What are the benefits and challenges of being an artisan in the medieval life

If you belonged to a guild and lived in a cathedral town, it was a solid life. You were patronized and subsidized by a church, the guild provided help and aid. Things were nice. The artisan in the medieval era had it easier than they would in the early modern era, where the nascent middle-classes crushed, bought church property and broke up the power of guilds.

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