Yes. Thats the Short Answer. There are still Guilds that exist in countries like England, Australia, and certain places in Italy, and Germany as well if I'm not mistaken, they have change DRAMATICALLY since the middle ages (as I am led to believe), but are still guilds, and were formed in the middle ages as guilds.
In many countries in Europe there are still tradesmens Guilds very similar to the medieval form.
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Guilds
They joined the guilds.
Nearly every craft or trade that required any skill had a guild. There were stonemasons' guilds, silk workers' guilds, carpenters' guilds, jewelers' guilds, merchant guilds of all sorts, and many others. There is a link below to an article on medieval guilds.
Guilds were organizations of merchants and artisans who regulated local markets by controlling the price, quality, production, and distribution of goods. In this way, they could establish standards of workmanship for their products, which protected guild members from competition and helped maintain a stable economy.
Everyone was Catholic in the middle ages. --- We can probably safely assume most guild members were Catholic. Guild charters would have been likely to exclude Jews, and there were not enough Muslims in European areas with guilds to be likely to be guild members. That said, we can be sure that a number of guilds in various towns and cities were dominated by members of sects the Catholic Church regarded as heretical. This is probably particularly true of Hussites and Lollards, who were numerous in the Late Middle Ages when the guilds were operating.
Guilds
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They were called guilds.
The medieval craftsmen united in guilds.
They joined the guilds.
In the Late Middle Ages, the church outsourced the production and performance of Mystery and Miracle Plays to the guilds, who developed Morality Plays.
Nearly every craft or trade that required any skill had a guild. There were stonemasons' guilds, silk workers' guilds, carpenters' guilds, jewelers' guilds, merchant guilds of all sorts, and many others. There is a link below to an article on medieval guilds.
There were (among others):Teutonic OrderKnights HospitallierKnights TemplarOrder of St. LazarusOrder of Santiago
Guilds were organizations of merchants and artisans who regulated local markets by controlling the price, quality, production, and distribution of goods. In this way, they could establish standards of workmanship for their products, which protected guild members from competition and helped maintain a stable economy.
Everyone was Catholic in the middle ages. --- We can probably safely assume most guild members were Catholic. Guild charters would have been likely to exclude Jews, and there were not enough Muslims in European areas with guilds to be likely to be guild members. That said, we can be sure that a number of guilds in various towns and cities were dominated by members of sects the Catholic Church regarded as heretical. This is probably particularly true of Hussites and Lollards, who were numerous in the Late Middle Ages when the guilds were operating.
The population of Europe increased in the High Middle Ages, as agricultural improvement, improvements in laws and economics, guilds, and increased travel lead to a great increase of the sizes and numbers of towns and cities.
Feudalism, crusades, plague, monarchy, chivalry, religious conflict, serfdom, guilds, Gothic architecture, cultural decline, and the emergence of nation-states can be used to characterize the events of the Middle Ages.