medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Suit yourself.
There were no cabinetmakers in the Middle Ages, because there were no
cabinets. A joiner, as I wrote, just meant (in general) somebody who joined
pieces of wood together in a more finicky way than in the manner wooden
housebeams and stiles were joined together. ALL other woodwork, except maybe
the whittling of spoons and the turning of a spinning top and the likes, was
made out of more parts than one and had to be put together in one way or
another. Even woodcarvings were. See Chris' admirable description of the
work of this craft.
I was merely pointing to the fact that the description of what was called a
tekton was during the later middle ages called, in English, a joiner. It's
different names in other languages, but I do not have to go so far.
BTW If Joseph made plows and yokes, he also needed metal parts, if the
latter wasn't the very primitive all wooden plus leather and/or rope yoke,
that is. I wonder if he needed a smith for that or that being a tekton
included simple blacksmithing. I have a feeling that craftsmen in a near
eastern village around 2000 years ago could set their hand to more things
than one.
Henk
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