10 Medieval Myths About the Dark Ages That Are Completely Wrong

Almost everything you were taught about the Dark Ages is wrong, and some of it was invented centuries after the fact by people who were not even there. These are ten medieval myths that are completely wrong: the noble knight in shining armor, the illiterate age when almost no one could read, the filthy unwashed peasant, the powerless medieval woman, the quack doctors who knew nothing about medicine, the silent science that supposedly went nowhere for a thousand years, the flat earth that sailors feared falling off of, the frozen progress that never happened, the lord's right to a peasant's wedding night, and the term Dark Ages itself, which was not coined by a historian at all. Every myth here is checked against what actual medieval sources and modern historians say, not against popular assumption. 0:00 Intro 0:31 The Noble Knight 7:46 The Illiterate Age 14:37 The Filthy Peasant 20:19 The Powerless Woman 27:32 The Quack Doctors 34:22 The Silent Science 41:22 The Flat Earth 47:06 Frozen Progress 52:47 The Lord's Right 57:57 The Dark Ages Subscribe for more medieval history the textbooks got wrong. #MedievalHistory #History #DarkAges #Mythbusting #Documentary