🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits**

"_By comparison – as our new paper shows – peasants on the estate of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave from working on the lord’s lands if they were sick. Meanwhile widows were granted leave upon the death of their husbands and workers enjoyed plenty of religious feast days and festivals every year._"

🔗 https://theconversation.com/medieval-peasants-enjoyed-a-surprising-range-of-sick-annual-and-bereavement-leave-benefits-260163.

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