Medieval Peasants: Life In The Middle Ages

Medieval Peasants
The Medieval Era was influential to many realms, especially the Peasant Realm. The life as a Medieval Peasant was very different from the other realms. The way the Peasants lived, their education, clothing, the role of women, and children were all the struggle in the Medieval Times. The Peasants lives weren’t as easy as the other classes of Medieval Times. Their lives were harsh and harder than any other class (“Village Life in the Middle Ages”). The Peasants lives were very different from any other class and being a peasant wasn’t always a good thing. Peasants who 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, or both sides …show more content…
Early Medieval clothing for Peasants and the poorest people in medieval society was made from coarse wool, linen, and hemp cloth. The clothes that Peasants wore were usually uncomfortable and dull looking as they were not dyed or treated in the same way as clothing for wealthy Medieval people. Medieval Peasants would usually wear a tunic, short breeches, or sometimes long trousers depending on the weather. A basic tunic was the common working dress of the Medieval Peasant plowman working the fields in Medieval Times. Medieval Peasant Women would wear a long shirt made out of wool or linen, over this they would wear a sleeveless woolen tunic. Medieval Peasant’s shoes were normally made from animal skin such as calfskin or goatskin, shoe laces were made from leather. Clothing was very different in the Medieval Times, especially how the rich and the poor dressed differently (“Peasants …show more content…
Women Peasants lives were hard! Women were expected to help their peasant husbands with their daily chores as well as attending to provisions and the cooking daily meals and other duties customarily undertaken by women. Women had to provide a means and undertake menial tasks for their lord and his family. Women worked in the kitchen in the castle and were expected to cook, clean, and wait on the lord. Women lived in a manor in a village or in a local castle. The life of Medieval Peasant Women changed with the seasons. Small animals required slaughtering and skinning during the autumn as it was not economic or practical to feed animals during the winter. The meat was then preserved in salt. Bread was a mainstay of the Medieval Peasant Women and her family. Corn, grain, cabbage, ale or cider was obtained from the local area (“Medieval Peasant