I think it’s just an assumption based on the mode of society at that time in history. If it was built in the 12th century it was built by what we would now consider slaves. In the 1100s the land was divided into fiefs and the lord of that land considered the people who lived and worked on the land as part of that land: serfs. Unless this bridge was an exception to the rule, then serfs would have undertaken all the labour that got it built.
Was it slaves? I am not seeing any references to slaves building the original bridge online anywhere, where did you see that? :o
I’m considering most economic systems prior to…the last few centuries to be essentially slavery. If some random king owns everything…
Not the same as America’s slavery of course, nor is it necessarily legally structured slavery as existed in many societies, but nevertheless.
I think it’s just an assumption based on the mode of society at that time in history. If it was built in the 12th century it was built by what we would now consider slaves. In the 1100s the land was divided into fiefs and the lord of that land considered the people who lived and worked on the land as part of that land: serfs. Unless this bridge was an exception to the rule, then serfs would have undertaken all the labour that got it built.
Yeppers that’s the thought process. thanks for explaining better than me.