History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . ns to which their people belonged. The increasing wealth of the merchants could not fail to raisethem to a position of importance which earlier tradesmen hadnot enjoyed. They began to build fine houses and to buy thevarious comforts and luxuries which were finding their way intowestern Europe. They wanted their sons to be educated, andso it came about that other people besides clergymen began tolearn how to read and write. As early as the fourteenth centurymany of the books appear to have been written with a v
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . ns to which their people belonged. The increasing wealth of the merchants could not fail to raisethem to a position of importance which earlier tradesmen hadnot enjoyed. They began to build fine houses and to buy thevarious comforts and luxuries which were finding their way intowestern Europe. They wanted their sons to be educated, andso it came about that other people besides clergymen began tolearn how to read and write. As early as the fourteenth centurymany of the books appear to have been written with a view ofmeeting the tastes and needs of the business class. Representatives of the towns were summoned to the councilsof the kings—into the English Parliament and the French EstatesGeneral, about the year 1300, for the monarch was obliged toask their advice when he demanded their money to carry onhis government and his wars (§557). The rise of the businessclass alongside of the older orders of the clergy and nobility isone of the most momentous changes of the thirteenth Fig. 106. Facade of the Cathedral at Reims (ThirteenthCentury) as it appeared before the World War
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