The+Peasant

Medieval peasants were usually diseased, downtrodden, and dirty.

Being a Peasant in the Middle Ages must qualify as the worst job in history.

Peasants couldn't own their land unless their lord give it to them.

Peasants started to get irritated by the high tax, and it led them to a revolution.

Peasants' revolution broke out in England during the summer of 1381.

During the revolution, they rampaged through London and killed lots of Flemish people to make their point more forcibly.

Peasants worked for the Lords, they worked his land and payed taxes, while the lord gave peasants protection.

Peasants ate pottage, which is a bunch of stewed vegetables.

Some peasants could organize because they were literate.

Sometimes peasants had to pay tithes to the church.

Every village was dominated by its church.

Peasants' social life revolved around the church.

The medieval church certainly knew how to attract a congregation. It was the place where the Peasants had their Parties, amateur dramatics and where they even held football matches. In addition, local Priest often used to brew his own beer.

In the Middle Ages, the church insisted eighty holidays (holy-day) a year.

Some of the peasants received surprisingly sophisticated health care.

A woman peasant could divorce her husband on the grounds of bad breath.

Some sons of the Peasants went on to become high flying members of the intelligentsia - William of **Wykeham (spelling check plz)**

William was born as a humble peasant, but he rose to become the richest and one of the most powerful men in England and he put his fortune to good use.

He encouraged education especially for peasants, and he established the Winchester college!!! (Such a cool guy!!!)

Winchester College is one of the oldest public schools in England. . Planting over boundary takes seriously to the court.

Some peasants pretended to be crazy to avoid paying extra tax because at that time people believe madness was contagious.

The reeve, the manager of the village and who was chosen by the people, had the biggest house in the town.

Peasants fertilized their fields with human faces.

Peasants drank beer instead of water, because the water was polluted in that time, because there would be runoff water from the peasants' fields.

Peasants are not allowed to move to any other towns or do anything without their lord's permission, except free peasants.

Lords started to realize that sheep makes more money than crops with its wool and meat.

So they started to throw the peasants off their lands, and replace them with sheeps.

Peasants used to have parties in a church.

Peasants used herbs to keep fleas off from them.

Some peasants were like slaves.

Peasants worked for 50 to 60 days to pay taxes.

Reeves were chosen every year.

The revolution of peasants failed.

The lords kicked peasants out and replaced sheep because raising sheep could get more money than farming.

Thank you for fixing the spelling!. Miss O'Neill Ummm...who changed faeces to faces? And "Planting over boundary takes seriously to the court. ", I don't think this makes any sense -Igor


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The lord determined that grazing sheeps can earn more money than farming, so he kicked the peasants out then built fences and he put some sheep in the land.

They had 80 public holidays.

Once when the peasants got richer, nobles were not happy to see well dressed peasants. So they made it illigal to dress well.

At that time, when the 'Black Death' was attacking through Europe; the peasant had been the most serious victims of illness because of poor sanitary conditions.

The lord was required to provide a feast for the peasants twice a year.

Some peasants even lived to 60. Dental health was average in the Middle Ages because they didn't eat sugar (rarely). They had bad breath, though.

In fact, peasants used quite a lot of their incomes for their religion life.