Peasants

Peasants By Warin

The Middle Ages is a time when there are kings, queens, princes, princesses, and knights. This is a page about medieval peasants. It tells what they were, what they lived in, ate, farmed, and what they wore.
 * Intro**

Peasants were people who were in the lowest place in the feudal society. There are two kinds of peasant. They are villains and serfs. Serfs had to work for people that are higher in the feudal society like the lords that owned the land that they lived in. Villains were free peasants who didn’t work for lords like serfs. Peasants would have a hard life. Their jobs would be craftsmen, farmers, or millers. Most peasants were farmers. Women would have to do chores like washing clothes, feeding the farm animals, and nursing babies.
 * What are peasants?**

Peasants lived in cottages. The cottages were made of rough walls of mud and sticks. The roofs were thatched. The cottages always needed repairs. The cottages were damp, dark, and smelly most of the time.
 * [[image:Typical_Medieval_Farm_House.jpg width="219" height="150" align="left"]]What did they live in?**

Peasants had to grow their own food. Most of their food went to the lord who owned the land. Peasants would eat eggs, bread made of beans and oats, porridge, garlic, nuts, peas, beans, cabbage, bacon, fish, cheese, and onions. They would drink beer, butter milk, or weak ale. In the winter the pigs would have to be killed to get bacon to survive through the winter.
 * What did peasants eat?**

Peasants had to weave their own clothes**.** The women had to weave the clothes**.** Peasants had to work very hard so they wore tunics that came down to mid thigh. Leggings were worn on the legs. When the weather was hot they would roll it down and when there was cold weather they would roll it up. They also wore a hood called a capuchon. Women wore a long tunic and children wore clothes the same type as their parents.
 * [[image:peasant_clothes.jpeg width="111" height="108" align="left"]]What did they wear?**

When it was spring the peasants would plant oats and barley. When it was summer they would harvest their crops, collecting honey from bee hives, and shearing sheep. When it was autumn peasants plowed fields, threshed corn, cut trees for fire wood, and gather food for the winter. When it was winter the peasants harrowed fields, planted wheat, and mended their tools.
 * What did they farm?**

I think if I was a medieval peasant I would be very tired by now.
 * Conclusion**

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