Work, Crafts, and the Medieval Economy

Work, Crafts, and the Medieval Economy explores the working lives of the people who built, fed, clothed, supplied, and sustained medieval society. Moving from farms and village workshops to bustling markets, mines, ports, guild halls, and construction sites, the book reveals how labor shaped everyday life between the fifth and fifteenth centuries. Farmers, blacksmiths, carpenters, weavers, bakers,...