A History of the European Rural Life

Story Line

The history of the European peasantry, which has undergone many upheavals over the centuries: from its rise in the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, through the oppression of the nobility and the Church, to the struggles for freedom and modernization in the present era.

Top Cast

Catherine Ringer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Miklós Attila Szőcs Boruss

Self - Farmer

Massimo Montanari

Self - Historian

Chris Wickham

Self - Historian

Edith Peytremann

Self - Archaeologist

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Self - Historian