It turns out medieval peasants were just as worried about zombies as we are, and they never even saw Season 7 of the Walking Dead. A newly published study reveals that villagers in medieval Yorkshire, ...

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

For a medieval farmer, life began before dawn. The rooster’s crow was the only alarm clock. He rose to the chill of morning, ate coarse bread and weak ale, and walked to the lord’s fields. As part of ...

The homes of six Jewish families in the village of Zegilovka, Volhynia, were set fire to and completely destroyed by peasants of the township, according to reports of the Lemberg papers. The peasants ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. The dream of the common person’s utopia was more than a little bit different during ...

Medieval peasants mainly ate stews of meat and vegetables, along with dairy products such as cheese, according to a study of old cooking pots. Researchers analysed food residues from the remains of ...

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