It really depends on a lot of factors, including time and place. The lot of a "medieval peasant" was not the same across time (1000+ years) and place (all of Eu

It really depends on a lot of factors, including time and place. The lot of a "medieval peasant" was not the same across time (1000+ years) and place (all of Europe) and varied a ton. Your link is a response to an article by an economist that notes periods of high wages in the fourteenth century in England, that's it. There were certainly times when peasants had much less labor to perform on their lord's lands, or might have been free peasants and have none, or lived in an area with no demesne-like system, etc. Which just makes the whole thing of looking at the life of peasants and talking about how much free time they had compared to us all the sillier. The point about what else you need to do to live (cook, mend clothes, etc.) is important, but makes it even more difficult to compare to our modern lives, even variation aside.