There were many different types of peasants during the medieval period, the most common peasant in medieval times was also one of the lowest-ranked and commonly lived and worked on the manor estate of a noble and was called a Serf. Serf *Medieval Peasant The majority of the medieval populati...
Most peasants worked on their local lord’s fields in return for their own plots of land. Some, called serfs, were not free, and could not travel, or marry, without their lord’s permission. Skilled men could be thatchers or carpenters. Women might weave cloth or brew ale. ...
Farming was the primary way of life in the middle ages. It was the most common work of the people during the medieval period. Peasants and serfs worked the lands which were critical to the survival of peasant families in the medieval era. Most of these peasants lived in villages and these...
The Medieval peasants were divided in free men, villeins, and cottars. The free men were renting the land from the feudal lord, having to pay fixed dues in return, but owing no labor services. The cottars worked the lord fields, receiving in return a dwelling, and a small portion of ...
one of Richard II’s advisors and the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by the peasants when they were let into London. The Chartists were more divided in the way that their goals could be achieved. Some of them preferred argument and moral force but in the end violence was less easy...
Meat was fairly hard to come by for peasants in medieval Europe, but even the rich weren't picky when it came to what kind of flesh they were ripping into.Records from the timeindicate that people ate "starlings, vultures, gulls, herons, cormorants, swans, cranes, peacocks, capons, chick...
their loyalty by swearing to serve and protect the king • The king also granted land to the less powerful military men (the knights) who were called vassals • The vassals also agreed to fight for the king in exchange for their land • The land was worked by the peasants or ...
Peasants’ houses from this period have not survived because they were made out of sticks, straw and mud. They were one-roomed houses which the family shared with the animals. They made their houses themselves because they could not afford to pay someone to build them. ...
As time went on, however, social mores regarding sexual conduct gradually became less permissive for married men and for members of the clergy, and these men were increasingly both barred from brothels and prosecuted for adultery. For the commercial sex industry, single laymen remained its largest...
, economic and social system of medieval Europe under which peasants' land tenure and production were regulated, and local justice and taxation were administered... Click the link for more information. (see also tenuretenure,in law, manner in which property in land is held. The nature of tenu...