Expressions of parental affection in the Middle Ages were likely more restrained than today, influenced by the high rates of child mortality and the overall harshness of life. Parents certainly ...

During the Middle Ages, disabled people were found in all parts of society. Those born into ordinary peasant families just ...

Watch Ploughing Tilling Fighting: A History of Peasants Against the Rest of the World (4/4 ... story of these people at the bottom of the social scale from the early Middle Ages onwards.