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Medieval job listings
Medieval job listings
Below's an unexpurgated excerpt from a list of Medieval sales occupations. The section on artisans is also full of gems (and future last names). Among those delightful oddities for you to look up: alabaster, bilgier, bodger, bowyer, broom-dasher, compassmith, delver, knacker, linen-armorer, male maker, perkier, spooner, thonger, treen maker, upholder, vaginarius, wiredrawer.
Nate: 
booth man - one who sells grains
chapman - traveling merchant
collier - one who makes or sells charcoal
colporteur - seller of religious books
costermonger - fruit seller
drover - one who drives sheep or cattle to market
eggler - an egg-merchant
from The Prayer Book of Claude de France, illuminated pocket manuscript, c.1517, at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City :: via BibliOdyssey
The hands in the photo seem to be mainly for demonstrative purposes but I love the gesture all the same.
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