{"product_id":"sworn-craft-europes-guilds","title":"Sworn Craft: How Europe's Guilds Ran the Economy, 1100–1800 (E-book, PDF)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor seven hundred years, most of what Europeans wore, ate off, built with and were buried in was made by someone who belonged to a guild. It is an extraordinary fact about an institution almost nobody can define without arguing — and this dossier takes that argument as its subject rather than its obstacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTen chapters, roughly 6,000 words\u003c\/strong\u003e, written as one continuous argument rather than assembled from articles:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat a guild actually was — the oath, and the five things bolted onto it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe written rule — charters, statutes, and why a guild privilege was almost always bought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMerchants are a different animal — why collapsing merchant and craft guilds ruins the question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming a master — apprentice, journeyman, and the two levers that stopped most people finishing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe secret as capital — Lucca's silk, Murano's glass, and the horizon of secrecy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuilds in government — Florence 1293, Flanders 1302, Cologne 1396\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe cities that said no — Nuremberg banned them; Leiden never had them; both thrived\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe competition outside the walls — how putting-out took the countryside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe two-hundred-year argument — Ogilvie against Epstein and Prak, and why it will not settle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe unmaking, 1770–1860 — abolished by governments, not by factories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive — three files\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA4 PDF\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eUS Letter PDF\u003c\/strong\u003e, each with the map plate at the back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA \u003cstrong\u003emobile edition\u003c\/strong\u003e laid out on a page sized for a phone screen, so a line stays a line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronology of eighteen dated milestones, an eighteen-term glossary, a full bibliography, and a note on evidence explaining why nothing in the book is quoted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat it does not do\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does not tell you whether guilds were good or bad, because the evidence does not settle that and pretending otherwise would be the easy lie. Where historians disagree, both positions are stated and attributed. Where a date is approximate it says so. No primary source is quoted, because translating medieval French, Italian and Middle Low German is itself an argument about meaning — provisions are summarised, and the edition is named.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow you receive it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour download is ready the moment your payment goes through: the link arrives by e-mail and also appears on your order confirmation page. There is no limit on how often you download it, and the files are yours to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDelivery and licence\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA digital download. Nothing is shipped and no delivery address is asked for. Licensed for personal and classroom use; not for resale or redistribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe rest of the collection\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll four are built from the same twenty cities and the same eighteen dated milestones, so they agree with each other line for line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wearable-history.myshopify.com\/products\/guild-cities-of-europe-map\"\u003eGuild Cities of Europe — Map \u0026amp; Timeline\u003c\/a\u003e — €9,95\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wearable-history.myshopify.com\/products\/guilds-classroom-pack\"\u003eGuilds and the Craft Economy — Classroom Pack, ages 14–18\u003c\/a\u003e — €19,95\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wearable-history.myshopify.com\/products\/the-guilds-collection\"\u003eThe Guilds Collection — all three together\u003c\/a\u003e — €29,95\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe free articles this dossier draws its examples from are at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/writesidesofhistory.com\/role-early-modern-guilds-european-economic-systems\/\"\u003ewritesidesofhistory.com\u003c\/a\u003e, and they stay free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Writesides of History","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57276527804681,"sku":"WSH-EBOOK-SWORN-CRAFT","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/7165\/6457\/files\/sworn-craft-europes-guilds.webp?v=1787684429","url":"https:\/\/shop.writesidesofhistory.com\/products\/sworn-craft-europes-guilds","provider":"Writesides of History","version":"1.0","type":"link"}