• Episode Request: A Day in the Life of a Merchant

  • Sep 5 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
  • Podcast

Episode Request: A Day in the Life of a Merchant

  • Summary

  • 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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