Hey folks! I am on vacation this week, so you'll have to wait till next week to get the next installment of "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant." However, if you are looking for some ACOUP content to fill your Friday, I have a few suggestions! First, if you want some of my writing in…

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29.07.2025

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

This is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life - birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death - of pre-modern peasants and their families. As we've discussed, pre-modern peasant farmers make up the vast majority of human beings in in the past. Last week we started by looking at the basic…

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02.08.2025

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at death,…

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09.08.2025

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

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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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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

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