This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last week, we started looking at family formation through the lens of marriage, this week we'll consider it…

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25.08.2025

Fireside Friday, August 15, 2025 (On Latin Pronunciation) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Hey folks, Fireside this week! The new semester is starting up next week, so things may be a little more fireside-y than usual over the next few weeks, but I do promise we will get to the end of "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant" eventually. That said, since I am teaching Latin rather than…

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25.08.2025

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) discussing the structures of life for pre-modern peasants, who made up the majority of all humans who have ever lived. In the last few sections, we've looked broadly at how mortality, marriage and childbearing patterns shape the households these folks…

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02.09.2025

Fireside Friday, August 27, 2025 (On Defending History) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Hey folks, Fireside this week! As I noted a couple of weeks ago, things are probably going to get more than a little fireside-y over the next few weeks, simply because of the start of the semester - and a semester in which I am undertaking a set of entire new preps (that is, teaching…

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, August 15, 2025 (On Latin Pronunciation) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, August 27, 2025 (On Defending History) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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