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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lawrence of Arabica" data-source="post: 565453" data-attributes="member: 4256">Harn uses the word 'mercantyler' for a puryveyor of general merchandise. This may not be strictlyhistorically accurate it is convenient.(Also I have the impression that historicallychandlers, while obstensibly candle-makers,often carried a variety of other goods, rope,ships stores, etc.)On the theocracy matter, political scientists domake a distinction between states where thegovernment and the church are one and thesame thing, and those in which they are separate but joined together at the top. Only the formerare really called theocracies. The situation in the later Roman (and Byzantine) empire iscalled 'caesaro-papism'.</blockquote>