Peasants is a general term to refer to the rural farming class. Some of these were free and some were serfs, more often known during the period as villeins. Villeins owed labor to the lord of the...
None. Nobody in the feudal system owned any land except the King and the Church. Everybody else was given land to hold in return for services, rents, military support and so on. This is the very...
In the middle ages peasants had quite a number of jobs/responsibilities ... They had to work on the farms and look after the animals, they had to work in the bakeries, they had to thatch the roofs...
The peasant class were small farmers. Up to 90 of the total population were peasants. They lived mostly in small villages and farmed, gardened, tended animals, and practiced basic crafts. Peasants...