“Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk, butter, and hard cheeses were too expensive for the average peasant. As for vegetables, the most common were… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“...The [Renaissance] interest in education was also influenced by a changing economy. For different reasons in different countries, agriculture was becoming less lucrative, and… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities, and could… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk, butter, and… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find spouses. The… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“Tool lists from the fourteenth century indicate that pitchforks, spades, axes, plows, and harrows, which have teeth to break up soil, were widely used.… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image