Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare | Boring History For Sleep
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Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare | Boring History For Sleep
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Welcome to Drowsy Historian, where history is slow, grim, and weirdly relaxing. In this episode, we take you inside a medieval siege — not the heroic, armor-clashing nonsense you see in movies, but the slow-motion disaster of real life behind crumbling walls. You’ll live it: the rumors, the lockdown, the rot, the rats, and the final, brutal breach.
It’s a second-person descent into paranoia, despair, and the quiet horror of waiting to die behind a gate that won’t open. There are no grand victories here. Just mud, soup, and a siege economy where furniture becomes a weapon.
Dim the lights. Settle into your sheets. And prepare to be calmly traumatized by the real reason castles had moats and peasants had nightmares.