogever9324

    @worstvlogever9324

    Ай бұрын

    Imagine the carnage and horror of the 99% who couldn't afford armor and were forced to go up against and be slashed/cut down by tanky aristocrats.

  • @albertenriquecrowleybeastc217

    @albertenriquecrowleybeastc217

    Ай бұрын

    @@worstvlogever9324 no doubt, it was pitiful to be a peasant. Your life was considered disposable.

  • @letsdothis9063

    @letsdothis9063

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@albertenriquecrowleybeastc217nothing has changed.

  • @cassiuscrassus3887
    @cassiuscrassus3887Ай бұрын

    Dude does this channel make these for KZread or are these on tv documentaries?

  • @b.elzebub9252

    @b.elzebub9252

    13 күн бұрын

    They're uploads of older documentaries. This one of part of a 4 part series called "Fight Club: A History of Violence". It's from 2012.

  • @annanardo2358
    @annanardo2358Ай бұрын

    And the ladies just sat around drinking and eating sweet reads waiting for it to end Testosterone once again doing the talking.😄

  • @enfredlindstrom6763
    @enfredlindstrom6763Күн бұрын

    Fear is a good thing, i makes u ,feel alive ..ask any real warrior ....

  • @Hedance
    @HedanceАй бұрын

    😪 the difference is I'm keeping you and I don't have relationship structure anxiety and life problems

  • @donnadees1971
    @donnadees1971Ай бұрын

    Talk about hoarding…omg. How many pieces of stuff. I am agog.

  • @julianj.8928
    @julianj.8928Ай бұрын

    🤺I’ll fight! For Ireland

  • @aghostyboi3075
    @aghostyboi3075Ай бұрын

    Is this the same narrator as civ 6?

  • @ckbeep1313
    @ckbeep1313Ай бұрын

    Well made armor was like driving a Ferrari today

  • @evanneal4936
    @evanneal4936Ай бұрын

    Not to mention that also, you mentioned tudor England in Tudor England in the 1480s, tournaments were illegal, thus providing further evidence that you actually meant the 14th century (1300s) because tournaments were still legal and not banned. Also there were NO gun proof armor like you implied. While some did deflect indirectly, a direct shot was guaranteed to go through and kill.

  • @jonathanengdahl9045

    @jonathanengdahl9045

    Ай бұрын

    No it wasnt. Armors were often proofed against balls. Nothing is guaranteed

  • @AJDraws
    @AJDrawsАй бұрын

    The narrator is Sean Bean!?!? His voice, just fits the theme of this documentary so perfectly.

  • @evanneal4936
    @evanneal4936Ай бұрын

    As a real historian myself, i must say that I really enjoy your videos and content. However, I must correct a vital mistake... your timing is inaccurate. You kept talking about the late 1400s, but you actually meant the late 14th century (which is actually the 1300s) its a common mistake and i understand why you made it but historical context is important in this case, because in the early 1400s they already developed, cannons, hand guns and crossbows, all of which were capable of penatrating even the strongest armors and thus by the mid 1400s like 1450, plate armor was considered obsolete and was replaced by mass levied standing armies armed with pikes, crossbows and guns which was way cheaper and more efficient than heavy plated armored knights that were killed instantly by a peasant with a gun or crossbow...in the future make sure you get the timeline accurate or it looks bad on your research skills and on your video overall. I know you are historians, too, and that research is hard, but this is a serious mistake, and it's still possible for historias to be wrong or inaccurate. My sources are available upon request.

  • @evanneal4936

    @evanneal4936

    Ай бұрын

    Not to mention that also, you mentioned tudor England in Tudor England in the 1480s, tournaments were illegal, thus providing further evidence that you actually meant the 14th century (1300s) because tournaments were still legal and not banned. Also there were NO gun proof armor like you implied. While some did deflect indirectly, a direct shot was guaranteed to go through and kill.

  • @ankhpom9296

    @ankhpom9296

    Ай бұрын

    What did a knight do when he had to go potty?

  • @dr.barrycohn5461

    @dr.barrycohn5461

    Ай бұрын

    Well, not all guns were powerful enough to reliably pierce armor that was meant to repell gun shot. There are many examples of armor that displays major denting but not pierced. Your "point" is well taken. I'd be afraid of pikes, crossbows, and longbows for sure. Guns of that day weren't that reliable.

