Life of a Peasant

1 When you think of the Middle Ages you think of Kings and castles, knights in shining armor saving the princess, and savage warfare to coincide with horrible diseases and plagues taking lives. For the most part that was true, but we are forgetting about the majority of the population, otherwise known as “the commons”. These people can easily be compared to you and I living in these times. The peasants were not a part of …

…us ruining it like we have in modern times, but again I have to say that I would not want to be a peasant for the simple fact that you have to work constantly without a choice of what you want to do or when you want to do it. Oh Yeah, and if you do not like what the lord says then he can simply have you killed. I’ll take my chances here.