Medieval poster need an answer today!!?

Question

ok i have to make a poster to advertise a job in the medieval context. i was wondering whether anyone knew how they wrote and the style of there posters pictures could help!!!

Answer 1

I don't think they had posters per se in the middle ages. You might try making it like an illuminated manuscript, with gothic lettering and intricate capitals. Here's a cursory google image search that will give you some idea of what they looked like:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=...

Edit to add: the 16th century ("In 1539, the "poster" began...") is hardly "the medieval context."

Answer 2

hello. make a poster, with lots of activity shown. horses, swords, damsels in distress, the whole 'nine yards', however the phrase 'whole nine yards' may have been 'greek' in the olde times. good luck.

Answer 3

Your teacher (or whoever) must be pulling your leg.  The majority of the people of the Middle Ages would not have been able to read.  It was a skill limited for the most part to the upper classes.  

So - look at the website I listed -- it is a list of medieval jobs.  So make yours funny but true to the period.

Example -- Squire.  Can you groom 5 horses, muck, feed & water and still have time to polish my shields?  Do you like to travel to tournments?  If so -- please apply to Sir Henry of Kentdale, Manor on the Green.  See the Baliff at the front gate.  (No peasant stock, please)

Answer 4

Gadds -0 - - - not you the people berating your teacher for being an Idiot - - - - Posters have been around since at least the 15th Century and some argue further back than that!!!  (Actually the Romans used a form of poster art) - - -The earliest posters were geared toward people who could not read or write they used pictures to get across a basic idea. Thus a picture of men laying bricks and simple directions would alert a tradesmen to a building site where jobs could be had.  This rude but people back then were not as stupid as some of the people answering questions on this format.

Please check out this article.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Posters/...

""The History of The Color Poster

The history of posters can be traced as far back as the 15th century, when artisans handmade each and every sheet. While a painstaking process indeed, it ushered in a new age of providing news, announcements, and other information to passers-by on the streets.

For the most part, news and information was distributed to the populace via the Town Crier. Town criers traversed the streets and would stop at crossroads, announcing the orders and proclamations from the King, the Church or the brotherhoods. They announced everything from burials, goods, convocations, lost objects, and other items.

In 1539, the "poster" began to slowly but surely replace the town criers. Jean-Michel Papillon was one of the first "poster artists" that can be tracked via his signature.

In Paris of 1628, Théophraste Renaudot (a French Protestant physician) created his "Bureau d'adresses". His company listed small advertisements indexing suppliers and buyers of various products. In 1633, after several years of success, he printed loose sleeves reproducing this information under the name of "Sheets of the Bureau d'adresses". This represented the beginnings of the advertising poster."""

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Answer 5

Considering that only about 3% of the people could read in the middle ages, and printing hadn't been invented yet.... there wern't any posters back then. Who thought up this assignment?

What writing that was done was normally done by the Clergy, and in Latin.  The books that were left over from the Roman Empire were all in Latin (sometimes Greek) so the few people who did learn to read learned to read latin.

IT also had the added advantage that if all the educated people spoke Latin an educated German could talk to an educated Irishman and an educated Scott and an educated Italian all at the same time.

This is a link to images of the Book of Kells.  It might be of some help http://www.snake.net/people/paul/kells/

(This is a link about the Book of Kells, so you will know what you are looking at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kel...

Answer 6

why today?   Actually, they didn't advertise jobs and didn't do interviews like now, people started getting involved with trades since childhood or early adolesence, and they got training through mentors (relatives and acquaintances) and apprenticeships for lifetime careers.  When they were trained, they were already employed in their careers, without job ads or interviews.   Also, most people couldn't read, especially no need for it before the printing press was invented.  If anything, perhaps schematic images or picto-graphs symbols, like a chef's hat for a cook, or a shoe for a shoe-maker, and a pile of coins for attractive wages.