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The return to a simpler economy eventually meant a lack of fiscal means to maintain these impressive municipal constructions and likewise urban centra declined (they had been since before Rome 'fell'). The society that emerged had less structure, or at least, canada goose outlet online uk not the overarching Roman type. So ideas were not as much lost as they became less functional.And of course this view would be warped, as seemingly you're identifying the medieval world with some meagre towns in the forests of Britain, Germany or France. how about the entire Mediterranean area with cities like Constantinople or Damascus?Indeed. During the crusading era when contact increased between the west and the east, a common complaint among the Byzantines and the Muslims was that the westerners stunk.Edit: here a snippet from Ibn Battuta The Travels, in which he describes the constrast between Constantinople and the nearby Latin colony of Galata:The city is enormous in size, and in two parts separated by a great river [the Golden Horn], in which there is a rising and ebbing tide. In former times there was a stone bridge over it, but it fell into ruins and the crossing is now made in boats. The part of the city on the eastern bank of the river is called Istambul, and contains the residence of the Emperor, the nobles and the rest of the population. Its bazaars canada goose outlet store quebec and streets are spacious and paved with flagstones; each bazaar has gates which are closed upon it at night, and the majority of the artisans and sellers in them are women. The city lies at the foot of a hill which projects about nine miles into the sea, its breadth being the same or greater. On the top of the hill there is a small citadel and the Emperor palace. Round this hill runs the city wall, which is very strong and cannot be taken by assault from the sea front. Within its circuit there are about thirteen inhabited villages. The principal church is in the midst of this part of the city.The second part, on the western bank of the river, is called Galata, and is reserved to the Frankish Christians who dwell there. They are bound to pay a tax every year to the king of Constantinople, but often they revolt against him and he makes war on them until the Pope makes peace between them. They are all men of commerce and their harbour is one of the largest canada goose outlet mall in the world; I saw there about a hundred galleys and other large ships, and the small ships were too many to be counted. The bazaars in this part of the town are good but filthy, and a small and very dirty river runs through them. after coitus)." Watching several men conduct their daily ablutions with a communal bowl of water, he observes, "There is no filthy impurity which he will not do in this water."The Book of Instruction, an informative memoir by the Syrian princeling Usama ibn Munqidh, who came to know the Crusaders in battle and in repose, records two instances in which a local physician's sound advice was ignored in favor of Christian methodologies. In the first, the Franks simply lopped off a knight's mildly infected leg with an axe; in the second, they carved a cross into an ill woman's skull before rubbing it with salt. canada goose outlet Both patients died on the spot, at which point the Arab doctor asked, "'Do you need anything else from me?' 'No,' they said. And so I left, having learned about their medicine things I had never known before."Arab travel Ibn Fadlan noted this while visiting the Kievan Rus in the 10th centuryWell, to be fair, www.pick-canadagoose.com he did not visit them, but they visited an area he was travelling through.Ibn Fadlan, a pampered member of a court, couldn have smelled like rose water and canada goose outlet uk fake jasmine himself being so far from the foot baths and fountains of his city mosque.This is not to say that upper class urbanites from the cities of the Middle East were not leagues beyond medieval norsemen in the hygiene department, but this should be considered a biased account based on a meeting of atypical representatives of two cultures canada goose uk site meeting in an unusual circumstance far from what either would have considered their own respective civilizations. In fact, much of the description of the Rus rituals seems to indicate that they had canada goose outlet uk native and abandoned conventional Norse culture to some degree.Also Fadlan language betrays his cultural chauvinism and drips with disdain, describing every aspect of his witness with over the top hyperbole. There were only 50k inhabitants in Constantinople before the seige and afterwards most of the survivors were enslaved and removed from the city.

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