Rather than an ideal of a glamorous well-paid life as a personal trainer to the wealthy, the study reveals the reality where ...

Let’s be honest, daily life for a medieval serf in England, and many other European countries wasn’t much fun. The feudal system meant that peasants were bound by law to work for the nobility ...

As this guide to life in the period shows ... to ensure it was done correctly. Image caption, Medieval dyers turning fabric red. Serf: A labourer, usually a peasant, who worked for a landowner.

serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not simply a religion and an institution; it was a category of thinking and a way of life. In medieval ...

serfs were property and could be ordered to do any kind of work. Many suffered physical and sexual abuse. This system created an economy almost entirely based on agriculture, a medieval society.

Personal trainers are suffering headaches and sleeping problems from the corrosive effect of working long hours to make a living, new research shows. Rather than an ideal of a glamorous well-paid ...