How did you become a member of a guild in the middle ages?

Answer 1

The usual path to guild membership started with apprenticeship. As a child of six or seven, a person would be apprenticed to a guild master who provided education in exchange for work. The apprenticeship usually lasted until the child was a young adult and adept enough at the trade or craft to work independently.

Normally, the next step was for the person to be a journeyman. A journeyman learned more of the craft or trade from different masters. A journeyman also worked independently on his masterpiece, which was a project specifically intended to show his ability.

The final step was to have the masterpiece judged. If it was good enough, the journeyman could be admitted as a guild member.

There were many different guilds, and they were not all organized identically. Some had different grades of membership, and in some cases membership was granted to the widows of guild members so they could continue family businesses, with much of the work done by journeymen under the widow's supervision.

Answer 2

One person can't become a guild, but several people can come together and form a guild. A guild isn basically a specialized club.

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It was not easy to become a member of a guild, Starting around the age of 12 a boy and sometimes girl, became an apprentice. An apprentice's parents signed an agreement with a master of the trade. The master agreed to house, feed, and train the apprentice. Apprentices rarely got paid for their work.

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Answer 3

To become a guild member, a person usually had to go first through a lengthy apprenticeship to learn the trade or business. The apprenticeship period was often fourteen years long, beginning at the age of seven. Apprenticeship was followed by a period of working as a journeyman, during which a worker produced a masterpiece, which was judged by the guild to see if he could be a master. Full guild membership was for masters.

There were a number of guilds who allowed the widows of their masters to be members. These women were allowed to retain their husbands' businesses, and usually hired journeymen to do much, or all, of the work, though they supervised it.

There was variation in guilds, of course, and this included how a person became a member, or even whether a person could become a member. There were guilds that were closed to women. There were also guilds that were closed to men, such the silk weaving guilds of Paris and Cologne.

Answer 4

To become a medieval guild member you have to be a dumb merchant because it is a rip off you were jacked out of lots of money.

Answer 5

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