2007-03-06 13:08:09 · 5 answers · asked by J FF7 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Pretty much until the work was done. They didn't have set hours. They just worked until there was nothing left they could really do for the day.
2007-03-06 13:11:38 · answer #1 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Difficult to tell since they left few records. However, logically, they could only work during daylight hours and there was no concept of "leisure time". However, they were expected to go to church and there were high days and holidays - see Breughal's paintings. They had certain Saints' days off and there would be celebrations for the end of Harvest and whatever else the local Lord was prepared to pay for.
Not all peasants were serfs, some of them would nowadays be thought of as small farmers in their own right.
2007-03-06 14:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Katherine E. got it. Award her the 10 points. Medieval peasants (serfs, unfree sharecroppers who inherited the right to farm their land but were not free to leave it) worked their land and the lord's land. The sewrfs had their strips of land that they worked, but the lord of the manor had strips of his own. The serfs had to work all of them. So Katherine E. is correct in saying that the serfs worked "as long as it took."
2007-03-06 13:20:45 · answer #3 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last time I visited sun up to sun down.
2007-03-06 13:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by ♣Hey jude♣ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6 days a week. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 6/7
2016-01-24 07:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by Nema 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