When people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness.
Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...
Winter in a peasant village, painted by the Limbourg brothers and published in the medieval illuminated manuscript 'Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.' Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images ...
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