HSTY1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aigues-Mortes, York City Walls, Market (Place)
18 Jul 2018
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Town growth and development: population increase meant that people migrated to towns looking for work, town populations depended upon migration. Formation charters were required from the local lord to form shopping for other services starts: technological advances: large scale production of textiles, leather goods, metal goods etc, commercial advances from further mining-> coins worth its face value. Shilling coin was a shilling worth of silver. Could melt it down to be made into other coins or jewellery etc: cash economy develops. Quicker and slightly less likely to be robbed: very old market towns: london, dublin, york : access to the sea and water for washing clothes and cleaning streets, water for fires. Everything is built on bridges to work around the rivers: churches or cathedrals in cities more than towns, walled towns as defensive bridges which were closed at night. Formation and governance: charter, commune, republic, new town/bastide: set up from nothing, a planned town formed on a river normally.
