TheConqueror74 t1_iz56lwj 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
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.
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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