What If You Paid Rent as a Medieval Peasant?

What did rent really cost a medieval peasant? Two days of work every week. Hens at Christmas. Eggs at Easter. A fee to get married, and your best cow when you die. Tim's watch drops him into a village in medieval England, in the Middle Ages, on the day the rent comes due. 0:00 Your medieval rent bill 0:26 An abbey village, early 1300s 1:20 Who were villeins? 1:49 Payment 1: Your time 2:56 Payment 2: Your chickens 3:46 Payment 3: Your bread 4:33 St Albans: a floor made of millstones 5:31 Payment 4: Your family 6:42 Payment 5: The tenth 7:09 Picking the reeve 7:41 The part most people miss 8:18 Your rent vs. theirs Sources: Wroxhill Custumal (1253) and Cranfield Manor records, Bedfordshire Archives; Paul Vinogradoff, Villainage in England; The Mills Archive; 1381.online and CDAMM on the St Albans uprising; Encyclopaedia Britannica. Music: Eleven Music (ElevenLabs). #history #medieval #middleages