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Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic. His life was
shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and
personal hygiene left much to be desired.
But despite his reputation as a miserable wretch, you might envy him one
thing: his vacations.
https://www.businessinsider.com/american-worker-less-vacation-medieval-peasant-2016-11?
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"Although their standard of living may not have been particularly
lavish, the people of precapitalistic northern Europe, like most
traditional people, enjoyed a great deal of free time. The common people
maintained innumerable religious holidays that punctuated the tempo of
work. Joan Thirsk estimated that in the sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries, about one-third of the working days, including Sundays, were
spent in leisure. Karl Kautsky offered a much more extravagant estimate
that 204 annual holidays were celebrated in medieval Lower Bavaria."
Michael Perelman, "The Invention of Capitalism"
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.372.4137&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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