How Did the Peasants Light Their Homes in the Medieval Era?

This video, Jason Kingsley, will bring you back in time to learn more about medieval living and how poor peasants lit their houses at night.

In the Middle Ages, lighting was provided by large central fireplaces, candles, rushlights, flaming torches, or lanterns. However, a rushlight or rush candle is the popular and cheapest option for the peasant home and the less well-off. Children and adults would make these by picking the best and biggest rushes during the summer and soaking them in water until they could be peeled. After skillful peeling, a thin strip of the outer coating was left to help the rushes maintain their shape. The dried, peeled rushes were then soaked in leftover cooking grease. In order to re-liquify the grease, it had been accumulated over time in iron grease pans that were warmed by the fire.

At the end of the trial, Jason thoughts it was a skilled work that required more experience than usual, and they burned down quickly, but it was still better than nothing for them in this medieval living.

Chapters:

00:02 How did you create light in medieval times?
00:57 What did you do to light the interior of your house?
01:15 What did you use to light your home in the medieval era?
01:34 Harvesting medieval rushes
01:46 Making a rushlight
02:03 Harvesting rushes
11:15 Summary and thoughts

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