they weren't.
they really were educated, they were just educated privately or homeschooled.
Women held positions of wife,mother,peasant and nun during the Middle Ages.
definitely the Noble women.
Women held positions of wife,mother,peasant and nun during the Middle Ages.
No, a steward was not a peasant. Contrary to what is often stated, there was always a middle class in the Middle Ages, and stewards were members of the middle class. They were the equivalent of accountants or managers, and were educated, so they could keep notes and take care of bookkeeping.
In the Middle Ages there was no social diversity. People were born into a class of people and that is where they stayed. If they were a peasant they stayed a peasant, a serf stayed a serf, clergy stayed with the church, and the nobility stayed in their class. A noble didn't marry a peasant and a peasant didn't become educated since there were no schools. There was no upward mobility within the society.
In most cases a peasant became a peasant by default. If the parents where peasants the child was also a peasant.
about one shilling
they worked in feilds
The peasants of the Middle Ages had very few responsibilities.
Church, noble, peasant, serf.
yes