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>>56781991
>everyone practically rented the land
Just like now, except instead of half your paycheck going to rent or mortgage like today, peasants paid no more than 5% of their yeild (crops, butter, meat, w/e) to their fuedal lord. In many cases, the rent was actually free and peasants could work the land and repaid their lord when they used his buildings, eg the flour mill or baking ovens, or they repaid the lord in the form of services rendered, like some days of labor each year, etc.

Medieval peasants also had more vacation days per year than work days. This was mandated by the church. It was ILLEGAL to work on "Holy Days", and the church would penalize fuedal lords who made their peasants work during the holidays. Check the traditional Catholic Calendar, every week there are multiple feasts and holidays for random saints and liturgical observations. Also, outside of planting and harvest season, there really wasn't much work to do. The typical American today gets 10 vacation days per year (LMAO) and works 40 - 60 hours per week.