Shoes and Shoemakers · Medieval London. In medieval London, shoes were an integral part of daily life.
Overall, women and men wore the same styles of shoes and boots. For example, according to the sizes of shoes found at Baynard’s Castle, both men and women in medieval London wore below-the-ankle shoes and full boots in the late thirteenth century. This aspect of London culture was most likely a result of the need for simpler shoes that would not interfere with daily work. That being said, shoes were probably more useful indoors, while boots were more appropriate for outside labor. Unlike the finds at other sites, a large number of fourteenth-century shoes recovered at Baynard’s Castle were below-the-ankle shoes, and few shoes at this site have been repaired, which suggests that these shoes may have belonged to members of the upper class or even to the Royal Wardrobe. Like most towns in medieval England, London had its own shoemakers, also known as the cordwainers.
Medieval Jobs. There is a whole lot of interest in what people did in the Middle Ages.
What kinds of jobs did they have? What kind of work did they do? Some of this interest comes from the proliferation of Role Playing video games. In a lot of these games you can be a potter, blacksmith, Armorer, Miller and much more. It is quite fascinating and there actually were a whole lot of interesting jobs in the Middle Ages. The Four Orders of Society During the Middle Ages Of course, when you say "Middle Ages" it covers a thousand years and things changed over these centuries but generally there were four different orders during the Middle Ages: Clergy Nobles and Kings Merchant Guildsmen Craftsmen and Laborers This article, for the most part covers the fourth category of Craftsmen and laborers.
Some of the well known Medieval Jobs Miller StoneMason BlackSmith Armorer Falconer Tailor Carpenter Plowman Butcher GoldSmith MetalSmith Groom Squire Page SilverSmith Grocer Draper Furrier FishMonger Baker Weaver Guilds. Late Medieval Daily Life. The trade and craft ‘masteries’ which controlled the commerce of towns were not the only guilds in late medieval England.
Others ranged from groups of village ploughmen or ‘maidens’ who maintained an altar to a patron saint in the parish church, to exclusive high-status associations – like the Coventry Corpus Christi guild – with aristocrats and even monarchs among their members. Many guilds met in purpose-built guildhalls, like Blakeney Guildhall, Norfolk, or York’s much grander Merchant Adventurers’ Hall. According to the 12th-century Norman-Welsh courtier Walter Map, indeed, the English had ‘drinking-dens which they call guild houses’ in every parish. Some of these developed into the late medieval ‘church houses’ – a combination of parish hall and pub – which still survive by some churchyard gates. Here, several times a year, strong ale brewed by the churchwardens was sold in aid of church repairs. Medieval Life - The Farming Year - History on the Net.
Life was hard for the peasants who worked on the farms.
There was always something that needed doing on the land and they could not afford to slack in any way. If the harvest failed, the whole village could face starvation in the winter. Repairing Peasants had to make their own houses during the Medieval Period. They used mud and sticks for the floor and walls and the roof was thatched with straw. Bad weather and high winds would easily damage the houses and it was essential that repairs were carried out as soon as possible. Scotland's Bravehearts - Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. There are two men whose names were a clarion call to all Scots.
Robert the Bruce, who took up arms against both Edward I and Edward II of England and who united the Highlands and the Lowlands in a fierce battle for liberty: and a humble Lowland knight, Sir William Wallace. Sir William Wallace 1272 – 1305 Wallace killed the English Sheriff of Lanark who had apparently murdered Wallace's sweetheart. A price was put on his head, so Wallace took the bold course and raised the Scottish Standard.
Supported by a few of the Scots barons, he inflicted a resounding defeat on the English at Stirling Bridge in 1297. Wallace then made a fatal mistake; he took on the English Army who greatly outnumbered his men, and in a pitched battle at Falkirk in 1298, Edward I of England annihilated the Scots battalions and Wallace became a fugitive for 7 years. While in Glasgow in 1305 he was betrayed and taken to London where he was tried for treason in Westminster Hall.