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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4294942" data-attributes="member: 39593">Doesn't mean there aren't people keeping an eye on the thread.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> And gizmo is closer to the right track on demographics and the condition of rural peasantry.  Urban commoners were generally worse of in living conditions and diet than their rural counterparts during the time period in question.  Take a good long look at the domesday book if you want to get some better ideas of exact figures.  Far as it goes Plowman has a major political axe to grind and it skews his writings on the period, same reason there are subjects I don't write about.  You can't really keep it from leaking out into the paper even if you're attempting to be impartial.  I don't generally recommend his books.Most rural peasants held a bit less than a half-virgate of land on average.  With fewer in the ends of the spectrum.  The cotters then made up partially for their lack of land via a combination of working the lands of other peasants and working for the lord.  They were still the poorest of village populations but not so bad as if relying solely on their land.Personally as much press as the middle ages get I tend to model most campaign settings on the Bronze Age instead.  Most of my campaign settings are very harsh PoL situations.  Kind of like crunching a deathmetal album, a Frazetta painting, and a Space Marine novel together with the Illiad.</blockquote>

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