Building Early Modern Edinburgh
Building Early Modern Edinburgh
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2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4239-8 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4239-8 (ISBN)
This volume traces the history of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Mary’s Chapel, which sought to control the capital’s building trades and defend their privileges. By utilising a range of previously missing charters and archival documents, the author offers a new perspective on the prestigious craft guild in its 542 years of existence.
Much like in the present day, building a house in the sixteenth century involved masons, carpenters and glaziers, among others, and in many cities such trades had separate companies to govern their own affairs. In Edinburgh, however, they banded together in a single body – the Edinburgh Incorporation of Mary’s Chapel.
Building Early Modern Edinburgh traces the history of the organisation, which sought to control the capital’s building trades and defend their privileges. By utilising a range of previously missing charters and archival documents, the author offers a new perspective on the prestigious and important craft guild in its 543 years of existence. Developing a crucial theme of ‘composite corporatism’, and using the concepts of ‘family’ and ‘household’ to approach an urban institution, this book is a valuable resource of comparative material for the study of craft guilds and urban history in a global context.
Much like in the present day, building a house in the sixteenth century involved masons, carpenters and glaziers, among others, and in many cities such trades had separate companies to govern their own affairs. In Edinburgh, however, they banded together in a single body – the Edinburgh Incorporation of Mary’s Chapel.
Building Early Modern Edinburgh traces the history of the organisation, which sought to control the capital’s building trades and defend their privileges. By utilising a range of previously missing charters and archival documents, the author offers a new perspective on the prestigious and important craft guild in its 543 years of existence. Developing a crucial theme of ‘composite corporatism’, and using the concepts of ‘family’ and ‘household’ to approach an urban institution, this book is a valuable resource of comparative material for the study of craft guilds and urban history in a global context.
Aaron Allen is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Locksmith Craft in Early Modern Edinburgh (2007) and co-editor, with Cathryn Spence, of Edinburgh Housemails Taxation Book, 1634-1636 (2014).
List of Tables
List of Figures & Plates
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Incorporation and the Corporate Framework
1. Headship and Inclusion
2. Family, Household and Obligation
3. Craft and Kirk: Security, Status and Shelter
4. Craft and Burgh: Conflict or Partnership?
Conclusions: The Decline of Corporatism and the Rise of the Unfree
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.06.2020 |
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Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4744-4239-0 / 1474442390 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-4239-8 / 9781474442398 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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