Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days out of the year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays.

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days in a year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less holidays than a Medieval peasant.

Medieval peasants worked only about 150 days out of the year. The Church believed it was important to keep them happy with frequent, mandatory holidays. You have less free time than a Medieval ...

The horseshoe theory of political science holds that the radical Left and Right both tend to agree on obvious falsehoods — for example, the idiotic notion that capitalism has made us poorer. The ...

The Medieval Peasants Meme in Context . The claim that medieval peasants worked, on average, around 150 days a year has a history that can be traced back to 1986, when Gregory Clark first proposed it.

Its accurate representation of medieval agricultural systems is an achievement, but what I found more impressive was that it represents medieval peasants and their lives more fully than most games ...

Medieval peasants relaxed after a hard day’s toil in the field much in the same way their modern counterparts switch off by turning on the television, Wade said.