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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Joseph and Frances Gies’s Life in a Medieval City
- Sheilagh Ogilvie’s book on merchant guilds is probably the most definitive treatment of the subject.
- Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages by Paul Newman
- A History of Business in Medieval Europe
- “Bring Back the Guild System?” by Thomas Woods
Medieval Society and Economy: Urban Life – Quiz
- Identify at least two features most medieval towns had in common.
- Identify at least two of the distinct types of merchants discussed in the lecture.
- Identify the two major types of guilds discussed in the lecture.
- In addition to the Italian city-states, the ____________ played an important role in developing new types of business procedures.
- True/False: Every medieval town dated to the Roman Empire.
- True/False: In addition to their commercial activities, guilds also performed charitable and mutual-aid functions more usually associated with nonprofit organizations today.
- Which two regions in Europe became noteworthy as trading hubs in the High Middle Ages?
- Walls, market, court
- Sedentary, carriers, agents
- Merchant, craft
- Hanseatic League
- False
- True
- Flanders, Italy