What jobs did people do to earn money during medieval times? -

Like what they did to earn money. Can you give me a list of like 5 - 10 please. Thanks I appreciate it, Ezzy________One of the most common ways people earned money in the medieval period was through selling produce. Most people would have cultivated land that was owned by either the lord of the local manor or the church. They would be required to pay a tithe, which would normally be a set amount of produce/livestock to the landlord. Once this had been done, anything extra than what they needed to eat could be sold at local market. In addition to this peasants could brew and sell their own beer, but there were regulations for this and you could be fined for illegal selling. You could also earn money on the larger estates by being farm labourers or tending livestock. For more information about the above three there was a fantastic programme on BBC by Michael Wood about a medieval peasant called Christina. The website is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/medieval/ch... and has lots of useful links. In the towns money could be made from working in a vast array of trades like making leather, cloth, tailoring clothes, cobbling shoes (look up cordwainer), making pottery, butchers and that sort of thing. If the buisness was large enough you might be paid to work in one of these, but generally they were very small industries with one or two people working out of a room in their own house and selling goods at market. Only the reasonably wealthy could afford permenant shops. Another way of making money was by trading goods and being a merchant. You could sell English Wool abroad to be made into fine cloth and bring back wine and dried fruits to sell. Millers were fairly wealthy as people had to pay to have their grain made into flour. There wasn t a professional army like there is today. Men would be trained by their local lord and knights would have to be from nobility. All peasant men were expected to train in the use of the longbow etc from an early age in case their lord needed to call upon their services (this was all part of what they owed him by living on his land). Some useful websites for all of these things are http://www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/mediev... http://www.medievaltravel.co.uk/jobs/ http://www.svincent.com/MagicJar/Economi... http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/... http://web.nickshanks.com/history/mediev...________The medieval times are known for the feudal social order. It was obligatory for people that are born in a noble s manor to live and work there for the rest of their lives. The only way that they could make money was to work for their noble. Some of them worked on the field, gathering the crops, taking care of the land. Others worked at the mill, making bread. People worked in the stables, taking care of the noble s horses. One of the most respectful jobs in that time was the one of the smiths. They made the weapons that the army needed, they were its backbone. Some peasants worked in noble s manor as cooks, butlers/they didnt called them butler but still/, jesters, etc. The women worked as well. They weaved clothes, rugs, covers, etc. Do not forget that there were no peasant hunters or fishermen in the Middle Ages! If inside the noble s manor there was a pond or a forest, it was forbidden for the serfs to go there especially for food. If they were caught, they were killed. ________Knights earned part of their money by entering tournaments. They had to capture an opponent and ransom him and/or sell his horse amp; gear back to him. If a knight couldn t afford to buy back his horse and/or his gear, the victor could keep it or sell it to others. Knights also offered their services as bodygaurds, to wealthy people. Blacksmiths shod horses, made tools and some even worked making armor, swords, knives, etc. This spawned the farrier trade; farriers often traveled from place to place, shoddding and caring for the hooves of horses and mules. Silversmiths and goldsmiths made everything from jewelry to fancy bowls and platters. Livery owners made their living by renting out space in their stables to travelers and caring for their horse/mules, as well as, storing large trunks and equipment which couldn t be taken to the inns. Innkeepers offered daily meals and rooms or floor space to weary travelers. The town/village marketplaces were teeming with a variety of vendors on market day, including bakers, butchers, jewelers, even people selling wood and rags. Farmers would sell a variety of seasonal vegetables in the marketplace. Of course, there were the good old Medieval scam artists, who sold artifacts, which they claimed were from the Holy Lands; a piece of wood said to be from the cross Jesus died on, a lock of the Virgin Mary s hair, a piece of the shroud from the burial of Jesus, anything they could pass off as having belonged to a martyred saint, whatever gullible people would buy. Other nefarious occupations include, poachers, highwaymen, robbers, bandits, footpaw (robs pedestrians), pickpockets and the fence dealt in stolen goods. Women sold everything from their bodies (some tavern wenches waited tables and doubled as prostitutes) to their services as a nurse maid (breast-feeding babies whose mothers had died or for women who were too sick to care for a newborn. They also worked as dressmakers, housemaids, dairymaids (milked the cows), scullerymaids (cleaned the pots, pans and kitchenwares, lighted the fires in the fireplaces and ovens, cleaned the floors) and cooks. The tanner worked leather of any kind (horse, deer, pigs and cows, beaver) preparing it for use in making clothing, containers for holding wine and water, wagon coverings, shoes, saddles, bridles, etc. Furriers turned animal pelts into clothing, hats, robes, rugs and wall-coverings. The wheilewright (wheelwright) made wheels for carts, wagons, carriages, military equipment, as well as the water powered wheels used by the millers to turn their stone wheels used in grinding grains into flour and meal. Boatewrights (boatwrights) built any size watercraft, from small pleasure and fishing boats to large barges for river travel, as well as, seagoing vessels. Stonemasons contibuted to the building of manor houses, castles, fortrsses and cathedrals. They also made the grinding stones for the miller, many of those stones are still in use today. Thatchers re-roofed houses. Troupes of entertainers would roam from town to town, entertaining people at faires and tournaments. Some were honest, some were thieves and con-artists. A catchpole caught debtors and turned them over to the jailer. The baliff arrested and jailed people. A liner traced and marked property lines. The woodward was in charge of the kings forest. The exchequer was the kings/queens bookkeeper. The mareschals job was to over-see the kings/queens stables and horses. This position was hereditary, passed from father to son, and was retained by the family thru judicial combat (the challenger had to fight the mareschal in a duel, of sorts, to the death of one of the participants).________seamstress or tailor, baker, greengrocer, soldier, priest, farmer, making and/or selling just about anything. everything was hand made, so everything was for sale to those who could afford to pay. ________Inn Keeper Blacksmith Tailor Cook Servant Army Farmer Musician Actor________People were divided into three main groups. Knights, Labourers and the Clergy.