Peasant women, then, were real Jills of all trades. They might be holding down a family farm as well as a second job on another, or a business on top of their agricultural responsibilities.

When people belonging to peasant communities in late medieval Sweden prayed to God they usually stood up and put their palms together. That was how they displayed their devotion before God. This ...

If even medieval peasants—most of whom performed forced labor as feudal serfs—worked fewer hours and got more vacation days than you do, then maybe you shouldn’t settle for whatever your ...

Historian and author Dr John Ridgard is also frustrated that there are so few studies on the lives of medieval peasant women. Despite this, he found reference to 70 women rebels in Suffolk alone.

While some medieval women were born into ... The Pastons were a “nouveau riche family who rose up from the peasant level due to the increased opportunities that happened after the Black Death in ...

Let’s be honest, daily life for a medieval serf in England, and many other European countries wasn’t much fun. The feudal system meant that peasants were bound by law to work for the nobility ...

Historian and author Dr John Ridgard is also frustrated that there are so few studies on the lives of medieval peasant women. Despite this, he found reference to 70 women rebels in Suffolk alone.

The British Library’s yearlong digitization of nearly 100 manuscripts related to medieval and Renaissance women provided the inspiration for “In Their Own Words.”While searching the ...

Historian and author Dr John Ridgard is also frustrated that there are so few studies on the lives of medieval peasant women. Despite this, he found reference to 70 women rebels in Suffolk alone.