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yes, not just in the middle ages that's true for most agriculture-based societies
you have periods of intense back-breaking labour during planting and harvesting seasons and plenty of downtime when the crops are growing

that's how Egypt build all their great monuments you know, the Pharaoh would put those lazy ass farmers to work during innundation season to build his shit, otherwise they'd just sit on their asses for 4 months every year