Forgotten Medieval Trades
Miller, fuller, illuminator: can you tell what these long-vanished jobs once did?
What this quiz asks
- 1What did the miller transform at his mill?
- 2What did the cooper make with his hands?
- 3What was the farrier's job?
- 4What was the falconer's specialty?
- 5What did the illuminator do in the scriptorium?
- 6Besides shaving beards, what did the barber-surgeon do?
- 7How did the fuller treat woollen cloth?
- 8What did the parchment-maker prepare?
- 9In the Middle Ages, a 'leech' was another name for whom?
- 10Where did the lime-burner do his work?
