Medieval Village Life Through the Farming Year

You have read about kings and crusades, but you keep wondering about everyone else. Who ploughed the fields, brewed the ale, and buried the children?

This audiobook walks you through one year in a medieval village, season by season. Each chapter opens inside a real moment from manor court rolls, coroners' inquests and archaeological digs: a ploughing dispute, a harvest fight, an ale-wife fined for weak beer, a toddler lost to a well. From there you meet serfs, widows, laborers and the very poor as people with tempers, jokes and grudges. The tone is warm and often funny, and the narration tells you plainly where the records speak and where historians still argue.

By the final chapter, the Middle Ages feel less like a costume drama and more like a place where people you might have known once lived. Press play and spend a year in the village.