Medieval Trades & Skills

Trades and skills, unsurprisingly, are not the most fascinating things of the Middle Ages. This is what I thought when I chose this topic. As I started researching this topic though, I found out that it was one of the more fascinating things of the Middle Ages. For instance, there were some wacky trades like the ale conner. The ale conner was a man who would test beer or ale when it was produced, but he wasn't a chemist. He would take a wooden bench put a small pool of ale on it, and sit on the puddle of ale. After about half an hour, he would stand up. If his britches tore, the ale was l…