Peasant families lived in crude huts furnished with straw-filled bags.
A typical peasant diet included black bread, porridge, eggs, poultry, and whatever vegetables their fields produced.
Since any game on the manor belonged to the lord, peasants were prohibited from hunting or fishing.
In addition to farming their own fields, peasants worked the farms of their lords and provided such services as cutting wood, grinding grain, repairing roads and bridges, pressing wine,and baking bread for the lord's family.
They also had to pay taxes for their lands; but since money was scarce, many payments came in the form of grains or poultry from the peasants' lands.