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I'm noticing that an increasing number of people are taking advantage people's general lack of interest in history as a means ideologically rewrite it. Just be
by Aunche 3y ago
I'm noticing that an increasing number of people are taking advantage people's general lack of interest in history as a means ideologically rewrite it.
Just because some nobles and bishops said that peasants had it easy doesn't mean that they actually had it easy. Anyone who has actually tried homesteading or even garden knows that the this lifestyle isn't leisurely even with the wonders of modern technology. This isn't even considering all the chores they had to do by hand: washing clothes, making the soap used to wash clothes, rendering the fat used to make the soap, making the lye used for soap, chopping the firewood used to make the lye, and carrying water that you require for all these other chores. This was what peasants did with their "leisure". It was until the Victorian era when the modern concept of leisure