Peasants have long been sidelined in history. Jakub Beneš, Associate Professor at UCL, aims to restore them to the historical ...

a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries). Informal: an ...

The Protestant Reformation was a period of religious and political upheaval spawned by corruption in the Roman Catholic church. With the dissolution of medieval feudalism in the early 16th century, ...

At Bucharest's most unique museum, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, artifacts are not behind glass or a velvet rope. Rather, visitors can interact and closely examine objects used by Romanians for ...

In the Pudong Library in front of a vivid painting titled Utopia, Wang Ani was explaining the ideas behind the peasant painting to some Japanese artists. Wang, a Jinshan peasant painter, had two of ...