guild

Examples of guild in the following topics:

• Trade and Commerce

  • Towns saw the growing power of guilds that arose in the 14th century as craftsmen uniting to protect their common interest.
  • The appearance of the European guilds was tied to the emergent money economy and to urbanization.
  • These guilds were organized in a manner similar to something between a professional association, a trade union, a cartel, and a secret society.
  • A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as meeting places.
  • European guilds imposed long standardized periods of apprenticeship and made it difficult for those lacking the capital to set up for themselves or without the approval of their peers to gain access to materials or knowledge, or to sell into certain markets, an area that equally dominated the guilds' concerns.

• Training Artists

  • For many years, craftsmen and artists have formed associations, guilds, and groups in order to preserve and perpetuate their various crafts.
  • In the Middle Ages, many guilds of goldsmiths, glassmakers, stonemasons, and artists were formed and supported most often by the monarchy or state.

• Brand Categories

  • Medieval guilds -- candle makers, goldsmiths,cobblers; carpenters, painters and masons; bakers and fishmongers -- created symbols to be etched or stamped into their work, products or crates which represented and certified the quality of a guild's work.

• Ostia

  • Close by is the Temple to Hercules, and throughout the city are temples dedicated to gods related to shipping and commerce, as well temples built by guilds, such as the ship builders or the rope makers, for their patron gods.
  • The wealthier families of Ostia were able to build large, elaborate burial houses for their personal use,ƒ while the everyday shopkeepers and workers relied on their guilds to create communal funerary homes and see to the proper burial of each other's remains.
  • These tombs are identified by scenes of daily life and images of the guild member's profession.

• Italian Painting: 1200–1400

  • Artists were able to work in Florence at least in part due to the influential art guilds, including the painters' guild Arte dei Medici e Spezeiali.
  • These guilds also became important patrons of the arts, and took over the maintenance and improvements of religious buildings.

• Antwerp: A Center of the Northern Renaissance

  • Antwerp became the main trading and commercial center of the Low Countries around 1500, and the boost in the economy attracted many artists to the cities to join craft guilds.
  • For example, many 16th century painters, artists, and craftsmen joined the Guild of Saint Luke, which educated apprentices and guaranteed quality.

• The paradox of skill

  • Through Medieval guilds a revolution in human worth and work was set in motion and the foundations of the industrial and technological revolutions laid.
  • Through the guild structure, the skills of trades were passed from generation to generation, and the pride of association with quality and integrity maintained.

• Ile-Ife

  • Prince referred to the terracotta artists of 900 A.D. as the founders of art guilds.

• The Reagan Administration

  • Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE.

• Introducing the Firm

  • In many medieval cities, most production was done by individual craftsmen who were loosely organized into guilds, or by tenant farmers who rented family-sized plots of land.