Why Did Medieval Peasants Have MORE Free Time Than You?

Medieval peasants worked fewer days per year than the average modern worker. I am completely serious. In 1300 AD a typical English peasant worked approximately 150 days per year. The average modern American works 230. They had more holidays than you. More rest days than you. And significantly more time to do absolutely nothing than you. So why does everyone think medieval life was nothing but misery and backbreaking labour? In this episode of Rewinding Europe we travel back to medieval England in the year 1300 to find out what a day in the life of a medieval peasant actually looked like. What they ate. When they worked. What they did with all that free time. And why the church was constantly complaining about their behaviour on feast days. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕰️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Medieval Peasants Worked LESS Than You 00:25 - Setting The Scene — Medieval Europe 00:38 - The Miserable Stereotype 01:18 - Actually Barely Working At All 01:30 - 115 Holidays Per Year 02:15 - What The Church Said About Working 03:00 - A Typical Medieval Working Day 03:52 - They Just Stopped At Noon 04:18 - What They Did After Work 05:00 - What Medieval Peasants Did For Fun 05:38 - The Gambling Problem 06:00 - Medieval Netflix and Social Media 06:18 - The Church Was Not Invited 06:30 - The Honest Truth About Medieval Life 07:30 - The Goat Situation 07:52 - Who Actually Had It Right? 08:30 - See You Next Wednesday ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 SUBSCRIBE TO REWINDING EUROPE: Every Wednesday we travel back in time to find the moments and stories that made our world. Time-travel storytelling through historic European life. Curiosity questions about life in the past. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 DROP A COMMENT: Would you swap your modern life for a medieval one? 115 holidays per year sounds good until you remember the goat situation. Tell us your answer below 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 TOPICS COVERED IN THIS VIDEO: Medieval peasant daily life What did medieval peasants eat Medieval working hours Medieval feast days and holidays Medieval England 1300 AD Life in the Middle Ages explained Medieval history facts History you were not taught in school Oversimplified history style Animated European history Cartoon history YouTube Medieval vs modern life comparison How many days did medieval peasants work Medieval free time activities Medieval football history ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rewinding Europe - Curiosity questions about life in the European past. #RewindingEurope #MedievalHistory #HistoryFacts #Medieval #History #EuropeanHistory #Oversimplified #HistoryExplained #AnimatedHistory #MiddleAges