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Earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions, whenever and wherever they hit are devastating events that can wipe out entire cities and leave thousands of people dead. Let’s travel back in time now and take a look at some of the worst natural disasters that took place across the world in the Middle Ages. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Antioch - 526
02:41 Tauredunum - 563
04:28 Sanriku - 869
05:47 London - 1091
06:40 Sicily - 1169
08:06 Syria - 1202
08:32 Summer Never Came - 1258
09:38 The Great Drowning Of Men - 1362
10:54 Kamikaze 1274 - 1281
11:34 Black Monday - 1360
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
Thank you for watching.
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Earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions, whenever and wherever they hit are devastating events that can wipe out entire cities and leave thousands of people dead. Let’s travel back in time now and take a look at some of the worst natural disasters that took place across the world in the Middle Ages. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Antioch - 526
02:41 Tauredunum - 563
04:28 Sanriku - 869
05:47 London - 1091
06:40 Sicily - 1169
08:06 Syria - 1202
08:32 Summer Never Came - 1258
09:38 The Great Drowning Of Men - 1362
10:54 Kamikaze 1274 - 1281
11:34 Black Monday - 1360
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
Thank you for watching.
DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are, or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please email us at info@top5s.co.uk
Copyright © 2023 Top5s All rights reserved.




![Lets Talk About Medieval Diseases...
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Just like people living today, the Medievals had a huge number of diseases doing the rounds. So, what illnesses did people face back then? Surprisingly, many of them are the same as ones we deal with today. The difference wasn’t the diseases themselves, it was the fact that the Medievals had no vaccinations, antibiotics, or modern medicines, so recovery often depended on rest, the strength of the patient’s own body and a whole lot of luck. Let’s travel back to the Middle Ages and take a look at medieval diseases, the ‘cures’ that did or in most cases didn’t work and ask the big question; did getting sick in the Middle Ages mean certain death?
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Hot Stuff
03:35 Blind Spot
05:29 The Love Bug
06:33 G.O.A.T.
08:31 Dead Man Walking
10:07 Royal Blood
11:47 What A Waste
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
Thank you for watching!
SOURCES:
The Archivist, (Host) (2013, Sept) Medieval Diseases and ‘Cures’, (No. 42) [Audio Podcast Episode] In Medieval Archives. https://medievalarchives.com/2013/09/10/map-medieval-diseases-cures/
Cummings, J. (2021) Medicine in the Middle Ages, Surviving the Times, Pen & Sword History, Barnsley.
Harvey, K. (Jan 2018) The Salacious Middle Ages, aeon.co
Hopkins, D.R. (2002) The Greatest killer: Smallpox in History, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Hunter, P. R. (1991). The English Sweating Sickness, with Particular Reference to the 1551 Outbreak in Chester. Reviews of Infectious Diseases, 13(2), 303–306. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4455857
Fagunwa, O. E., & Fagunwa, A. O. (2020). The English sweating sickness of 1485-1551 and the ecclesiastical response. Christian Journal for Global Health, 7(4), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v7i4.449
Mortimer, I. (2009) The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, Vintage, London.
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