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Manors. Reminds me of the rants of my 106 year old great grandfather. He was from a different time, when a soldier could quote epic poetry on the battlefield and the opposing side would recite it back. They all knew the epics in those days: Homer, Dante, Milton, Virgil. Different times. The story went something like this:

Life on the manor was tough back in them days.

Common people want wealth. To have something to dream for. But there weren’t no gateways given the way of things. Nobles had it all. The princes struggles for power, squabbling for titles, while the elected Emperor sat on his throne doing nothing (probably in Aachen, one of those cities peasants never go to, no one knows for true on account of the lack of education). These squabbles would end in favours, counts rising and falling at the whim of Princes, and the manors beneath the counts, run by knights and barons (barons were the big lords, usually ran about a dozen knights themselves!)… well, those manors would suffer the brunt! And the brunt was the grunts they called peasants! While these games of the aristocracy were in progress, the peasants getting overworked to ensure the productivity and wealth of the lands.

It was hard times! Lemme tell you about hard times! Hard peasant times!

Peasants working their lord’s fields until they were tired and aching, and then they’d work their own fields for sustenance. And if they didn’t the lord knight would throw you off the land and starve your family. That’s life on the manor!

Yep. It was tough in them days!

Then the guilds came, some 43 generations back. And they took in the smiths, the quarrymen, the herbalists, the traders and tradesmen alike! It was some time. Before the plagues hit. But when the plagues hit the guilds REALLY took over. A new middle classes aristocracy.

That’s when the whole manor system broke down. And for the peasants… as the manor owners became poorer life just got tougher! Then the peasants trickled to the cities to find wage labour, and room. Not much more than a room.

Life was tough in them days!

But the free cities! They became wealthy! Yep. They owed allegiance to none ‘ pet their middle class aristocracy… and sometimes the nobles that became middle class. Or middle class that became nobles. Those were the smart ones! Leagues of trade cities, yep! Them trade houses dot the port downs to this very day!

But them days was also hard times. They’d send the peasants to the boats to collect the materials, bring it to their guild, and then repeat. And when the guild’s men became hungry at sea, the peasants were the first picked to go.

That’s hard times for peasants!