>I was not aware that serfdom would specify such details as the number of hours. I'm not sure they did, but your work day was effectively limited to when the s

>I was not aware that serfdom would specify such details as the number of hours. I'm not sure they did, but your work day was effectively limited to when the sun was up. Candles were quite expensive well through the middle ages as they were mostly made from beeswax, lower class persons would use fires or candles made from soaking things like rushes in animal fat - neither of which provided light conducive to any sort of work.