What’s even more complicated is determining the nature of life—how well different ... He now thinks that English peasants in the late Middle Ages may have worked closer to 300 days a year.

Life for the medieval peasant was certainly ... back some of the conditions that farm workers and artisans from the Middle Ages took for granted, but since the 1980s things have gone steadily ...

Life for the medieval peasant was certainly ... back some of the conditions that farm workers and artisans from the Middle Ages took for granted, but since the 1980s things have gone steadily ...

Life for the medieval peasant was certainly ... back some of the conditions that farm workers and artisans from the Middle Ages took for granted, but since the 1980s things have gone steadily ...

While peasants washed their hands ... A myth persists that during the Middle Ages, the unenlightened believed Earth was flat and worried that ships might even fall off the planet’s edge.

Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to ... down loners who expect little from life and receive less.