THE GUILDS OF EARLY MODERN AUGSBURG: A STUDY IN URBAN INSTITUTIONS (GERMANY)

This dissertation is a comparative study of guilds at a time when the guild system was supposedly in decline. It is not a study of decaying institutions, however, but of successful ones. It compares the structure and function of four guilds--shoemakers, joiners, barbers and millers--in the early dec...

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Main Author: KNOX, ELLIS LEE
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1984
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8500087