28-01-2026, 07:29 AM
When I think of the region, I think of the universities. Paper mills were certainly located near the big cities. In Austria, I would say there were two: Vienna and Salzburg. But tanners were everywhere, whether they worked with leather, fur or parchment.
I consider trade across the Alps around 1400 to be impossible. Passable for five months of the year on mule tracks on foot with pack donkeys. At the risk of not being able to return in the same year. See Via Claudia Augusta.
I consider trade across the Alps around 1400 to be impossible. Passable for five months of the year on mule tracks on foot with pack donkeys. At the risk of not being able to return in the same year. See Via Claudia Augusta.

