Life in a Medieval Town
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Life in a Medieval
Town
Key Terms• Town Charter
• freedom• liberties
• Guilds• Midden• Goliardic Poetry
Friesach, Austria
Medieval Town
Government
Town ChartersBirmingham Charter
Craft and Merchant Guilds
•Master craftsmen•Journeymen•Apprentices
Daily Life
Medieval Sanitation
Illness and Infection
Food in Medieval Cities
Leisure Time
Goliardic Poetry, In taberna
• When we are in the tavern, we do not think about mortality, but get right down to gambling, which always raises a sweat. What goes on in the tavern, where a penny gets you a drink, if that is what you want to know, then listen to what I tell you.
• The mistress drinks, the master drinks, the soldier and the cleric drink, he drinks, she drinks, the servant and the handmaiden drink, the white man and the black man drink, the steady and the capricious drink, the illiterate and the professor drink.
Cheater’s Dice, Museum of London
Medieval Sport
Dangers