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Land of Cockaigne (1567) a soft-boiled egg has little feet to rush to the luxuriating peasant who catches drops of honey on his tongue, while roast pigs roam wild: in fact, hunger and harsh winters were realities for the average European in the 16th century.A
peasant, derived from
15th century French language païsant meaning one from the
pays, the
rural or region, which itself derives from the
Latin language pagus, country district, is an agriculture worker with roots in the countryside in which he or she dwells, either working for others or, more specifically, owning or
renting and working by his or her own labour a small plot of ground. The term peasant today is sometimes used in a pejorative sense for impoverished
farmers.
Peasants typically make up the majority of the
agriculture labour force in a
Pre-industrial society, depending on the
cultivation of their land: without stockpiles of provisions they thrive or starvation according to the most recent harvest. Pre-industrial societies have diminished with the advent of globalization and as such there are considerably fewer peasants to be found in rural areas throughout the world. However, there are still peasant populations in
Mexico,
Central America,
South America, Africa,
India,
China, Europe and various parts of Southeast Asia.
Peasant societies
by
Sebald Beham, 1542Though a word of loose application, once a market economy has taken root the term
peasant proprietors is frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where the land is chiefly held by smallholders.
In the great majority of pre-industrial societies, peasants constitute the bulk of the population. Peasant societies generally have very well developed social support networks. Especially in harder climates, members of the community who have a poor
harvest or suffer some form of hardship will be taken care of by the rest of the community.
Peasant societies can often have very stratified social hierarchies within them as well.A rural peasant population differs enormously in its values and economic behavior from an urban worker population. Peasants tend to be more
social conservatism than urbanites, and are often very loyal to inherited power structures that define their rights and privileges and protect them from interlopers, despite their generally low status within those power structures.
Fernand Braudel devoted the first volume–called
The Structures of Everyday Life.–of his major work,
Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century to the largely silent and invisible world that existed below the market economy.
Since it was the literate classes who left the most records, and these tended to dismiss peasants as figures of coarse appetite and rustic comedy, the term "peasant" may have a pejorative rather than descriptive connotation in historical memory. Life was hard for peasants, but before technology and a money economy created a division between rich and poor, life was hard for everyone. Society was theorized as being organized in three “estates”: those who work, those who pray, and those who fight.
Richard Southern:
The Making of the Middle Ages (1952)
In a
barter economy, peasants characteristically have a different attitude to work than people in a money economy would.
The medieval European Peasant's "Moving House", 1876The relative position of
Western European peasants was greatly improved after the
Black Death unsettled
medieval Europe, granting far greater economic and political power to those peasants fortunate enough to survive the cataclysm.
In the wake of this disruption to the established hierarchy, later centuries they saw the invention of the original
printing presses, widespread
literacy and the enormous social and intellectual changes of the Age of Enlightenment.
This evolution of ideas in an environment of relatively widespread literacy laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution, which enabled mechanically and chemically augmented agricultural production while simultaneously increasing the demand for
factory workers in city. These factory workers with their low skill and large numbers quickly came to occupy the same socio-economic stratum as the original medieval peasants.
This was especially pronounced in Eastern Europe. Lacking any catalysts for change in the
14th century, Eastern European peasants largely continued upon the original medieval path until the 18th century and 19th century centuries. The Tsars then began to notice that the West had made enormous strides they had not, responding by forcing the largely
illiterate peasant populations under their control to embark upon a
Westernization and industrialization campaign.
Peter the Great initiated a half-successful attempt to force 500+ years worth of social change in the space of a few generations. Modernization of agriculture in Eastern Europe and Russia was not achieved until after the October Revolution.
See also
(c. 1635), at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Other terms for peasant
Notes and references
Land of Cockaigne (1567) a soft-boiled egg has little feet to rush to the luxuriating peasant who catches drops of honey on his tongue, while roast pigs roam wild: in fact, hunger and harsh winters were realities for the average European in the 16th century.A
peasant, derived from
15th century French language païsant meaning one from the
pays, the
rural or region, which itself derives from the
Latin language pagus, country district, is an agriculture worker with roots in the countryside in which he or she dwells, either working for others or, more specifically, owning or
renting and working by his or her own labour a small plot of ground. The term peasant today is sometimes used in a pejorative sense for impoverished farmers.
Peasants typically make up the majority of the agriculture labour force in a Pre-industrial society, depending on the
cultivation of their land: without stockpiles of provisions they thrive or starvation according to the most recent harvest. Pre-industrial societies have diminished with the advent of
globalization and as such there are considerably fewer peasants to be found in
rural areas throughout the world. However, there are still peasant populations in Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa,
India, China, Europe and various parts of
Southeast Asia.
Peasant societies
by
Sebald Beham, 1542Though a word of loose application, once a
market economy has taken root the term
peasant proprietors is frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where the land is chiefly held by
smallholders.
In the great majority of pre-industrial societies, peasants constitute the bulk of the population. Peasant societies generally have very well developed social support networks. Especially in harder climates, members of the community who have a poor harvest or suffer some form of hardship will be taken care of by the rest of the community.
Peasant societies can often have very
stratified social hierarchies within them as well.A rural peasant population differs enormously in its values and economic behavior from an urban worker population. Peasants tend to be more
social conservatism than urbanites, and are often very loyal to inherited power structures that define their rights and privileges and protect them from interlopers, despite their generally low status within those power structures.
Fernand Braudel devoted the first volume–called
The Structures of Everyday Life.–of his major work,
Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century to the largely silent and invisible world that existed below the market economy.
Since it was the literate classes who left the most records, and these tended to dismiss peasants as figures of coarse appetite and rustic comedy, the term "peasant" may have a pejorative rather than descriptive connotation in historical memory. Life was hard for peasants, but before technology and a money economy created a division between rich and poor, life was hard for everyone. Society was theorized as being organized in three “estates”: those who work, those who pray, and those who fight.Richard Southern:
The Making of the Middle Ages (1952)
In a
barter economy, peasants characteristically have a different attitude to work than people in a money economy would.
The medieval European Peasant's "Moving House", 1876The relative position of Western European peasants was greatly improved after the
Black Death unsettled medieval Europe, granting far greater economic and political power to those peasants fortunate enough to survive the cataclysm.
In the wake of this disruption to the established hierarchy, later centuries they saw the invention of the original printing presses, widespread
literacy and the enormous social and intellectual changes of the Age of Enlightenment.
This evolution of ideas in an environment of relatively widespread literacy laid the groundwork for the
Industrial Revolution, which enabled mechanically and chemically augmented agricultural production while simultaneously increasing the demand for factory workers in
city. These factory workers with their low skill and large numbers quickly came to occupy the same socio-economic stratum as the original medieval peasants.
This was especially pronounced in Eastern Europe. Lacking any catalysts for change in the 14th century, Eastern European peasants largely continued upon the original medieval path until the
18th century and 19th century centuries. The Tsars then began to notice that the West had made enormous strides they had not, responding by forcing the largely
illiterate peasant populations under their control to embark upon a Westernization and
industrialization campaign.
Peter the Great initiated a half-successful attempt to force 500+ years worth of social change in the space of a few generations. Modernization of agriculture in Eastern Europe and Russia was not achieved until after the
October Revolution.
See also
(c. 1635), at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Other terms for peasant
Notes and references
Peasant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside.
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