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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though medieval women undoubtedly had it worse (lacking the benefits, Ms. Janega wryly notes, of birth control, legal equity and Dolly Parton’s “Nine to Five”), ...

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 ...