Landlord was lending land to peasents - rich peasents, because bottom cast did not even have a chance to talk to landlord.
For the land peasents got, they had to work for the landlord specific number of days in a week. For some time it was 1-2-3-4-5 days per week. Most common was 3 days.
Thing is - the peasent was not obligated to do that work himself. He could have sent a son, family member or even hire someone.
That way it was super easy to keep his agreement with the landlord while mostly focus on his own farm.
Who had it terrible were bottom, poor peasents that worked for other peasents.
They did not have their own land and were at mercy of their “master peasents”.
They most likely had to work whole week or 5-6 days.
They were more of a slave than a peasent tbh, but its a hard disregarded truth.
Current middle class in our times could be translated to “master peasents” back in time. Slave peasents would be the slave-wage ppl.
When I discuss or compare medival peasents to current corporation workers I always compare master peasents to corposlaves.
And master peasents had it super better than corposlaves do now.
Landlord was lending land to peasents - rich peasents, because bottom cast did not even have a chance to talk to landlord.
For the land peasents got, they had to work for the landlord specific number of days in a week. For some time it was 1-2-3-4-5 days per week. Most common was 3 days.
Thing is - the peasent was not obligated to do that work himself. He could have sent a son, family member or even hire someone.
That way it was super easy to keep his agreement with the landlord while mostly focus on his own farm.
Who had it terrible were bottom, poor peasents that worked for other peasents.
They did not have their own land and were at mercy of their “master peasents”.
They most likely had to work whole week or 5-6 days.
They were more of a slave than a peasent tbh, but its a hard disregarded truth.
Current middle class in our times could be translated to “master peasents” back in time. Slave peasents would be the slave-wage ppl.
When I discuss or compare medival peasents to current corporation workers I always compare master peasents to corposlaves.
And master peasents had it super better than corposlaves do now.