Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. The dream of the common person’s utopia was more than a little bit different during ...

For a medieval farmer, life began before dawn. The rooster’s crow was the only alarm clock. He rose to the chill of morning, ate coarse bread and weak ale, and walked to the lord’s fields. As part of ...

Medieval peasants had far more vacation days than the average American today. The peasant, although often toiling in fields with back-breaking labor, would only work about 150 days of the year, ...

Religious reformer Martin Luther’s message of spiritual freedom helped ignite the German Peasants’ War of 1525. But before ...

Rodney Hilton, 85, a British historian who wrote influential works on the rise of capitalism and medieval peasant revolts, died June 7 at his home in Birmingham, England. The cause of death was not ...

Medieval peasants mainly ate stews of meat and vegetables, along with dairy products such as cheese, according to a study of old cooking pots. Researchers analysed food residues from the remains of ...

Growing inequality has become one of the major political and economic concerns in the world as well as in America. The growing disparity of wealth today has many parallels with the unequal societies ...

I just got out of a hot shower, and am sipping a cup of hot chocolate while I listen to music on my iPhone in my heated apartment, while I write this article on a computer that allows me instant ...

If your lil' business has a lot of tired workers, there could be a good reason. A Stanford University professor says Americans are working longer hours than medieval peasants. "The amount of time we ...