The main enemies of the peasants in the Middle Ages were still not feudal lords, but hunger, wars and diseases. Hunger was a constant companion of the villagers. Once every 2-3 years, there was a shortage of crops in the fields, and once every 7-8 years, a real famine visited the village, when people ate grass and tree bark, dispersed in all directions, doing begging. Part of the village population died out in such years; it was especially hard for children and the elderly. But even in the harvest years, the peasant's table was not bursting with food - his food was mainly vegetables and bread. Residents of Italian villages took lunch with them to the field, which most often consisted of a loaf of bread, a slice of cheese and a couple of onions. The peasants did not eat meat every week. But in autumn, carts loaded with sausages and hams, heads of cheese and barrels of good wine stretched from the villages to city markets and castles of feudal lords. The Swiss shepherds had a rather cruel, from our point of view, custom: the family sent their teenage son alone for the whole summer to graze goats in the mountains. They didn’t give him food from home (only sometimes a compassionate mother, secretly from his father, slipped a piece of cake into her bosom for the first days). The boy drank goat's milk for several months, ate wild honey, mushrooms, and in general everything that he could find edible in the alpine meadows. Those who survived in these conditions, after a few years, became so healthy that all the kings

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