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The peasants, including serfs, freeman and villeins, on a
manor lived close together in one or more villages. Their small, thatch-roofed,
and one-roomed houses would be grouped about an open space (the
"green"), or on both sides of a single, narrow street. The only
important buildings were the parish church, the parsonage, a mill, if a stream
ran through the manor, and possibly a Blacksmith's shop. The population of one
of these villages often did not often exceed one hundred people.
Life in a Medieval Village: Self-Sufficiency
Life in a Medieval Village was self-sufficing. Perhaps the
most striking feature of Life in a
Medieval Village was its self- sufficiency. The inhabitants tried to produce at
home everything they required, in order to avoid the uncertainty and expense of
trade. The land gave them their food; the forest provided them with wood for
houses and furniture. They made their own clothes of flax, wool, and leather.
Their meal and flour were ground at the village mill, and at the village smithy
their farm implements were manufactured. The chief articles which needed to be
brought from some distant market were salt, used to salt down farm animals
killed in autumn, iron for various tools, and millstones. Cattle, horses, and
surplus grain also formed common objects of exchange between manors.
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Life in a Medieval Village: The Peasants and the Lords
Life in a medieval village was rude and rough. The peasants
labored from sunrise to sunset, ate coarse fare, lived in huts, and suffered
from frequent pestilences. They were often the helpless prey of the feudal
nobles. If their lord happened to be a quarrelsome man, given to fighting with
his neighbors, they might see their lands ravaged, their cattle driven off,
their village burned, and might themselves be slain. Even under peaceful
conditions the narrow, shut-in life of the manor could not be otherwise than
degrading.Under feudalism the lords and nobles of the land had certain rights
over Medieval Serfs and Peasants which included the right of jurisdiction,
which gave judicial power to the nobles and lords and the right of hunting. For
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Medieval Feudal System
The Positive points of Life in a Medieval Village
There were positive points of peasants and their Life in a
Medieval Village. If the peasants had a
just and generous lord, they probably led a fairly comfortable existence.
Except when crops failed, they had an abundance of food, and possibly a cider
drink. They shared a common life in the work of the fields, in the sports of
the village green, and in the services of the parish church. They enjoyed many
holidays; it has been estimated that, besides Sundays, about eight weeks in
every year were free from work. Festivities at Christmas, Easter and May Day
including May Pole Dancing, at the end of ploughing and the completion of
harvest, relieved the monotony of the daily round of labor.
Medieval Holidays
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