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During the Middle Ages, Danes and Germans predominantly lived in towns ... There were three types of peasants in Europe: slaves, serfs, and free tenants. In traditional times, membership in the ...

In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes ...

Personal trainers are suffering headaches and sleeping problems from the corrosive effect of working long hours to make a living, new research shows. Rather than an ideal of a glamorous well-paid ...

Twenty-two million Russians were serfs, still owned by aristocratic landlords as they had been for centuries. Like slaves, serfs were property and could be ordered to do any kind of work.