Medieval TimesBy: 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 are responsible for the chamber and for

the personal finances of the castellan. • Cottars are the 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.

Medieval Professions

Shoemaker

Cook

Knight

Chaplain

Barber