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Bankers, Builders, and New Beginnings

This program illustrates life from the perspective of the medieval merchant: urban, financially sophisticated, and revolving around trade and travel. Demonstrating how the growth of European cities prefaced the end of feudal society and the founding of major universities—while unfortunately enabling the spread of the Black Plague—the program reveals surprising facts regarding city planning, banking practices, cartography, and the skyscrapers of the Middle Ages, cathedrals. In essence, a new civilization emerges in this final episode of Europe in the Middle Ages, due in part to the creation of urban centers as bases for global exploration and conquest. Portions are in other languages with English subtitles. (53 minutes)

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Item#: BVL34154
Copyright date: ©2004
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-4722-6

Part of the Series : Europe in the Middle Ages: A Way Out of Darkness


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