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  1. I've been reading these blog posts about how peasants lived and this is particularly interesting about the myth that modern day humans worked more than medieval peasant farmers:

    "The origin point for nearly all of those “you work harder than a medieval peasant” memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times, so I won’t belabor the point here. Schor bases her estimates of medieval working hours on a 1935 article by Nora Kenyon, and an unpublished article by Gregory Clark, and in both cases ignores the authors’ careful efforts to distinguish between total days worked and instead just cherry-picks the lowest number, even as the authors caution that those numbers likely don’t represent someone’s total employment."

    acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collecti

    #BretDevereaux #Peasants #Medieval

  2. I've been reading these blog posts about how peasants lived and this is particularly interesting about the myth that modern day humans worked more than medieval peasant farmers:

    "The origin point for nearly all of those “you work harder than a medieval peasant” memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times, so I won’t belabor the point here. Schor bases her estimates of medieval working hours on a 1935 article by Nora Kenyon, and an unpublished article by Gregory Clark, and in both cases ignores the authors’ careful efforts to distinguish between total days worked and instead just cherry-picks the lowest number, even as the authors caution that those numbers likely don’t represent someone’s total employment."

    acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collecti

    #BretDevereaux #Peasants #Medieval

  3. I've been reading these blog posts about how peasants lived and this is particularly interesting about the myth that modern day humans worked more than medieval peasant farmers:

    "The origin point for nearly all of those “you work harder than a medieval peasant” memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times, so I won’t belabor the point here. Schor bases her estimates of medieval working hours on a 1935 article by Nora Kenyon, and an unpublished article by Gregory Clark, and in both cases ignores the authors’ careful efforts to distinguish between total days worked and instead just cherry-picks the lowest number, even as the authors caution that those numbers likely don’t represent someone’s total employment."

    acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collecti

    #BretDevereaux #Peasants #Medieval

  4. I've been reading these blog posts about how peasants lived and this is particularly interesting about the myth that modern day humans worked more than medieval peasant farmers:

    "The origin point for nearly all of those “you work harder than a medieval peasant” memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times, so I won’t belabor the point here. Schor bases her estimates of medieval working hours on a 1935 article by Nora Kenyon, and an unpublished article by Gregory Clark, and in both cases ignores the authors’ careful efforts to distinguish between total days worked and instead just cherry-picks the lowest number, even as the authors caution that those numbers likely don’t represent someone’s total employment."

    acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collecti

    #BretDevereaux #Peasants #Medieval

  5. I've been reading these blog posts about how peasants lived and this is particularly interesting about the myth that modern day humans worked more than medieval peasant farmers:

    "The origin point for nearly all of those “you work harder than a medieval peasant” memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times, so I won’t belabor the point here. Schor bases her estimates of medieval working hours on a 1935 article by Nora Kenyon, and an unpublished article by Gregory Clark, and in both cases ignores the authors’ careful efforts to distinguish between total days worked and instead just cherry-picks the lowest number, even as the authors caution that those numbers likely don’t represent someone’s total employment."

    acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collecti

    #BretDevereaux #Peasants #Medieval

  6. Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"

  7. Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"

  8. Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"

  9. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  10. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  11. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  12. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  13. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  14. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  15. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  16. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)

  17. The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)