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See: alliance, association, compact, company, confederacy, cooperative, enterprise, institute, league, partnership, society, sodality, syndicate, union GUILD. A fraternity or company. Guild hall, the place of meeting of guilds. Beame's, Glanville, 108 (n). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The book's chronological limits and topical coverage mirror the state of the primary sources ("abundant between 1580 and 1640"), including the archives of the municipal governing body, the Consell de Cent--where Barcelona's guildsmen enjoyed representation alongside the city's oligarchs--as well as records of the principality's Generalitat, and of the royal administration and courts (xiii). Ambivalence rather than hard and fast rules characterized the way guildsmen in Augsburg acted, and there was little uniformity in the way executioners and skinners were handled from city to city. When craftsmen in Japan made katabira for ninjas and the guildsmen of Europe forged chainmail for knights, they were unaware that their armor reflected an ancient biological design used by bacterial viruses. |
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