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Occupations during the Middle Ages ... Pages in category "Medieval occupations" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Village or Tribe – a village is a human settlement or community that is larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town. The population of a village varies; the average population can range in the hundreds. Anthropologists regard the number of about 150 members for tribes as the maximum for a functioning human group.
People of the medieval Islamic world by occupation (13 C) Medieval Jews by occupation (5 C) * 5th-century people by occupation (16 C) 6th-century people by occupation ...
The village of Elton, Cambridgeshire, is representative of a medieval open-field manor in England. The manor, whose Lord was an abbot from a nearby monastery, had 13 "hides" of arable land of six virgates each. The acreage of a hide and virgate varied; but at Elton, a hide was 144 acres (58 ha) and a virgate was 24 acres (10 ha).
The burakumin (' hamlet people/village people ' or ' those who live in hamlets/villages ') were ethnic Japanese people whose occupations were considered impure or tainted by death, such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners. These occupations were seen to be kegare (穢れ, ' defilement ') in the
A village that lived off agriculture and wool for centuries, Santo Stefano di Sessanio has just 108 residents, less than a tenth of its pre-WWI population. Keeping an Italian medieval village ...
Medieval England was a patriarchal society and the lives of women were heavily influenced by contemporary beliefs about gender and authority. [135] However, the position of women varied considerably according to various factors, including their social class ; whether they were unmarried, married, widowed or remarried; and in which part of the ...
Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms) among the citizens of a town or city. These took many forms and varied widely in organization and makeup.