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.

Life as a medieval peasant wasn’t all hard work and survival – they found ways to have fun too. In this video, we explore how peasants in the Middle Ages spent their free time, from village ...

Only the nobles were allowed bright colors, while peasants and serfs typically were forced to wear rags. Jason Hawkins did his best to impersonate one such poor soul.

How the labor of the Russian peasant will henceforth be divided, has still to be seen; but it would be very useless, even dangerous, in regard to the expansion of the productive resources of ...

Generally, lowly serfs didn't get out much, whereas their lords were among the best-connected members of society. But other findings proved more unexpected, Villa says.

Ancient cooking pots found in Northamptonshire Medieval peasants mainly ate stews of meat and vegetables, along with dairy products such as cheese, according to a study of old cooking pots ...