Lacking any catalysts for change in the 14th century, Eastern European peasants largely continued upon the original medieval path until the 18th and 19th centuries.

The life of the seventeenth-century European peasant differed very little from the life of the eleventh-century European peasant.

Following the great rural exodus of the 18th and 19th centuries, millions of dislocated, miserable European peasants began to turn to radical mass movements like Fascism and Communism.

Corn salad was originally foraged by European peasants until the royal gardener of King Louis XIV, de la Quintinie, introduced it to the world.

'Age of mass migration' usually refers to the voluntary transatlantic migration of European peasants and labourers to the Americas.

Had he been some European peasant viewing for the first time Christopher Wren's cathedral the impact could not have been greater.

It was to these poor European peasants that the "American speculator" of 1800 beckoned, inviting them to "Come and share our limitless riches!

The inexpensive and fertile land of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin was irresistible to landless and impoverished European peasants.

The majority of medieval European peasants were villeins.

Ellen's father was a mechanic, a burly, roughhewn man in his fifties, and Ellen's mother was a bluff, northern European peasant.