SC - Oogy gingerbread problem

Lurking Girl tori at panix.com
Mon Jan 24 09:26:13 PST 2000


	Ras wrote:
	Given the period price of spices in general and the annual income of
the 
	average non-wealthy medieval person, I would opine that most spices
were well 
	within the range of the average medieval person much as they are
today. IIRC, 
	the ratio of price to income is not much different then than now. 
	Historically, prices have pretty much remained the same in relation
to 
	average income dependent on the time and respective
famines/diseases/wars. 

This is interesting. Could you give some examples of accounts that show
this? Or point us in the direction of a book that does?

Ciao, 
Lucrezia

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