Evolution Of Society In The Mi

Part I of Essay
The height of the Middle Ages signified a revolutionary way of thinking among the people. The people of the day were breaking out of the old, controlled lifestyle, to which they were accustomed, and they began expressing themselves in many different ways. The people began ....

Part II of Essay
.... became interested in jewelry and clothes, “…you’d soon be able to support me, and buy your own jewellery, and have lots of money and servants and gorgeous clothes” (Turner, p. 39). Instead of women relying on men to subsidize their major needs, if women were unmarried or widowed, they began taking care of their own needs, “When he died, I sold his hammer and tongs and anvil for two minas, and that kept us going for a while. Then I did various jobs like dressmaking and spinning and weaving, to scrape together enough for us to live on. B ....