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MERCHANT GUILDS




In the early Middle Ages traders traveling from city to city required protection from robbers. Even nobles generally turned highwaymen and robbed passing merchants. Nobles usually collected tolls from traders UN agency journeyed across their land. So, merchants banded along to safeguard lives and merchandise.

The merchants of a city additionally needed protection against competition from different traders. A guild's main purpose was to carry a monopoly of trade. solely lodge members were allowed to try to to business in an exceedingly city. every lodge received a charter from the native king or lord. The charter gave the lodge this right of monopoly. A visiting bargainer might do business solely once he had received permission from the lodge of the city and had paid a high fee.

Guilds had their own courts and settled quarrels between members. They mounted costs and set standards of weights, measures, and quality. Guilds were social clubs, too, with guildhalls wherever merchants met for grand feasts and different celebrations. every lodge control parades in honor of its guardian.

A lodge sorted its members. once a member died, the lodge may buy his ceremony. It helped his widow and fatherless youngsters. If a member was thrown into jail in another city, the lodge worked to free him.

A lodge enclosed all the merchants in an exceedingly city. Since the lodge had a monopoly on trade, it usually grew wealthy and powerful.

Published: January 12, 2019


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  1. ChristyJanuary 12, 2019 at 7:21 PM

    I understand it was for security purposes, but i guess there was more. Does this guild things still exist?

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