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February 7, 2012 03:02 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xqNxjxkaWzo/jobs-of-the-medieval-city.html
Jobs of the medieval city
Here's a neatly categorized and tantalizing list of medieval urban professions, including the criminal trades. silk-snatcher - one who steals bonnets stewsman - probably a brothel keeper - "since the words stew and stewholder both mean a bawd, I'm guessing that a stewsman would be a brothel-keeper as well. Whether bawdry counts as a criminal [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xqNxjxkaWzo/jobs-of-the-medieval-city.html
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