MedievalMadness. The Harsh Life of a Medieval Farmer. Posted: March 7, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025. It has been argued that during the Middle Ages, up to 85% of the population were peasants.

While those with peasant plots merely paid taxes on the land, dependent laborers experienced, as David Levine puts it, "a 'double rent,' on both the land and their bodies".

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days out of the year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less free time than a Medieval ...

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Surgeons were carrying out complicated skull operations in medieval times, the remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show. A skull belonging to a 40-year-old peasant man, who lived between ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, since she began ...

It's a real vibe-killer in my ongoing desire to fulfil my cosy medieval peasant fantasy, and it's only one of many things actively making an attempt on my life.