>This i contentious, I have actually read scholars that argue the opposite. It is far from contentious, you are probably mixing up "premodern agriculture" with

>This i contentious, I have actually read scholars that argue the opposite. It is far from contentious, you are probably mixing up "premodern agriculture" with "pre-agriculture". Furthermore, as detailed in an article [1] referenced (and linked to) by this post, you are probably mixing up the labor paid as rent vs the whole of the labor required to survive 1 - https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-...