Life of a Peasant

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 the noble class or associated with the

clergy, but just lived plain and simple lives and tried to

get by with what they had. In those times they did not have

a lot. Since all of us would be considered peasants in those

times, I am going to take us back to that era and compare

the life of a peasant to our lives now. From the day they

are born all the way to their death. I will go over the

different types of commoners, go over how they grew up, what

they ate, and even what they did for fun back in those days.

Childbirth in Medieval times were much of the same as

they are now. I say this in the biological way only of

course. Birth was not in the hands of a physician, but

entirely up to a midwife. The only reason there would be a

doctor there is if there was a pathological complication.

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