Classic Tides | Peasants and the Medieval Countryside

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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When we think of the medieval world, our minds usually turn to knights, royalty, and clergy. But the backbone of the medieval economic and social order was the humble peasant. In this rebroadcast from 2018, we explore the world and lives of the vast bulk of the people who actually lived in the Middle Ages, and why they matter.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
0:04.2	Download the app today.
0:05.8	Hi, everybody, Patrick here.
0:08.1	So we've done a few episodes over the years on peasants, and I wanted to revisit these
0:11.7	older episodes and put the back out there for you to listen to.
0:14.5	We're going to start with our episode on peasants and the medieval countryside.
0:18.5	Because when people think of medieval life, they usually focus only on kings and queens,
0:22.4	chivalry and knights.
0:23.8	But I think it's really important to talk about the everyday people, the peasants that
0:27.5	made up most of the people who lived in every region, what their lives were like, and
0:31.2	why they mattered.
0:33.4	Thanks for joining me today, and enjoy the show.
0:35.6	A wooden cart, pulled by two placid oxen, and driven by a mild, manored peasant, run
0:53.1	with a long, eroded lane in the English countryside.
0:56.9	The noises of medieval travel mingled with chirping birds and the distant honking of beasts
1:01.6	laid up in some convenient pond.
1:04.7	Thick tree branches hung over the lane.
1:07.3	The peasant was grateful for the shade from the warm autumn sun.
1:12.2	It'd be getting colder soon, the peasant thought.
1:15.0	Winter had been coming early these past few years.
1:18.6	For now though, the last remnants of summer caused sweat to beat on his brow.
1:23.6	He wiped it away with the back of a dirty hand.
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