The definition of town was based on legalities rather than size.
According to the laws of some places in the Middle Ages, a village was a community with a church but no market. A town was a community with a church and a market, but no cathedral. A community with a cathedral was a city, and a community too small to have a church was a hamlet.
Later on, towns were created by charter that simply said the community was a town.
The definition of a city (everywhere except in the USA) has always been that it has a cathedral, and therefore either a bishop or archbishop. The word "cathedral" refers to the Latin word cathedra, meaning a seat or chair, since the cathedral was the location of the bishop's ceremonial throne.
All medieval cities had a cathedral, plus many parish churches. There would also be many mills, craftsmen's workshops and merchants' premises, with some houses built entirely of stone. There would be a mixed population representing the Church, the aristocracy, wealthy freemen and poor peasants (including homeless beggars). There would also be a constant traffic in travelling merchants, pilgrims and officials. Cities often imposed a tax on the movement of goods and people by way of "bars" or toll gates across the roads in and out of the city. The craftsmen formed guilds and the city had its own militia made up of resident freemen.
A village only had a church; it might also have one or more manor houses, a small house for the priest and one or more mills; there were not usually any shop premises, although there might be a smith's forge. Most of the houses were simple wooden buildings with thatched roofs, home to labouring peasants at the lower end of the social scale.
Villages could not impose tolls on the movement of goods; there were no guilds, no militia and no accommodation for travellers.
Both cities and villages might have leper hospitals just outside the populated area (outside the city walls in the case of a city), usually located on a main road.
They were the same thing. Medieval means of the Middle Ages.
The term Medieval refers to anything concerning to the Middle Ages. This time period was between 476 and 1453 AD.
medieval in Latin means middle age
The middle ages way of life was called feudalism.
Architecture of the period 1000 -1500 AD.
They were the same thing. Medieval means of the Middle Ages.
The life span of people in this time was to about 25 years old.
The Catholic Church was founded before the Middle Ages began, and had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire during the 4th century, including about half the people of Europe. Christianity continued after the Roman Empire fell, and the various peoples of Europe were nearly all converted by the time the Middle Ages ended. During the Middle Ages, every village had a church. In fact the distinction between a hamlet and a village was that the village had a church, but the village did not.
In the Middle Ages, Brighton was a settlement and fishing village called Brighthelmston. It was not written about much, but was recorded in the Domesday Book.
The address of the Middle Village is: 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, 11379 M
The term Medieval refers to anything concerning to the Middle Ages. This time period was between 476 and 1453 AD.
Any nearby forest would supply all a Middle Agexd town's needs.
The phone number of the Middle Village is: 718-326-1390.
Medieval is medieval because it is Latin for "the middle ages".
the yolk is not boiling hot in the middle
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