Medieval Peasant
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Medieval Peasant
What did peasants wear in the medieval times?
Well, my class is doing this project thingy. Each person in the class has some roles and the roles are: Lord, Lady, Knight, Peasant. Im the peasant and I have to dress like one on Wednsday. What did they wear???
btw... a picture would be best :]]
Ohhh and what would be some good props to bring??
I need to bring 5 and so far I have:
A stuffed animal [[cuz they slept with them for warmth in winter]]
some grains
a wooden bowl.
It depends on the "when" of medieval times. What people typically think of as "medieval" is a tunic- like here http://members.iinet.net.au/~bill/handbook/tunic.html. For men the tunic is like thigh length, for women it is longer. Tunics were made from wool, undertunics from linen, or if you were really poor, wool. They didn't wear just drab colors, but colors like blue or yellow would be more readily accessible by the lower classes as dyes, and they sometimes would recieve hand me downs from the manor. Peasants wouldn't have the embellishments-the embroidery, the bands of contrasting silk or woven patterns on their tunics, that a wealthier person would. Someone else mentioned leather and that'd be a no...leather was expensive.
I'd bring the stuffed animal because they raised animals not because they slept with them. Peasants slept with other members of their household, but the animals may have been in one part of the house. You could also bring a wooden rake, and a Bible for although most couldn't read or write the Church was a huge part of their life.
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| Zvezda 1:72 #8059 Medieval Peasant Army | | | US $9.99 | 26d 4h 48m |
| Ykreol Medieval Peasant Casualties MIB 1/72 | | | US $9.90 | 24d 10h 42m |
| 1:72 ZVEDA MEDIEVAL PEASANT ARMY | | | US $7.75 | 22d 9h 4m |
| 1/72 Medieval Peasant Army Zvezda 8059 42 figs | | | US $12.83 | 19d 8h 49m |
| 1/72 Medieval Peasants Zvezda | | | US $12.99 | 16d 13h 59m |
| ZVEZDA 1/72 figure 8059 Medieval Peasant Army XII-XIV | | | US $8.99 | 16d 2h 51m |
| Zvezda Medieval Peasant Army 1/72 MIB | | | US $12.91 | 6d 14h 50m |
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What work would a Medieval peasant do during a year?
Can't find any info on the internet
a peasant would devote some of his time to working his own land, and (if he was a villein, that is not free but bound to the land he worked) some of his time working on the lord's own farm (the demesne). Some peasants owned more land than others, and some would even employ other, poorer peasants, to work for them.
The first ploughing in spring, to turn under trhe residue of crop and the weeds and grasses, was done early enough to allow time for decomposition of the organic material. A second, shallow ploughing aerated the soil, preparing it for seeding. Peas and beans were planted in the furrow, grain on the ridge. spring, or Lenten, sowing was done as soon as the soil was warm, and frost no longer a danger.
Demesne plowing might cease at noon or at vespers, but a man working his own land might keep his hand to the plow longer, under pressure of time or weather. The first winter wheat plowing, in April after the spring crops were sown in other fields, was shallow. A second, in June, went deeper, as did a third in midsummer. The field was then harrowed and grain seed was sown from a straw basket, two bushels (or more) to the acre.
Spring crops - barlye, oats, peas, beans, vetch - were usually planted more thickly than winter, about four bushels to the acre.
Most villagers had their own medowland, allocated by a lottery among all the holders of arable, both free and unfree. Hay was always in short supply because of the lack of artificial meadow, for want of suitable irrigation, and was precious because it was by far the best winter feed available.
Mowing required care and skill. The grass had to be thoroughly dried (tedded) for storage, and if rained on had to be retedded. After haying the meadow had to be left alone for three or four weeks to allow the grass to grow, consequently another communal agreement wsa needed about reopening the meadow for grazing. A good hay crop could take the animals through the winter, a good grain crop could do the same for trhe human beings. The tension of June, releived by the drugery of weeding in July, was redoubled in August and September as the fields reached maturity. First in order of priority came th elord's harvest boon. Not only villeins but free tenants, craftsmen, women and children as well as men turned out - all save those "so old or so weak they they could not work.
Wheat was cut with a sickel, halfway or more up the stalk, and laid on the ground. Binders followed to tie the spears in sheaves and set them in shocks to dry. Oats and barley were mown with scythes, close to the ground. Harvesting of all three crops left much residue, amking gleaning an important function. In the medieval village, gleaning was strictly limited to the old, the infirm, and the very young, all able-bodied adults of both sexes being needed for the heavier harvest work.
After cutting, gaathering, binding and stacking their sheaves, the villagers carted them to their barns and sheds to be threshed with teh ancient jointed flail and winnowed by tossing in the air from the winnowing cloth or basket, and if necessary supplying breeze with the winnowing fan.
Besides the grain crops, harvest included "pulling the peas" the vegetable crops that matured in late September and whose harvest also required careful policing against theft.
The lord's threshing and winnowing was followed by the villagers, with whole families again joining in. Winter was the slack season, at least in a relative sense. Animals still had to be looked after, and harness, plows and tools mended. Fences, hurdles, hedges and ditches, both the lord's and those of the villagers, had to be repaired to provide barriers wherever arable land abutted on a road or animal droveway. Houses, byres, and sheds needed maintenance. So did equipment, "The good husbandman made some at least of his own tools and implements."
For most of the time, in most peasant households, the tasks of men and women were differentiated along the traditional lines of "otuside" and "inside" work. The woman's "inside" jobs were by no means always performed indoors. Besides spinning, weaving, sewing, cheese-making, cooking and cleaning, women did foraging, gardening, weeding, haymaking, carrying, and animal-tending. They joined in the lord's harvest boon and helped bring in the family's own harvest. Often women served as paid labor, receiving at lesat some of the time wages equal to men's.
For many village women one of the most important parts of the daily labor was the care of livestock. Poultry was virtually the woman's domain, but feeding, milking, washign and shearing the larger livestock often fell to her also.
Among peasants as among lords, sheep were esteemed as the "cash crop" animals. They had unique fivefold value: fleece, meat, milk, manure, and skin (whose special chracter made it a writing material of incomparable durability). Lambing time was in the early spring, between winter and spring sowing. The sheep were sheared in mid-June and the fleeces carted to market.
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