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Peasants knew significantly more and did a lot more travel than is typically assumed in pop culture. F'rex the Canterbury Tales is framed as a grand pilgrimage across the country and the pilgrims traveling together include any number of peasants: a cook, a barge sailor, a physician, an...

Actually they got significantly more vacation time and days off than we do today... so yeah... https://curioushistorian.com/why-medieval-serfs-had-more-vacation-time-than-you-do-today

Yeah, way too many people look at "Tied to the land" and think "How horrible, those people weren't allowed to travel as they wished." Said people don't realize that was a huge step up from previous levels of servitude and provided the Serfs a tremendous amount of protection from having land...