As a special treat for you all we are having class OUTSIDE for a little tour of Bologna’s medieval canals.
On the way we’ll learn to spot where medieval city walls, or even bridges, used to be in modern cities; we’ll consider the every day elements of city life like laundry, bathing, and watering animals; and we’ll see that medieval city life was complex enough to necessitate things like municipal housing. There is still, somehow, some swearing.
For more on cities in the medieval period, see:
On the Agas map of London, medieval and early modern cities, and life
On putting sex work on the map
On Prague, preaching, and brothels
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