[Sca-cooks] define" market"``

[otsisto]

>From my understanding of market is that it is a place of food produce
vendors and the non food vendor areas were called bazaars.
In England there were specific places established for the "market" (boroughs
[?]) Fish market, meat market...
Somewhat like Faire means that you have livestock present for buying and
selling and the festival for celebration.

What was the Medieval use of the term "market"?

De

-----Original Message-----
Market derives from the Latin "mercatus" whose root, "merc-" means
merchandise.  The mercatus was a public place for the buying and selling of
goods, usually trade of foodstuffs that could not be produced in town for
goods that could not be produced in the country.  All Roman cities had an
area that served as a market and the concept and terminology was transferred
into Roman Europe.

The greatest of the Roman markets, the Mercatus Traiani, was completed about
110 CE and is the first of the megamart super malls.

http://www.roman-empire.net/tours/rome/trajans-market.html

Bear