I Slept on a Medieval Mattress for a Week

AD This video was sponsored by June’s Journey. Download June’s Journey for free now: https://cherrypick.gg/VBirchwood2025 I've wondered for a while now how comfortable a Medieval mattress would have been, so I decided to make one and try it out for a week! A big thank you to the research consultant of this video, Sarah Prince, researcher at University of St Andrews. 🕯 Support my art on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/vbirchwood ✨ Leave a donation: https://ko-fi.com/vbirchwood 🪡 Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vasibirchwood/ 📖 Business inquiries - sofie@helmtalentgroup.com Further Reading: Morgan, H., 2014. Between the sheets: reading beds and chambers in Late-Medieval England (Doctoral dissertation, University of York). https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/7185/1/Hollie%20L.%20S.%20Morgan%20PhD.pdf Morgan, H.L., 2017. Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. Boydell & Brewer. https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=17M4DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=medieval+bed&ots=vL4sFNRTeV&sig=p2tbhMdkjLNOH6g5az5-Ax-EKqk&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=medieval%20bed&f=false Probate Inventories of the York Diocese, 1350–1500, ed. and trans. P. M. Stell (York, 2006) https://www.collections.yorkarchaeologicaltrust.co.uk/s/publications/item/74458#lg=1&slide=0 Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. N. Davis, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2004), I, 253). J. P. Toomey 2011. ‘A Household Account of Edward, Duke of Yo