6 sentences with “itinerant”

Jews could not own land, marry Christians or practice any trades other than sharecropping, itinerant trading and money lending.

Some of the earliest philosophers of the classical Greek age were the Sophists: itinerant teachers who taught students all aspects of thought.

Travelling circuses, gambling houses, pedlars and itinerant painters could now reach rural districts more easily, and people in search of work found the cities and mill towns within easy reach.

Like many evangelical ministers, Whitefield was itinerant, travelling the countryside rather than having his own church and congregation. Between 1739 and 1740, he electrified colonial listeners with his brilliant oratory.

In addition, itinerant officials called the "eyes and ears of the king" travelled throughout the empire checking that the king's edicts were being carried out and that the conquered peoples were not being abused, and then reported back to the Persian capitals of Susa and Persepolis (both cities served as royal capitals).

Likewise, kings in the early Middle Ages were largely itinerant, moving from place to place throughout the year. They had to make an annual circuit of their realms to ensure that their powerful vassals were loyal to them; a vassal ignored for too long could, and usually did, simply cease to recognise his king's lordship.