Scribes In Medieval Europe

There were many different jobs during the Middle Ages. These jobs belonged to many different people with many different characteristics. In the series of tales The Canterbury Tales, author Geoffrey Chaucer writes about a group of people with different occupations during the Middle Ages. Who are going on a pilgrimage to the sacred town of Canterbury. Chaucer gives a detailed description of each character traveling to Canterbury. During this trek to Canterbury each of the passengers tells a different tale that Chaucer has chosen for them.

·   "Why should he study and drive himself crazy, always poring over a book in his cloister, or work and slave with his hands as St. Augustine orders?" (Chaucer Pg. 4-Line 21)

Medieval tailors, made clothes for a small segment of the population. A tailor made clothes for the nobles and had to have knowledge of various fine and expensive materials. Some clothes tailors used were leather, bernet, perse, and sandal. Tailors were in the craftsmen group on the feudal pyramid. All

I am sitting at my work desk reading an autobiography called the Blood of the Lambs, and I ponder about the amount of time having passed since I have sat down to a nice personal evening with a book. Upon reflection, I realize that the path I took to learning to read wasn’t an easy one and involved time, effort, and hard work.

During the medieval period, the feudal system was the social structure of Medieval Europe. It classified the social statuses from monarchs, lords and bishops, knights and clergy, to peasants being the lowest class. Most of the pilgrims were knights. Knights that pilgrimaged were usually former crusaders or chivalrous men of numerous wars. During pilgrimages, knights usually took squires along with them as an act of chivalry (25). Another popular group of pilgrims was the clergy. The clergy contained clergywomen and clergymen. Clergywomen were usually nuns and clergymen were mostly monks and priests. (29). Members of the clergy were usually required to partake in pilgrimages since they were men and women of God. Aside from people of the higher classes, peasants were also a popular group during pilgrimages. Those pilgrims ranged from serfs, millers, freemen, plowmen, artisans, and farmers (Housley 656). In The Canterbury Tales, other types of peasants pilgrimaged. There was a reeve, a yeoman, and a cook (Chaucer 23). Artisans or guildsmen were people that were skilled in their jobs and supplied others with the products they mastered in creating. Besides millers, there were artisans who made tools that were useful for several activities like spoons and spoons for eating. Lastly, criminals usually went on pilgrimages for punishment including crimes like murder, incest, etc. (Housley 656).

The Middle Ages was the period in European history that came between ancient and modern times. It lasted from about ad 500 to about 1500. The Christian church played an important part in the history of the Middle Ages.

Scribes: the people who write the important things down. They had to keep track of the taxes and maybe how much the farmer make in the year etc.

The Friar is like the Monk, and the Prioress. The Friar is not that faithful religious figure. His sins are all the more guilty because friars are more than any other religious group, they pledged to a life of poverty. Back in medieval England, friars could be licensed both to beg in particular regions, and to earn money by hearing or telling the sacraments. Since the friars were not able to own property the licenses are the only thing supporting them. There are a few stereotypes about friars, one was that there would raveled around seducing women. Another stereotype about the friars was that they were crafty at soliciting donations that they could convince a widow to give away her last penny, moreover, and that they would earn far more than

In the Egyptian school text for the students learning scribe, the teacher describes the Egyptian jobs in the way he views them. The jobs that he lists, like the “washerman” and the “maker of pots”, have undesirable outlooks while the scribe just simply “records the output of them all!” This satire shows how important the job of a scribe meant to the Egyptians. Scribes were the record keepers and readers of the city, so they are the main scholars who could teach and write books. During the development of Egyptian and other civilizations, learning and writing were only for the upper-class since the poor could not afford to go to schools. There were many people who were illiterate so they could only listen to the words spoken. Without the scribes,

The Writing Tool Invention by Geroge Frankie is about without writing system in the past, cave man invented the first written languages by tying animal hair as a brush to paint on the cave wall. After several centuries invented the Chinese characters, hieroglyphs Egypt and an alphabetical system we were using now. The writing tool in olden times with the material people wrote on. However, in the Middle East, people used hollow reed pens to write on the wet clay. Meanwhile in Egypt people used a reed with ink write on animal skins or papaya stems. The quill or nibbed pens dipping with ink using before the fountain pens invented. Then the ballpoint pen invented to replace them because the fountain pens was broke easily lead ink leakage.

The Medieval book production was divided into 4 categories or 4 professions and an author was not one of them. Does that mean that authors were not important enough to earn money with their writing or simply scribes were the authors at the same time?

I agree, Medieval books were usually decorated and reserved for the higher-class civilians usually priest. The Lindau Gospels is a perfect example as it is a bible adorn with silver and gold. Even though this metalsmithing was esthetically pleasing, the make of the book were expensive. Also, most of the populace at the time could not read or write.

In the Middle Ages drafting was used for things that related to science and scholarly works, kind of like how we use drafting now of days. The first drafting tool was rulers that were dated back to 1500 BC. Rulers

Before the King and lords could generally read and write, monks were unusually literate and learned. They included many younger and illegitimate sons of powerful families, and served as schoolmasters to others, so they were well-connected, both nationally and internationally with their sister houses and Rome. For 500 years after the Conquest the English monasteries became rich, with extensive estates and temporal and political power: both the bishops and the Lords Abbots sat in the House of Lords. Thus they were ideal for government service, and for several centuries the monks of Westminster Abbey were effectively the royal civil service, often doing diplomatic and judicial

Excellent overall summary of the book Medieval People and how the concept of time was important to them. In this book, it depicts how the world differs from era to era when it comes to servants, colony, and masters. The life of a servant, as opposed to a noble, was vast. It was a life of self-sufficiency, and they were producing everything at home, most houses were small with thatched roofs and most shared a common life in the work of the fields. It is said that peasants, besides Sundays, enjoyed from eight weeks to a half a year free from work because of the backbreaking nature. In the Middle Ages time was counted from sunrise, one hour after sunrise they would call the first-hour “prime.” (Power, 1924) Many events happened at