Name: Towards Freedom / The Immobile Peasant, the Moving Peasant
Released: 2024-04-23

A History of the European Rural Life

S1 · E3 — Towards Freedom / The Immobile Peasant, the Moving Peasant

S1:E3 · Towards Freedom / The Immobile Peasant, the Moving Peasant

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4 episodes in this season

The Beginning / The Lords, and Those Who Dig

56 min

Rebellion and War / Revolutions

55 min

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Against the Rest of the World / Peasant Masses

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A History of the European Rural Life

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Towards Freedom / The Immobile Peasant, the Moving Peasant

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 23, 2024

Peasants don't need to know. If they knew how to read or write, they could challenge the titles of the rulers and the authority of the Church, like the Italian miller Menocchio, declared a heretic and burned alive in 1600. Peasant knowledge was just as suspect. Peasant witches, often simple bonesetters, were hunted down, accused of worshipping Satan and burned by the thousands. On the threshold of modern times, in the name of progress and profitability, the dominant classes launched an offensive against the old village solidarities. England set the example by privatizing communal lands. By depriving farmers of an indispensable resource, they were condemned to disappear. France followed a different path. Still in the majority, its peasantry played a major and little-known role in the Revolution which, in 1789, put an end to a thousand years of feudal rule.

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A History of the European Rural Life

TV Series

202455m7.3

Documentary

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Towards Freedom / The Immobile Peasant, the Moving Peasant

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Apr 23, 2024

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