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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7614151" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I think you are vastly underestimating the cosmopolitan nature of the Middle Ages.</p><p></p><p>First, in the Middle Ages they organized a continental wide network of scholars, operating under the auspices of the Catholic Church and using church Latin as a common language to unite people of diverse backgrounds.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, the Middle Ages had continental wide trade undertaken by cosmopolitan merchants, that shipped wool, flax, copper, silver, indigo, tin, iron, marble, lace, buttons, silk and any number of other things pretty much every where. Even small villages could be consuming material produced half a continent away.</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, the Middle Ages had an important class of highly skilled itinerant labors engaged in the construction of castles and cathedrals, which would pack up their shops and go wherever there was work, and whose work in stone, lead, and glass was as good as any the world has ever known from any era. They outdid the ancients in stone and glass, and they are not surpassed in craftsmanship since.</p><p></p><p>Consider also that there were professional mercenaries that would operate all over the European continent and beyond, and in this period a not insignificant number of people who would journey to the Holy Land on crusade or pilgrimage (which at the time, they didn't really separate into two different things).</p><p></p><p>While it would be true that the vast majority of people in the middle ages would never go more than eight miles from home, I don't think that is proof that the level of craftsmanship in the middle ages was low. What would be true about most peoples knowledge is that it was very narrow. You might only receiving training from your father (or if an apprentice, someone's father), but it was a refinement of centuries of understanding of whatever trade your teacher practiced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7614151, member: 4937"] I think you are vastly underestimating the cosmopolitan nature of the Middle Ages. First, in the Middle Ages they organized a continental wide network of scholars, operating under the auspices of the Catholic Church and using church Latin as a common language to unite people of diverse backgrounds. Secondly, the Middle Ages had continental wide trade undertaken by cosmopolitan merchants, that shipped wool, flax, copper, silver, indigo, tin, iron, marble, lace, buttons, silk and any number of other things pretty much every where. Even small villages could be consuming material produced half a continent away. Thirdly, the Middle Ages had an important class of highly skilled itinerant labors engaged in the construction of castles and cathedrals, which would pack up their shops and go wherever there was work, and whose work in stone, lead, and glass was as good as any the world has ever known from any era. They outdid the ancients in stone and glass, and they are not surpassed in craftsmanship since. Consider also that there were professional mercenaries that would operate all over the European continent and beyond, and in this period a not insignificant number of people who would journey to the Holy Land on crusade or pilgrimage (which at the time, they didn't really separate into two different things). While it would be true that the vast majority of people in the middle ages would never go more than eight miles from home, I don't think that is proof that the level of craftsmanship in the middle ages was low. What would be true about most peoples knowledge is that it was very narrow. You might only receiving training from your father (or if an apprentice, someone's father), but it was a refinement of centuries of understanding of whatever trade your teacher practiced. [/QUOTE]
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