How many days off did medieval peasants get?
How many days off did medieval peasants get? The peasant, although often toiling in fields with back-breaking labor, would only work about 150 days of the year, according to a report from Juliet B. Schor, an author and professor of sociology at Boston College. Peasants generally received anywhere from eight weeks to a half-year off.
How many hours a day did a medieval peasant work?
According to Oxford Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, the medieval worker did not labor for more than eight hours in a single day. Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, no doubt, but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off.