Social differentiation in towns and cities progressed very quickly. Power was shared between the secular trading upper class and the spiritually dominant Catholic clergy. Guilded craftsmen, masons and simple service providers formed the social hierarchy “below.”
Way of life 1250 up to 1300
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Social differentiation in towns and cities progressed very quickly. Power was shared between the secular trading upper class and the spiritually dominant Catholic clergy. Guilded craftsmen, masons and simple service providers formed the social hierarchy “below.” Poverty in the city is kept remote from public life.
