0
The vast majority of people would have been peasants/serfs so they would have got very little pay, and as such had very little disposable income. In towns you would have got some free-men who were able to work for their own money.
There wasn't that much difference in the jobs people did since pre-roman times right until the beginnings of the agricultural revolution. Most people would have been involved in to gathering /production of raw materials (like food) although there was a surprising amount of labour intensive industries, the major one probably being the textile trade, so growing flax (for linen) or keeping sheep was very important.
To help support people/industries there would have been potteries, and foundries (purify/process ores to make metals. the metal for swords and horseshoes came from somewhere!). It was found recently that Saxon metalworking was about the same quality/quantity as that of 16 C England. Many of the metal extraction/processing sites would have been in fairly inhospitable places like the Pennines/Wales/Lake District. MOST of these sites would have been small, and today there's usually very little physical evidence of them being there.
Stone would also have been extracted by quarry men. Stone masons would have been needed to dress/finish the stone.
In areas where there were thatched cottages (majority of places, stone simply being too costly for the common man) you would have got thatchers.
Most jobs were highly specialised, and covered a tiny part of what there modern equivalents are. There would have been "jobs" only for highly skilled people - such as bakers, leatherworkers, blacksmiths, carpenters, armorers, bowyers, fletchers, swordsmiths, shieldwrights, wainwrights, cobblers, weavers, millers, priests, tax collectors, and probably some manner of fortune tellers/sages. We can also include the minstrels or trubadours who got paid by telling stories with the use of music. Very few jack of all trades.
The exceptions would have been the growing of food (most people would have had a strip of land for growing the majority of their food, with little surplus), and blacksmiths or farriers(a blacksmith who concentrates on "stuff" for horses)
Carters or porters would have been the lorry drivers of the time.
Coastal regions might have had some fishing boats, and in larger ports, merchants..
A few people would be able to work as tutors to the children of the rich and powerful.
Coby Schumm
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What jobs did preists have in the 14th century?
The job of a priest in the 14th century was essentially the same as it is today. He was responsible for shepherding his congregation in the ways of God.
When did the 14th century start?
Answer: 1300-1399 Answer: The 14th. century is from 1301-1400.
What are the years for 15th century?
The 14th century was 1300 to 1399
Describe the difficulties encountered by Europeans in the 14th century?
Describe the difficulties encountered by Europeans in the 14th century?
What century were the 1300s in?
The 14th century.
What century is 1304 in?
The 14th century.
What century was 1399?
14th century.
What years were in the 14th century?
The 14th Century is the years between 1300 and 1399 AD.
What time period was the 14th century?
The 14th century consists of the years 1301 through 1400.
Which century is 1350bc in?
14th century BC
What century was the rennaissence?
14th - 17th century
1345 AD is in what century?
The 14th century.
