Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work in the fields, Buonconsiglio Castle When people talk about women in the workplace, more often than not they discuss it as a ...

When people belonging to peasant communities in late medieval Sweden prayed to God they usually stood up and put their palms together. That was how they displayed their devotion before God. This is ...

Until somewhat recently, writes BBC News reporter Melissa Hogenboom, “the Peasants Revolt of 1381 is largely believed to have been led by a mob of rebel men.” But contemporary research by Sylvia ...

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival those of many workers in the UK today. By comparison – as our new paper ...