What's True. Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for ...

In 1381, thousands of English peasants rose up in one of the most dramatic uprisings of the Middle Ages. But what drove them to revolt? In this video, we break down the causes – from crushing ...

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 ...

“There’s a reasonable controversy going on in medieval economic history,” Clark told me. He now thinks that English peasants in the late Middle Ages may have worked closer to 300 days a year.

Nolita: One thing careful eaters need to be on the lookout for these days is the extent to which long uncompromising restaurateurs are folding on their signature quirks as they get nervous about ...

As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt of 1381. Now that America is experiencing widespread unrest in the midst ...