The Medieval Townsman as a Precursor to Our Modern Way of Life

The medieval townsman is very much like the modern day human being. The way they lived, what they owned, and what their jobs entailed were much like today. It could be said that the medieval townsman was a forerunner to our present day modern way of life.
In the Middle Ages the townsman was considered to be the middle class. The nobility was the king or soldiers and the peasants were farmers. The townsman worked usually in some kind of a store. In "The Diary of Gregorio Dati" a medieval townsman "set forth an account of our activities so as to have a record of them, and wherein having…