The Life of a Medieval Peasant

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"downtime" wasn't exactly as you're saying. For most peasants it would be taken up with finding other ways to make a little bit of something to keep them going. Whether that was hunting /fishing (with their Lords permission), making items to be used or bartered with, and travelling in order to do that. Which since it could take days, weeks to get to and from the towns and cities for markets etc took up a lot of time. Its not really "downtime" as we think if it today.

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Better traveling than spending 10 hours in front of a screen

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@@AndrewTheMandrew531 unless your a peasant travelling to the battlefield to get slaughtered by a cavalry charge

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@@alexanderdoddy7590 a peasant in the Middle Ages has lived a more meaningful life than a thirty-something year old bugman in today’s society.

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@@AndrewTheMandrew531 Depends on how you define "Meaningful"

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Medieval peasants worked half the amount of days we do. They also had a rich community, unlike our social atomization under modernity. It wasn't all bad.

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5:37 "Dinner, which unlike modern times was at midday, and a lighter supper in the evening." You're showing your southern English bias here.

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Well, it was way better than the lives of the Victorians workers for sure

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[@69Jackjones69]

I thought the same thing 😆 1.King 2.Warrior aristocracy 3. Middle class/merchants 4. Peasants This has been the quadripartite way since the beginning of God's creation. There were class revolutions which reached a fever pitch in the 18th ,19th, 20th and now 21st century A.D. and we are now in a state of perpetual revolution. However the average western European peasant in the late middle age lived a fairly stable life based on the natural rhythms of the world and Holy Days and in fact the mentally well adjusted peasant desired peace and an abundance of food and shelter which required that he positively contributed to his community which meant that the 4 classes had to secure a harmonious balance between themselves. The peasant grew the food that all the higher classes depended on for their physical substinence (sic?). In turn the merchant would provide the peasant with material goods and the warrior knight would protect him from invaders and the king's will would direct the whole system, passing laws and regulations and rewarding the classes beneath him for work well done. Not every peasant lived a terrible life full of deprivation and physical agony, many lived quite well. We are fortunate to have made advances in the field of science however and we should be grateful that live in such luxury and ease today although it seems this is ending in the west in many places. These are dark days gentleman. 😬