In medieval society, most people lived in villages ... Villeins worked on strips of land, spread out in different fields across the village. Life could be hard; if crops failed to produce enough ...
Medieval England is often characterised in books or film as one of extremes, where serfs toil the land while lords greedily profit from their labour. But examination of the records of manor courts has ...
Would you like to visit Spain? Here are some articles you might find interesting: Mura, a picturesque medieval village in the Province of Barcelona, has joined a worldwide network of rural ...
Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...