Meet the Middle Ages

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Workdays and holidays

What was it like to live on a farm in the country? What happened on an ordinary day? Here, you can read about the workdays, but also about the holidays, about dancing and music, games and sports. You will get to know what people ate, what clothes they wore, what they did when they got ill. What was life like to a ten-year-old girl or boy in the country? Did they work hard or did they have time to play? Read about workdays and holidays on the medieval farm.