When did medieval guilds start?

Answer 1

We do not know when the first medieval guilds started, but it was early on, certainly before the end of the 9th century. There is some reason to believe that some of the guilds, such as stone cutters' and glass makers' guilds, had continued to exist from ancient Rome.

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Answer 2

There were guilds in the ancient Roman Empire, and some of the earliest guilds in Italy appear to have survived from that time, an example being the stonemasons' guild.

The guilds were successful in preventing competition for their members, so they became increasingly common and had greater memberships as time passed.

In time, beginning about the 11th century, the guilds themselves joined into confederacies that were able to govern republican cities called communes. By doing this they became even more powerful in the High Middle ages, especially in Italy, where the communes could be independent sovereign states, and in Northern Europe, where the cities had an alliance called the Hanseatic League, which entered into its own treaties as an international power and at times operated its own military in wars.

Answer 3

Guilds were organizations that oversaw a particular profession. They were part cartel and part labor union, and regulated all aspects of particular trades. For example, the Baker's guild in a large town or city would have rules for the training and treatment of apprentices, the wages of journeyman, and the required conditions for someone to open their own shop and become a master for that particular profession. Prices were often set by the guild, as were requirements for goods and services. Again using the example of bakers, the guild would set not only prices, but the required weight of loaves, and the ingredients to be used. In theory the guild protected both the interests of the public buy requiring goods be up to certain quality, and also protected its members by controlling competition from non-members.

Guilds would sometimes have services available to their members, such as aid in the case of illness or other troubles, assistance for widows, and burial assistance. In some cases this was directly through the guild, in others through benevolent associations associated with the guild.

Not all professions were organized into guilds, and in smaller communities there might not be enough members of a particular craft or profession to form a guild, but in larger cities they were the norm. Paris had several hundred guilds by the late middle ages, governing various crafts or types of merchant activity.

Answer 4

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