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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 ...

Medieval peasants worked only around 150 days per year, a result of the church scheduling frequent holidays to keep the labor force happy. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: Many ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...