Well I have no idea how they spoke - depends on whether they were rich or poor.
I don't know what they were doing with their time anywhere else, but in England we only know what happened around 1066.because it was The Battle of Hastings.
Halley's Comet was also in 1066. The Bayeux Tapestry shows Henry watching the Comet as they had taken it as an Omen of his fate. We see him on the Bayeux tapestry then taking an arrow in the eye
The Norman army was under the Duke William of Normandy and an English army under King Harold and it lasted all day and was exceptionally bloody even by medieval standards. Poor people were depicted as being superstitious poor farming peasants. They probably drank a lot of mead. We cannot tell how things were back then but we can gather things from how they lived. Calvinism hadn't been invented as John Calvin wasn't born until 1509.
When Harold was eventually killed and the English fled, the way was open for William to assume the throne of England. Tradition has it that William gave thanks to God for his victory and ordered that all in his army should do penance for the souls that they had killed that day. He himself paid for the foundation of Battle Abbey on the spot where Harold fell.
During the Norman Reign from 1066-1154 there were around 7000 Norman churches built and a lot of Cathedrals and great Abbeys. I live near one of them. Some of the Churches still stand today. They had plenty of Churches to go to that's for sure, like never before. In those days, before the Norman Conquest, the churches were slung up with mud and wattle and daub so you can only imagine how simple worship was. Probably with straw on the floor. If Balaam's donkey was there she would probably say she wouldn't sleep in one. Rich people and the nobles had places like Canterbury Cathedral and flash Abbeys and poor people had these slung up mud hovels to worship in before the Normans came. I think the worship was simple, yet full of superstition even so.
What did the religious do all day? How can we know really? I have no idea and can only imagine but even the Nobles were extremely superstitious and were always going on about evil omens, hobgoblin nonsense, or putting hexes on each other if the history books are anything to go by. I am sure not all of them did though.
All was alright, but you must never mention err…...”The Scottish Play”..