  • @gypsydonovan

    @gypsydonovan

    Ай бұрын

    As a medieval social historian, i think about the difference between the 14th century & 1400s (i haven’t watched yet, i always scan comments first to either skip or brace myself for inaccuracy), my mind goes straight to the plague. The years after 1347 saw tremendous social upheaval, weakening the feudal system itself. It changed how & where people lived, traveled & married. It effected every aspect of life down to a beginning undercurrent of loss if faith in the all powerful church (not God, necessarily, but the institution that failed many when the plague was at its height). It’s also the difference between knowing the “new world” exists. It DOES make a difference. If someone says 19th century in describing the birth of the internet & mass communication- it would matter. It would be flat out wrong. Every decade is different. It’s influence by the events of the previous generation as well as whatever is happening in their own lives. It shouldn’t be lumped together. Even fashion changed every generation because teenage girls don’t want to dress like their grandmas. The changes aren’t as dramatic as they became once mass production of clothing became available but styles were constantly changing & rotating. Things that were out of fashion would return, possibly because they were relatively easy to obtain, likely because of nostalgia just as fashion cycles happen today. We don’t know everything, especially about cultures who didn’t keep written records (or whos’s records were destroyed by invading Europeans). In Europe we have a lot of information but not as much on the average citizen as we’d like. We have a responsibility to be as accurate as possible when presenting information to the public. I think you’re a little too kind. The production had researchers, writers, narration, editors, at least one producer & a director. SOMEONE should have caught it. It is an easy mistake, whether out if confusion (the American education system is experienced didn’t really discuss it) or as a verbal slip by myself or someone who is very familiar with history. But we can’t keep excusing factual errors & mistakes in material that may be the only source of knowledge on a subject for a lot of people, particularly when they have multiple stages where things can be caught & corrected before “publication”.

  • @wooltron1

    @wooltron1

    Ай бұрын

    Never second guess Ned Stark.

  • @d.m.515
    @d.m.515Ай бұрын

    Sean Bean? What are you doing here??

  • @PT....
    @PT....Ай бұрын

    Is Sean Bean (Eddard (Ned) Stark in Game of Thrones) narrating this?! If not, it sounds like him.

  • @fredfry5100
    @fredfry5100Ай бұрын

    Well, that was a waste of time. While they showed a number of armor pieces they somehow never actually covered the actual workings of a tournament, the weapons facing the knights, or much of anything about lordship.

  • @benparrish672
    @benparrish672Ай бұрын

    I had fun during those times. There were some legendary knights back then; men worth eating. I am Vampyr. I am The NashVillain

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602Ай бұрын

    Fighting under a metal exoskeleton isn't a good idea if it's raining and lightning. Fighting at night in armor with the helmet's visor closed would be impossible. What is apparently impregnable in a normal situation in another situation increases the soldier's vulnerability. No army of armored knights could bear to fight after the wind carried the smoke of many burning pepper trees to their position.

  • @evadehell
    @evadehellАй бұрын

    Winter is coming 🗡️

  • @davideveritt6685
    @davideveritt6685Ай бұрын

    If Sean survives that'll be soldiering.

  • @derrickguffey4775
    @derrickguffey4775Ай бұрын

    This has to be narrated by Sean Bean!

  • @evadehell
    @evadehellАй бұрын

    They got Ned stark narrating 😅 yooooooo

  • @williamsullivan3702
    @williamsullivan3702Ай бұрын

    It's sad that probably better athletes were not able to participate because they were born peasants.

  • @spencerstevens2175

    @spencerstevens2175

    Ай бұрын

    They were probably under fed and not very athletic to begin with. It was very much appreciated if the under classes could "buy" their way out of military service. Buying mercs was much more desirable than sending your untrained tax payers to be slaughtered by professional soldiers.

  • @malvinacarabas5768
    @malvinacarabas5768Ай бұрын

    Come on ! It`s not about " deadly job of knights " , it`s about armory . Sucks !! Click bait .

  • @garycude4029
    @garycude4029Ай бұрын

    BORE'N,VERYBORING!👎

  • @JohnJames-be4qe
    @JohnJames-be4qeАй бұрын

    The historical and factual accuracy seems to have given way to celebrity narrators. Chronicle seems to be loosing it a bit and trying to be woke. Men and women in battle!!!

  • @jameshaws9986

    @jameshaws9986

    29 күн бұрын

    Bro shut up. The narrator is reading a script the actual science is fine. Women did in fact occasionally fight

  • @JohnJames-be4qe

    @JohnJames-be4qe

    29 күн бұрын

    @@jameshaws9986 perhaps you should shut up as you didn’t understand.

  • @jameshaws9986

    @jameshaws9986

    26 күн бұрын

    @@JohnJames-be4qe perhaps you should take your politics to a different channel

  • @JohnJames-be4qe

    @JohnJames-be4qe

    26 күн бұрын

    @@jameshaws9986 you don’t know politics so perhaps you should shut up.

  • @metalmyke1
    @metalmyke1Ай бұрын

    Its funny how the bible predicted this centuries before this....

  • @jedjimieravalente9087
    @jedjimieravalente9087Ай бұрын

    Sean bean is the narrator

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