HIST 1010 Chapter 15: The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe
10 Aug 2016
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The experiences of life in early modern europe: chapter #15 page #343- Week #6 october 15th, 2014: most agricultural land wasn"t owned by those who worked it but by lords lords were not necessarily individual members of the nobility but were more commonly the church or the state. In western europe, peasants generally owned 1/3 to of the land they worked; in eastern. Town life: people worked to the natural rhythm of the day and season in the summer, the labourers gathered at the town gates at 4 in the morning and in the winter at 7. Social structure: the great chain of being and the body politic were static concepts of social organization, all european societies were divided between nobles and commoners. Communities: on the farm, the wider community was the rural village and in the town it was the ward, quarter, or parish in which the family lived.
