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Food for the European Middle Ages was not very different from what we eat today. Meats like beef, pork, lamb, and venison ...
The peasants were angry about a range of issues, such as low pay and the introduction of a poll tax. They demanded changes were made. The revolt did not achieve all of the peasants’ aims and the ...
Even an initial glance around this one-room gathering of his peasants tells that Millet’s is anything but a naive art. Rather, it is a sophisticated, carefully staged naturalism: sculptural, almost ...
The peasant domesticated animals and used them to cultivate the land; the barbarian used domesticated animals to conquer that which the peasant had cultivated. This all occurred in Neolithic Europe.
In peasant studies as well as agricultural and economic history, little is known about the diffusion of new agricultural knowledge in peasant regions and the ways in which smallholding families gained ...
It is with sadness and deep gratitude that we bid farewell to Gérard Choplin — agronomist, political companion, co-founder of the European Peasant Movement, and tireless defender of agriculture that ...
Hua Van Men, a 25-year-old peasant, joined the crop substitution program this year. He has planted 120 small trees on a hillside that, while state-owned, is his to farm.
The peasants were angry about a range of issues, such as low pay and the introduction of a poll tax. They demanded changes were made. The revolt did not achieve all of the peasants’ aims and the ...