Why It Sucked to Be a Medieval Serf | History For Sleep

122 min • 10 augusti 2025

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Tonight, you are not a knight, a lord, or a monarch. You are something far lower — a medieval serf. Bound to land you don’t own. Controlled by rules you didn’t write. Praying to gods who may not be listening. In this slow, immersive journey, you’ll live out the quiet misery of a life spent surviving on scraps, caught between famine and faith, toil and silence.

From freezing huts to smoke-filled chapels, you’ll follow the rhythms of a life shaped by seasons and suffering — where even your death is forgotten before the ground settles. There are no ballads written about you. No legacy. Just the cold, damp earth and the memory of a name no one bothers to speak aloud.

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