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Most cities ranged in area from a hundred acres to half a square mile, in population from two or three thousand to between ten and twenty thousand.
Couriers travel faster; the Flemish cloth merchants operate a service between the Champagne Fairs and Ghent which covers two hundred miles in four days.
post-and-beam structures,
A century ago both sexes wore long, loose-fitting tunics and robes that were almost identical. Now
and an écuelle knives and pieces of bread lie on the tablecloth.
a wooden pickling tub. On a long table
seasonining
The science of the thirteenth century, in fact, resides mainly outside the schools.

