Life In the Dark Ages
Daily Life of a Peasant
Daily Life
-Most of the peasants would wake up as early as 3 AM.
-Usually their breakfast would consist of pottage or other cheap ingredients.
-After that, they would work in the fields or do common daily tasks.
-Their outside work would usually be done at dusk, longer in the summer.
-The tools they made would be made themselves out of wood or steel.
-Woman peasants would eat after their husbands and children finished.
Responsibilities
-A king or lord wouldn't usually acknowledge peasants but they did have to do certain things for them like pay taxes.
-A peasant would sometimes have to work for knights in order for them to get land and protection.
-Nobles would have to try and recruit them and persuade them to come into the villages' legion.