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Personal trainers work unpaid like medieval ‘serfs’, research says Personal trainers are suffering headaches and sleeping ...

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 ...

Wealth, health, love—all good when pursued in the right way toward the right ends in a well-ordered life, but all invitations ... But men who have the souls of serfs are never satisfied until ...

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.

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.