How Many Working Days Did Peasants Work?

How much time did peasants actually spend working? How many hours a day or a week did they spend working? Can we put anything on that? Obviously, you don't clock on and clock off in the same way as people working in office do now. But can we ascribe any sort of timescale to this? Oh, well, yes. I mean, they do actually define the working day. They could measure their working time from clocks towards the end of the Middle Ages, from about 1400. A growing number of village churches were provided with clocks and your bells would sound and they would know what, you know, they would know it's noon because they hear it. So there was