HIST-209 Lecture 2: Vassalage and Feudalism
14 Jan 2019
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In the holy roman empire, the peasants were under tighter social control until the. Great german peasants revolt of 1525: the black death also affected commerce in cities and it took at least a century or more for cities to recover their populations. There is an overabundance of basic things; foodstuffs, wine, cloth as less demand meant low prices and with middle-ranking landlords who depended on selling these products found it difficult. Those who produced luxury items did well because surviving nobles were able to consolidate their estates they may have inherited fully. Merchants try to restrict the level of competition as a result leading to the beginning of. Court favoured monopolies: the court would give a licence saying they get to have a monopoly on the production of a certain product as nobody else can sell it. It was important to be at court and be important to be favoured and chosen as so.
