Life as a Serf in the Middle Ages

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#1

I’d like to hear some thoughts about this video.

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#2

That’s really interesting! It’s hard to imagine the way life was for serfs. We nowadays probably couldn’t survive such a life for long.
Amazing that it wasn’t abolished in Russia until the 1860’s. Maybe that’s why they transitioned into Communist dictatorship so quickly.

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#3

This is not a reliable account of serfdom. (It would bore me to list the misleading details.) It is also hard to listen to with that voice which sounds like a robot.

For a readable and generally more reliable (though also grim) account of life in the Middle Ages try “A World Lit Only By Fire” by William Manchester.

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#4

Thanks Jillian.

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