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Guilds were professional trade organizations that popped up during the high middle ages. The earliest guilds formed in the 12th century, and they started as ways for merchants to pool their money together to afford protection from robbers at home and bandits on the road. They quickly became more than that. Watch the video to learn more.

Sources:
Medieval Guilds by Mark Cartwright https://www.worldhistory.org/Medieval...

Medieval Guilds by Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine

Business in the Middle Ages: What Was the Role of Guilds? by William Bosshardt and Jane S. Lopus from Social Education 77(2), pp 6467

Ordinances of some secular guilds of London, from 1354 to 1496.
Reprinted from the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society [vol. 4, pt. 1, 1871] To which are added, ordinances of St. Margaret Lothbury, 1456, and orders by Richard, Bishop of London for Ecclesiastical Officers, 1597 by Charles Henry Coote, Edited by John Robert DanielTyssen

Guilds in The Middle Ages by M. Georges Renard, translated by Dorothy Terry

Music:
Scheming Weasel, Thatched Villagers, and Angevin by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Fireside Tales by Darren Curtis

Medieval Loop 1 by Alexander Nakarada

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