Is laziness a good idea? A Dutch trend of doing nothing is sweeping the world, even finding its way into a UK gym chain.
Gym chain launches classes in doing nothing
Switching off: Gustave Caillebotte's The Nap shows bourgeois leisure in the 19th Century. Glossary
Dutch - Belonging to or relating to the Netherlands, its people, or its language.
Middle Ages - The Middle Ages was the period in European history that came between ancient and modern times. It lasted from about 500 to about 1500.
Peasants - A historical term often used to describe poorer people who worked in farming.
Hunter-gatherers - Humans who lived an ancient way of life in which they foraged for food and occasionally hunted, but did not farm.