HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pope Urban Ii, Manorialism, Holy Land
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Prior: barter system to allowed social and political spheres to function! Always been small measure of trade which required medium of exchange (money w/ some recognized value)! Money did exist ancient roman coins, islamic coins, byzantine coins (north eu)! Problem was solved by minting centres in trading cities (florence- orin in 1252, Towns are centres of economy activity - conc of capital, skilled workers, labourers, : towns began to emerge & grow, manorial economy began to dissolve due to introduction of The merchants, lawyers, had in uence within towns bc they were wealthy, sophisticated, multi-lingual bene t the town! town became centre of intellectualism and secularism : nobles were being challenged by merchants, explosion of culture! Recovery of law of ancient rome led to extreme change! Monday, september 26, 2016: land belonged to feudal thug (according to feudal law, not interested in law & trade), control over towns & cities (belonged to emperor, according to roman law)!
