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 ...

Rather than an ideal of a glamorous well-paid life as a personal trainer to the wealthy, the study reveals the reality where many do unpaid work, like medieval serfs. Researchers surveyed 74 freelance ...

Yet in old Xizang, her life was not happy because of the hardship. Monlam Sangmo's father worked as a horse keeper for a local serf owner. If the horses would not eat the grass at night and the bells ...

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.

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 ...