History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . -jnA. CHAPTER XXIXMEDIEVAL TOWNS-THEIR BUSINESS AND BUILDINGS I. The Towns and Guilds 638. Reappearance of Towns and their Importance. Indiscussing tlie Middle Ages we have hitherto dealt mainly withkings and emperors, and with the popes and the Church of whichthey were the chief rulers ; we have also described the monks andmonasteries, the warlike feudal lords and their castles, and thehard-working serfs who farmed the manors ; but nothing has beensaid about the people who lived in the towns. Towns have alway
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History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . -jnA. CHAPTER XXIXMEDIEVAL TOWNS-THEIR BUSINESS AND BUILDINGS I. The Towns and Guilds 638. Reappearance of Towns and their Importance. Indiscussing tlie Middle Ages we have hitherto dealt mainly withkings and emperors, and with the popes and the Church of whichthey were the chief rulers ; we have also described the monks andmonasteries, the warlike feudal lords and their castles, and thehard-working serfs who farmed the manors ; but nothing has beensaid about the people who lived in the towns. Towns have always been the chief centers of progress and en-lightenment, for the simple reason that people must live close to-gether in large numbers before they can develop business on alarge scale, carry on trade with foreign countries, establish goodschools and universities, erect noble public buildings, supportlibraries and museums and art galleries. One does not find thesein tlie country, for the people outside the towns are too scatteredand usually too poor to have the things that are common eno