guilds

     

A guil is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade. The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers.

Trivia about guilds

  • These societies for craftsmen & merchants originated in western Europe in the 11th century
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Tallinn, Estonia.) Tallinn has many houses of these medieval economic groups; the Brotherhood of the Blackheads were unmarried merchants
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Bruges.) The heroes in this statue were a butcher & a weaver who led a struggle against the wealthy merchants who dominated these Medieval trade associations

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