Early Medieval Guilds

Go to nordvpn.com/laserhistory to get a 2-year plan plus 4 additional months with a huge discount! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extra Information & Sometimes Corrections if Needed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0:05 Of course, all Guild and Gild banners presented in this video are just an artistic representation of a guild banner not actual historical ones. 0:10 (https://youtu.be/BL6k3YMgATg) Actually, I "WILL" make a video about that. I sadly didn't have time to make and release both of the videos at the same time. Sorry. I am aiming to release the guild video at some point early next year. I know that seems far away but, I already have many other things that I need to work on. But, at least you get an extra secret short video from me :) 0:13 The picture of the Hanseatic League (a high to late medieval merchant guild) structure refers specifically to the Hansa "Contors". https://youtu.be/nk62itTxwuk The Hansa was structured differently in German cities. 0:33 They also call them 'gilds' because that's what the early medieval sources call them sometimes. The word 'guild' did not emerge before the high middle ages. Of course, the word guild did evolve from the earlier word gild. 3:43 Also, there could be areas where the collegia survived and morphed into the early medieval gilds, areas like modern day Italy or the Iberian peninsula, all while areas of the Frankish Empire and modern day Britain could have had a whole new "Germanic" system of gilds emerge. Basically there could be a lot of nuance present. 5:08 Origin and Creation: London Guilds of the Twelfth Century, Katherine Payne 7:02 For most of his reign Odo of France (reign 888–898) was in a struggle against Charles the simple over the control of the Western Frankish Throne. Odo mostly controlled northern France (although in reality it was a much more complicated separation of control/loyalties between the two monarchs than just a simple north south divide) hence the map in the video tried to showcase that. Odo eventually died and Charles won. 7:19 Since the establishment of the gild required the peasants to swear oaths of loyalty to each other. Kings viewed this as an act of disobedience because the only authorities within a kingdom you should swear an oath to is the king and the church. This may seem like a small symbolic thing today but back than the swearing of oaths was taken very seriously. 7:25 These Saxon companion gilds mostly include the Saxon Stellinga (but not only them). Here, the definition of the gild can be easily applied to a well known political Saxon movement, and even though some historians would be reluctant to call the Stellinga gilds, for this video I am going with the paper by Naismith Rory "Gilds, States and Societies in the Early Middle Ages." which does classify them as gilds. 10:45 Naismith, Rory. "Gilds, States and Societies in the Early Middle Ages." Early Medieval Europe 28, no. 4 (2020): 627-62. 11:28 The mandated frequent prayers in many social gilds where also often supposed to be conducted for the well being and good health of the fellow members of the gild. It was, in essence, yet another insurance cooperation, however, this time a spiritual one rather than a monetary one. 11:40 Renard, Georges François, G. D. H. Cole, and Dorothy. Terry. Guilds in the Middle Ages, p. 18. Video scripts with all my sources are available for free on my Patreon.

Imagine trying to defend your community from viking raids and the king just fucking murders you

The Basque county of Araba (Álava, a very old self-ruled area conquered by Asturias in the late 9th century, probably also including Biscay early on) was a scenario of the fights against a major protection guild(s), known as hermandades, who fought against bandits who were actually petty lords. They were powerful enough to force the monarchs to accept their rules and they are tightly related to to the formation of the self-ruled late medieval and modern county, which has in its schuteon the legend "justicia contra malhechores" (justice against wrongdoers) based on those constituent guild struggles.

Gilds seem pretty badass, most people see the early Middle Ages in a pretty negative light, but between social Gilds and the early medieval warm period it sounds like a decent time to me. Better than the 1300’s anyway.

Hi, greetings from Antwerp here, loved the video. In case you're interested in Guilds in today's context: I myself am part of the Saint Michael's Guild of Antwerp. There are also likewise guilds in Bruges, Gent and Gouda. We in Antwerp were "resurrected" a few years ago. Each of these tries to honour the tradition and function of the old protection guilds, and tries to keep some of their traditions alive. In essence; it's a fencing guild in Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), following the 16th-century written rules for fencing with multiple weapons (longswords, rapiers, daggers, staves, halberds,...). We also keep the "Dodenminne" (=+-remembrance of the dead) in which we gather around a memorial tile in the Cathedral of Antwerp dedicated to one of the Headmen of the Guild and honour the dead members of our guild and those dear to us who are deceased. Or the King's Tournament, which is basically an annual tournament to decide who is the best fencer of the guild. With all the honorary rituals and services included. For example, Antwerp's St-Michael's guild was founded and approved of in 1488 by Maximilian of Habsburg, and would be responsible for his protection when he visited the city, as well as form the official professional core of the city's militia; mostly offering what we'd consider "officers" or "NCO's" today, capable of leading the more semi-or-non-professional militiamen. There are to this day also old archery -and riflemen's guilds -based on crossbow and arquebusier guilds of the middle ages up untill the French revolution, after which all the protection guilds were formally disbanded and their assets seized. If you're interested, our current Headman is quite deeply informed in all this history and its nuances :)

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So, basically, fantasy warrior guilds are more OG than industrial guilds from your typical history coursebook. I wonder if there was a real mage guild/gild somewhere at some point.

Gilds sounds almost like a general word used for any semi official organizing group of people, very interesting stuff

In the late medival even special "knights only" guilds came up - I know about the ones in Frankonia (todays North of Bavaria) und Upper Palatia (East of todays Bavaria), which formed a kind of a local governmental assembly, because there were no bigger lords between them and the Kaiser.

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As a native german speaker, 'guild' translates to "Gilde", as does probably 'gild' (don't trust the computer translator which suggest "vergolden" since it refers towards 'to gild', so not a noun), so it is quite the challenge to properly tell them apart. Another term would be great to not confuse these two, but I struggle to come up with a good substitute, "Klub" (club) came to mind but might cause another confusion ...

In Roman Times they also had guilds. The recipe for making red glass, and cement was lost for nearly 80 years. Trade secrets run throughout history. The word "Apprenticeship" is derived from the guilds. Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch" is a form of guild.

Never heard of gilds before Great video Can't wait to see the next interesting topic

Ngl that entertainment involving bears and dancing girls sounds fun.

Man, this is so interesting. I think guilds are often overlooked in medias and fiction, even though they would bring in such an interesting dynamic for example in the politics of a city. I could see guilds playing a role in stories like a song of ice and fire

Knee-deep in schoolwork at the moment so I keep having to fight the procrastination and stop myself from clicking on what comes up in my recommended, but I always make an exception for your videos:)

Its untrue collegia died, or that they cannot be linked to medieval guilds. In Catalonia we had col.legis all the way up to 1714, and gremis (guilds) at the same time. The difference was col.legis were for artists (those who studied the liberal arts), so lawyers, financiers, etc. Guilds were for hand labourers, like smiths and tailors.

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Interesting, we call having a party/feast, to have a "gilde"…. "Drikkegilde" and "Ædegilde" are words we use about a party/feast where there’s a lot of drinking or a lot of eating!

Nice maps of the germanic migrations into the roman empire. But one thing was wrong: There was never a tribe of "Franks", but the later Franks were a collection of leftover germanic soldiers in Gaul. They were headed by a cohort of rider-soldiers originally from Sarmatia, also beeing left in the Westerwald (todays South of Belgium).