Life for medieval peasants was grueling — dawn-to-dusk labor with little rest. But when work was done, they turned to music, games, and festivals to find joy ...

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 ...

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

Medieval medical practices were mostly based on superstition ... plunging entire communities into desperate hunger. Peasants ...

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

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Demography is a particularly murky corner of early medieval history, but we know that between 500 and 1000 there was a trend ...

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Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...