What jobs did people do in medieval towns?

Answer 1

medieval people did jobs like:

ironmongers

fishmongers

making leather

skinning animals

fetching the water

making the bread

spinning the thread

weaving the thread to make clothes

getting hay

fitting clothes

and many more

Answer 2

During the Middle Ages, a town was a community with a permanent market place, but not large enough to have a cathedral. There were not very many of them, and they were only created when they got a royal charter that allowed them to have a permanent market.Since towns had markets, they clearly had merchants. They also had all the people merchants might hire, including everything from porters to guards. They had a municipal government, including a tax collector and municipal officers such as a mayor.

A town probably had at least one brewer who brewed beer, in the North, or wine, in the South.

There was likely to be a school in a town. A school had teachers, but they were not always monks, as people imagine. There were secular schools with secular teachers as far back as the Early Middle Ages, and they were very common by the Late Middle Ages.

A town was likely to have one or more guilds, whose members did similar work. Merchants formed guilds, but so did people who were in manufacturing. A town might have a thriving textile industry or a large number of potters or cheese makers.

Just about every town had one or more bakers. Most people who lived in towns could not afford their own kitchens, and so there were a lot of people who specialized in food preparation, selling stews, pies, and so on.

A town had at least one church, and so there were clergy.

Lawyers, physicians, scribes, and so on, were likely to be in towns.

All sorts of workers, including carpenters and masons, were likely to live in towns, as well.

There was a lot of variation, of course. But a town had a market, and that implies a lot of goings-on, compared to a village.

Answer 3

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