Serfdom? Could have been worse.
From the Daily Mail UK.
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Good stuff.
Maybe being a serf wasn't so bad after all!
Medieval Britons were twice as rich as the poor in the Third World today.
Maybe being a peasant or a villein in the Middle Ages was not such a grim existence after all.
Medieval England was not only far more prosperous than previously believed, it also actually boasted an average income that would be more than double the average per capita income of the world's poorest nations today, according to new research.
Living standards in medieval England were far above the 'bare bones subsistence' experience of people in many of today's poor countries, a study claims.
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