books.google.co.uk - The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Images_of_the_Medieval_Peasant.html?id=RXBReIaQDW8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareImages of the Medieval Peasant
