How many hours a day did a medieval peasant work?
How many hours a day did a medieval peasant work? According to Oxford Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, the medieval worker did not labor for more than eight hours in a single day. Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, no doubt, but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off.
What did female peasants do in medieval times?
For the vast majority of medieval Europeans—about 85%— work meant farming. Peasant women worked alongside men doing almost exactly the same jobs in the fields. Some more physically demanding jobs such as plowing were at times more likely to be performed by a man than a woman.