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28 sie 2020 · In the Early Middle Ages, most people in western Europe lived in scattered communities in the countryside. By the High Middle Ages, towns were growing again. One reason for their growth was improvements in agriculture.
Key points. Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in...
Understanding the social and cultural dimensions of medieval urban life, “community,” and “neighborhood” relations, for example, has gained much from recent cross-disciplinary studies of medieval towns and cities, combining different approaches.
1 lut 2013 · This article charts the growth and development of medieval European cities from their origins in late antiquity, taking note of the different periods of town foundation and the factors influencing them.
29 mar 2024 · Abstract. The relationship between towns and lords was fundamental both to the making of towns and to the making of polities in the late Middle Ages. The European literature on state growth has led historians to focus on the role of towns in historicizing narratives of state formation and national exceptionalism.
18 sie 2022 · This chapter studies cities and towns in medieval Central Europe. In the Middle Ages, the lands of Central Europe experienced two decisive transformations: first, the foundation of monarchies and Christianization between the eighth and the eleventh centuries, and second, social and economic changes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
European towns at the beginning of the fourteenth century were the result of many centuries of expansion; they were denser in the southern, Mediterranean regions (Italy, Catalonia, Aquitaine, Provence) and in certain areas of northern and north-western Europe (Flanders, the Rhineland, the valleys of the Seine, Rhône and Loire, the Channel and ...
