ARCH 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cloth Hall, Monpazier
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Developed as trading center for wool and textiles. Buildings at center show relations among church, count, guilds. As in many cities, canals provided easy transportation of goods. Bruges becomes most important cloth trading center in northern europe. Major open space fronted by cloth hall w/ belfry. Belfry with its halls first serves as both covered market and town hall: both political and commercial functions, bastides. Bastides were new towns establishes for trade: established in the 12th and 13th century, or established for military reasons, also established for asserting control over territory for agriculture and trade. People went to gain freedom from lords: also freedom from foreign claims.
