Everyone is all “Pharoah” this and “Anubis” that, I just want to cook over hot coals
Not really. They worked for the lord less than we do but housework and tending your own crops for your own sustenance was a shitload of work. Doing basic stuff like cooking or washing clothes was super labor intensive.
It depents of the medieval period and region. For example, Chris Wickham’s work about Early Middle Ages show that, when the peasants where independent and not under a Lord or a Bishop (or other expresions of higher control), they just worked the bare minimum to produce for their own survival and then fuck off to do other things they wanted to do. Of course, in moments of crisis they could die from not having enough production. But, in a practical sense, they where more free than us.
On the other hand you have the “peasant’s mode of production” but that’s another (awesome!) discussion.
Have a nice day, comrade. And sorry for my bad english.
I’m skeptical about this, no fucking way you can mantain a farm working only one out of three days.
They didn’t have space heaters and Nintendo Switch, everybody just sort of sat around being cold all day
Their farming was alot lower intensity. When you don’t have to manage the weird modern system things cna be easier. For example we grow tons of rice in the desert. That takes alot of hard work. They grew English plants in England. The plants want to grow there. Low intensity farming like is what powered the American empires so that could be both easy and productive
