Life, Work, Death and the Peasant(acoup.blog)
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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant
https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-i-households/
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This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing).