Culture Making Articles items tagged medieval Culture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Copyright (c) 2025, Andy Crouch ExpressionEngine tag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02 Medieval job listings tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.2034 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com Nate: ?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.?

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 "What did people do in a Medieval City?," by Shawn Vincent, 1999–2005 :: via kottke
]]> The Queen Claude prayer book tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.553 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com

Nate

: ?The hands in the photo seem to be mainly for demonstrative purposes but I love the gesture all the same.?
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from The Prayer Book of Claude de France, illuminated pocket manuscript, c.1517, at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City :: via BibliOdyssey
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