War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Peoples & Things
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Is the Middle Ages a Classical Period?
There are cities, particularly in southern europe. People do work on farms and grow their own foodd and all this. And then there are market towns where this is edistributed out. There was a fair amount of basic literacy that people needed in order to get by in almost any profession,. Unless they're laborers or that kind of thing. A so i think we're seeing, we're not seeing the american frontier. We're not seeing this kind of rugged individualism of little towns," she says.
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