10 Medieval Jobs Deadlier Than Going To War

10 Medieval Jobs Deadlier Than Going To War Medieval England ran on timber. Every castle, every warship, every siege engine, every peasant's home was built from wood felled by hand. The men who supplied this material were among the most economically vital workers in the kingdom, and they are also among the most anonymous dead in history, which is itself a kind of answer about how the medieval world valued them.