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  2. Guilds of Florence - Wikipedia

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    Listed first of the "Seven Major Guilds" in the 1236 list, [4] and first of the "Twelve Greater Guilds" of the 1282 list currently at the British Museum; [14] and once again first of the new "Seven Major Guilds" in the 1415 revision. [11] Abolished in 1597, the same year a "College of Judges and Notaries" was incorporated. [15] Arte di Calimala

  3. Guild - Wikipedia

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    The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a ...

  4. Hanseatic League - Wikipedia

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    The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...

  5. List of guilds in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of guilds in the United Kingdom. It includes guilds of merchants and other trades, both those relating to specific trades, and the general guilds merchant in Glasgow and Preston. No religious guilds survive, and the guilds of freemen in some towns and cities are not listed. Almost all guilds were founded by the end of the 17th ...

  6. Corporation (feudal Europe) - Wikipedia

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    The term "corporation" was never used outside of Italy (Corporazioni delle arti e dei mestieri). In other countries, they were called métiers ("craft bodies") in France, guilds in England, Zünfte in Germany, gremios in Castile, gremis in Catalonia and València, grémios in Portugal, συντεχνία in Greece, and with others denominations.

  7. Guildhall - Wikipedia

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    The Roman guilds failed to survive the collapse of the Roman Empire. [3] Merchant guilds were reinvented during Europe's Medieval period. In England, these guilds went by many different names including: fraternity, brotherhood, college, company, corporation, fellowship, livery, or society, amongst other terms.

  8. List of states during the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the continent, the era generally falls between the years AD 200–600 and AD 1200–1500. The name of this era of history derives from classical antiquity (or the Greco-Roman era) of Europe. Though, the everyday context in use is reverse (such as historians reference to Medieval China).

  9. Outline of the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Middle Ages – periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era . It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic , Medieval and Modern .