Things medieval peasants weren't allowed to do?

Answer 1

The things women were not allowed to do varied from place to place and from time to time.

In some places women were not allowed to be the monarch, and in others they were. France did not allow female monarchs. Denmark also did not allow female monarchs, but that did not prevent Queen Margaret I from ruling for over two decades. England and Scotland allowed female monarchs, but there was only one in England in the Middle Ages, who gave up her claim to end a civil war, and there were none in Scotland. Some of the Spanish kingdoms, Poland, and the Byzantine Empire all had female monarchs.

In some places, women did not own land, but in others they did. France, which did not have female monarchs, did allow Eleanor of Aquitaine to be a duchess in her own right.

Women were not allowed to be members of the secular clergy (bishops or priests), but they could be members of the regular clergy (abbesses and nuns).

There was no legal reason why a woman could not be a knight. Eleanor of Aquitaine went on the crusades, leading her own company of 300 women. Other women also went into combat, but it was very rare.

Women certainly did not have a right to inherit land or titles if they had brothers who were living. The land and titles went to the oldest son in most places, though there were some where land was divided equally. Men, aside from the eldest son, were similarly out of luck.

Answer 2

It depended on the time, place, and gender, but generally a peasant was not allowed to own or borrow land, leave their lord's land without permission, or own a sword, although they could have a dagger. Serfs could not become priests or take oaths of any sort, and were not allowed to own a baking oven; they had to pay to use the lord's oven to bake their bread. Commoners were also not taught Latin, the language which church services were conducted, and they were forbidden from reading The Bible.

If you were a woman, there was a long list of thing you could not do compared to men, but that's too long to list.

Answer 3

Monks were not permitted to own anything, including money, letters, gifts, keepsakes - absolutely nothing. Everything a monk used, wore or carried belonged to the monastery cellarer or store-keeper.

Monks were not permitted to eat the meat of four-legged animals, so no beef, veal, venison, pork, lamb or mutton.

Monks were not permitted to have a wife or children - any previous marriage was absolved (wiped out) when they became a monk.

Monks were not permitted to speak to visitors except with permission from the Superior of the monastery - and then only with someone else present.

Many Orders of monks did not permit them to look directly at any woman.

Monks were not permitted to speak during meals; they must eat in silence while one of the monks read from a religious text.

Monks were not permitted to speak at all after the last service of the day (Compline, at around 8 pm), but must retire to their beds in silence.

Monks were not permitted to engage in idle chatter or gossip, nor to waste their time on trivial or humorous talk.

Monks were not allowed more than one book per year from the monastery library - and they were not allowed to keep it after the year was up.

Monks were not permitted to leave the monastic precinct without permission and in some cases could not even leave the cloister range of buildings without permission.

Monks were not permitted to sleep during services.

Monks were not permitted to disobey a superior.