Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 132

mERS WE HAVE WHAT 15 supPosSED TO BE A SCENE IN THE MARNKET PLACE or A MEP|AEVAL Town. EIGHT MODERN OBIECTS APPEAR WHICH ARE OUT OF PLACE IN THE PICTURE. — 8 CAN Vou DETECT ALL- OF THEM T —=* = BurinG THE MIDDAE fi;ac'?: BUSINESS WAS CouDLs ON A SMALL SCALE. TiME AND> SPACE WD pE SER! OBSTACLES TO o féfv WHEN HORSE DRAWN o TRANSPORTATION, ——* 3”5"“5:&“‘%4 V::Iir:s WCAP ) ESKE BUSINESS OF A MEDIAEVAL | TOWN WAS CONTROLLED BY A COUNCIL OF THE MERCHANTS’ AND CRAFTSMENS GuiLDS,—* (HHRISTIANS WHO DEMANDED INTEREST ON LOANS WERE DRIVEN OUT— THE CHRISTIANS WERE SO BITTERLY OPPOSED TO THIE PRAC- l| TISE OF CHARGING INTEREST ON l LOANS THAT THEY CRUEGLLY Fl\ PERSECUTE> THE JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES. (Mg & i = HAA GIREAT PEAL OF TRADE WAS CARRIED ON BY BARTERING ONC ARTICLE FOR ANOTHER. ARMERS WERE PERMITTED TO | SELL THEIR PRODUCE IN THE PUBLIC MARIKET PLACE SO LONG AS THEY DID NOT SELL. ALL. TO ONE CUSTOMER.. —~ LAWS WERE PASSED To | PREVENT ONE MAN SECUR- ImG A MONOPOLY ON " B arreED FrRoM THE GUILDS AND NOT BEING BOUND BY.CHURCH LAWS, THE JEWS BECAME THE CENTURY TTALIAN MERCHANTS STARTED A SYSTEM OF MONEY-LENDING |, THAT DID> NOT VIOLATE THE LAWS oF THE CHURCH. THEY REQUIREDY | NO INTEREST ON LOANS, BUT EXACTED A FORFEIT IF PAY- | MENT WAS NOT | Y ) ’,‘:fl JJ arriT RY Chapter CXXXIV—Business in the Middle Ages. L STATEMENTS APPEARING il (N HIGH LIGHTS oF HISTORY " ARE SUPPORTED BY REFERENC! TO RELIABLE HISTORIANS.- | UPON REQUEST, IF REQUEST . |_| 1S ACCOMPANIED BY A L | SELFADDRESSED AND 8| STAMPED ENVELOPE. — - A Arrroc (ANSHELY — @ BIHE MANUFACTURER WAS == REQUIRED TO SELL HIS PROPDUCT DIRECT TO THE CUSTOMER . —=_ 4 UsuAUY HE KEPT A SMALL STORE IN THE FRONT OF= HIS WORKSHOPR IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS VERY KING PERMITTED> JEWISH MONEY- LENDERS 7O OF INTEREST #6%),But SEIZED THEIR ; g&i PROFTS WHEN- | EVER HE Founp HIMSELF SHORT OF FUNPS. ~—-o MONEY 7O BUSINESS ENTER- PRISES WITHOUT INTEREST, 2 / /‘M; . i i A3 s -flhz;hfi-,