Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know
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Introduction
Professor Christopher Dyer is the author of a new book, Peasants Making History. He tells David Musgrove that peasants were more important and interesting than we might expect. What did it actually mean to be a peasant in the Middle Ages? Did these people lead rich fulfilling lives with a good work-life balance or exist in dirty brutish penury?
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