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•Peasants ate black bread, milk, cheese, eggs, and occasional bacon or fowl. •Laboring women tended livestock, made cloth and sewed, milked cows, carried water, harvested, made cheese and ale, and freelanced as sheep-shearers, thatchers, and other odd jobs. |
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They lived in 1-story homes that also held livestock. The family slept in one central room, and the smoke from the fire exited via a hole in the roof. •They would have been furnished with a chest and trestle table with benches, but not with chairs. |
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They wore simple long tunics or gowns, to which they added embroidery as the period progressed. | |
