Rents, Fees and Manorial Exactions

🌾💀 Medieval peasants lived in a world where plague, starvation, and heavy taxes were normal parts of life — yet somehow they survived, adapted, and kept their families alive. Through harsh winters, failing harvests, and demanding lords, they relied on community, tradition, and a kind of everyday resilience modern people can barely imagine.
Tonight, close your eyes and step into the fields, cottage fires, and quiet courage of the medieval poor — a world where survival itself was its own kind of heroism.

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