What Did Medieval Peasants Actually Do All Day

It's 1340. No clocks, no electricity, and more work than daylight. So what did medieval peasants ACTUALLY do all day? In this video we follow Wat, an English peasant, from before sunrise to the moment he covers the fire at night: the open fields, the work he owed his lord, the tithe and the mill, what his family ate, what his wife and children did all day, and how they spent the long dark evenings. 0:00 A morning in 1340 1:36 Before sunrise 4:12 Morning in the fields 7:07 Midday dinner 8:31 The afternoon: home, family and village 10:48 Evening and night 12:05 What happened next Next video: What did medieval peasants do when they got sick? Sources and further reading: Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850–1520 Christopher Dyer, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages Barbara Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England H. S. Bennett, Life on the English Manor Frances and Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval Village Subscribe to MedievalDaysExplained for a new look at everyday medieval life every week. 🕯️ #medievalhistory #middleages #history