Peasant

Peasants
During the middle ages people only lived to be around 30 years old. They only lived to be thirty because of the black plague. The plague was transmitted from flees on rats that boarded boats and were carried to England. Peasants worked on the land to support themselves, the clergy, and the lords. The priest settled disputes between the people. The peasants had few rights, and their lords had complete control over them. The Peasants obeyed their lord, because he/she provided for them. Peasants were also mistreated. ("middle ages" world book)

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Food During the middle ages the poor usually drank water which was unclean, so they resorted to ale. they had no clean water for this would be the cause. The rich drank many different types of wines.The peasants could not afford meat so they ate their share of the crops they farmed. One such crop would be cabbage. Most of their diet consisted of on fruits and vegetables.("middle ages food")

Feudalism Charlemange practiced Feudalism. At the very bottom were peasants or serfs. They worked off of the land and were treated crudely. Each lord divided their land up into smaller pieces and gave it to someone lesser such as a knight or a noble. Then they swore an oath to be loyal to them, then they each divided their land up into smaller pieces to give to the lesser lesser people which were peasants and serfs. Feudalism made a system in which people relied on one another for their work to get done.

("Feudalism" encyclopedia britannica)

Clothing Peasants only had one or two outfits to wear for years and years. They worried more about eating than their appearance. The reason they had such little clothing is because of the type of work they did. Their cloths would get worn out so fast. Also they had little money to pay for the clothing. When the peasant children grew out of the cloths the resorted to using wool cloths to use as tunics. The women would cut holes in the cloth and let it fall to their ankles, this could have looked like a dress, and the men wore it down to their knees. In terms of shoes many went without shoes during the winter season, but when they had them, the shoes were mainly made of loose leather. Underwear, or “shifts”, weren’t worn until the 14th century.("Historical clothing of the middle ages: Peasants, knights, and more")



Housing Peasants lived in shacks setup on their masters manor. They lived in villages of around 100 and disease spread from person to person within the day someone had it. Toward the end of the plague peasants started to live in wattle and daub houses. [|mideaval housing] Wattle and daub houses held up to the weather than their previous small stick shacks. These houses could defend against the winter a lot better seeing as how they timber and woven sticks. They were made out of stronger material and looked like a normal middle age house.( "Medieval life-housing")



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