Cities are areas where handicrafts and commerce are relatively concentrated, and their commodity economy has a certain disintegration effect on the feudal economy in Western Europe.

politics

Cities, especially those with autonomy, become a paradise of freedom, and serfs on farms can be free as long as they live in free cities for one year and one day. Therefore, the city also formed an alliance with the king to jointly deal with feudal big noble, which accelerated the reunification of the country.

culture

Cities have become the cradle of secular culture, various universities have been established in cities, and urban literature reflecting citizens' mentality has gradually emerged, laying the foundation for the emergence of the Renaissance.

Extended data:

Medieval cities in western Europe revived and came into being in the 10 to1/century. One of its characteristics is that after the completion of the feudal system, social productive forces developed further, and handicrafts were separated from the manor economy, which became the economic premise and material basis for the emergence of cities in western Europe.

Western European cities were not inherited from the past, but re-established by freed serfs. This is the class premise and political basis for the emergence of western European cities.

At first, the medieval cities in western Europe were mainly inhabited by serfs and craftsmen who fled to manors, as well as merchants, vendors and restaurants run by fugitive serfs, and were basically a production city. The general center of the layout of a city is a square, which is where people hold and trade goods.

Organizationally, according to the traditional democratic form of "rural commune", various industries gradually organized their own trade associations.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Medieval Western European Cities