Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days - By Bret Devereaux

Give a peasant family all the land it wants and decent yields: how hard must it work to feed itself? Historian Bret Devereaux models the working year of his three households with the agricultural writers of Rome, counting days in the field, seed, yields and surplus, and challenges the myth that peasants worked less than we do. * 00:00 - Introduction * 02:58 - Works and Days * 11:46 - Farming Time * 28:34 - Farming Yields https://acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivb-working-days/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe