u/Shakanaka

And have there been any relevant critiques of some of her work?

I've suddenly wondered about this today and couldn't find anything myself through some google searches.

How did people in various parts of the Middle Ages term city blocks, as such as they existed in those times?

I know that during this period city blocks were largely irregular and unplanned until sometime later (though, there were exceptional cases with some planned cities in the form of newly chartered cities in the Late Medieval, especially in France and the HRE I believe), so through this organic formulation the conception of "city blocks" as we know it nowadays did not exist yet.

So how did people in medieval cities call or conceptualize groupings of buildings?

Just how accurate is the claim that nobles didn't engage in trade? I know that apparently, they acted as investors for all sorts of ventures, only acting as "intermediaries".

But how exactly accurate is that? It seems to gain more wealth, beyond just mere taxation, the nobility would have to have a good trade and financial acumen.

Yes, I am aware that through landownership they were wealthy in that sense, but before the wider-scale reintroduction of coin to the peasantry (and through subsequent logic their own tenants) around Europe during the Late Medieval Ages, how could Knights afford arms and armor just off in-kind taxation?

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Was it a case wherein through selling the cumulative agricultural surplus to towns and cities they made it that way, to then from there recirculate the acquired coin back to those aforementioned areas of production?

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Or was a tenure agreement in place with manorial/village smithies and blacksmiths to produce these equipment for the Knights?

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Or something else I haven't thought yet?