We will begin, inhaling the earth-sweet breath of fields, with an introduction to peasant daily life in Carolingian Europe, c. 790–810. Session 1 examines subsistence and staples through the Capitular of Frankfurt (794), reading price-lists as recipes for survival. Session 2 savours Abbot Irminon’s polyptique (c. 800), mapping Villeneuve‑St. Georges as a patchwork of obligations, rents and domestic routines. Session 3 follows Charlemagne’s De villis, a garden manual that doubles as governance, teaching us estate management, crop rotations and culinary supply chains. Session 4 examines the Asnapium inventory (c. 800), counting livestock, tools and larders to reconstruct material comfort and scarcity. Session 5 studies the Diedenhofen capitulary (805) and the Heribannum, to taste the sharp aftertaste of military duty and tax burdens on freemen. Each session pairs close reading with practical exercises: reconstructing a peasant weekly menu, sketching tenure maps, and role‑playing manor court. Objectives: to read primary sources with sensitivity, to connect economic data to lived experience, and to narrate small acts of care—sowing, milling, mending—that sustained communities. Assessment: a short archival essay and a sensory micro‑ethnography of a medieval day. Optional reading includes the five supplied excerpts and suggested secondary essays on peasant agency and Carolingian administration texts.