Working and living in a Medieval city was a lot different than the countryside. There were merchants, guilds, and trade that relied on money, not bartering. Chris gives us a sense of city life, and even explains how loans and traveler’s checks existed all those years ago.

Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World is a co-production of iHeart Podcasts and School of Humans. It is a Curiosity Podcast.

Working and living in a Medieval city was a lot different than the countryside. There were merchants, guilds, and trade that relied on money, not bartering. Chris gives us a sense of city life, and even explains how loans and traveler’s checks existed all those years ago.
Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World is a co-production of iHeart Podcasts and School of Humans. It is a Curiosity Podcast.

Explore some of the most powerful ideas, tensions, and political struggles that shaped the modern world.

Explore some of the most powerful ideas, tensions, and political struggles that shaped the modern world.

Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World

City Life

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