Peasants did not have to pay knights, except for rent if the knights were their landlords, or unless something quite illegal was going on.
Peasants paid their rent in various forms. One would have been labor, and in this case they did work for the landlord in terms of hours per week at jobs they were assigned. Another way they paid rent was to provide a part of the crop, in which case the rent was often paid in wheat, since it was a commodity with a fairly established price and easily judged quality. A third way to pay rent was money, but this appeared at the end of the Middle Ages. Looking at the source I usually use for wages and prices, I do not see rent for a peasant. I do see that a cottage rented for about 5s per year, which would have been 5d per month in a time when a common laborer got about 1d per day to work, and the rent of a cottage might have included the fields associated with it. This would mean that the peasant paid his landlord about a quarter of his earnings.
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peasants got very little from what great jobs they did because no one else did it for them.
Bcause they were poor...
The lords provided the peasants with land so that they could make a living. Sometimes he gave them small animals to grow then kill as food.
Very simple the water was bad.
Peasants were able to improve their standard living by fielding the lords crops.
the had a lot of power over the peasants.
Peasants did not buy their houses, they built them.
peasants got very little from what great jobs they did because no one else did it for them.
Were everyone peasants, there would be no peasants.
i was told that peasants didnt eat much. They had to get by mainly on veg and fruit that they grew.
Bcause they were poor...
shut yer hole
Napoleonic Code
The peasants are revolting!
The role was the same for all peasants thru out time: provide the labor for the rulers (the rich) to make money. It happened to the English peasants, the Russian peasants, and the French peasants (in France)...and it happened in Vietnam (French Indochina). Peasants provide the labor force; the Colonial ruler provides the funding, organization, and the product.
about two to three dollars a year!!
The lords provided the peasants with land so that they could make a living. Sometimes he gave them small animals to grow then kill as food.