Time travel to medieval Europe - Q&A

I answer questions that prospective time travelers raised in my initial briefing. FOOTNOTES 1. Eileen Power, Medieval Women, ed. M. M. Postan (Cambridge University Press, 1975), chapter 3; Diane Bornstein, The Lady in the Tower: Medieval Courtesy Literature for Women (Archon, 1983), chapter 6; Maryanne Kowaleski, “Women’s Work in a Market Town: Exeter in the Late Fourteenth Century,” in Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt (Indiana University Press, 1986), 145–64; Joseph and Frances Gies, Women in the Middle Ages: The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1992), chapter 9; Jennifer Ward, Women in Medieval Europe, 1200–1500, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2016), chapter 6. 2. Richard Goddard, “Female Merchants? Women, Debt, and Trade in Later Medieval England, 1266–1532,” Journal of British Studies 58, no. 3 (2019): 494–518, . The topic of women as merchants is also briefly mentioned in Power, Medieval W