![]() ![]() Tools and equipment were commonly hanging on the walls, food for winter was stored in the roof area. Medieval people would sleep on straw mattresses and animals would live in stables or inside the house. The building structure of a medieval peasants home was a timber frame, and the walls were made using a technique called wattle and daub which was basically a covering of twigs with mud and straw. In the thatched roof of a medieval peasant home would be a smoke hole that released the smoke from cooking on the stone fireplace. Medieval peasants living in a medieval villages lived in cottages which were fairly basic, there was no glass in the windows and they usually had bare floors. Life in a Medieval Village *Peasants Homes Usually a medieval family would have more than one section of the field in which to grow crops. These fields were divided up into sections for different families to work on and grow their own crops. No self-respecting village would be complete without a medieval church and there was usually a priest’s house nearby. Most medieval villages had an animal pound where stray animals were kept, there was usually a fee to release them. Near to the town would usually be a windmill where medieval people living in the medieval village would be grinding grain that would be consumed by the people living in and around the manor estate. The Lord of the manor would often go hunting on the fields around his manor. Serfs toiled away from dawn till dusk in the fields of the manor estate growing crops.Ĭommonly a castle or manor house would be overlooking or well postioned within the village where a nobleman would live known as ‘Lord of the Manor. The most common peasant of the medieval period was the Serf who had little rights and was tied to the land, meaning that he could not leave. Some peasants who were called freemen got a slightly better deal as they could pay money or give food to the Lord for their land. The peasants living in a medieval village had to be given permission from a lord to be able to work on any of his land and peasants called villeins had to work part-time for the Lord of the Manor. It was the medieval Lord who owned all the land within a medieval village. A Nobleman was usually the most important person in a medieval village and it was commonly referred to as the ‘Lord of the Manor’. ![]() In medieval times most of the population lived in medieval villages. Life in a Medieval Village Learn about the Lives of People in a Medieval Village ![]()
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