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Few people went to school, those that did were the sons of the wealthy (but not the daughters), although nobles employed private tutors at home for their children. The boys would go to their grammar school everyday but Sunday where they would learn Latin, religious studies, Greek, arithmetic and music. The school master was strict and naughty pupils were beaten with a birch cane.
Most children and adults worked each day tending their crops and animals. Most men and boys worked in the fields, growing the various crops for food, and would hunt and keep animals to provide their meat. Some men had special jobs such as blacksmiths making tools. Women and girls looked after the home, cooking, washing, making clothes and candles, keeping bees for honey, milking the cows and growing herbs for medicines and cooking.
