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critfist t1_iz3dnes wrote

Reply to comment by BrokenEye3 in TIL "The Twelve Days of Christmas" STARTS on Christmas Day, and ends of January 5th (Three Kings Day). by HauntedHippie

Probably a welcome break when most of your life in the past was brutality and back breaking labour.

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BrokenEye3 t1_iz3jppy wrote

I don't think they got holidays off back then. Certainly not 4-5 straight months of holidays off.

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TheConqueror74 t1_iz56lwj wrote

They did, but the nature of work was different than it is now. There’s a reason why the fall and winter are so dense with holidays and you don’t see nearly as many during the warmer months.

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Jumpy-Win5810 t1_iz6g6qj wrote

People thinking that peasants lived lives of brutal back breaking labor is perhaps on the most common misperceptions I can think of. I was guilty of it myself until I learned that premodern peasants actually had much more time off than modern peasants.

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Traditional-Meat-549 t1_iz5htqh wrote

At least in Europe, they were mostly Christian with towns built around the church - so what the church did, they did. Not exactly a day "off" as we know it - most folks knew each other and the work they performed. But they did go to Mass and the after party

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