20 Intriguing Past Times of Peasants in the Middle Ages

When we think of the Middle Ages, we usually think of knights and kings in castles. However it's estimated that around 85% of Europe's population in Medieval times were actually peasants, Now this doesn't mean that they were all necessarily dirt poor and living in mud huts. The peasantry class encompassed everything from freemen, who were able to make a (relatively) comfortable living right down to the lowest of the low, the landless serf.

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