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Peasants were so important ,because they worked the fields and did all of the "dirty work". Depending on the time period, the peasants planted plants.They also grew crops, and saved them for their families. The peasants sold the crops to the other peasants and other society members.
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∙ 12y agoThey were the workers and the people who planted the crops, reaped the crops, fought the wars, took care of the nobility and their animals, and paid the taxes to the church and the nobility They were mainly people who were not free and bound to the land, manor, lord by labor and by service. Their life was structured by feudal ties and obligations. The villein was tied to the soil until he could buy his freedom. He lived in a wattle and daub hut with his family and animals on a floor of mud. Work began at dawn on his few strips of land and was obligated to work on his lord's land three days a week, tend and shear his sheep, feed his swine, sow and reap his crops. The peasants family were at the lord's mercy every day of his life and even after death. The peasant had to take his grain to the lord's mill and use the bakehouse. Ale was the primary drink because the water was bad and the lord took a percentage on all brewing and the serf had to pay for his quota even if he didn't drink. The peasant was fined twice at death. Once by the lord and second by the church. The lord would take the families best animals for repayment for military service that the peasant could no long provide because he was dead. The church took the second best animal for tithes. This would leave the family ruined. The society needed the peasant because they did all the work and fought the wars.
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∙ 12y agothey grow crops and hunted for food .
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What role did the church have in medieval peasants life?
The church had a huge role in the lives of peasants. The church collected the tithe, carried out mass and services (marriage, funerals and baptism)
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What role did the church have in medieval peasants life?
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