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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Unlike French chivalric romances (and Chaucer), which opened with the first bloom of spring, English romances often took place around Christmas.

“Trade was facilitated by a single official currency and no complicating customs dues.”

The entire Mediterranean and surrounding lands were turned into a free-trade zone, in other words.

But there was much more to it than that.