Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 148
end of the sixteenth century that the bakers of Paris used it for bread. At first the trades of miller and baker were carried on by the same person (Figs. 74 and 75). The man who undertook the grinding of the grain had ovens near his mill, which he let to his lord to bake bread, when he did not… … Fig;, lb. — The Baker. — From an Engraving of the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman. made bread which they sold by weight ; and this system was in existence until very recently in the provinces. Charlemagne, in his " Capitulaires " (statutes), fixed the number of bakers in each city according to the…
Middle Ages · Renaissance · Manners and customs · Costume
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