What was it like to be a serf in the Middle Ages?

What was it like to be a serf in the Middle Ages? Serfs typically lived in a modest one-story building made of cheap and easily acquired materials like mud and timber for the walls and thatch for the roof. There a small family unit dwelt; retired elders usually had their own cottage. What was life … Continue reading What was it like to be a serf in the Middle Ages?