Medieval society needed workers, but not every role earned dignity. Certain jobs were unavoidable, but still left people socially shunned and physically stained. Others placed people in danger or left ...

The sin-eater was one of the strangest jobs connected to medieval and early modern funeral culture in the British Isles. Families believed that a poor outsider could absorb the sins of the dead by ...

From those who shipped exotic goods into Norfolk to others who oversaw the lords’ courts, people living in the Middle Ages carried out a myriad of colourful jobs. When Norwich Castle keep reopens ...

From queens and knights to horsemen and squires, the performers of Medieval Times dinner theatre castle in Buena Park, California, voted to unionize Thursday after months of back and forth with the ...