Intriguing blog. We look at medieval towns/villages at GCSE and it blows their minds how small everything was in terms to population.

My students live in a mini new town of no importance. Yet it has a population of the biggest medieval city.
'A non-agricultural economy can certainly be seen as the distinction between urban and rural. However, boundaries between agricultural villages and commercial towns were far from clear-cut in the medieval era'

Joe Chick asks, 'What is a town?'

#skystorians #medievalsky #urbanhistory

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