Guilds in the Middle Ages

by Georges François Renard

[79] Franklin, La Vie privée d’autrefois. La cuisine, p. 230.

[80] The word as here used must not be confused with its meaning in connection with the Florentine Guilds, see [p. 8].

[81] The number of members composing a guild also contributed to its social status; but this was a factor of very much less importance.

[82] Ribot, Essai sur l’imagination créatrice, p. 234; Tarde, Psychologie économique, bk. i. chap. v. §§ iv. v.

[83] A. Doren, Studien aus der florentiner Wirthschaftgeschichte.

[84] Levasseur, Histoire des classes ouvrières, etc., vol. i. p. 343.

[85] Perrens, Histoire de Florence, vol. vi. chap. v.

[86] The inhabitants of Perpignan were classed in three mains (major, middle, and minor). See Drapé.

[87] Ach. Luchaire, Les Communes françaises à l’époque des capétiens directs, pp. 207-215.

[88] Georges Renard, Revue économique internationale, Jan. 1909, article entitled “La révolution sociale au XIV^e siècle.”