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Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states.
These were the forerunners of the geisha — literally “accomplished person” — with a beauty and refinement that the merchants did not seek in their wives, whom they valued for their childbearing and good housekeeping.