A tour of medieval crafts reveals how daily work poisoned body and life, shaping past economies and safety lessons for today.
Many medieval executioners survived longer expectancy-wise than the nobility who hired them due to exposure to deadly criminals.
Lepers were paid more per day to keep their disease secret than healthy laborers, paradoxically funding safer communities.
Coopers who handled toxic pitch and tar often died earlier than soldiers due to chronic inhalation poisoning.
Heralds delivering damning proclamations risked execution themselves, yet their positions offered immunity from other feuds because of royal protection.
A tour of medieval crafts reveals how daily work poisoned body and life, shaping past economies and safety lessons for today.
Many medieval executioners survived longer expectancy-wise than the nobility who hired them due to exposure to deadly criminals.
Lepers were paid more per day to keep their disease secret than healthy laborers, paradoxically funding safer communities.
Coopers who handled toxic pitch and tar often died earlier than soldiers due to chronic inhalation poisoning.
Heralds delivering damning proclamations risked execution themselves, yet their positions offered immunity from other feuds because of royal protection.
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