HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Unconscious, Guelphs And Ghibellines, Petrarch
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Middle ages: florence distinguished itself through skills, natural assets. Highest quality woolen cloth in europe: training + regulation, sheep, technology, advancements in dyes. Ability to sell material abroad: infrastructure. Gave rise to business model, served a wide economy luxury good significant profits. More profit in luxury than basic tings competition for a relatively fixed amount of material: value of wool goes up lend money. Florentines used networks to help finance state and nation building as well as long distance trading. Sovereignty: pope or emporer, tension and stability. City states, mercantile, competition, in the collective unconscious. Dark ages: whatever trade funneled through italian sea ports. Problem with trade did not fit within the medieval world view. Education dominated by church, not useful for taking money in interest. Every italian town had people who tought letter writing beause of high level of illiteracy. Mercantile world grew importance of letter writers grew. Growing wealth needed to find medium of exchange.
