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Medieval Times. By: Sara Knight. Medieval Professions. Barber: someone who cut hair. Also served as dentists, surgeons and blood-letters.
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Medieval Times By: Sara Knight
Medieval Professions • Barber: someone who cut hair. Also served as dentists, surgeons and blood-letters. • Chaplain: provided spiritual welfare for laborers and the castle garrison. The duties might also include supervising building operations, clerk, and keeping accounts. He also tended to the chapel. • Cook: roasted, broiled, and baked food in the fireplaces and ovens. • Knight: a professional soldier. This was achieved only after long and arduous training which began in infancy. • Shoemaker: a craftsman who made shoes. Known also as Cordwainers.
Definitions • Almoners ensure that the poor receive charity money. • Chamberlain areresponsible for the chamber and for the personal finances of the castellan. • Cottars arethe lowest of the peasantry. They worked as swine-herds, prison guards, and did strange jobs. • A guild (or gild) is a group of craftsmen working together at the same thing.
Medieval Games and Pastimes • Pall-Mall is modernly defined as a 17th century game in which a wood ball was struck with a mallet to drive it through an iron ring suspended at the end of an alley, on a post or in a tree.
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