Sentence examples for aspects of peasant from inspiring English sources

At the time there was some scoffing at Berger going off to play at being a peasant, but while in France he wrote the Into Their Labours trilogy of novels, addressing practical, political and personal aspects of peasant life.

Education was further restricted, the work of the zemstvos was hampered, and the village communes were brought under closer control in 1889 by the institution of the "land commandant" (zemsky nachalnik)—an official appointed by the Ministry of the Interior, usually a former officer or a local landowner, who interfered in all aspects of peasant affairs.

They saw feudalism as encompassing many if not most aspects of medieval society: peasants, whether free, unfree, or semi-free; a ruling warrior class with subordinates compensated for military service by grants of land rather than money; fragmentation of power; and disorder yet with the family and the state retaining their importance.

The other piece, involving a tower made of painted beer bottles, vases and three kinds of light bulbs, seems to combine aspects of Surrealism and Eastern European peasant art (painted Russian Easter eggs especially come to mind).

Suger was born of peasant parents.

The second main cause of peasant poverty was overpopulation.

He was also a great observer of peasant life.

Animals in particular were symbolic of peasant and village life.

Linnankoski was of peasant origin and largely self-taught.

One distinguishing characteristic of peasant agriculture is self-sufficiency.

This group is of peasant family farms cf.[10].[10]