Ep 183 - Episode Request: Day in the Life of a Merchant
Added 2024-09-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTCpatrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode, we answered questions from MGinyourface and Rita Patina and an episode request from David.
folks, we're back and continuing our run of answering patron episode requests and our Day in the Life series by talking about what a normal day was like for a Medieval merchant. how was city life different from living on a farm? what was it like to live on a continent where most people made transactions on the barter system but also use coins for trade? what was Medieval currency like and how did Medieval currency exchanges occur without set standards? what was travel like in the Middle Ages? and, what was it like to be one of the vanishingly small number of people who traveled more than a couple miles from home on a daily basis? we talk all that and more as we look at the Medieval merchant.
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Just started listening to this and have 1 question. I live in London and have been trying to find a good ren fair/jousting tournament in the UK. Which one is best (assuming you have been to them)? Also a little something for you both I think you'll love. You mentioned ren fair gossip- have you guys not seen the HBO mini series called Ren Raire? If you haven't you are missing out big time, it is nuts and loved every second of the weird AF chaos. If you do please comment on it lol
Sarah
2024-09-15 08:16:29 +0000 UTCJanega if you wanna see opera level ren fair gossip check out the anals of pensic and sca groups
Kurtis
2024-09-05 13:08:55 +0000 UTC
