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MEDIEVAL EUROPE CITY/TOWN LIFE
By: Tina Sawyer and Danielle Rocheleau
VIKING/BARBARIAN INVASIONS
Created walled cities
They were known as bourgs, burghs, and bouroughs
Citizens were called bourgeois
http://qed.princeton.edu/index.php/User:Student/Viking,_Magyar_and_Saracen_Invasions_in_9th_and_10th_Century_Europe
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/voyage/subset/westernisles/pop_history2.html
http://www.imperialteutonicorder.com/id43.html
RICH CITY/ TOWN CITIZENS
Considered rich “burger” families
Possible to take up four floors (attic to basement)
POOR CITY/TOWN CITIZENS
Fit into one room (whole family)
Not much better than peasant living styles
Dependent on charities
Orphans, widows, elderly, handicapped
UNCOMFORTABLE LIVING
Heating problems
Little light: narrow windows, low-light candles
Wooden furniture
Beds littered with bedbugs, ticks, and fleas
SOCIAL CLASSESMiddle classes formed:
―manufacturers
―food sellers
―tavern keepers
―lesser merchants
―bakers
―journeymen
―Apprentices
SOCIAL CLASSES(CONT.)
Women active in household
Men worked physical jobs
Population: low but slowly building
DIET
Ate:
― Fish
― Eggs
― Breads
― Small creatures
Drank:
― Goats milk
― Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pypbyC548dw&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1
"Cities and Towns." Exploring the Middle Ages. Marshall Cavendish Digital, 2011. Web. 07 "Medieval Life." Medieval Life. 2000. Web. 06 Dec. 2011. <http://www.medieval-life.net/city_life_2.htm>. Singman, Jeffrey L. Medieval Europe. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1999. Print. World Eras. Jeremiah Hackett, Ed. Vol. 4: Medieval Europe, 814-1350. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 519 Pp.