Medieval Life
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Medieval life
Housing
Most people lived on a manor, which consisted of the village with church and the surrounding farmland. The lord who owned the manor lived in a manor house and sometimes in a castle. The farmland consisted of three large fields. Every field was divided into long strips. Each peasant owned some strips of each field so everyone had some good land and some bad land.
The peasants lived in cruck houses, which were usually built by them because they could not afford to pay someone to build them. Most of these houses were cold, damp and dark and sometimes there was warmer and lighter outside. Windows were not very common but if they were present, they were very small. So the people inside could see out, but from outside was almost impossible to see in.
In 13th century the peasant houses were about 4.5 meters wide and 10 meters long. In 14th century they were already 6 meters wide and 25 meters long. In this case they had an attached......
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